Chapter 160: Spirit Immortal

Heishui Mountain Range, Heilong Peak.

Lightning flashed and thunder rumbled, with heavy rain pouring from the sky.

Tens of thousands of animals lay prostrate on the ground, letting the rain fall upon their bodies.

Their fur was soaked and the rainwater blurred their eyes, yet not a single animal stood up or retreated.

Every animal seemed to have gained intelligence, like the most devout of believers.

Seeing this scene, for some reason, Lin Chao's heart stirred.

These animals, strange and varied, belonged to different species.

At this moment, all of them lying prostrate on the ground gave Lin Chao a peculiar sense of shock.

It was as if it were the salvation of a civilization.

Indescribable emotions surged in Lin Chao's heart, but he quickly suppressed this feeling.

Lin Chao's mind instantly returned to clarity.

His gaze looked toward the depths of Heilong Peak, where a Transcendence Fragment was brewing.

Lin Chao looked over; inside was a mass of chaos, and it was impossible to see what it would become.

……

The Sun rose, and a rainbow hung in mid-air.

A group of over a dozen people stepped through the dew, heading toward Heilong Peak.

Xia Junji frowned, appearing restless.

Beside him, Li Xiang asked softly, "What's wrong?"

Xia Junji woke from his thoughts: "Do you believe in demons?"

Yesterday, the footage captured by the drone had left him incredibly shocked.

Countless animals were prostrate on the ground, seemingly worshipping something.

However, after capturing only this one scene, the drone malfunctioned due to special circumstances.

When a new drone was dispatched, it also malfunctioned.

Xia Junji requested satellite imagery, but it could not form an image either, as if only a mass of clouds and mist could be seen.

The whole affair reeked of strangeness.

Now, the Armed Guard and logistics personnel had already set off for the Heishui Mountain Range, so the safety of Xia Junji and the others could be guaranteed.

Only now did they begin to head toward Heilong Peak.

He was very curious about the animals gathering at the foot of Heilong Peak.

He felt that they were somewhat similar to the demons in Mythical legends.

"Demons?" Li Xiang laughed, "If there really were demons, then there would certainly be immortals.

If they truly existed, our world would certainly not be like it is now."

"Hmm." Xia Junji nodded, and he continued to ask, "What exactly is a Spirit?"

It was precisely because of the blessings bestowed by the Spirit, as spoken of by the Feng Clan, that the Heishui Mountain Range had undergone such changes.

He knew of the Feng Clan, but he certainly did not know as much about them as Li Xiang, a daughter-in-law of the Feng Clan.

"Spirit..." Li Xiang hesitated for a moment, "According to the clan records, during the Zhu Guo period, the High Priest Zui and the clan members all suffered from a strange illness.

Every clan member was weak and sickly, and upon reaching the age of forty, they would encounter misfortune.

At that time, the High Priest Zui sacrificed to the Heavens and obtained the qualification to serve a great existence—the Spirit—and was also fortunate enough to receive the surname Ling.

The Zui Clan's strange illness was cured as a result, and the Zui Clan became the Feng Clan, leaving behind ancestral teachings to serve the Spirit for generations.

Of course, these are all legends and are surely exaggerated.

Actually, I am also very puzzled; my mother-in-law is highly educated, so logically she shouldn't be so stubborn.

Yet, after she became the High Priest, she also believed in that ancestral stuff."

Li Xiang shook her head as she spoke.

She came from a highly educated background, and her family was also very powerful.

She had a close cousin who crazily believed in the talk of immortals, and as a result, was swindled of her money and virtue by a charlatan, becoming a laughingstock in Kyoto.

Therefore, she had some resistance in her heart toward these legends.

"In other words, the Feng Clan has never actually come into contact with the Spirit?" Xia Junji asked.

Li Xiang looked at Xia Junji a moment longer and asked, "Why are you suddenly interested in these things?"

"This trip to the Heishui Mountain Range doesn't seem that simple." Xia Junji looked at the deep, ancient forest ahead, a grave expression appearing on his face.

"I am becoming more and more curious about the department you just joined." Li Xiang looked at Xia Junji's profile, tactfully not asking about the department Xia Junji had joined.

Xia Junji smiled and continued to ask, "Has the Spirit that the Feng Clan serves ever truly appeared?"

Li Xiang shook her head: "No, but my mother-in-law said a while ago that she had received instructions from Heaven that the Spirit was about to descend into the world."

"Your mother-in-law must know more relevant information about the Spirit, right?" Xia Junji asked.

"What my mother-in-law can tell you is probably about the same as what I know.

If you want to know more information about the Spirit, you can go find the descendants of the Feng Clan's chieftain lineage.

Decades ago, our Feng Clan chieftain's daughter entered the Ancestral Land, violated the ancestral covenant, and was eventually driven out of the Feng Clan; she should have no taboos.

If you go find her, perhaps you can learn more."

"The chieftain's daughter? What is her name?"

"Spirit Immortal."

"A very special name."

As Xia Junji chatted with Li Xiang, many thoughts arose in his heart.

Very quickly, three hours passed, and the group drew closer and closer to Heilong Peak.

Chen Longxuan looked at the forest beside them, his heart shaken: "Isn't it said that Heishui Mountain has many wild animals? We have walked all this way and haven't even seen a single bird."

Ling Jin also narrowed his eyes: "Could it be, as the villagers said before, that those animals have all gone to pay homage to the black dragon?"

In the Heishui Mountain Range, a legend has always been passed down.

Once, there was a Heishui River in the Heishui Mountain Range, and there was a river demon in the river that often ate people.

This river demon coerced the villagers into marrying their daughters to him.

In the end, a black dragon appeared on Heilong Peak, slew the river demon, and saved the villagers.

"A black dragon? That's a bit exaggerated," Li Xiang said.

Beside them, Lao Hei's telepathic message also entered Ling Jin's ears.

"A Divine Dragon is an ancient divine beast, the Overlord of the Immortal World; it is impossible for one to appear in your world."

Only then did Ling Jin suppress the excitement in his heart.

Beside them, the old woman of the Feng Clan had a look of piety in her eyes: "The blessing of the spirit, even the birds and beasts flock to it."

"I hope to see that giant snake that turned into a flood dragon yesterday!" Chen Longxuan was the most excited of all.

Their Supernatural Research Society had been established for so many days, yet there had been no progress.

Now, it seemed there would be progress.

Beside them, Li Xiang listened to these people's nonsense, feeling helpless and amused.

At this moment, on Heilong Peak.

A special Spiritual Qi was permeating the air.

The grass, trees, and streams on the mountain were slowly undergoing some strange changes.

A pear tree mutated at this moment.

This pear tree had shockingly borne red fruit.

This fruit, resembling both a pear and an apple, radiated a rich vitality.

On the mountainside of Heilong Peak, many animals gathered in groups; they did not move about randomly, all looking piously at the fruit on the mountaintop.

It seemed that the fruit was an Immortal Fruit, and consuming it could allow one to step into Immortal Cultivation and boost one's cultivation.

A giant snake coiled on a large tree, flicking its huge snake tongue, its eyes fixed on the fruit, revealing a look of greed.

The fruit was dripping with freshness, as if it would ripen in the next second.

And at the foot of Heilong Peak, Xia Junji and his party had already arrived.

The sharp-eyed Chen Longxuan immediately pointed to the mountainside: "Look quickly, so many animals! I haven't even seen this many at the zoo!"

The others also looked over one after another, only to see thousands of animals gathered in groups, all motionless.

At this moment, these animals had no distinction between predator and prey, coexisting harmoniously.

The people present all revealed shocked expressions upon seeing this scene.

"What is going on?" Li Xiang, in particular, was even more shocked.

Originally, she had dismissed the previous rumors, thinking that perhaps some fierce beast had appeared and the animals in the Heishui Mountain Range had been driven away, or that it was due to some natural disaster.

Now it seemed that those animals did not look like they had encountered danger at all.

Instead, just as Ling Jin had said before, these animals were piously kneeling and worshipping some great existence.

The old woman of the Feng Clan looked at this scene, her face excited, her expression pious: "Spirit!"

This is the blessing of the spirit!

Sure enough, the spirit has already descended into the world!

This is the opportunity for the Feng Clan!

Beside them, Ling Jin also revealed a complex expression.

It seems the ancestral teachings left behind by the ancestors were not entirely lies.

Just then, however, Lao Hei's telepathic message suddenly arrived, his voice mixed with a hint of urgency.

(End of this chapter)