I’ll Quit Being a God

"In that case, I might still hold on to unrealistic fantasies and stay by my aunt and dad's side, hoping that one day they will treat me well. Then one day in the future, I will be hurt more horribly, right?"

"So Xiao Ai doesn't want to do it again."

"And Xiao Ai doesn't hate the current situation."

The girl took a deep breath and said, "The mountain god is the best to me in this world, except for my parents. Xiao Ai has already vowed to serve you for the rest of his life."

"So I don't hate everyone's respect for me, I even like it. Because of this, I can be qualified to host your sacrifice, Lord Mountain God, and truly worship you."

"This is Xiao Ai's honor."

What a girl says, she means it sincerely. There was a sparkle in her eyes, and that kind of emotion couldn't even be said to be sincere.

But piety.

Looking at such a little girl, Lu Heng couldn't help but fall silent.

In the dark mountain forest, the slightly cold night wind blew through the forest, stirring up the rustling of the grass and trees, and also carried the sounds from the foot of the mountain.

Bang bang bang—bang bang bang—

The sound of knocking wooden boards echoed in the mountains, and at the river bend below the mountains, the elderly village chief was shouting.

"The time has come! The time has come! Everyone kneels down facing the mountain! Kowtow to the mountain god!"

Bang bang bang—bang bang bang—

The sound of wood banging echoed continuously. The villagers who were originally having fun now all gathered in one place and knelt down facing the mountain at the same time, covering a large area in darkness.

But during such a ceremony, the village chief screamed anxiously.

"Where is Xiao Ai? Where did Xiao Ai go? Why is Xiao Ai not there? Go and find her quickly!"

The village chief's anxious shouts came from down the mountain.

Hearing this voice, the girl hesitated for a few seconds and said, "Lord Mountain God, I...I want to go back..."

"No need," Lu Heng interrupted her in an indifferent tone and said, "They just want to worship me anyway, and the same goes for you here."

As he said this, Lu Heng thought, and the next second, the huge vortex cloud covering the entire Hanyu Mountain in the night sky began to rotate slowly.

Then, a gap slowly opened in the dark clouds of calamity. The cold moonlight fell along this gap and shone on Hanyu Mountain, exactly on the huge rock where a man and a wolf were.

The trees in the forest below the rocks were all swaying and lowering their branches. The rocks that were originally blocked by these tree crowns are now lowered as the blocking trees move away, clearly appearing in the sight of the villagers at the river bend.

When the villagers raised their heads, they clearly saw the huge rocks in the mountain and the huge white wolf on the rocks. The cold moonlight fell on the white wolf's body, and every hair of the white wolf seemed to be emitting a silvery brilliance, which was extraordinary.

All the villagers who saw this scene widened their eyes.

Because the moment they saw the white wolf, they also saw the young girl next to the white wolf.

Although compared to the huge size of the white wolf, the little girl was almost negligible, but no one dared to ignore it at this time. Because everyone recognized who the little girl was.

That is obviously...

"Xiao Ai?"

"It's Xiao Ai!"

"Yes, it's Xiao Ai!"

"Why is Xiao Ai there..."

The villagers started talking about it, but the old village chief cursed in a low voice, "Shut up, everyone! No talking!"

Then the old village chief walked up to the crowd and took the lead in kowtowing to the man and the wolf on the rock.

"All the villagers in Shuisheng Village worship the mountain god!"

Behind the old village chief, the villagers all bowed their bodies and kowtowed heavily.

The voices of the villagers shouting in unison echoed in the mountains.

"All the villagers in Shuisheng Village worship the mountain god!"

The shouts of the villagers echoed in the mountain wind, but the young girl on the rock looked confused and became awkward again.

The cold moonlight formed a silver-white beam of light, falling on her and the white wolf. At this moment, this person and the wolf are the center of attention in the entire Hanyu Mountain.

Lu Heng chuckled and said, "Since you like it, let them be more afraid of you."

“It is better to be feared than to be despised.”

Lu Heng's words made the little girl raise her head in confusion. Looking at the mountain god in front of her blankly and ignorantly, she seemed to see the mountain god smiling.

In a daze, the scene of the giant wolf smiling under the moon seems to be engraved in the girl's memory forever...

Chapter 25 Visitors

After the Double Ninth Festival, the remote Hanyu Mountain became quiet.

After the rice harvest in the fields is over, there is not much farm work left to do. Most of the villagers are leisurely at home, and the only thing they need to consider is food for the winter.

But this year's rice crop is still a bumper harvest. There is no need to worry about food for the winter. As long as you prepare enough daily necessities before the heavy snow closes the mountains.

Not far away, Hanyu Mountain was even quieter.

The huge swirling clouds rotating in the sky still enveloped the entire Hanyu Mountains, with lightning flashing from time to time. Every once in a while, thunder would strike from the sky, and the roaring thunder would spread to the outside of the mountain, making it deafening.

But the villagers in Shuisheng Village have become accustomed to this terrifying thunder and are no longer afraid.

The only thing they were curious about was what the mountain god was doing and why there was thunder all the time in the mountains.

The thunder in the mountains continued, and as time passed day by day, the weather gradually entered late autumn. The vegetation in the mountains began to wither and turn yellow, and the howling wind in the mountains and forests gradually turned cold.

Late autumn has arrived, and winter is not far away.

Before the weather turned completely cold, the young men in the village were organized. There were seventy-six people in total. All of them packed dry food and left the village, heading towards the nearest city. They were going to purchase daily necessities after the winter. Except for the young people who stayed behind, almost all the young people in the village went there.

Because the wilderness is difficult to travel and wild animals are rampant. Once you leave the Hanyu Mountain Range, you may be attacked by wild beasts at any time.

And the journey is long and takes a long time. The nearest city was said to be the closest, but with the villagers' strength, the round trip would take five to six days.

During these five or six days, the villagers will eat and live in the wilderness. Traveling during the day and resting at night, if there are few people, there is no way to resist the wolves and beasts in the wilderness.

If you are unlucky and the beasts you encounter are very hungry, there may even be conflicts, resulting in death or injury.

But this year, nothing like this happened. The villagers followed the route of previous years, walked through the wilderness, set foot on the Chidao, and successfully arrived at Luoye City. Then I spent a day purchasing the daily necessities needed for the winter.

On the way back, there were no accidents.

There were no scary monsters passing by, no terrifying beasts. Although they encountered several herds of beasts during the night, they were all ordinary beasts. The villagers waved torches and weapons and shouted angrily to scare the herds away.

After the young adults successfully returned to the village, the villagers, led by the old village chief, held another ceremony to worship the wolf god and thank the mountain god for his blessing. Although this sacrifice was not as large as the Double Ninth Festival, it still provided a large amount of incense and power.

The large influx of incense power even woke up Lu Heng, who was in a state of dormant cultivation underground.

He checked in surprise and found that these villagers were making sacrifices to him again, and he was suddenly confused.

It's not a festival now, so why are these villagers carrying out sacrifices again? Is it possible that the autumn harvest is over and the villagers are bored at home? So let’s have some fun with some celebrations?

Lu Heng, who didn't understand the cause and effect or the specific situation, could only guess like this.

Since the Double Ninth Festival, he has been practicing meditation in the mountains. He has once again returned to his original simple life, repeating the process of introducing thunder into his body, practicing quietly in silence, and then introducing thunder into his body and practicing meditation in silence again.

Occasionally, I would go down the mountain to a river bend and perform a swallowing of fishes to fill my stomach.

No mountain people came to disturb the mountain, and the black-robed wizard Zhu Gongshu Jie who left did not come back to visit him again. Occasionally, Lu Heng couldn't help but sigh when he thought of this witch Zhu. He always had a premonition that Uncle Jie was currently toiling in Thousand Needles City.

I just don’t know who will be unlucky in the end.

I hope it's not me...

With Lu Heng thinking like this, he entered the state of latent cultivation again and continued to practice.

Time passes day by day.

Gradually, all the leaves in the mountains began to wither, and the weather turned completely cold, no longer the sultry heat of early autumn. When the mountain wind blows on your face at night, you may even feel a stinging sensation.

In the aquatic village at the foot of the mountain, the lives of the villagers have returned to the peace of the past. The daily necessities for the winter have been purchased and stored. Next, the mountain residents only need to stay in their warm homes and survive this cold winter.

However, winter has not yet officially arrived, and the aquatic village outside Hanyu Mountain has welcomed new guests.

It was a day in late October, coinciding with the onset of frost. In the early morning, Hanyu Mountain was filled with thick white fog. This misty fog obscured everything, and even the huge swirling clouds in the mountain were invisible.

Wang Laoliu, who put on his hunting bow and went out early in the morning, was about to invite his companions to go hunting in the mountains. However, as soon as he stepped out of his house, he heard a strange sound in the mist outside the village.

Boom--boom--boom--

A heavy and slow sound sounded outside the village. It seemed like someone was beating a heavy drum, or like some terrifying beast walking outside the village.

Immediately afterwards, the ground began to shake slowly. Although the amplitude of the shaking was not obvious, the trembling ground and the dull "drum sound" slowly approaching caused Wang Laoliu's expression to change instantly.

He hurriedly ran towards the entrance of the village. Sure enough, not long after, he heard Ai Laosan, who was on duty at the entrance of the village, shouting.

"There's a monster! There's a monster!"

Dangdangdang——dangdangdang——

The bronze chime hanging at the entrance of the village was struck violently and sounded a rapid warning sound. The originally quiet village suddenly became excited.

Hearing the warning bell, many villagers who were still asleep climbed out of bed in panic. The men all picked up their weapons and rushed towards the entrance of the village. Wang Laoliu, who had the upper hand, rushed to the village entrance ahead of everyone with his hunting bow on his back.

Standing on the fence surrounded by logs, he saw the scene outside the fog.

What a monster that is!

The huge figure is like a moving hill, several feet high. Just that huge head is as big as the tile-roofed house of Wang Laoliu's family! The fence that the village had erected to defend against wild beasts was as fragile as a fence that could fall down in the face of this giant beast.

Wang Laoliu's eyes widened in horror. Looking at this scene, he almost lost the ability to speak.

This monster is so big and terrifying!

But the villagers on duty on the fence were much calmer. They had been shocked by the monster's huge size. But what made them temporarily put aside their fear was the figures in front of the monster.

That's right, there were many figures following this huge turtle-like creature.

Those people were all dressed differently from the Huotong people, and most of them were carrying bags and things, as if they were migrating. Even on the spacious tortoise shell of the huge monster, if you look carefully, you can see many luggage tied to the tortoise shell in the mist.

It seems that this huge giant turtle is just a pack horse for these people's envoys...

The villagers in Shuisheng Village were all nervous and afraid. They had never seen such a terrifying giant beast. Even the wolf god in the mountain seems to be unable to match the size of this giant turtle.

And in the mist, there seems to be more than one such giant turtle, and there are even more figures in the mist outside the village. The number of these aliens seems to be quite large...

In the mist, looking at the fear and anxiety of the villagers on the fence, the girl wearing a wreath of green grass turned and ran into the mist, passing through the tribesmen one after another, and found the old man sitting in the mist resting.

The girl ran over happily and said, "Grandpa Priest, there is a village ahead. There are people living in such a remote place, and there are a lot of people."

"But they seem to have never seen a spin turtle, and they are all very scared... Do you want to go over and talk to their village chief?"

The girl's narration made the old man sitting on the roadside resting his head raise his head. The white-haired old man was holding a pitch-black snake staff, and his unclothed upper body was painted with many pale patterns.

Although the muscles on the old man's body have become loose due to old age. But it can still be seen that this muscular old man must have been a powerful and brave man when he was young.

After hearing what the girl said, the old man stood up and said, "Since there are villagers living there, we should explain everything to them and don't scare them."

After the old man stood up, he walked towards the fog ahead with the help of the girl.

At the entrance of Shuisheng Village, the elderly village chief had already arrived with the elders. It's just that the old people all stood on the ten-foot-high fence, nervously and fearfully observing the giant beasts and figures outside. I don't know what kind of guests came to the aquatic village.

The formation in front of me is so scary!

When the old priest was helped out by the girl, all the villagers on the fence noticed.

Because when the shirtless old priest walked out of the crowd, the foreigners outside the village all saluted the old man, showing his extraordinary status.

And after the old priest was supported by the girl and walked out of the crowd, he didn't pretend to be mysterious. He cupped his hands and said to the nervous villagers on the fence.

"We are members of the Li tribe's Xiifeng tribe, and we have moved to your land. We never wanted to disturb you all because of the heavy fog. I would like to apologize on behalf of our tribe."

"But we are not bandits, and we will not engage in burning, killing, and looting. You don't have to be afraid. Next, people from my clan will temporarily settle nearby to be neighbors with you."

"If you are in need at that time, you can ask our clan for help. Within our ability, the people of our clan will not delay."

Although the old priest was old, his voice spread throughout the aquatic village. Whether it was the young men on the fence at the entrance of the village or the women, children, old and young in the village, they all clearly heard the voice of the old priest.

This extraordinary performance immediately made the villagers widen their eyes, knowing that they had met a big shot.

The old village chief tightened his grip on his crutch and murmured, "Li people... Li people..."

He suddenly remembered something and asked quickly, "But the Li people who move around, live by water, and are good at metallurgy and iron?"

Before the old priest could speak, the girl who was supporting the old man and wearing a wreath of green grass on her head laughed playfully and said, "This old man is a well-known scholar... Yes, we are the Li people you mentioned."

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