Chapter 138 The Gods Descend

Wu Yu pushed open the door and walked onto the streets of Chaoge City.

He could see that the residents of Chaoge had taken out their best clothes.

Because most people had to defend against the ferocious beasts as warriors or cultivate grains and vegetables, few people engaged in weaving. Usually, everyone, regardless of gender, wore clothes made of animal hides, and finely stitched fabrics were a luxury here.

That meant a warrior had to give up his weapon, or a farmer had to stop plowing, to weave cloth.

Here, it was too extravagant.

Everyone was fighting to survive.

But even so, almost every family had a set of simple cloth clothes.

They were carefully treasured on weekdays.

Worn during sacrifices.

Wu Yu mingled with the crowd and walked towards the Mountain of Sacrifice. He saw his friend Fei Yu, who seemed to have already made the decision to voluntarily become a sacrifice at the grand ceremony twenty days later. His expression was unusually calm and composed.

The new prayer, 'Yuan', had been told to every household.

Wu Yu greeted Fei Yu and pretended not to care about the blood sacrifice, asking:

"How effective is it?"

He was referring to the previous attempts.

When he visited the Grand Tutor before, he had personally witnessed the intense reaction of the descendants of Qiongqi when they heard the name 'Yuan'. The surviving people of Chaoge struggled to survive in this land of mountains and seas, and they had used and tried every skill and method they could.

Since Qiongqi would react to this name, they naturally wouldn't let it go.

During their hunting trips in the past ten days, they had tried using this name on the strange beasts of the mountains and seas.

Fei Yu frowned and replied, "It's useful, but the effect is very strange."

He explained, "For example, those weak ferocious beasts don't react to this name at all."

"Only those powerful ferocious beasts recognize this name. Of course, most of them have two different emotions: fear and anger. They will try to escape, with no fighting spirit. If they are in a group, they will run separately."

"But it's not the old, weak, sick, or disabled that are used as bait, but the strongest and most powerful one in the group."

"Ha, thanks to him, we have captured many of these strong beasts, the kind that taste the best. If they didn't run out on their own, they would be difficult to catch normally."

"On the other hand, those with strong ancestors, such as the descendants of Taotie, seem to be both afraid and expectant, as if this name will bring certain benefits."

Wu Yu listened carefully and asked:

"Which ferocious beasts react to this name? Is there any standard?"

Fei Yu thought for a while and said, "Probably those who are qualified to be recorded in the *Classic of Mountains and Seas* will react."

"*Classic of Mountains and Seas*?"

"Yes, I think this Yuan should be a powerful ancient warrior. In order to temper his strength, he went out to constantly challenge the beasts that were recorded in the *Classic of Mountains and Seas*, and was eventually remembered by these ferocious beasts. Ha... most of the ferocious beasts recorded in the *Classic of Mountains and Seas* also have their own inheritance methods."

"They know what dangers to avoid, where to find food and drink, just like humans."

"So they will definitely pass down the name of this powerful figure."

Fei Yu, as a warrior of the tribe, replied, paused, and joked, "However, we compared the things recorded in the *Classic of Mountains and Seas* and found that those who were recorded with 'how to eat them' reacted especially strongly to this name, like frightened rabbits."

"Perhaps this Yuan once ate them."

Wu Yu was speechless.

Fei Yu shook his head and smiled: "Just kidding. We have been killing each other with these ferocious beasts for so long, and we haven't seen them that afraid. If he really ate them, they would be afraid, and we wouldn't have to suffer so much..."

"Living in this place, we have been devouring each other with them for thousands of years."

He said, feeling a little lost, and didn't know what to say for a while.

He and Wu Yu were warriors and shamans of the tribe, but walking on the street, looking down from above, they were just insignificant among the people of Chaoge City. Each person wore their best clothes, followed step by step, silently, like swirling quicksand, like everyone in ordinary life, converging towards the center.

That was a mountain.

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The branches of the trees had to grow as thick as a person's arm, otherwise they would be too thin. The roots broke through the always moist soil and were exposed to the sunlight, like hideous spider legs, with tiny roots like hairs on the spider's legs, intertwined like spears and halberds, shocking to the eye.

One ferocious beast after another gathered, running in the same direction.

Living beings have the instinct to avoid disaster.

When they learned that the name they had known for generations had appeared, they were terrified.

They passed this name back, but when they discovered that this name was just false, just used by those humans to scare them, the previous fear and panic turned into intense anger.

An ancient beast that had survived from ancient times replied.

'Yuan cannot be alive.'

'I personally watched him die. You are frightened by just a name. Those humans will laugh, too.’

The ferocious beasts were silent, but became even more angry.

An otherworldly beast that had survived by chance from the Age of Gods was like a warhorse, white-bodied with a black tail, and the horn on its forehead had turned into the shape of an azure dragon after a long period. When it breathed, the white air was like a dragon, and it had sharp claws and teeth.

It was a bo, transformed into a dragon.

They passed through the dense forest unique to the Age of Gods, raised their heads, and looked into the distance.

There was a mountain.

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The prayer began, with Fei Yu and Wu Yu in different positions.

This sacrifice was not at the level of national participation, but there were still several thousand people.

They wore simple clothes, surrounding the mountain range, chanting ancient languages.

They had been learning to say these sentences since they were children, but this time there were a few more syllables, but because they had prepared at home in advance, they chanted them very smoothly. Fei Yu didn't pay too much attention to the results of this sacrifice, but Wu Yu was almost extremely nervous in his heart.

Yuan,

Yuan—

After a long, long period of separation, this name was once again called out in the language of the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors, as if passing through history. Under that majestic mountain range, there was a spiritual vein like a dragon coiled. Above the spiritual vein, there was an edict, and the words on it lit up bit by bit in the sound of the calling.

Then, with lightning speed, it swallowed this spiritual vein that had never been occupied.

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In the museum, Wei Yuan had just finished eating, with a straw in his mouth. Most of the iced lemon tea had already been drunk. He was slowly searching for news about Kyoto City in Sakura Island, preparing to make some preparations for sending things over later. Just as he was about to open the next page, his movements stopped, and Wei Yuan's mind felt dizzy. He seemed to hear someone calling him, a very, very distant voice, layered on top of each other, extremely complex.

In his palm, the seal uncontrollably appeared.

The seal, which had already exhausted its divine power, had strands of golden light emerging from within.

The sacrifice had begun.

Wei Yuan thought thoughtfully, immediately turned off the computer, and then returned to the meditation room with the three bronzes, closed the doors and windows, and sealed the four directions with talismans to prevent spirits from entering and to prevent his own aura from leaking, so as not to attract unnecessary troubles. Then he let the seal float in the air, and the Mountain God Seal lit up with flowing light.

This seal seemed to have been unable to hold back for a long time, and it emitted great light.

Then, it directly used the sacrifice outside Chaoge City to activate the resonance of the bronzes.

The patterns on the bronzes lit up at once, and they escaped out, like iron and fire, like bronze flames.

Wei Yuan saw an extremely majestic and tall mountain range.

He heard a voice calling his name over and over again, and felt that there seemed to be something in the mountain resonating with him. Wei Yuan breathed out a breath. Now that things had come to this, he should be bold. He no longer regretted or hesitated. Instead, he clenched his five fingers together, grasped the seal in his hand, closed his eyes slightly, and a wisp of his divine soul flew into the opposite side of the bronze plate under the protection of divinity.

Flying into Chaoge.

The moment Wei Yuan flew in, he felt a sleeping consciousness next to the spiritual vein of this mountain, but soon he had no time to think about it. He felt that when he stepped into the environment where Chaoge was located, he flew directly into the mountain. Now, it was as if he was trapped in a chaos wrapped in a thin film, and his whole body felt bound and aggrieved.

And now, it was already the later stage of the sacrifice. Warriors with half their chests bare carried the sacrificial flesh and blood.

They walked step by step to the highest point in the low sound of musical instruments.

They placed the huge cauldron with Taotie patterns on the ground.

They spread their arms, knelt on the ground, and prayed constantly.

Suddenly,

Wei Yuan felt a sense of relaxation, as if the feeling of being bound could be broken through immediately. He naturally exerted force, and it was at this moment that Fei Yu suddenly noticed that the earth began to shake slightly. At first, the movement was small, and then it continued to spread. He looked up in astonishment, while a hint of ecstasy appeared in Wu Yu's eyes.

So they saw the earth's spiritual veins, the sky's energy, and the sacrificial flesh and blood.

The three converged and fell in the center of the sacrifice in the eyes of many Yin Shang people.

Heaven covers, earth carries, and there is man.

Vaguely transformed into a young Daoist.

So the language of prayer became more and more sonorous, mixed with the sounds of chimes and bronzes, solemn and grand.

This voice rang in Wei Yuan's ears, layered on top of each other. It was the language that originated in the era of the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors, calling him, reminding him of the first time he saw that proud witch, and the first time he met Yu. There had been similar conversations.

'So, what should I call you?'

'Yuan.'

It had been a long time since anyone had called him by this name, even Nu Jiao would not use ancient words.

Finally, the flesh and blood mixed with the mountain's spiritual energy and transformed. Wei Yuan looked at this world, and his body finally felt comfortable.

He chose to transform into a young state, separating himself from the earthly self. He had been bound and aggrieved just now. Once he was freed, he almost subconsciously narrowed his eyes, stretched out his arms, and stretched lazily. As a result, the entire Ancestral Vein Mountain shook slightly with the young Daoist's movements.

The world of the Age of Gods.

Wei Yuan was lost in thought and nostalgia.

He lowered his eyes and smiled, but just sighed, "The vast sky, long time no see."

His voice was calm, but like the wind blowing down from the top of the mountain, it rang in everyone's ears.

It also made the beasts that were running towards this side stop.

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