In ancient times, they secretly became gods in the deep mountains.

Chapter 78 There really are gods in this world!
Before Zhang Gou Dan and his companions could figure out where to begin their investigation, the villagers dragged them along to help build the sacrificial altar.

Seeing the towering statue standing beside them, they were dumbfounded. Where did this craftsman come from, possessing such exquisite skills?

For some reason, as they looked at the tall statue, they thought of the sacred divine figure on the sea.

The villagers were enthusiastically building the altar to the gods.

With Luo Yousong overseeing the project and villagers from the foot of Qihuang Mountain providing labor, significant results were achieved in just a few days.

Within the space formed from the power of merit, Gu Yuexi absorbed the power of merit within, and the space shed its illusion, revealing its true form.

The island transformed into a complete human skeleton, the white bones lying silently on the sea surface. The seawater stopped flowing and turned into countless souls wailing and crying, like an endless purgatory.

When the power of merit was almost completely absorbed, the consciousness of this space attempted to absorb her power in return, but was suppressed by Gu Yuexi.

She clearly felt that the shackles on her cultivation were loosening, and she was only one step away from the mid-stage of Foundation Establishment.

"The power of merit is indeed a good thing."

"So, that skeleton is that of the Ten Incarnations of a Virtuous Man?"

"Fine, for the sake of merit, I'll help you out."

Gu Yuexi used her spiritual power to lift the skeleton and remove the shackles from it.

"who are you?"

The skeleton actually started talking.

Gu Yuexi replied, "You don't need to know who I am. You just need to know that I'm here to help you."

The skeleton said, "Girl, thank you for saving me."

"You don't need to thank me. After all, you paid me. I absorbed the power of your merits from ten lifetimes. It was just a simple matter for me to help you out of your predicament."

"How did you end up like this, trapped in this space and unable to continue the cycle of reincarnation?"

Logically speaking, a person who has been virtuous for ten lifetimes should not have such a tragic situation.

The skeleton sighed and replied, "It's laughable, but I did good deeds all my life, and in the end, I died because of them."

Gu Yuexi only understood after hearing his story.

He was originally a wealthy man in the area. When a drought struck, he opened his granaries to distribute grain to the people, just like Luo Yousong. He took out all the grain from his house and regularly distributed it to the people until he ran out of food. The angry people killed him and ate him.

Perhaps he was unwilling to accept death and was tainted with a trace of evil. Therefore, this trace of evil used the power of his merits to create a small space, luring mortals to devour his life and soul.

"I have been trapped here for years, but I am conscious. I know that this space instinctively absorbs the souls of the dead. Please, young lady, help these poor souls and send them to be reincarnated."

She turned her gaze to the wailing souls, a slight look of difficulty on her face: "I'm afraid I can't help sending so many souls to be reincarnated."

The virtuous man died in the first year of the drought, and in the three years that followed, no fewer than a thousand lives were lost here, and the number of souls was as numerous as the water in the ocean.

Suddenly, she had a flash of inspiration. She searched the system's resource library and found a magical artifact that could communicate with the laws of reincarnation. It was a top-grade Dao artifact that could communicate with the laws of reincarnation on its own, sending the souls of the dead to be reincarnated, essentially acting as a path of reincarnation.

[Host, this is a treasure. It's a top-grade Dao artifact, equivalent to the seed of the Cycle of Reincarnation. Once it connects with the laws of reincarnation, it can not only send the dead to be reborn, but also spontaneously form a Cycle of Reincarnation. When it grows up, this world can have a Netherworld.]

"so good?"

It seems that a lot of faith is required.

She glanced at it, and sure enough, it was true.

"150,000 faith points?"

[Host has accumulated 80000 Faith Points]

[Because the host has brought blessings to all living beings, the Reincarnation Pearl is given to the host as a reward.]

"Zero One, you're so thoughtful! You knew my faith power wasn't enough to exchange for the Reincarnation Pearl, so you even gave it to me as a reward," Gu Yuexi said with emotion.

The system cannot control the exchange of magical artifacts in the system's resource pool; it only occasionally allows the system to allocate one or two magical artifacts at will.

"Anyway, I still want to thank you." Gu Yuexi exchanged the Reincarnation Pearl.

The moment the Reincarnation Bead was held in my hand, it emitted a faint, ghostly aura.

She used the Reincarnation Bead to communicate with the laws of reincarnation.

The Reincarnation Bead transformed into a portal.

As if sensing a call, the crowded undead jostled and pushed their way into the portal.

Gu Yuexi made a move, lining them up in a row. The undead dared not resist her, and so they slowly approached the teleportation portal as she wished.

After they were all reborn, Gu Yuexi looked at the remains of the ten virtuous men.

"You should leave too!"

"Young lady, may I ask if you are a human or a ghost?"

Everything that had just happened shocked the skeleton.

He never imagined that someone could actually send so many dead souls to be reborn.

Gu Yuexi replied, "You can call me a god!"

"Gods!" The skeleton shuddered, questioning, "Are there gods in this world?"

Gu Yuexi asked with a smile, "There are even demons and monsters in this world, is it strange that there are gods and immortals?"

After she finished speaking, she gestured for the skeleton to proceed, and the skeleton walked towards the portal and disappeared.

"Clap!"

Without the power of merit and the power of the dead, this space began to collapse and shatter.

She took the Reincarnation Bead and returned to Mount Qihuang.

They discovered that villagers at the foot of the mountain were building an altar for worshipping the gods.

Gu Yuexi saw several young men: "So they are villagers from the foot of the mountain."

She had carelessly abandoned them in Peach Blossom Village in an attempt to save them, never expecting that they would turn out to be villagers from the foot of the mountain. What a coincidence!

"My cultivation has weakened; it's time to refine the power of merit to break through to the mid-Foundation Establishment stage."

She had just absorbed so much merit, but she hadn't refined it. Now that her cultivation was loosening, she needed to refine the merit within her body to prepare for advancing her cultivation.

In Peach Blossom Village, the villagers built an altar to worship the gods.

“Goudan, look, this is the statue of the Golden Saint Goddess.” Gousheng’s mother pulled Zhang Goudan to the statue: “Don’t you believe that the goddess is a deity? This statue was carved by a celestial child. How could we mortals possibly have such skills!”

Zhang Gou Dan said he didn't believe in gods, so Gou Sheng's mother took her son to the statue of a god.

Zhang Gou Dan was amazed by the exquisite construction of the statue.

“Mother, actually, we encountered a strange thing on this trip. We were resting in an abandoned temple outside the county town when we suddenly found ourselves on a small island surrounded by the sea. We almost got trapped inside.”

"Just as we were waiting to die, a light appeared on the sea. We thought it was a hallucination before we died, but we prayed to the gods to give us a way to live, just to try our luck."

"I didn't expect that we would be in a different place in the blink of an eye, this time at the entrance of the village."

"Oh dear!" Gou Sheng's mother exclaimed in alarm, "My son, thank goodness you're all alright!"

"Based on your description, could it be that the Golden Saintess saved you?"

Zhang Gou Dan was unaware that they had never seen that person's true face from beginning to end.

"All I know is that He is tall and occupies half of the sky, as if He could blot out the sun!"

"Yes, yes, she must be the Golden Saintess. It's good that you saw her, otherwise you would have been in grave danger."

Gou Sheng's mother clasped her hands together and said, "Thank you, Goddess Jin Sheng, for your great kindness and virtue in bringing my son back safely."