The Spirit World

Chapter 496: Past Events of the Gods

"The sound you heard...is it...keeee..." I wanted to say the name, but I could only scream at the top of my lungs.

I couldn't make any sound at all. When I tried to make one, I felt a hand grabbing my Adam's apple. The pain was so severe that I could only scream heart-wrenchingly.

"Yes! It's keeee!" Niu Er was much better. He lay on the bed, and he seemed to have gained weight again. This shocked and surprised me. We couldn't call out its name, so I thought of an idea. We used a pseudonym and named that thing - the unknown thing.

We don’t know whether it is a name or just a sound. Niu Er and I are not sure. We can only describe it as an object.

This is very important to us, because I feel that Niu Er and I's mental state is still good enough to be saved compared to Yu Zhilai who just entered the village.

This is also thanks to Zhang Xiaohu's care.

Zhang Xiaohu said that we were talking nonsense every day, and we were even becoming stupid like Yu Zhi. These were Zhang Xiaohu's original words. Niu Er and I felt that Zhang Xiaohu was taking advantage of the situation, as he had always thought that we were not smart.

But thanks to him, we were in a good enough mental state to get back to the way we were.

"What's that sound?" Zhang Xiaohu asked us. We were about to scream at the top of our lungs again, so he quickly stopped us.

We cannot make this sound, but we can confirm that it is not the sound of a wild beast, and it is definitely not a sound that we can understand.

Later I learned that humans cannot make this sound.

We can only make it with a sound that we can simulate.

That is, [Kekenhong].

I heard that when we lost consciousness, Zhang Xiaohu forced himself to maintain his mental state and pulled us both far away. Zhang Xiaohu was worried, so we also began to ask how much of this was known only to Zhang Xiaohu.

Zhang Xiaohu shook his head and sighed, "At this point, there is nothing to hide."

He told us the whole story. Actually, I still felt that he was holding back, but even so, he let us know a lot of things we didn't know.

In Yujia Village, it can be said with certainty that even the most knowledgeable old gentleman has not read as many rare books as Zhang Xiaohu. In a book whose name has long been lost, Zhang Xiaohu saw the story of The Heart of the Mountains.

Hua Yin created the Hua people, who had a long life span. Both men and women were marked by black hair and black eyes. Di Yao created huge rock giants, who had strong rock bodies and were integrated with nature. They were the so-called Shan clan. At that time, relying on the relationship between the Shan clan and the Hua people, the people of the Hua people at least had great satisfaction in terms of food, so that all the tribes that were hostile to us began to unite in disguise. We were next to the human race and the elves, so where there is unity there is also confrontation. The team of the elves and humans had several small-scale wars with us when we were extremely powerful, causing other tribes to have to mediate because our growth would inevitably threaten the territory of others. The Shan clan gradually separated from the Hua clan, and the elves also separated from the human race. Such things were very common in the past, and the only record of them was that some old people mentioned them when they were sorting out the past.

The Heart of the Mountains fell at that time.

Because the rhythm of the earth caused an extremely terrible earthquake, the earthquake occurred in the underworld.

The Nether Kingdom also participated in the war. Their army was called the [Ghost Legion]. They were immortal and almost invincible. However, in the war with the royal family, their main force fell underground due to the earthquake. The Nether Kingdom's god [Wu Youqi] could still sense the breath of the Ghost Legion general [Amobius] underground, so he asked Emperor Yao, who possessed the power of the earth, for help.

Di Yao and Hua Yin had just resolved the war with the humans and elves, and did not have the extra energy to do this matter, so she tactfully rejected Wu Youqi's request and only took her own ring, the Heart of the Mountains, to help her solve the matter.

The power of the Heart of Mountains drastically moved the mountain peaks and changed the terrain. At that time, Netherworld Gorge was still a rich mountain range, but because of the Heart of Mountains, all the mountains were swept away. The massive mountain-moving action at that time shocked all the gods in the spiritual world.

The human race's god Lu Zhongxing was the first to condemn Wu Youqi's behavior and vowed that the Ghost Shadow Legion would never be able to rise again. The most direct reason was that Wu Youqi moved the mountain to the border of the human race. The Netherworld Kingdom is adjacent to the China Kingdom, and the China Kingdom is adjacent to the human race. This is the closest distance. As for other small countries, they were not mentioned. It is said that many small tribes of the Quetzalcoatl were also directly buried. Those were the deaths of large numbers of living humans.

In this act of condemnation, the human race, which had just ended the war, was once again caught in the vortex of war. However, because the Chinese race was caught in the middle, it was a very painful thing for the human army to travel a long distance to the Netherworld Kingdom, so the matter was left unresolved.

This is what Wu Youqi meant. The relationship with China is very good, but the relationship with the human race is very bad. However, if the human race wants to do anything, they have to pass through China's border, so the whole thing highlights Wu Youqi's superb political strategy.

This incident was recorded in history.

The book also recorded the follow-up of this incident, that is, the ghost army of the Nether Kingdom did return, but soon, the gods of the Nether Kingdom issued a notice, apologizing for the reflection on the human race's doing such a thing, and then, with a sincere apology, the matter was settled. Wu Youqi never appeared in the vision of the gods of the spirit world again. The Nether Kingdom was like a closed country, and all the people of the Nether Kingdom no longer appeared.

Considering that the Nether Clan are immortal and mortal, closing off the Nether Kingdom is indeed a happy thing. However, the Nether Clan members who are responsible for collecting souls roam around in every corner of the spirit world and can never return to the Nether Kingdom, because their appearance is always accompanied by death. Therefore, the scattered Nether Clan members also have a very scary name, that is [Death].

The events of the Nether Kingdom were not over yet. The Heart of the Mountains fell in the Nether Gorge because the whole incident was caused by the powerful Heart of the Mountains of the gods of the Mountain Clan. The Nether Kingdom in turn condemned Emperor Yao, and Emperor Yao was forced to bury the entire Heart of the Mountains in this sad land. The Nether Kingdom instantly issued an announcement that the gods of death would no longer accept the souls of the Mountain Clan giants, which resulted in the Mountain Clan giants sadly turning into rocks when they died. They could no longer have life and fell into true death.

To this day, Di Yao, who has become disillusioned with the gods, is still living in seclusion in the mountains with our god Hua Yin. This is why the Heart of the Mountains was thrown into the Netherworld Gorge.

Amid the intrigues of the gods, such a powerful artifact fell into oblivion in the Netherworld Gorge.

For us, the whole thing is incredibly unacceptable.

At that time, we only knew that Di Yao's mountain clan was lazy, but we didn't know the whole story. For the mountain clan, there was only death, even meaningless death, and there was no afterlife.

The fact that the powerful Shan clan was almost destroyed was also due to this incident.

The point is that we hope to obtain the heart of the mountains. Only the Chinese who know the mystery will feel furious. Without the support of the mountain clan, the status of us Chinese is indeed lost.

If we find the Heart of the Mountains, maybe Emperor Yao will change his mind and rekindle his fighting spirit. That would be a good thing for us Chinese.

Therefore, the harvest banquet, an attempt to cover up something that only made it more obvious, came about.

The Yutu clan reported the search for the Heart of the Mountains and obtained a large amount of travel expenses. Yu Laosan, who knew about this, encouraged his son Yu Zhi to participate. He did not tell us how much travel money he could get from the whole thing. Our Yu Zhi did not know how beautiful the Yupang clan was, but when he really saw them, he really fell in love with them.

The whole thing sounds ridiculous, but Yu Laosan got too much money, so Zhang Xiaohu eavesdropped on the matter. If he pretended to be crazy, he could take away the travel expenses. Yu Laosan was very smart and handed over part of it. The gold coins left in his hand were enough for his family to live a good life for several lifetimes.

We were all so shocked that we forgot what had just happened in Kerkenhong.

Zhang Xiaohu guessed that Yu Zhi must have come here. Yu Laosan didn't expect Yu Zhi to be so honest and really came here for the Yu Pang family and began to look for the heart of the mountains. But in the end, everything went according to Yu Laosan's original plan.

No one knows where the heart of the mountains is... Just like us now, Zhang Xiaohu said that we encountered a terrible psychic attack, which would destroy our minds and make us lose our reason temporarily. Our current recovery also proves this point.

In other words, this sound that could not be made was indeed made by an unknown object buried in the Netherworld Gorge.

Zhang Xiaohu believed that the sound was emitted by the buried ghost army. They must have stayed underground for too long and became possessed. But one thing is certain: they must be our enemies.

We really had no objection to Zhang Xiaohu's concealment. How should I put it? Although I am disgusted by such things, I still felt a little unwilling when he told us about it.

We can hear Zhang Xiaohu's ambition. If we have the Heart of the Mountains in our hands, how many ordinary people in this world can compete with us? Wealth, honor, and money may be easily obtained, but Zhang Xiaohu's ambition does not stop there. It also includes disputes between ethnic groups.

When he talked with Yilong, he asked how the disputes among the Yilong tribe would end. Would there really be permanent peace? Where would the end of this dispute be?
Yilongzhi didn't tell him at first, because Yilongzhi had never thought about this question.

But after thinking for a long time, Yi Longzhi just shook his head helplessly and said: "For this kind of thing, we can only take one step at a time. There are no eternal friends between tribes, only eternal interests. When there are common interests, peace between tribes will naturally happen."

I looked at Zhang Xiaohu and nodded as if he understood...Only on this issue did Yi Longzhi and Zhang Xiaohu remain silent for a long time.

Maybe, this is fate...

As soon as we explored the Netherworld Gorge, we encountered an inexplicable psychic attack, which caused Niu Er and I to become mentally unclear and talk nonsense.

In this matter, Zhang Xiaohu apologized, and we also looked at him in amazement as to why he did not suffer from mental attack.

The difference between Zhang Xiaohu and us is more obvious at this time.

So I don’t know how to tell you.

It is also possible that Zhang Xiaohu is more knowledgeable and more rational, which means his mental power is more virtual.

Obviously, Zhang Xiaohu's sanity value is almost certainly greater than ours, so he has a certain resistance to mental attacks. However, Zhang Xiaohu speculated that this resistance will not last too long, but we are indeed lucky.

Zhang Xiaohu didn't want to give up. He wanted to take a gamble. This time he would use Xiaozhi's hook to go down to the bottom of the Youming Gorge, and then use the catapult system to come up immediately. If possible, he would conduct repeated experiments, hooking on the two walls of the canyon and diving back and forth, like a monkey climbing a rock. If he could go down, he could also come up. This method must be feasible.

We were extremely impressed by Zhang Xiaohu's intelligence, because he had to bite the bullet to get Xiaozhi's equipment, otherwise Xiaozhi probably wouldn't have given us so many equipment.

All of this may have been part of Zhang Xiaohu's plan, but we didn't have enough foresight. If Zhang Xiaohu really thought of this in advance, then we really admire Zhang Xiaohu.

Only Zhang Xiaohu can do this, and it is destined. We have no way to resist the unknown mental attack. Niu Er and I are responsible for the aftermath.

Therefore, for us, the next thing is just to take action around Netherworld Gorge.

However, the whole thing was not as simple as we thought. When we explored the Netherworld Gorge again, we encountered a more difficult problem. That is, we encountered the invincible Ghost Shadow Legion. They roared past and rushed like mountains and seas. When we tried our best to save Zhang Xiaohu who had already gone down, the whole thing took a drastic turn.

what……

My head hurts...

I still remember Niu Er’s eyes almost popping out when Zhang Xiaohu was pinching his neck.

Perhaps, that is the most frightening memory in my life.

We have been friends for more than 2 years. From the beginning to the end, I had no way of telling whether what Zhang Xiaohu said was true or false. If I have to blame someone, I can only blame myself for being too stupid.

I naively thought that there were people like me in this world, and I believed so naively in our friendship.

I also always believe that Zhang Xiaohu, deep down, is still my friend... He must think so in his heart.

Whether he has the heart of the mountains or not.

My pain, perhaps, became unredeemable when Zhang Xiaohu treated Niu Er so cruelly.

I was scared... I really couldn't do anything at that time. Under the powerful iron hoofs of the Heart of the Mountains and the Ghost Legion, my insignificance became so obvious.

Kerkenhorn...

I still can't post this...

Great sound.

(End of this chapter)