Madmen don't keep diaries

Chapter 139 Chapter 138 Moving Mountain Method

Feng Xiuhu's eyes rolled around a few times.

Ever since he knew that Eclipse had been a traitor, he always suspected that Eclipse had never been a good person in those ancient times.

"Did you also join the New God in beating up the big turtle back then?"

"I do not have."

Eclipse shook his head and denied it. "I... dare to say I'm not very active, and I don't communicate much with other primitive gods. I don't have any friendship with him, but I don't have any hatred either."

"I didn't get involved in that fight, but I didn't help him either."

Feng Xiuhu was more concerned about another question: "Who took away the Big Turtle's authority afterwards?"

Eclipse still shook his head: "The rules of the earth have not been taken away and are still on Pioneer Island."

Feng Xiuhu was stunned. He didn't understand. The New Gods weren't some honest-to-goodness Young Pioneers. It didn't make sense for them to leave the spoils behind after a battle. "Are they so kind?"

"It's not that they are kind."

Eclipse said, "But they can't take it away."

Feng Xiuhu wanted to ask more, but Shi didn't want to explain. "That's why the Banshan Tribe suffered a catastrophic disaster. It was the New God's revenge, and it also prevented Gan Dang from awakening in the future. The Banshan Tribe's practitioners resonate with the laws of the earth during their training, and every movement of these laws is a call to Gan Dang."

"But you said the Mountain Moving Tribe is extinct."

Feng Xiuhu was worried about Shunzi: "What did Shunzi say?"

Eclipse explained, "The Mountain Moving Tribe has existed for many years, after all. They are capable of walking and jumping, and no one has stipulated that they must stay in the Continental Bridge forever. It's not uncommon for some of their people to have traveled to other parts of the world."

"I said the Mountain Moving Tribe suffered a devastating disaster. You might have misunderstood. The process wasn't as simple as killing off all the Mountain Moving Tribe on the Continental Bridge in just a few days."

"The ultimate goal of the new god is to make sure that no more people from the Moving Mountain Tribe practice their cultivation techniques in this world. So this has been going on for many years. Once a practitioner from the Moving Mountain Tribe is discovered somewhere, they will be hunted down by the temple and the church. As time goes by, the frequency of their appearances becomes lower and lower, until they completely disappear."

"But this doesn't mean the bloodline of the Mountain Moving Clan is cut off."

"Perhaps the pure-blooded Banshan people no longer exist, but over the years, perhaps some Banshan people have interbred with other tribes, continuing their bloodline. However, because the inheritance of their skills was cut off, no more practitioners have appeared, but they have also escaped being hunted down."

"That's why I said Shunzi alone might not be able to prove anything, but with the addition of a big ear, it can at least support my guess."

Feng Xiuhu understood: "You suspect that there were once people from the Banshan tribe in Fancheng, and that they left behind descendants—this Banshan tribe member is the common ancestor of Shunzi and Big Ear."

Eclipse nodded. "Yes, the appearance of a straight in Dicheng might be explained as a coincidence, but with Big Ears, the possibility of chance is too small."

Feng Xiuhu now understood everything. He counted on his fingers and said, "In other words, Shunzi isn't a purebred. Although his blood has been diluted for many generations, he still has the blood of the Mountain Moving Tribe flowing in his veins. It's for this reason that he can't practice other techniques and can only practice techniques that represent the authority of the earth. But now the Mountain Moving Tribe's techniques have been cut off, so even if he wants to learn, he has nowhere to go. So, he can only be an ordinary person in this life?"

"Strictly speaking, that's the case."

Eclipse paused briefly, then changed the subject: "But I remember the technique."

Feng Xiuhu raised his head abruptly and cursed, "Well, you still say you didn't beat the big turtle!"

"Roar--!"

Shi Qi was furious and stood up and roared at Feng Xiu Hu: "Is this what I wanted to hear you say?"

Feng Xiuhu sneered, "If you hadn't helped, where would you have gotten the skills?" Eclipse had no place to vent his anger, so he rubbed his claws hard on the deck a few times. "All the skills that hadn't been tampered with are now in the hands of the new god. Xijun has a treasure house where she keeps all the important things locked up: authority, artifacts, skills, her childhood toys, worn-out shoes, and leftovers from the day before..."

After hearing the first half, Feng Xiuhu was still skeptical, but after hearing the second half, he believed it - if the conditions allowed, he would do the same.

But he still had a question: "Since it's locked, how do you know it so clearly?"

Shi Mengmeng said, "Because I am the one guarding the Treasure House."

"Ha!" Feng Xiuhu clapped his legs and laughed, "Watchdog!"

Shi rushed forward and bit Feng Xiuhu's head, mumbling, "I know everything that's stored inside. I've memorized the Banshan Clan's skills too. You'd better be polite to me."

Feng Xiuhu reached in, grabbed Shi's tongue, and tied it into a knot. "But the Banshan Clan is hated by the Temple Church. I'm worried that if Shunzi practices rashly, he'll be killed."

Eclipse said: "Wal ...

Feng Xiuhu helped him untie the knot again.

He spat out a mouthful of saliva, as if washing Feng Xiuhu's face.

While Feng Xiuhu was taking off his coat and wiping it, Shi said, "He has no other choice. Either he studies or he will be an ordinary person for the rest of his life."

"You don't have to worry too much. The annihilation of the Mountain Moving Tribe has been over for many, many years. Nowadays, few people even know they ever existed. The concept of 'the complete extinction of the Mountain Moving Tribe' is almost universally acknowledged by the New Gods—and if I don't reveal my technique, that would be the case."

"Secondly, the Mountain Moving Clan's skills have their own unique characteristics, which can be easily concealed by us."

Feng Xiuhu looked up and said, "Tell me about it."

Shi wet his tail with sea water and used it as a brush to write a few words on the board.

"Mountain Moving Technique."

Eclipse said.

"Like all other techniques, the Mountain Moving Technique is divided into four realms: Spiritual Communication, Divine Wandering, Barrier Breaking, and Unfettered."

"But the difference is that in ordinary techniques, the Spiritual Communication Realm is the ability for the spirit to actively enter the spirit world; the Wandering Realm is the ability for the spirit to separate from the physical body and act in the real world as a spirit; and the Barrier Breaking Realm is the ability to directly break through the barriers between the two worlds and enter the spirit world with the physical body after the physical body has been tempered."

"But the Mountain Moving Technique is different. As I said before, Gan Dang's physical body and spiritual body are inseparable, and the Mountain Moving Technique also continues this."

"Even if one cultivates the Mountain Moving Technique to the Spiritual Realm or the Divine Wandering Realm, the practitioner's spirit body still cannot enter the spirit world or leave the physical body. Only after reaching the Barrier Breaking Realm can the physical body enter."

Feng Xiuhu listened attentively and suddenly interrupted, "I remember you just saying that the giant turtle couldn't enter the spirit world. But even practitioners of the Mountain Moving Technique can force their way into the spirit world after reaching the Barrier Breaking Realm. Why couldn't the giant turtle do that back then?"

Eclipse was silent for a few seconds: "It's not that I can't, but I can't bear it."

"Gandang is too big. Once he enters the spirit world, not only will the continental bridge on his back lose its support and completely collapse, but even the East and West continents will suffer a disaster no less than doomsday."

"I couldn't bear to see the devastation, so I chose to die calmly."

"Just like his name."

PS: In the character card, Shunzi’s label is a soft-hearted god.

(End of this chapter)