Chapter 123: The Mountain God's Divination
The mountain temple is now quite popular.
Even in this cold weather, there are still villagers who go out of their homes, clear the snow around the mountain temple and burn incense every day. Coupled with the 5-level mountain temple, it is already quite majestic, solemn and mysterious.
As long as ordinary people here have a little bit of awe in their hearts, there is a high probability that they will feel some kind of mysterious gaze.
When Zhang Yang walked into the mountain temple, it was empty. After all, the weather was too cold and the villagers left quickly after burning incense every day.
The level 5 mountain god did not show up to greet them, not because he was disrespectful, but because showing up would consume mana, and Zhang Yang did not have that much mana to waste on this guy.
Of course, there is no need for them to show their physical form to communicate with each other; just the coverage of the soul force field is enough.
"My little god greets the Lord."
"You know why I'm here."
Zhang Yang asked. Sometimes he was curious. It seemed that this mountain god had extraordinary wisdom since the moment he was born. Why was that? The mountain god explained that he had a little divinity. Oh, it was two o'clock now. This divinity did not seem to increase automatically because of the upgrade of the mountain god. It was related to the villagers' incense and faith.
"Yes, Lord, I dare to guess that it is related to the ghost mother a few days ago. If this ghost is not eliminated, our territory will never have peace."
"Do you have any good ideas?" Zhang Yang asked again.
"My Lord, please forgive my incompetence. I am afraid it will take another five hundred years before I can fight the Ghost Mother."
"In another five hundred years? You seem to be very clear about the growth of your own strength. Can you tell me more about it?" Zhang Yang raised his eyebrows and said with a smile.
"My Lord, my loyalty to the village is evident to all. I will never do anything to harm the village."
The mountain god was smart. He knew Zhang Yang's suspicion and ruthless methods very well. He had a good relationship with the ghost priest before. They called each other fellow Taoists. But he never expected that he would be crushed to death by this lord who never showed his emotions without any warning.
This incident almost scared the mountain god.
"I didn't ask you about your loyalty. Do you want me to repeat my question again?"
"My Lord, please forgive me. This is what I calculated based on the daily incense offerings, monthly beliefs, and the population growth rate of the village. To be specific, all of this is nonsense, because all of this must be based on the development of the village. So, my Lord, please believe that I am truly loyal to the village."
"Very good. I came here today to tell you something. Before the end of this winter, we must fight with the Ghost Mother, no, most likely the Ghost Queen. You will not be required to participate in the battle directly, but you must stir up a strong enough gale. Is that feasible?"
Zhang Yang calmly stated his intention.
The mountain god said bitterly, "My Lord, once this battle starts, I will fight against the ghost mother even if it means sacrificing my life. However, my strength is not good enough, and I am afraid that I will delay your important event."
"Don't complain, tell me a solution. You are a mountain god, and your existence is very magical. You often know some secrets that even I don't know. So you'd better come up with a solution for me today. Otherwise, the village may still survive, but you will probably die gloriously."
“My Lord! Please allow me to think about it. In fact, those so-called secrets were divined by me at the cost of my divinity.” The mountain god was almost crying.
"Then do the divination. I'll wait for you."
Zhang Yang smiled with satisfaction. He actually had no choice. If he had a choice, he would rather hope that the mountain god would just collect incense and faith and grow with the village. It would be best if a thousand years later, the mountain god would have enough strength to break free from the shackles of the village, and by that time Zhang Yang would have made a fortune.
The village building mission only requires the village to survive for 300 years. If his village can survive for 1,000 years, how much less will the reward be? So he knew very well that although he seemed to be forcing the mountain god to find a solution, he was actually indulging the mountain god to expand his scope of belief. However, there was nothing he could do about it. He had to choose the lesser of two evils, and the mountain god might not be doing any harm.
After a few minutes, Zhang Yang clearly saw that the mountain god had lost some of his divinity. The energy consumption of divination was really huge.
"My Lord, the divination result is out. I asked for a talisman for you, but I don't know what will happen in detail."
The mountain god looked as if I was very weak.
At this moment, a piece of talisman paper flashing with faint fluorescence fell from the mountain temple. The moment Zhang Yang picked it up, the information was reflected in the village construction order.
"A special item was found, the Mountain God Trial Talisman."
"The effect is that you can start the Mountain God Trial once."
"Friendly reminder, the Mountain God Trial is not in the world controlled by the Village Building Order. This special item may lead to an unknown place, please use it with caution."
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What the hell?
Zhang Yang held the trial talisman with a look of shock. Actually, he didn't want to be shocked, as being shocked all the time would make him look naive. However, the information reflected was too disturbing.
There is actually a world that cannot be controlled by the village construction order? The implications are terrifying and I dare not even imagine it.
"Come on, mountain god, tell me what this is."
Zhang Yang asked immediately.
"I don't know. This is what I got by consuming a little bit of my divinity. I don't know the details. I only know that this thing will bring me great fortune, that's all."
"Great fortune? Well, that's right. The Mountain God Trial is really a great fortune. Well, then I will give you a great fortune. Wait, I will come to you again after a while."
Zhang Yang put away the Mountain God Trial Talisman and left the Mountain God Temple. It seemed that he had to conquer another trial copy.
After returning to the castle, he took out all the iron ore, iron ingots and steel ingots that he had looted from the orc tribe. The production of the heating system still lay on him. He had to use the mutated fireball spell + soul force field to make seamless iron pipes. Even though the village was still small, this was a huge project for him.
Fortunately, Zhang Yang has gotten used to it. Ever since he started nurturing the wooden spear, he has regarded it as a pleasure. Otherwise, most people would not be able to endure such a boring task.
Just as Zhang Yang was steadily beginning to nurture the wooden spear, no, to nurture and make seamless iron pipes, the exploration team led by Wang Mumu and Ryan had already left the village.
The strength of this exploration team is very powerful and very targeted.
Wang Mumu is a four-star hero with two extraordinary attributes and the talent of ice blood. He is not afraid of any ice ghosts or spirits, including ghost assassins and ghost priests.
Although Ryan is a two-star hero, the attributes of the top-grade magic weapon, the Stag Tower Shield, are too powerful and can also make him immune to the invasion of Yin energy.
Then there are Duan Kuan, Song Dachui and Zhou Datou, the three men who will have no descendants. They are in good condition and have no worries about the side effects of Breath of Ice because as long as they upgrade their talent of Breath of Ice to Blood of Ice, they will not have no descendants. Not only that, their offspring will also have the ability to control ice.
Finally, there were twenty infantry captains and 15 archer captains.
The only mission of this exploration team is to find coal mines.
The first place they went to was the ruins of the gnolls' territory. After searching there for a day, they did find a small coal mine, but it had been dug out.
This is normal. When the Orcs conquered the Jackals, they must have packed up everything and taken it away.
"Don't waste time here. Although we can still mine the black stone from here, it will be very difficult. Those bastards have already mined 50 meters underground. We have to go to the orc tribe to take a look."
Ryan said in a deep voice that he had just gone down there in person and he was also the leader of this exploration team, although Wang Mumu was the strongest.
Since the decision had been made, no one had any objections, and the group sped up their progress overnight. During the journey, they did encounter a few evil spirits, but before they could even see them, Zhou Datou killed them with a fine steel evil-killing javelin from hundreds of meters away.
When the exploration team went more than a hundred miles away, the snow on the ground began to decrease.
When they were out of the range of 150 miles, there was no snow at all. There was no doubt that the blizzard that lasted for three days and three nights was aimed at their village.
The next afternoon, the exploration team arrived at the orc tribe, but it was already in ruins. Thanks to Zhang Yang's horrific, ruthless looting, the once glorious and powerful orc level 2 town was now nothing left.
“This place is alive.”
Wang Mumu suddenly said in a muffled voice and shrugged his nose.
"Yes, these ruins show signs of being disturbed. My memory is correct."
Ryan also nodded. He participated in the attack here that day and knew every detail.
"There are footprints here." Duan Kuan walked around and suddenly wiped the ground with his hand. A line of frost appeared, and a huge footprint was revealed on the land that seemed to have no traces.
"It's the footprint of the orc lord. I remember it. Other orcs are not so tall, and its weight is particularly heavy."
A captain-level archer spoke with lingering fear.
"So, the orc lord returned to the ruins of his territory? Everyone be careful, if my guess is correct, the orc lord may have released his ghost tribe here."
Ryan said in a deep voice that he had survived in the wild for several years and had extremely rich experience and was also cautious enough.
"Let me try, you guys step back first."
Wang Mumu stepped forward and stamped his feet. A larger area of frost spread out, as large as a basketball court. On this frost, various footprints could be clearly seen. In addition to the orc lord, there were other orc warriors, as well as -
"Humans? These footprints seem to have been left a few days ago. Mumu, chase them." Ryan was overjoyed. At this time, encountering human footprints meant more information and friendly forces.
Wang Mumu immediately continued to release frost, highlighting the footprints on the ground one by one. They were very clear, saving the effort of searching and tracking them down.
"Tsk tsk, Old Duan, your skills really open my eyes. I want to go back and ask the Lord to give me some ghost honey."
Ryan exclaimed in amazement because this scene was so magical.
Duan Kuan rolled his eyes. "It's not that mysterious. This is just a more detailed rubbing than what we can see with the naked eye. As long as there are traces on the ground, the frost we release is like ink. Once it is spread on the ground, the trace will appear. The Lord's soul force field can be more detailed and even more distinct than this. Even Boss Wu's murderous field can do the same."
"Ryan, I advise you not to cling to your stag tower shield. That thing can make you or break you. Do you understand?"
Ryan laughed, "Old Duan, this is not your style. When did you learn to talk nonsense like this?"
Duan Kuan snorted and stopped talking. He would never tell others about his experience of being stripped of his clothes and locked in a cage like a monkey, even if he was beaten to death.
(End of this chapter)
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