Chapter 857 Mountain God, Rain God
"It should be nearby, underground!" Chong Chong shouted.
If there is anything on the surface of this mountain range, it should have been found long ago, it can only be underground.
At this moment, Lin Chen took Yuechan into the forest. Chong Chong carefully sensed and constantly guided the direction, and finally stepped into a valley in the valley!
When he stepped into this place, Lin Chen's heart was shocked. He instantly felt that this mountain was different from other places. It seemed that the world had naturally laid out a field here.
Lin Chen stretched his hand to the rock wall on one side. Although his expression changed, his hand actually penetrated the rock wall directly!
This rock wall does not exist in reality, but an illusion!
Lin Chen's pupils suddenly contracted. Even his perception could not see through this illusion!
Even if the perception was disturbed by the mist here, it should not be like this.
Lin Chen frowned, and his divine power was agitated. He walked into the rock wall, but when he went forward, he was blocked. There was nothing in front of him, but it was a hard piece.
This is the rock wall!
Is it a combination of reality and illusion?
Lin Chen took a step back, but behind him, there was another hard rock wall!
Lin Chen's heart was really shaken.
Behind him was clearly the road he had just walked on. It was just an illusion, but now it turned into a real rock wall!
What on earth is going on in this damn place!
No wonder even a half-step god kingdom could die here. With the fog and miasma greatly weakening perception, there is such a natural field. How can one get out?
Lin Chen snorted coldly and slashed with a sword!
The sword light slashed out and cut into the rock wall, but the rock wall was an illusion, but there was a "boom" immediately, which should be a real rock wall, but there was no sound!
This sword did not change anything, just like a stone sinking into the sea, it disappeared!
"What should I do next?" Yuechan asked with a pale face.
"There must be a way to the underground hidden in it, just find it out," said Lin Chen.
Just find it out...
Yuechan was a little bitter, how could it be so simple?
But now she could only obey Lin Chen's arrangements.
Eye of Law.
Lin Chen and Chong Chong shared their pupil power, and the lines of law filled his entire field of vision. However, the situation was different from the past. Lin Chen's ability to withstand the Eye of Law had been greatly enhanced.
Even with such chaos and confusion, it was not as if his head was about to explode as before.
The lines of law were very complicated, and many laws were constantly jumping. It was naturally not easy to find the one he needed.
Fortunately, Chong Chong was there, and the induction between it and the ghost spirit could confirm the lines of law.
"This way?" Lin Chen walked in one direction, following the lines of law. As for whether it was an illusion or reality, Lin Chen could already peek through these lines.
After that, there was no more "ghost wall" and he could not move forward. He walked relatively smoothly.
Yuechan was speechless. She didn't even know how Lin Chen did it. After all, she couldn't see any clues. She alone had no way to crack the field here.
After walking for about half a day, Lin Chen and his companions came to the hillside of a mountain. Here, there was a very short and dilapidated brick house, which was already very dilapidated, and the bricks and stones had been weathered.
Looking inside, you can see
a half-destroyed statue sitting in it.
"It looks like a small temple dedicated to the mountain god," Yuechan said.
In addition to the big temples in various places, there is often a very small temple to worship the mountain god and the land god, and share some incense with them to keep the big temple peaceful.
The specifications of this small temple are indeed like those dedicated to the mountain god.
"Gods like the mountain god and the land god are very weak, and the incense they can get is limited, almost all of which flows out of the fingernails of other incense gods," Bai Shu said.
The mountain god and the land god are also incense gods. People pray for the abundance of the earth, so they worship the mountains and knock on the earth, and then gather incense.
However, people's reverence for the earth is naturally not as good as their respect for the gods, so they just believe in it as a supplement, which is considered to be a little benefit to the mountain god and the land god by building a temple on the land.
Of course, mortals are only doing these things with the simplest concepts, and they don't know that the mountain gods and lands that originally did not exist were born in this world because of them.
"There is nothing here, but there is still such a small temple, which is really strange," Yuechan frowned.
Mountain gods are just small gods with weak power, and are often built outside the big temples.
Now the big temples are gone, and there are no traces left, but this temple is still there, which is naturally extraordinary.
And what Lin Chen saw was that this temple had a special line of law, which might be connected to a mysterious area.
But he couldn't catch it, after all, knowing the law and using the law are completely different things.
"How did the ghost find this place?" Lin Chen frowned.
Is it the main soul of the Ten Heads Nine Infants who is leading the ghost to come here to do something, or is it that the ghost itself is related to this place?
Purgatory, that place is a small world created by a powerful emperor in the past, and later it was used as a cage. Those who were exiled in it are not ordinary beings.
Although the formation of ghosts is due to the reunion of a large number of broken souls, rather than the direct transformation of living souls into evil spirits, it does not mean that they have completely lost their past cognition.
The strong among them may retain their past memories!
"It's hard to say. Purgatory is a place full of evil spirits. After the death of the emperor, it seems that someone is still controlling that small world, and the souls of living beings are constantly being transported into it after death," said Bai Shu.
"Normally speaking, the souls sent in will eventually be sent to reincarnation and undergo rebirth, but this has been proven to be a failed attempt. The souls will be broken, and ghosts will eventually breed. However, there are exceptions, such as the main soul. Undestructed by the power of hell, it still exists today.”
Lin Chen nodded. In short, he still had to find the ghost first. This guy should have gone underground, but now Lin Chen couldn't find it.
"There should be something underground here, but how to get down?" Lin Chen's eyes flashed.
It is obviously not easy to break through by force. The mountainous terrain here is not so easy to break through. Otherwise, this would
"How did that ghost get down?" Chong Chong was also confused. There was no road here, but its induction did come from here.
At least the ghost spirit must have arrived here before disappearing.
"When you get to this mountain and this world, maybe you can only ask the owner of this place," Bai Shu said.
The owner of the mountain is naturally the mountain god.
"Can this mountain god still exist? It is so dilapidated that it has long since lost its incense." Lin Chen frowned.
Weak gods, once their incense is cut off, will continue to decline and disappear over time.
Not to mention, the mountain god's land rarely condenses the divine power, and it cannot last long.
"Who knows, let's try it," Bai Shu said with a smile.
Lin Chen nodded, then took out three sticks of incense, lit them, and inserted them into the cracks in the stone in front of the statue.
White smoke curls into the air, this is incense.
Of course, incense is not just about incense and fire. It also requires inner belief. The will of faith is the key to promoting the divine power of incense!
"Are you really religious in your heart?" Yuechan glanced at him.
"Of course not," Lin Chen said.
He never believed in God, let alone worshiped God!
Yuechan sighed. Although their Xuannv Palace did not have a main god of faith and was not a religious orthodoxy, she still had a reverence for the gods.
Especially small gods such as mountain gods and earth gods. In her opinion, they are the gods who truly protect the land and water, unlike those powerful gods who only seek to gather incense and condense their divine personality.
The next month Yuechan took out three sticks of incense, lit them and shook them out. White smoke slowly rose up.
She knelt in front of the small temple and prayed devoutly, hoping to get help from the mountain god to eliminate evil spirits!
Lin Chen looked sideways slightly, he couldn't do this.
Hope it's of some use.
The little white smoke began to change. It no longer curled up, but slowly floated towards the broken statue of the god, swirling around the statue!
There are such obvious changes!
Is divinity still there?
It seems that he is really hungry, as if the land has completely dried up, and when there is a little water source, he can't wait to absorb it, somewhat regardless of his image!
God rarely shows such an urgent look, after all, it undermines the majesty of the god.
But that's right, it's all like this, why do you still care about the majesty of the gods?
Lin Chen breathed a sigh of relief. Now there has been a change. At least the gods above still exist.
It's just that this god only ate the incense and had no other reaction.
Lin Chen frowned, then stepped forward, "Since you have collected the incense, please give me some reaction, otherwise I will have to demolish your temple and destroy your statue!"
If you take advantage and do nothing, even God will praise you!
Yuechan immediately shouted: "Young master, you can't do this!"
"If we don't go in, we will all be in trouble. How can we care about this down-and-out god?" Lin Chen snorted.
Since there is no response, then you can only take action.
At that moment, Lin Chen drew his sword, and Daoyi God-Slaying was ready.
"Stop, stop, young hero, don't be impulsive, I'm here..." A weak and old voice sounded in the minds of Lin Chen and Yuechan.
The mountain god is responding to them!
Yuechan's eyes flashed, and she was a little surprised. The mountain god here actually responded. It seemed that the god was also contaminated by the secular atmosphere and was afraid of power.
"Didn't you tell me earlier?" Lin Chen snorted.
"Young hero, I misunderstood. I just couldn't respond to you. The Kingdom of Laochan is destroyed, and the last of my divine power is about to drain away. If it weren't for the little incense just now, I would have dispersed with the wind!" the mountain god said hurriedly.
The sound is indeed false
Extremely weak.
Hearing this, Yuechan inserted a few more sticks of incense and lit the candle to further replenish the incense for the mountain god.
The mountain god now devoured it even more regardless of his image, and finally recovered a little, which was considered to be the life of the god.
"Are you the mountain god of this mountain?" Yuechan asked.
"Yeah, it's a pity that no one has set foot on this mountain, let alone worshiped. Although the old man has gathered his divine power and built the kingdom of God in the past, he can't withstand the passage of time and has already reached the point of decay." The mountain god lamented.
The gods of incense were born from the faith of living beings, and they bear the incense. They are indeed high in the sky, but once there is no incense, they become rootless trees and are destined to wither.
This is the disadvantage of the incense gods. Even if they can condense the Kingdom of God themselves, or even step out of the Kingdom of God and truly manifest in the human world, they cannot condense divine power with their own strength.
Yuechan sighed.
She couldn't help the mountain god more. After all, the mountain god couldn't live without his mountain. This mountain was already in the death fog area and was inaccessible. Even if he was alive today, he would die soon.
This is the tragedy of the land of mountain gods. They cannot be transferred by spreading faith like other incense gods.
Their roots are here.
"Sir, Mountain God, can you tell us about the situation here?" Yuechan asked.
They can't do anything, so there's no need to talk nonsense, just get to the point.
"Okay, meeting each other is fate. Let me talk to you," the mountain god said slowly.
According to what he said, before the rescue, this place used to be a powerful Taoism that believed in a rain god.
It is said that this place was in drought for an extremely long period of time. The land was dry, no grass grew, and no food could grow at all. The people could only survive by eating tree bark and even clods of soil.
In order to survive, people began to worship the Rain God, hoping that the Rain God would appear and bring heavy rain to moisten all things and save the people from fire and water.
I don’t know if it was the number of days, but not long after that, it rained heavily. The people saw hope from despair. With water, there was a possibility of survival!
From then on, people began to worship the Rain God in large numbers, and the scale became larger and larger, until finally, the belief in the Rain God spread throughout the world!
The Taoist tradition established with the help of the Rain God's belief came into being, called the Rain God's Mansion. With the deliberate guidance and spread of faith by strong men, the strength of the Rain God's Mansion began to grow rapidly, and the Rain God condensed his divine personality and built a The Kingdom of God became the top incense god at that time.
It’s just that the power of the world rises and falls again and again, for the eternity of time.
The Rain God Taoism eventually prospered and declined. Once the spirit and form were destroyed, new Taoisms began to appear on the earth, each competing for faith.
However, no incense god was born again. To this day, this area has even become a barren mountain and wilderness where no one can visit, and everything belongs to the nature of heaven and earth.
"Why did the Rain God fall?" Lin Chen asked curiously.
According to the Mountain God, the Rain God has reached an extremely high level, not far behind the current Mountain and River Immortal.
"Young hero, where is the pinnacle of martial arts that a warrior seeks in his life?" the mountain god asked.
"Emperor", Lin Chen thought for a while and replied.
Beings with the title of emperor, such as the Three Emperors in ancient times, should be martial arts
It's absolutely stunning!
"What about the ultimate point of Shinto?" the mountain god asked again.
Shinto, the path of the gods, they are also growing and growing. Where will they end up?
Lin Chen had never thought about this problem.
"The God Realm is illusory, but the God Realm that does exist is a world that was born to be the kingdom of gods!" Shan Shen said, full of yearning.
"The world where gods live?" Lin Chen's eyes flashed and he snorted slightly.
"Yes, the god of incense seems to be born with this obsession, that is, one day ascend to the divine world and become a god. It seems that only in this way can he be regarded as a true god!" The mountain god was bitter and sarcastic.
The temperament of this mountain god is similar to that of humans. He talks so eloquently that he does not look like the majestic god of the past.
"But if the gods ascend, what about the remaining religious traditions?" Lin Chen wondered.
"I don't know about this," the mountain god said.
He is just the mountain god here, just a small god. In the past, he followed the rain god to gain glory and survive to this day.
However, there is a white book to answer this question, "There are two ways. One is to teach people to ascend. This is also the reason why people in this world are willing to worship gods, because one day, they can follow the gods and ascend to become gods!"
"The other is to leave a powerful enough divine fetus before ascending so that the Taoism can continue to operate. Maybe one day there will be another god who can ascend to the divine world. At that time, the two will become one and they will be in the divine realm. I'm afraid It also has a high status!”
"Of course, no one knows the specific situation of the God Realm. Everything is just a guess based on various signs in the past. When it comes to ascension, there have been many examples, but whether it is truly successful or not cannot be verified."
Spirit world.
The sky burial pit is said to be a corner of the divine world that fell into the human world.
The Dingjun Mountain God List is also a sacred land.
The Immortal Emperor is behind the Divine Screen, far away from the human world, and seems to be in the divine world.
The world of gods is probably real.
It's just that it's too far away from the world, and too far away from the current Lin Chen.
"After the Rain God failed to ascend, what was left behind?" Lin Chen asked.
There is obviously something beneath this mountainous area.
The mountain god was silent for a while and said: "Before the rain god ascended, he found Lao Chan, gave him his supreme divine power, and borrowed Lao Chan's mountain. He planted something in this mountain range, but what was it specifically? Lao Chan Don't know."
Don’t even the mountain gods know about it?
"Then the Rain God failed to ascend and never appeared again." The Mountain God sighed.
"Since the Rain God is dead, why don't you go and find out for yourself?" Lin Chen said.
"To tell you the truth, young hero, I was able to condense my godhood by luck because of the rain god's light. Since the things of the rain god have no purpose, I don't dare to touch them at will."
"Moreover, Lao Chan doesn't have that ability. The power deployed by the Rain God cannot be broken through by lesser gods like Lao Chan," the mountain god said.
"But someone has already gone down," Lin Chen frowned.
Hearing this, the mountain god was shocked. Even the statue of the god showed a slight divine light, "This is impossible. Except for the rain god, no one knows about this place, and no one can enter!"
Moreover, entering the mountain without disturbing Him, what kind of existence could actually do such a thing!