If you don't give up, I'd like to be your adoptive father.

Chapter 1253 Incubating Hengshan
"Heavens are blind! You are the culprit, the instigator, the source of all disaster!"

The insults from Grand Tutor Yu in the village language only made Black Tiger angrier, but did not truly hurt him.

The stark contrast in their circumstances revealed the true nature of "God's" judgment in this case. This contrast was so powerful that it truly broke Black Tiger's defenses.

"Damn you, Heaven! I refuse to accept this! You're unjust! Why don't you punish Yu Fengxian? Why do you only bring disaster upon me?"

"King of Heaven, calm down!" Nezha's expression changed slightly, and he shouted sternly, "Don't fall into Grand Tutor Yu's trap!"

You've already fallen to such a state; if you dare to spout nonsense again, your fate will only be worse.

Grand Tutor Yu said unhappily, "What do you mean by 'falling into my trap'? Isn't what I said the truth?"

You just saw me. Were my cheeks rosy and my eyes bright?

Nezha said, "Just because you look normal doesn't mean you're not physically weak. Back in Zhuling Cave Heaven, you had at least one avatar that was brutally destroyed by the immortals. Your true condition must be extremely bad."

Just because you didn't suffer immediate calamity after the destruction of Hengshan Divine Palace doesn't mean you have fewer sins.

Perhaps you have accumulated too much merit in the past.

No sooner had he finished speaking than Black Tiger cried out in grief and indignation, "No matter how much merit she has, can it be more than mine?"
Over the past 300,000 years, I have worked diligently and collected more than 100,000 Heavenly Merits from various gods and cultivators.

If we're really comparing merits, Yu Fengxian isn't even as good as a single hair on my head.

God is just so unfair!

Nezha was startled and asked, "King of Heaven, why would a celestial being give you heavenly power?"

Black Tiger blurted out, "Coming to the Five Sacred Mountains Divine Palace to seek connections for disciples, to find benevolent parents for oneself, or to eliminate sins and avoid the suffering of Fengdu Underworld, how can one not pay a price?"

Nezha looked disgusted and whispered, "King Sitian, you should keep this kind of thing a secret and never reveal a single word, even if it means your death."

How can you curse God while simultaneously revealing your own shortcomings to Him? Isn't that just asking for trouble?

If Black Tiger were replaced by someone else, he would definitely have joined Grand Tutor Yu right now and cursed along with her.

Black Tiger's acceptance of bribes is very inconsistent with his values.

He is just "evil Nezha", not "corrupt Nezha".

Black Tiger was also somewhat regretful, but the words had already been spoken and could not be concealed. He could only argue, "I am not a greedy person!"

When immortals and cultivators contribute their merits to find better benevolent parents and clear the sinful records of Fengdu, I only take one ten-thousandth of it.

This is what I deserve; all the divine palaces under heaven are like this. I did it before, and I will do it again in the future.

Nezha sighed, "Arguing about this is pointless, and cursing at each other is even more pointless."

Grand Tutor Yu said, "The Third Prince is right. It's not only pointless to argue with him, but it's also very tasteless. We'd better send him away; out of sight, out of mind!"

As soon as he finished speaking, wisps of earth elemental energy surged in from all directions, enveloping the black tiger in a yellow ball of light.

Black Tiger hadn't even had a chance to struggle, had just opened his mouth, and hadn't even had a chance to shout.

Nezha, standing to the side, didn't react either.

With a flash of yellow light, Black Tiger vanished without a trace using the "Passive Earth Escape Technique".

At this moment, Nezha realized what had happened and hurriedly asked, "Where did you send the Heavenly King?"

“Send him to a safe place, his own Yue Temple,” said Grand Tutor Yu.

Nezha was skeptical. "You would be so kind?"

Grand Tutor Yu said calmly, "Before you came here, that fellow had already been searching for me in the Hengshan ley lines."

If I wanted to kick someone when they're down, would I have waited until now?

That makes a lot of sense, but Nezha still felt uneasy.

"Why is the Heavenly King, the dignified Lord of Hengshan, being manipulated at will within his own divine realm?" he asked.

Xiao Yu said, "I am Hengshan, I am the earth. You still don't understand this!"

The next instant, Nezha was also enveloped in yellow light and involuntarily entered the Earth Escape state.

He tried to break free from the earth-遁 (earth-遁 is a technique in Chinese astrology), but the yellow light was flexible and strong, binding him tightly.

Just as he was gathering his divine power, preparing to unleash it, the yellow light appeared as if without warning and suddenly vanished into nothingness.

He landed steadily on a mountain peak.

Looking to the west, the surrounding area was still filled with a strong sense of yin energy, and the rain falling from the sky had turned into a torrential downpour.

If the previous rainfall was like a shower in a bathroom turned up to its maximum, this time it's like taking off the showerhead and letting the water spray directly from the pipe.

"Rumble~~" The mountain peaks beneath our feet and the ground further away could still be clearly shaken.

Nezha opened his spiritual eyes and saw the deep hole left behind after the epicenter disappeared from the main peak of Hengshan.

Filled with doubt and apprehension, he summoned the Wind and Fire Wheels once more, which transformed into a beam of red light and arrived above the deep cave dozens of miles away.

The huge crack in the ground is now slowly healing.

The source of the tremors was a bottomless, dark abyss.

Nezha has a spiritual eye, which allows him to see the scene inside the cave—a small hill that is rapidly bulging upwards from the bottom of the cave.

It looked like a huge lump of dough sprinkled with yeast, piled at the bottom of the hole, rapidly expanding and filling the bottom of the hole, and continuing to grow upwards.

"What's going on? Is it possible that a new mountain is going to grow on the original site of the main peak of Hengshan? A new Hengshan?!" Nezha's face showed shock and doubt.

About half an hour later, three-quarters of the huge hole, which was thousands of feet deep, was filled by the "mountain that looked like a steamed bun".

"Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh~~~" Suddenly, four divine lights flew out from the hillock in the underground hole.

As they burst out of the hole, they saw Nezha standing to the side, looking down. The four divine lights immediately approached him and transformed into four radiant deities in front of him.

It was none other than the Great Emperor of the Eastern Peak and the Three Heavenly Kings.

"Third Prince, what's going on at Hengshan?"

The shock and confusion on Huang Feihu's face were even more intense than Nezha's earlier.

Nezha first sized up the four great gods.

Their condition was far better than Chong Heihu's, but much worse than usual. Their divine bodies were also cracked, with pieces of flesh falling off, divine blood dripping along the cracks, and divine power trying to radiate outwards but being forcibly suppressed by a force.

Their divine essence probably cracked, but didn't shatter.

Nezha pondered in his heart, but said aloud, "I don't know what's going on. I only know that Yu Fengxian transformed into the earth and Mount Heng, and the earth's veins are like her blood vessels and meridians."

She seems to be making Hengshan grow back.

I looked at it for a long time, but I still couldn't understand it at all.

Then he asked, "Why did the four of you suddenly arrive at Hengshan and emerge from the hill below?"

Jin Tianwang exclaimed in surprise, "It's actually Yu Fengxian! We were healing our wounds in our divine palaces and circulating the power of our respective divine palaces to suppress the Central Plains with the 'Power of the Five Mountains'."

Minimize the impact of the destruction of Hengshan on China.

Just now, I suddenly felt that Hengshan and the Five Sacred Mountains had reconnected.

The Five Sacred Mountains share the same vital energy, are interconnected by the earth's veins, and are also linked by the primordial energy of heaven and earth.

Previously, Hengshan was completely gone, and the Five Sacred Mountains were missing a link, causing the flow of vital energy to become very sluggish.

Now that the earth's veins have been reconnected, the vital energy is re-forming the 'Five Sacred Mountains Great Cycle'.

We were filled with surprise and doubt, so we followed the earth's veins to this place. Unexpectedly, the four Divine Lords of the Mountains arrived at the underground cave simultaneously, emerging from the mound of earth.

At this point, an incredulous look appeared on his face, and he asked, "Brother, is that mound below the new Hengshan?"

Huang Feihu looked conflicted and reluctantly admitted, "It's likely that Yu Fengxian really did 're-emerge' Hengshan from the earth's veins."

The hills below resemble newly sprouted buds. Though small, they are like buds in the form of Mount Heng.

Nezha exclaimed in shock, "It really was Yu Fengxian who raised Hengshan! How did she do that? Hengshan is the 'Pillar of Heaven' of the Divine Land!"

The Five Sacred Mountains are to China what Mount Buzhou was to the primordial land in the past.

How could Mount Buzhou possibly grow back?!

Huang Feihu was unable to answer his question; he too was shocked and puzzled by Yu Taishi's great supernatural powers.

"Third Prince, if Yu Fengxian has transformed into Mount Heng, where is my brother, the Heavenly King?"

Nezha was stunned for a moment, then asked in confusion, "Wasn't he in the Yue Temple? Could it be that Yu Fengxian was lying?"

"Which Yue Temple? We don't have one." Huang Feihu shut his mouth and closed his eyes, silently sensing the nearby Yue Temples. A wisp of divine thought jumped rapidly among the Yue Temples within his perception range.

From one Yue Temple to another, we investigated the situation of the statues of the Heavenly King within them.

In just two breaths, his expression changed drastically, and he angrily asked, "What did Yu Fengxian do to my brother?"
Third Prince, since you saw it, why didn't you stop it?

Nezha asked curiously, "What did Yu Fengxian do? She used the Earth Escape Technique to send the Heavenly King away, saying she was going to take him to the Yue Temple, which is very popular, to help him heal his injuries."

Huang Feihu glanced at him with resentment, said nothing, and transformed into divine light, flying towards the southwest.

The other three Heavenly Kings also looked grim and fled in a flash of light.

"What do you mean? What did I do to offend you that you're giving me the cold shoulder?!"

Nezha roared angrily and followed after him, riding on his Wind Fire Wheels.

The four great gods merged with the laws of the divine realm, like data flowing through a network cable, moving at extremely high speed. Nezha was also able to enter deeper dimensions of the divine realm.

In less than ten breaths, they arrived at Zhu County, which was two hundred miles away and was the seat of Hengshan Prefecture.

“Yu Fengxian wasn’t lying!” Nezha muttered.

As the capital of Hengshan Prefecture, Zhu County not only has the largest population, but also the largest number of believers of the Hengshan God.

Just like in Taishan County, the most popular belief among the people was that of the Taishan God. Well, at least that was the case before "Taishan" became "Disaster Mountain".

Today, even a small number of ordinary people have begun to worship the "Mother Earthquake." They pray to the Mother Earthquake to protect their houses and farmland from earthquakes.

They didn't know who the Mother of Earthquakes was, but they had witnessed the terror of the Taishan earthquake.

Faith is most easily born from reverence.

The ritual of worshipping the Mother of Earthquakes was also quite effective.

Even though the land around Dai Temple swelled like a tsunami, with the soil bulging dozens of meters high, and terrifying sounds of the pillars of heaven breaking echoed from within Mount Tai, the earthquake never approached the county town, never destroyed the city or villages, and never affected the crops in their fields.

"My God, that terrifying monster is actually Lord Hengshan?! Unbelievable! My family even has a statue of this great deity, brought from the Yue Temple. He is majestic and extraordinary, with regular features and a tall stature, completely unlike this monster."

As soon as they entered Zhu County, Nezha heard someone exclaim in surprise.

He shouted in shock right there on the street, completely disregarding the impact.

Nezha's expression changed slightly, and he hurriedly used an invisibility spell to land silently on the street.

"It was indeed Lord Hengshan. He neglected his duties, causing Hengshan to be destroyed by the earthquake, and thus he suffered divine punishment. It's the five signs of decay for a celestial being!"

A group of people were discussing something on the street.

"It's more than just dereliction of duty. Chong Heihu is cunning, greedy, and abuses his power for personal gain. As the chief god of the underworld, he actually embezzled and broke the law, accepting bribes from the gods to help them choose virtuous parents and cleanse themselves of their sins."

"Yes, Chong Heihu has accumulated a million Heavenly Merits over the years! He thinks he can protect himself with a million Heavenly Merits and doesn't care about sins or divine punishment at all."

I never expected things to go so wrong this time. They're off somewhere having fun and feasting, completely unaware that their own divine abode was destroyed in the earthquake.

"Alas, the gods neglected their duties, and in the end, they brought terrible suffering to us ordinary people!"

Nezha's expression changed again. Not only had the mortals seen the Black Tiger's true form, but they also knew about his acceptance of bribes?

—No, Chong Heihu just revealed that he accepted bribes.

Even he was unaware of this "unspoken rule of the Divine Palace" before. Who is deliberately spreading this information?

Nezha, recalling the reactions of Huang Feihu and the others, already guessed the answer.

He walked quickly along the street to the front of the Yue Temple.

"Ah, the gods have appeared to us!"

"The Five Great Emperors are enraged!"

"The Five Sacred Mountains Emperors have killed someone! The Five Sacred Mountains Emperors have killed the imperial envoy!"

"The Five Great Emperors have gone mad! Run! Run!"

In the streets in front of the temple and in the square behind the temple gate, hundreds and thousands of people were terrified, crying and howling, scrambling and jostling to get out.

Too many people, crowding together, even caused a stampede.

Nezha quickly blew out a breath of immortal energy to lift up the person who had fallen to the ground and was trampled to pieces.

A strong wind blew up and carried them a hundred feet away.

Such a fantastical scene did not cause much of a stir among the people, because the scene inside the Yue Temple was even more mysterious: four deities revealed their true forms and roared in grief and anger.

"Great Emperor, what happened?" Nezha flew in and asked in surprise.

Grand Tutor Yu kept his promise and sent Chong Heihu to the Yue Temple.

He was in the main hall at this moment, and his condition seemed worse than before.

The Great Emperor of the Eastern Peak and three Heavenly Kings were in the courtyard, with a headless corpse at their feet.

My head felt like it had been crushed.

The corpse was dressed in the robes of the Imperial Astronomical Bureau Master.

Nezha's expression changed drastically. "How could you kill people? You even killed the Imperial Astronomical Observatory Master! Aren't you just asking for trouble?"

Cui Ying, the Heavenly King of the Northern Peak, cried out in grief and indignation, "Third Prince, do you know what this scoundrel has done to my brother?"

Nezha examined the corpse carefully again and said in a deep voice, "This Celestial Master isn't even an immortal, what could he possibly do to the Heavenly King?"

"Although he was not an immortal, he held a piece of spiritual jade and publicly displayed my brother's Qi Shadow Technique."

"These are all slanderous and humiliating images," said the Golden King, his eyes blazing with fury.

Nezha's "Qi Shadow Technique" is a bit rustic; he hasn't really experienced the latest entertainment projects in Kyushu.

However, he had heard of the Qi Shadow Technique before, and recalling the discussions among passersby on the street about Chong Heihu's sordid affairs, he immediately understood.

"Besides sending the Heavenly King to the Yue Temple, Yu Fengxian also brought over a piece of spirit jade, allowing the Imperial Astronomical Observatory to publicly display the Qi Shadow Technique? Could it be related to what happened in the Hengshan ley lines earlier?"

A hint of fear appeared on Nezha's face. "Yu Fengxian has such ruthless methods and such a heartless heart."

Having provoked her, he would seize any opportunity to retaliate a hundredfold, a thousandfold, without hesitation or regard for status.

(End of this chapter)