I will teach you how to cultivate immortality

Chapter 59 Spring Goddess and Barbarian Woman
Gao Village Town, Land God Temple.

"Is Grandma not here today?"

Looking at Xiao'e, who was interpreting fortune slips for the villagers in front of the temple altar, a boy asked her in a low voice with some curiosity.

Although the boy was dressed in rags, he had a handsome face.

You can tell at a glance that they are not ordinary mountain people.

Especially his muscular physique, which, while not particularly rugged, exudes a beauty that transcends this era.

"Grandma has gone to do something. You can tell me if there's anything you need."

He recognized the boy at a glance.

Xiao'e hesitated for a moment, but ultimately took the initiative to gesture for the other person to sit down in front of her.

Xiao'e remembered this boy; he had visited the local temple three years ago and they had met once.

Most importantly, the boy looked exactly the same three years ago as he did three years later; there wasn't the slightest change whatsoever.

He was still dressed in tattered clothes...

He still wore that same attire that made him stand out from the ordinary mountain people...

"If I remember correctly, your name is 'E'?"

The boy calmly nodded, or rather, E'tu openly admitted his identity.

"not here?"

"That would be troublesome."

Scratching his head in frustration, E'tu hadn't expected the old woman to not be in the temple.

E'tu had known the old woman for decades, but this was the first time he had seen her leave the local temple.

For some reason, E'tu had a vague sense of foreboding.

The last time he had this feeling was three years ago during that "chaos of ghosts and gods".

Do you know where Grandma went?

Faced with E'tu's question, Xiao'e shook her head blankly.

"The old lady didn't tell me where she went..."

Xiao'e opened her mouth as if she wanted to say something, but then looked at the rabbit in front of her and a bold idea suddenly popped into her mind.

"However, I can roughly guess where she went."

Seeing Xiao'e's cunning expression, E'tu instinctively blinked.

His intuition told him that the cunning young woman opposite him seemed to have dug a pit and was waiting for him to fall into it with ill intentions.

"You look exactly like the old lady when she was trying to trick me."

After muttering something under his breath, E'tu finally couldn't help but ask with concern.

"Forget it, I'm used to being scammed anyway. Where is Grandma now?"

When E'tu said those words, a rare seriousness appeared on his face.

"The slave-catching team from the Ghost Kingdom!"

"Grandma had been keeping an eye on the movements of the Ghost Fang Kingdom for a long time and discovered that they were capturing mountain people on a large scale."

"I don't know what the Ghost Kingdom is planning to do, and Grandma never told me..."

“But I can see that Grandma is getting more and more worried every day, and recently she has even lost her appetite.”

After a slight pause, Xiao'e continued.

"So I think she's most likely going to find that slave-catching team now..."

"That slave-catching team has been heading south all the way, and they should be near Jingyang Mountain Road, about a hundred miles away now."

Looking at Xiao'e, who was using words like "probably" and "should" but whose face was full of certainty, E'tu couldn't help but fall silent.

Having heard this far, E'tu was pretty sure that Xiao'e was digging a hole for herself.

However, it concerned the old woman's whereabouts.

Even though she knew Xiao'e was digging a hole for herself, E'tu didn't hesitate to jump in.

"Jingyang Mountain Road?" After a brief moment of contemplation, E'tu turned and left the land temple.

E'tu planned to go to Jingyang Mountain Road himself, but he had to go to another place first.

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A hundred mountains, the Jingyang Mountain Road.

The battle between the old woman and the Gui Rong clan was even more intense than expected.

The continuous small-scale earthquakes wrecked the surrounding terrain, and all sorts of bizarre and terrifying plants grew out of the earth.

Fortunately, the Gui Rong clan was composed of elite soldiers.

After sacrificing a third of their members, they quickly adapted to this method of fighting terrifying plants during earthquakes.

Leaping over ravines, wielding a knife to slash at carnivorous plants...

Gui Rong clan members formed groups of five and frantically tried to approach the old woman.

In this process, any slave who stood in their way became victims of their blades.

To be honest, the sight of five hundred people charging at one person is beyond description; the word "shocking" is insufficient to describe it.

Even on the modern battlefields of the 21st century.

Even soldiers equipped with drones and various advanced equipment cannot possibly fight five hundred men single-handedly.

Such incredible things could only happen in a world where supernatural powers truly exist.

Even so, the old woman's current behavior far exceeds the common sense of this era.

boom! boom! boom!
At the old woman's feet, on the trembling ground.

A large, black tree, its entire body charred black and seemingly consisting only of branches, slowly grew.

As this pitch-black tree grew, terrifying thunderclouds gathered in the sky, and bolts of lightning, guided by it, fell upon the crowd.

"A lightning-attracting tree!?"

"Lightning-attracting trees actually exist in this world!?"

They stared in disbelief as the massive, dark tree transformed the surrounding hundred meters into a domain of lightning.

Having miraculously survived, Mu Zheng didn't even bother to pull out the remaining fragments of the longsword from his body, and quickly retreated to a safe distance.

As a former priest candidate, Mu Zheng was aware of the common knowledge that metals can conduct electricity.

"Retreat! Get out of the lightning's range immediately!"

"Those who can't retreat, immediately drop the sacrificial artifacts you're holding; the lightning will fall along the metal!"

Despite Mu Zheng's prompt increase in volume as a reminder.

However, nearly a dozen of the charging Gui Rong clan members still died from the impact of lightning.

Especially those Gui Rong clan members who raised their long swords high, died a gruesome death.

They didn't even have time to scream before they turned into a charred, indescribable mass.

"who are you?"

"This is a power that a priest simply cannot control!"

Although priests are the agents of the gods on earth, the power they can bear is limited.

The power the old woman was displaying at this moment had far exceeded the limits of her identity as a "priestess".

Even those favored by the gods could never wield such terrifying power.

The old woman's behavior reminded Mu Zheng once again of the former high priest of the Ghost Kingdom—this was a power that no mortal could possess.

"you are not human!"

Just then, You Zhong, who had also been struck by lightning, suddenly opened his eyes wide.

The scene before him reminded Youzhong of a legend widely circulated among the mountain people—a deity who should have disappeared a thousand years ago.

"You are the Spring Goddess, the Barbarian Woman!"

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(End of this chapter)