Sequence Wars: The Mythical Age is Created by Me

Chapter 77 The Goddess of Wushan (4K, taking some time to organize my thoughts)

Playing the role of "Mountain Spirit"?

So that's how it is. This scene is indeed a story between a priestess and a mountain spirit.

A fixed game introduction panel pops up on the screen, and the surrounding game scene freezes as if time and space have been frozen.

[Press Y to continue the game. The game character Ni Yao will activate the skill "Mountain Spirit Summoning" to summon the gods.]

Below, a "beat judgment bar" emitting a faint blue light suddenly popped up.

Accompanied by the ancient and somber chimes of the Chu region and the clear and crisp sound of the witch bells, golden dots representing musical notes slid rapidly down the judgment bar.

[Mini-game: Shamanic Dance]

[Hint: Press the corresponding keys to follow the sacrificial rhythm of "The Mountain Spirit" from the "Nine Songs" section of the Chu Ci. Ni Yao will sing the sacrificial song; players control her to continuously hit the beat to accumulate "divine intervention" progress. Missing a beat will result in a backlash of spiritual energy and a deduction of health. When health reaches zero, the role-playing fails, and the witch will transform into a spirit. When progress reaches 100%, the ritual to welcome the Mountain Spirit will be completed!]

Jiang Fan pressed the A key precisely with his thumb, and a golden [Perfect] appeared on the screen.

In the scene, the cold rain in the deep mountains seems to be slowed down by an invisible force at this moment.

Following Jiang Fan's guidance amidst the mud, Ni Yao lightly touched the puddles with her toes, creating a rhythmic and ancient dance step.

Her ethereal voice pierced through the rain, singing the first line of the sacrificial song: "If there is someone on the mountain slope," Jiang Fan's fingertips danced on the controller, [Combo 5], [Combo 10]!

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As the rhythm perfectly matched, Ni Yao's dance became faster and more mysterious, as if she had merged with the mountains and rivers.

She no longer resembled a cold, lifeless spirit, but rather a blazing blue karmic fire burning deep within the Hundred Thousand Mountains.

With each turn and each flick of her sleeve, a portion of her elaborate and heavy black shamanic robes would be removed.

Instead, the forest was filled with wildly growing vegetation. Emerald green lychees climbed up her fair ankles, and supple dodder vines transformed into ribbons around her waist, binding her slender waist.

"Brought by Xue Lixi, Ni Yao, with her eyes closed, sang a Chu song that was both beautiful and high-pitched, as if she had truly crossed a thousand years of time and was calling out to that lonely god in the deep mountains."

Jiang Fan stared at the screen. At this moment, many mysterious clothes and costumes appeared on Ni Yao's body, and she already looked somewhat like a goddess of mountains and rivers.

As the progress increased, the valley, which was originally filled with the stench and miasma of the mutated mandrills, was now filled with a rich fragrance of magnolia and asarum.

Around Ni Yao, the rain no longer fell to the ground, but flowed upwards, gathering in mid-air to form the phantom images of a red leopard and a raccoon dog, guarding her side.

"I pluck a fragrant blossom to leave behind for my beloved" (7)

"Click!"

Jiang Fan pressed the last accented beat, and a dazzling blue-gold light exploded in the center of the screen.

The joystick in Jiang Fan's hand went unresponsive for a moment, but he kept his eyes glued to the screen.

In the scene, time stands still.

The once arrogant [Fiend] Mountain beast now lay limp on the ground like a puddle of mud, unable even to roar.

Ni Yao stopped dancing in the downpour.

She slowly opened her eyes, which were no longer the cold indifference of a witch, but had turned into a deep, abyss-like emerald green, with the vicissitudes and vitality of the Ten Thousand Mountains flowing in their depths.

The orchid crown on her head grew wildly in the wind, blooming into the most enchanting red flowers covering the entire mountainside.

Through her exquisite dance and singing, she became the true master of this land.

She looked down at the trembling monster, raised her arm which seemed to be carved from white jade, and the sounds of the forest and springs gathered at her fingertips to form a longbow that flowed with the power of mountains and rivers.

The mandrill knew its life was coming to an end. It prostrated itself and made its final gesture to the deity, like the little monkey from a thousand years ago, affectionately shaking its furry head as if the goddess were still stroking it.

However, it has committed countless evils over the millennia, and its hands are stained with countless amounts of blood, making it a true monster.

So what awaited it was not divine forgiveness, but a fully drawn bowstring, the sharpness of the mountains and rivers surging at the arrowhead, the air in the screen dancing with this materialized natural force.

Jiang Fan held the X key for a long time without letting go. He remembered that he had a dog when he was a child. It was stolen from a dog dealer. It was a very small dog at the time, like a little puppy, wagging its tail and circling around him every day.

But less than a year later, his parents took him to the city. The dog chased the car for a long time amid his cries, but eventually disappeared.

Four or five years later, Jiang Fan, who had graduated from junior high school, returned to the village. He was going to pay respects to his grandparents, but he saw a vicious dog at the entrance of the village. None of the other dogs dared to approach it. One of its eyes was covered with scars, and it was obviously blind.

But when it saw Jiang Fan, its tail kept wagging and it kept following him.

Xiao Jiangfan didn't recognize it, so he asked the villagers.

"Oh, you mean Sang Biao? He's the village bully."

The village elders said that this dog was very fierce, and they didn't know whose family owned it. No cat or dog in the village could beat it. Anyone who came near the Jiang family's old house would get beaten up. However, not long ago, someone shot its eye with a hunting rifle, so it probably wouldn't live much longer.

Upon hearing this, Xiao Jiangfan immediately picked up the blind dog from the ground, its tail swaying like a foxtail grass in the wind.

Its vision had long since deteriorated to the point of being unable to see clearly, but it could still remember that haunting scent; it had waited for it for a long time.

But it's okay, we finally got to see it.

It's your dog, so even after many years, it will still remember your scent.

The mandrill was also a pet kept by the goddess, only it had waited too long, thousands of years. Such a long time is enough to wear down the rationality of any animal.

Jiang Fan released his charging power, and the arrow pierced through the purified mandrill without taking a single drop of flesh or blood. Instead, it instantly drained the mandrill of all its life force, and the autumn orchids bloomed all over the dead mandrill's body, one after another, until they were so dazzling that they covered the entire body, making it a part of this mountain landscape.

The ancient gods of mountains and rivers responded to the elegy sung a thousand years ago.

[The priestess has successfully assumed the role of the "Mountain Spirit" and can now exercise some of its authority. Information on the game character "Ni Yao" has been updated.]

[Main quest completed. You are now free to explore this area or return to human society.]

Wow, it ended so easily.

This scene is practically a welfare agency!

It's even simpler than "Night at the Museum," but he's already put in a lot of effort to write a chapter, so this wonderful start is something he deserves.

Jiang Fan casually opened the character panel to take a look at Ni Yao's, but what he saw surprised him.

[Game Character: Ni Yao]

[Sequence: Mountain Spirit (Miyako Transformation)]

[Pan-sequence dual-wielding: Tier 1 Archer (Sharpshooter)]

[Status: Two souls sharing the same breath, divine will following the sorcerer]

[Current advancement value: 75% (Not yet meeting the advancement requirements)]

The rest of the skill descriptions remained unchanged, except that the original [Miko] was changed to [Mountain Spirit].

What is this...?

Before Jiang Fan could finish complaining, the game screen began to shake violently. This feedback even came from the game console, causing it to break free from Jiang Fan's hands.

When he picked up the game console and looked at it...

Nothing happened. The mandrill's corpse still lay there, covered in flowers like stone. The difference was that the corpse didn't seem to have just died; the branches looked hundreds of years old and were covered in green hair.

The surrounding environment hadn't changed, so what on earth was causing this earthquake-like shaking?

Never mind, let Ni Yao continue exploring.

The rain started without warning and grew heavier and heavier.

Inside the command center, the piercing red alarm had been silenced, but the blinding high-risk energy reaction on the giant holographic tactical map that covered an entire wall still made everyone's hearts leap into their throats.

Several of the top ten special squads in the Xia Kingdom, fully armed, gathered here, ready for battle.

They were urgently dispatched here because an unprecedented phenomenon of artifact resurrection had occurred deep in the mountains of Jingchu City, the scale of which far exceeded the limits that ordinary generic sequences and true name sequences could handle.

"Report! The magnetic field in the central area of ​​the Ten Thousand Mountains is undergoing violent distortion! All conventional detection equipment has malfunctioned!"

A specialist stood up from the control panel, sweating profusely, his voice filled with undisguised shock.

"Can you confirm which mythological system is being revived?"

Tang Jingyu, the leader of the [Red Sky] squad, frowned. The sequence mark [Liu Bang] on his body was faintly burning due to the terrifying pressure coming from afar. As a fourth-order true name sequence user, this was really too unusual.

"We're already here, what other kind of myth could it be?"

Su Jianyuan, the captain of [Tianwen], had a smile on his face, seemingly pleased with the situation.

"In the pre-Qin mythological system, the mythology of the Chu region, as the original mythology, is a required course for us."

"just in case...

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"There's no 'what if,' which is why we're here. An unusual phenomenon is forming, covering the five provinces of Southwest and Central China."

Su Jianyuan looked at the map, which was an image projected directly from an orbiting satellite. The Ten Thousand Mountains were undergoing strange undulations, and this subtle change was as if some mountain god was controlling the earth.

"But there are still many exploration teams inside the Celestial Monitoring Division, most of them are only at the first-order sequence."

Tang Jingyu was even more worried about the children. He also had a younger sister who was currently abroad, and every night he worried about whether there would be any strange phenomena in the place where she was.

The appearance of the Pale Knight brought immense fear to the global sequence organizations. No one could contend with the Mythical Sequence, and even Tianhai City barely survived thanks to the sudden appearance of a Legendary Sequence.

Upon hearing this, Su Jianyuan frowned. [Tianwen] and [Chixiao] ranked sixth and eighth respectively in Xia Kingdom, and the Imperial Observatory was backed by the direct guards of the Hongfu in the capital. In terms of positioning, it was a strategic deterrent team, ranked only below [Tai'a] and [Juntian].

The team system of 【Juntian】 is different from other teams. It has a very complete training system, or rather, the three major departments of the Observatory of Heaven, 【Observation of Heaven】, 【Government of Earth】, and 【Four Symbols】 are the preparatory departments of 【Juntian】.

They will select the best from these three departments to join the team, making it the most complete and largest team of all.

If Li Shimin and Wei Qing of the Tai'a team hadn't already reached the fifth rank, the strongest squad would probably have been defeated by Juntian long ago.

What it replaced was the Hongfu's direct subordinate squad.

Although it was infuriating to see [Jun Tian] sending people to interfere and try to seize the initiative, the members of the exploration team were innocent.

He even heard that this operation was orchestrated by high-ranking officials who deliberately arranged for the Observatory's exploration team to enter a controlled area that was clearly on the verge of recovery.

However, he couldn't get involved in this kind of struggle.

"Look outside!"

Someone exclaimed in surprise, and all the highest-ranking sequencers in the command center rushed out of their tents and looked up in the direction of Wushan.

The downpour stopped at that moment.

No, it's not stagnation, it's going against the current!

Before the horrified eyes of the crowd, the once gentle mountain range in the distance was undergoing a terrifying geographical reconstruction at a speed visible to the naked eye.

The earth was rumbling, as if an ancient god who had been sleeping for thousands of years was stretching his body.

Accompanied by the ancient, somber yet ethereal sounds of the Chu chime bells and shamanic bells, a majestic mountain that had never existed on the modern map of the Xia Kingdom suddenly rose from the ground and pierced the sky!

"This—how is this possible? Is it tectonic movement?!"

The commander of the Ninth Bureau stared intently at the newly formed giant mountain, his breath almost stopping.

On that mountain, there was no despair or slaughter when the remnants of evil were revived. Under the azure light, the entire mountain was growing at a frenzied pace with extremely bewitching red flowers and emerald green creeping fig.

"The ancient gods of mountains and rivers —"

The Ninth Bureau Commander looked at the information analysis report that popped up on the screen. This was the latest system launched by the Astronomical Observatory, which summarized all of China's mythology and then inferred which mythological entity had revived based on the changes in the anomalies. Since it was an inference rather than data detection, it did not require conventional detection equipment for data support. His eyes gleamed with a light that was a mixture of fanaticism and awe.

Several squad leaders also ran out of their tents, gazing up at the graceful mountain.

They knew that in this city called Jingchu, deep within these Hundred Thousand Mountains, a true, ancient deity belonging to the native land of China had at this moment laid down her insurmountable divine authority.

In the eyes of all those who possessed the sequence, a graceful figure in blue, draped in vines and riding a red leopard and a civet cat, appeared leisurely in the mountains.

"The goddess of Wushan, one of the nine gods, the 'Mountain Spirit'."

Su Jianyuan felt a chill run down his spine. This was a true mythical figure, capable of manifesting himself so quickly after his resurrection.

"This time, it's our Chinese mythology's turn to learn from them."

He looked excited. Last time in Tianhai, he had successively revived King Arthur, and the Lionheart of the Tribunal had advanced to the fourth rank. Moreover, an unknown being had obtained the fourth seal of God, the Pale Knight. The power of the foreign sequence had suddenly increased significantly.

Although the report from the Ninth Bureau of Tianhai City stated that, apart from "Lionheart," none of them were foreign official forces, but rather an organization called the Divine Tower, it was still not enough to reassure people.

Only what you hold in your hand is real.