Deities: Rulers of Nature

It was a new day, and the fire was still burning in the hearth in the center of the settlement.

Seido led people to demolish houses and level the land in preparation for building an altar for the god of nature.

After saying goodbye to her father, Qinglu swung her snake tail alone and headed towards Qianyan Mountain on the western slope of Xishan Mountain.

Qianyan Mountain is a rather unique mountain in the Qingling Mountains.

Like Yunjin Mountain nearby, even in winter, you can see a few hardy trees or shrubs. But Qianyan Mountain is different. It is all rock from top to bottom and inside to outside, and not a blade of grass grows there, even in summer.

Previously, Qianyan Mountain was not of much use to the settlement; they would only come to move a few stones when needed.

As for making a stone axe or something similar from stone, it's not as useful as their claws.

It's like Superman asking his super brain how to solve a problem, and the super brain telling him to use super power.

Have you ever seen a wild beast hunt without using its teeth and claws, instead carrying a rock in its mouth to smash its prey?

But now the situation is different. Not only do they need to build an altar to the god of nature using regular stones, but the knowledge in Qinglv's mind tells him that tools are very important.

After next spring, they will have to study farming again; they can't still be using claws to plow the land.

They didn't know where to find ores of iron or copper, nor did they know how to smelt them, so the easiest thing for them to obtain was stone tools.

Thousand Rock Mountain is so big that although ordinary stones are not as sharp as their claws, there are always rocks that are harder and sharper than their claws.

Not to mention, he even developed a skill on his own.

Thinking of this, Qinglu channeled her spiritual energy into her eyes.

In an instant, the whole world began to fade, and the original shades of blue-brown and brownish-yellow turned into varying shades of grayish-white.

This skill was something Qinglu figured out on her own last night.

Green's mother was a golden-ringed snake-man. Although he appeared to be a pure green-scaled snake-man after hatching and his talent was indeed plant affinity, his eyes were different from those of other snake-men.

Although Qinglu did not acquire the sensory talent of the Golden Ring Snake People, his eyesight was far better than that of all the other snake people.

After receiving the divine gift that allowed her to mobilize the energy within her body, Qinglu explored it on her own.

When the power of Qi and blood is attached to the body, it can increase defense; when attached to the fingertips, it can make the claws sharper; but when attached to the eyes, it has no effect.

Mental energy can be used to perform divine magic, but it doesn't change when it's attached to the body and fingertips. However, it undergoes a completely new change when it's attached to the eyes.

Everything in his field of vision would lose its original color. Everything in the settlement turned grayish-white, except for his father Qingdao, the four leaders, and Yutongmi. They were all grayish-black, just to varying degrees. His father's color was the darkest, while Yutongmi was completely black.

Qinglu quickly figured out the pattern: the darker the color, the stronger the strength. Gray corresponds to the mortal rank, and black corresponds to the iron rank. The darker the color, the stronger the strength.

He never expected that he would be able to see the rank directly.

Indeed, this was the case; in Ji Xuan's eyes, the green information emerged:

【Name: Qinglv】

[Race: Xishan Serpent People - Azure Scale Serpent People]

[Talents: Plant Affinity, True Sight]

Age: 15

[Potential: Bronze]

[Rank: 12 (Black Iron)]

[Physical Fitness: 5]

【Strength: 5】

[Agility: 6]

【Spirit: 6】

[Skills: Plant Growth Induction, Light Spell, Mild Healing]

[Information: The Azure Scale Serpent-Man, who has incorporated some of the talents of the Golden Ring Serpent-Man, has great potential.]

Originally, Qinglv was level 11, but after being blessed by Ji Xuan, it was stimulated by the power of faith and instead increased by 1 level, reaching level 12.

A 15-year-old level 12 snake-man, never before seen in the Xishan settlement.

Without a doubt, Qinglu will surpass his father Qingdao in the future and become the strongest of the Xishan Serpent Clan.

[Eye of Truth: The perception talent integrated into the mutated eyes of the Azure Serpent People, when activated by mental power, allows them to see through true ranks.]

It was precisely because of the new perspective brought by the Eye of Truth that Qinglv volunteered to find the stone, and his efficiency was undoubtedly higher than that of the other snake people.

The rocks at the foot of Thousand Rock Mountain are all light gray in the eyes of the real world. With a flick of its claws, the green stone left a gash.

"Sure enough, the lighter the color, the less sturdy it is," Qinglu thought after throwing away the stone in his hand.

Although there are all sorts of strange and wonderful stones, there are certainly ordinary stones that are harder than his claws, but they certainly wouldn't be light gray.

Qinglu continued walking up the mountain, and when she reached the halfway point, a different color finally appeared in her field of vision: gray.

Green walked to the mountain wall, extended its claws and scratched it; it was indeed much harder than the light gray one.

Soon, he found a stone that was dark gray in color in the Eye of Truth.

This stone is bluish-white in color. Without the power of blood and qi, his claws could only leave a shallow mark on it. It only appeared after Qinglu carved a three-meter-deep hole in the central mountain wall.

If it weren't for the Eye of Truth, Qinglu would find it hard to imagine under what circumstances she would have dug such a deep hole in the mountain.

After returning to the settlement and summoning his hunting party and Jin Yan's hunting team, Qing Lü began mining the rock he named Qing tide Stone.

Soon, the Qingxi Stones were transported back to the settlement.

Besides the Azure Tide Stone, Azure Green also found another kind of dark gray, red, translucent rock in the Eye of Truth.

The characteristic of this rock is its hardness. It is not even of the Black Iron grade, but even the claw covered in green blood energy has great difficulty digging into it. The green creature named this rock Red Crystal Rock.

The reason Qinglv mines red crystal rock is simply that Qingxi Stone is too hard for the mortal snake people in the settlement, while the tools made from red crystal rock are enough for them to carve Qingxi Stone.

Otherwise, relying solely on Seido and his claw carving, it would take an unknown amount of time to establish the altar of the God of Nature.

As the sun set, the last piece of Qingxi Stone was transported into the settlement.

Looking at the pile of Qingxi stones that resembled a small mountain, Qinglu wiped the sweat from her forehead.

The basic materials for building the altar have been prepared, but there is still a problem to solve.

That is to say that the Xishan snake people have no artistic talent, but that's not quite right either; they've never spent any effort studying art.

They were tasked with carving Qingxi Stone, but faced with the bluish-white stone, they felt at a loss for where to begin.

The idea of ​​building the altar came spontaneously from their Xishan settlement; the knowledge that Ji Xuan had bestowed upon them last time did not include anything related to architecture.

The snake people did not want to, nor dared to, do things hastily; they wanted to build the best altar for the god of nature.

Looking at the group of snake-men with their claws trembling, Ji Xuan smiled helplessly. Then, a golden light flew out from his fingertip and merged into the foreheads of Qing Dao and the other four leaders.

"Our Lord is watching over us; praise be to the great God of Nature!"

"Praise be to the great God of Nature!"