Deities: Rulers of Nature

[Information: The bloodline of the Snake-Human race in Xishan has completed its migration.]

[Information: The Four-Armed Serpent Spirit Clan, a superior race, has been born]

[Message: Conditions met; the Four-Armed Serpent Spirits will maintain absolute faith in you]

[Information: Faith Points +129754]

Spring goes and autumn comes; time flies like an arrow. In the blink of an eye, five years have passed.

When the autumn winds of the 550th year of the Divine Calendar stirred up the falling leaves, the Xishan Serpent People finally completed their bloodline leap and should now be called the Four-Armed Serpent Spirits.

It is also unclear what conditions were met, but the four-armed serpent spirits' faith in Ji Xuan has become absolute faith.

Just like Li Tong and his kin, the Rainbow Octopus Humans, whom Ji Xuan encountered back then, all the four-armed serpent spirits from the moment of their birth will at least be shallow believers of Ji Xuan. Even if Ji Xuan were to perish in the future, the faith of these four-armed serpent spirits will not change.

Ji Xuan sat atop a cloud, watching with great interest the jubilant snake spirits in Xishan City.

"Father! Father! Look! I have four arms!" A little snake spirit, just over two years old, excitedly circled around his father. His four arms were very flexible, not at all like they had grown later in life.

"Slow down, don't run in circles like that, you'll get dizzy again." Jinsha stretched out his slightly rough hand, picked up the little snake spirit, held it in his arms, and rubbed the little snake spirit's head with his other arm.

This little guy was among the second batch to hatch from the incubation pool; he is Jinsha's eldest son.

Because more and more people have broken through to the Iron Rank and even the Bronze Rank in recent years, and the people who have joined the temple guards are not just from the Serpent Spirit Clan, the position of leader was officially abolished more than ten years ago.

However, this does not mean that the status of the seven leaders of the Serpent Spirit Clan has been reduced. On the contrary, each of them has been given a new position.

Aoki, Jinyan, and Chifeng became the village chiefs of the new village, while Qingyun, Jinyang, and Chishui became the corps commanders. Of course, although they were called corps commanders, they didn't have that many people under their command.

During the years of bloodline leap, Jinsha reached the Bronze rank and became a guard. However, due to his personality, he did not choose to become the commander of the legion, but instead chose to become the commander of the youth training regiment.

You can tell what Jinsha does just by hearing his name. To put it jokingly, Jinsha is the king of the kids in Xishan City.

As the number of young snake spirits increased, the training method was no longer the same as before, where they were all thrown into the training ground for training together. Instead, depending on their age, they had to undergo different periods of professional training with Jinsha every year.

Compared to before, Jinsha is much less busy, which gives him time to take care of his family.

In recent years, all of these former leaders, except for Aoki, have found mates, and little snake spirits have been hatched one after another.

It's worth mentioning that Qinglv and Chihong, on whom Ji Xuan placed high hopes, are still single. Given their status and the theoretically unlimited lifespan of saints, no one has pressured them to stay single.

Qingdao didn't have any obsession with having grandchildren. For him, as long as he could see Xishan City getting better and better, he would die without regrets.

Getting back to the main point, situations like Jinsha and his son's are quite common in Xishan City.

In the training ground, wood chips flew out of the wooden stakes like snow.

In front of the wooden stake, an adult Black Iron Rank Serpent Spirit was waving its arms incessantly, launching a fierce attack.

His two main arms on his shoulders each held a red iron sword, slashing and hacking with wide, sweeping motions, while his two newly grown arms under his ribs held two poisoned daggers, specifically designed to attack from various tricky angles.

With a sudden burst of power from the serpent spirit's tail, his waist twisted into an incredible arc, and his four weapons were wielded into an impenetrable net of attacks, turning the training iron stakes into wooden sticks.

The little snake spirits watching from the sidelines cheered continuously, dreaming that they could be just as powerful when they grew up.

In a building in Xishan City, a snake spirit girl was looking at a cookbook in one hand, while her other three hands were busy stir-frying vegetables, tossing the wok with one hand, wielding the spatula with the other, and adding various seasonings from time to time with the last hand.

Judging from her serious expression, she was not much worse than the one on the martial arts field, but the final product was not very satisfactory.

"Sister, what is this black blob?" The little snake spirit pointed blankly at a dish on the table.

"This is stir-fried shredded pork." The snake spirit girl looked a little embarrassed.

"Then what are these black stones?" the little snake spirit asked, pointing to a pile of unidentified black objects.

"It's a flower cake, not a stone."

Perhaps wanting to prove something, the snake spirit girl picked up one of the pieces and handed it to the little snake spirit, but accidentally dropped it on the ground, making a thumping sound as it hit the stone floor.

Meeting the slightly reproachful gaze of the little snake spirit, the snake spirit girl gave an awkward smile, and then threw away everything on the table.

"I followed the tutorial in the book step by step, so why is the finished product so different?" the snake spirit girl muttered softly.

"Oh, my daughter's done well, she even knows how to clean the house now. But when did we get this black, smelly garbage in our house?" A tall, strong adult snake spirit walked over from a distance and said.

"Father!" The snake spirit girl's face instantly turned bright red, whether from embarrassment or anger was unknown.

The adult snake spirit looked completely bewildered, while the snake spirit girl kept muttering incomprehensible words like "a little" and "a pinch".

Inside the Temple of Nature, Jin Chen held a charcoal pencil in each of his four hands and wrote on different pieces of paper.

Compared to when she was still a snake-woman, Jin Chen really loves her new racial form after the bloodline leap. It's not just about having two extra arms; she can now do four things at once.

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Both the Cherry Blossom Spirits and the Spider-Men were quite envious of the changes in the Serpent Spirit Clan. The Cherry Blossom Spirits, being a newly emerging intelligent race in the new era, longed for bloodline advancement, but due to their devout faith in Ji Xuan, they firmly believed that in the future, the Cherry Blossom Spirit Clan would also, like the Serpent-Men of the past, advance to become a higher race under the blessing of the God of Nature.

Spider-Men are different. As a remnant of the old era, although their bloodline once reached the level of extraordinary races, precisely because of this, the surviving historical records document some of the experimental practices of the Spider God with poison back then, each of which was inevitably accompanied by the deaths of a large number of Spider-Men.

Therefore, especially Spider-Men like Carlos who had once held the positions of Great Mistress and Mistress, were well aware of how precious the Serpent Spirits' bloodline leap method, which resulted in no casualties, was.

However, regardless of what the two clans thought in private, the most direct reaction was that their faith in Ji Xuan became even more devout.

Ji Xuan saw all of this, but he did not offer any words of comfort.

As a deity, one cannot always rely on one's kin. On the contrary, just like what Ji Xuan did back then, thunder and rain are all the grace of the sovereign. No matter what He does, the cherry blossom spirit and the spider man, as kin, can only be grateful.