Chapter 10 Escape_1

At the bottom of the deep pool.

Yibai, who had returned, still felt shocked when he recalled the conversation he had with the Ghost Servant at the mountain pass three or four hours ago.

In mythology, mountains have their Mountain Gods, and rivers have their River Gods.

And the Mountain God is the deity in charge of a region, who, in legends, has the power to regulate the weather, avert disasters, and bring blessings and fortune.

Without a doubt, in mythology, the Mountain God holds an absolutely important position.

However, the power of a Mountain God must also depend on the size of the mountain, surely the Mountain Gods of places like the Five-peak Mountain are extraordinary.

But if one points to a small mound and claims it is a mountain, the Mountain God that emerges would definitely be different.

However, the scope of Dayin Mountain is not small.

Its Mountain God must be strong.

This Mountain Lord is really...

Daring beyond belief.

He's actually preparing to hunt a Mountain God.

Yibai also quickly understood everything.

The Mountain Lord must have been driven to desperation by humans, but he was still just shy of being able to truly transform.

So in his urgency, he actually planned to get someone to make a move against the Mountain God.

"No wonder, the Old Tortoise said that what the Mountain Lord had done was too despicable to make amends for, so this is what he was referring to."

"But wait, how could the Old Tortoise know so much?"

Yibai suddenly realized with astonishment.

This Old Tortoise, his friend, seemed to be not as simple as he appeared on the surface.

He truly had some abilities.

Nevertheless, Yibai didn't mind, he knew that if the Old Tortoise wanted to harm him, he would have done it long ago.

Moreover, this Old Tortoise fellow was too cautious, too fond of life.

Even more so than he was.

"Forget it, whether it's the Mountain Lord or the Mountain God, this has nothing to do with me, I will definitely not get involved in the danger," Yibai reassured himself.

He was very clear about his own position.

What was most important for him now was to enhance his own strength.

Yibai thought this way.

Boom, rumble!

The thunder outside the pool continued to roar ceaselessly, it was unknown whether it was the Mountain Lord's transformational Heavenly Tribulation or the methods humans were using against the Mountain Lord.

In the midst of the rumbling thunder.

Yibai drifted off to sleep without realizing it.

Shuttling between the two worlds, to him, was also a kind of exhaustion.

In his state of fullness, he accidentally entered into the realm of dreams.

In the land of dreams, he dreamt of himself becoming a Jiao that transformed into a dragon, and eventually opening a Great Dragon Palace, raising many female dragons, and becoming a famous Great Demon.

But just as he became a Great Demon, planning to nurture the next generation of Little Dragons, a tiger's maw suddenly appeared before him, threatening to devour him.

This startled Yibai so much that he jolted awake instantly.

Upon waking, Yibai looked around and realized it was all a dream.

Wait.

Something seemed off.

Yibai looked up.

A Jade Token had appeared before him at some point, with an unusual shape, that of a tiger. It had sunk to the bottom of the pool, out of place among the surrounding black stones.

Curious, Yibai swam forward a bit to take a closer look at this Jade Token.

Whoosh...

As Yibai approached, the Jade Token seemed to be triggered by something, transforming into a beam of light that shot towards him.

Yibai had no time to react before he saw a totem of a tiger's shape appear on the Green Scales of his abdomen.

He was deeply confused by this.

After attempting to activate it and still receiving no results, Yibai had no choice but to give up and decided to act as if he hadn't seen anything.

Besides pretending not to see, he had no other solution.

Yibai was considering whether to go for a stroll in the Red Moon World.

But suddenly, he spotted a moving figure nearby at the bottom of the pool.

Wasn't that the Old Tortoise?

"Prophet, wait, where are you going?"

Yibai stopped the Old Tortoise whose limbs had transformed into a propeller.

"Where am I going? Obviously, I'm running away,"

said the Old Tortoise with a sense of helplessness.

"Running away? Why? Didn't you just say that this pool was the safest place?"

Yibai was puzzled.

"Safest place? When I said that, it was three days ago. Don't tell me you have no idea what has happened in these three days?"

The Old Tortoise looked at Yibai with surprise.

"Three, three days?"

Yibai was shocked.

He had not anticipated that three days had already passed.

Had he merely slept?

Suddenly, he felt as if he had time-traveled.

It was like, when you check the clock and it's six-fifty and you think you can snooze a bit longer,

but in the blink of an eye, it's already noon, and all you can do is cry out in dismay, "I've time-traveled."

Once Yibai realized he had slept for three days, he immediately asked the Old Tortoise what had happened during that time.

The Old Tortoise had no intention of hiding anything and sighed deeply before speaking, "Royal Serpent, these past three days, a major event occurred at Dayin Mountain. Somehow, the Mountain Lord gathered a bunch of malevolent spirits and actually succeeded in assassinating the Mountain God. The Deity of Dayin Mountain is gone."

Upon hearing this,

a storm surged in Yibai's heart.

He hadn't expected that the Mountain Lord had truly succeeded in killing the Mountain God of Dayin Mountain.

It was too inconceivable.

Just how powerful had the Mountain Lord become?

"Wait a minute, Prophet, even if the Mountain Lord killed the Mountain God, why do you need to run away?"

Yibai asked, puzzled.

"You Royal Serpent, to call you dumb doesn't seem quite right, and to call you smart, sometimes you appear quite dumb. The Mountain God of Dayin Mountain was personally honored by the Emperor of the Dynasty. A demon killing the Mountain God is like slapping the Emperor's face. I expect sooner or later many from the Heavenly Observatory will come to deal with the Mountain Lord. If we don't leave now, when they cleanse the place like wiping away dirt, it won't be pretty if we get wiped out along with it,"

the Old Tortoise said shaking his head and sighing.

"So, has the Mountain Lord succeeded in transforming into his true form?"

Yibai asked curiously.

"Transformed or not? How would I know that,"

said the Old Tortoise, sounding exasperated.

After speaking, it urged Yibai to leave quickly.

Then it swiftly swam away, heading toward the direction outside the pool.

Watching the departing Old Tortoise, Yibai began to hesitate.

The Old Tortoise had fled.

This deep pool was no longer safe.

According to the Old Tortoise, if he continued to stay, those so-called people from the 'Heavenly Observatory' would treat him like dirt and casually wash him away.

That would be a loss not worth the risk.

But if he left the deep pool, where could he go?

At that moment, Yibai felt a bit lost.

Ever since he had crossed over, his activities had always been around this deep pool.

Asking him to leave, he wouldn't even know where to find a suitable place.

"Where should I go…"

"Should I return to where I came from?"

"Go back to the humans' side?"

Just thinking about it made Yibai shudder.

If he really showed up among humans in broad daylight, he was afraid he wouldn't have enough lives to live through it.

No, that won't do.

Although he didn't know where to go, he definitely needed to move.

He couldn't stay in this place any longer.

Yibai quickly made up his mind.

If he didn't know where to go, then he would just walk in the opposite direction of Dayin Mountain, and he would eventually find the right place…