I Come to Teach You Cultivation-Chapter 186 - 1: Mountain God Fights the Flood (1/3)

Chapter 186: Chapter 1: Mountain God Fights the Flood (1/3)

At the very edge of the Hundred Lands Mountain Range, there is a mountain village located at the uppermost part of the water vein.

Since the torrential rain and floods broke through the Guifang Kingdom and entered this Hundred Li Mountain Range, this place has become the frontline for flood relief.

In this era, even the term "flood relief" was first proposed by Li Boyang.

Before that, torrential rains and floods were universally recognized as celestial disasters.

The mountain people living in the Hundred Lands Mountain Range could do nothing but abandon their villages and migrate when encountering such celestial disasters, only to reclaim the land again in the coming year.

It wasn’t until recently, when Li Family Village predicted the incoming floods and sent people here.

Together with those who came from Li Family Village,

there was also a Mountain God over ten meters tall with four arms.

Under the guidance of the person from Li Family Village, this Mountain God, along with the nearby villagers, built a dam at the weakest part of the water vein.

Because of how rushed it was, the mountain people here could only temporarily use stone and soil materials, along with wooden stakes, to construct a simple dam.

Every moment, this temporary dam was being destroyed.

Every moment, more mountain people carried wooden stakes and stone materials for emergency repairs.

Braving the raging wind and rain, with half of their bodies trapped in the mud, they still arduously carried bags of soil and stones onto the embankment.

The resilience and determination shown by the mountain people at this moment completely stunned the Mountain God who came to help.

"Are they... all insane?"

A golden rope extending into the void was wrapped around his neck.

The Mountain God watched the humans who were knocked down by the rain and waves but continued to climb back up tenaciously, struck speechless by their resilience.

"Because they are not like you. They know what they’re doing."

Also braving the downpour along the muddy road, Qiwa from Li Family Village spoke in a steady voice.

Qiwa from Li Family Village was from a struggling family.

His mother ran away with someone else, his father injured his head, and he was very young.

If not for the assistance from Li Boyang, joining the production team once he grew a bit older, he might have died three years ago.

It was precisely because of such experiences that when Li Boyang called for someone to go to the frontline of "flood relief," Qiwa chose to come to this village without hesitation.

"And what about you?"

"Do you know what you’re doing?"

Looking down at the boy barely the size of his palm, the Mountain God’s voice was particularly angry.

"Your prophet only told you to survey the water vein and design the embankment..."

"Yet you came to this flood-stricken place recklessly."

"Do you know, if anything happens to you, your prophet will be the first to kill me!"

Furiously pulling at the golden rope from the void, the Mountain God roared angrily.

Evidently, this Mountain God did not voluntarily come to the frontline for flood relief and disaster rescue.

This Mountain God was one of the many ghost gods who fled from Feilai Peak.

However, after Li Boyang obtained the God-Binding Rope, he was the first to be captured and brought back.

Perhaps taking into account Xiluo’s thoughts and feelings, or maybe due to the Rain Master’s arrangements beforehand...

Li Boyang’s attitude towards these ghost gods was actually quite conflicted.

According to the initial plan, Li Boyang did indeed turn a blind eye to those ghost gods who did not cause trouble.

Only when encountering those evil gods obsessed with slaughter and sacrificial offerings would Li Boyang take action to punish them.

In fact, with the deterrence of Li Boyang and Xiluo, along with the precedent set by the Celestial Erosion Monarch,

there really weren’t many ghost gods daring to provoke Li Boyang.

However, the key issue now was that, while there were indeed few ghost gods daring to cause trouble,

ghost gods like the Mountain God, who were just pure troublemakers, were not rare throughout the Hundred Lands Mountain Range.

These ghost gods did not commit widespread destruction or slaughter,

but due to their ancient concepts and identities from a thousand years ago, they frequently clashed with the local spirit monsters, mountain people, and even the Hundred Lands Gods.

This was precisely what Li Boyang had previously overlooked.

This was a situation where letting it be was not an option, and killing them outright was not feasible, so Li Boyang ultimately chose to intervene again.

——Since no one in this era is qualified to judge or educate the gods, then I am willing to be the first!

Adopting a completely different approach from the Huai River Witch.

Li Boyang, in an extremely short period, managed to sweep clean these troublemakers.

All Ghost Gods daring to cause trouble yet without engaging in slaughter or live sacrifices were captured and taken back to Feilai Peak by Li Boyang.

However, this time, Li Boyang didn’t simply imprison them.

Li Boyang attempted to subtly transform the thoughts and concepts of these Ghost Gods of the old era through labor and ideological reform.

This Mountain God was exactly among the first batch of Ghost Gods deemed less dangerous after Li Boyang’s evaluation.

As for the golden rope entwined around the Mountain God’s neck?

That came from the Ghost God Cliff’s God-Binding Rope.

As long as this thing exists, even if the Mountain God escapes to the Ends of the Earth, Li Boyang could pull him back at any time.

Most importantly, Ghost Gods bound by the God-Binding Rope would lose their Divine Power, making it virtually impossible to escape far.

"Yes, I clearly know what I should be doing."

Carrying a sandbag more than twice the size of others, Qiwa looked up at the Mountain God and said.

"It’s precisely because I know what I should do that I am here."

"Even if only to protect me, you would undoubtedly give your utmost to guard this dike."

A flicker of the distinctive cunning of the Mountain People glinted in Qiwa’s eyes.

For as he said, if not for himself and the Mountain God here,

this dike would have been breached by the violent flood a few days ago.

Though the Mountain God lost his Divine Power, the strength endowed by his physique remained.

With him standing here, even if he relaxed, it was equivalent to the combined labor of a hundred Mountain People.

Let alone when it came to protecting Qiwa, the Mountain God dared not relax too excessively.

In critical moments, he would even rush to the front line to physically block breaches torn by the floodwaters.

"Kid, do you know that your body has already exceeded its limits?" 𝚏𝕣𝐞𝗲𝐰𝕖𝐛𝐧𝕠𝕧𝚎𝚕.𝐜𝚘𝗺

"Even with my protection, you might survive this deluge yet inevitably won’t live much longer."

Watching Qiwa gasping for air as he coordinated tasks with the Mountain People,

the Mountain God, forced into the flood to lay the foundation for the dike, roared angrily into the sky, his fretful words causing the dike to tremble.

"That’s not something I should be concerned with, nor you."

Also aware of his physical limit, Qiwa, under the worried gazes of the surrounding Mountain People, smiled and said.

Unfortunately, Qiwa’s smile after fighting at the frontline of this flood for twenty-four hours straight only attracted more worried looks from the Mountain People.

Because anyone could see his smile was incredibly forced now.

His robust body under the battering of the storm stood less steadily than some elderly women and children.

"Qiwa, you should go back and rest for a while!"

A hunter from the village walked over to Qiwa and urged loudly.

Amidst the sounds of the storm and flood, the hunter’s voice entered Qiwa’s ears clearly.

"No, I’m fine..."

Smiling and shaking his head at the hunter, Qiwa pointed to a nearby breach about to give way and responded loudly.

"Only I know how to manage water here, I can’t rest yet."

"You all quickly go check that breach, it’s very likely the site of the next flood’s breach."

"Later, I’ll have Lord Tingyao go and temporarily set a few wooden stakes there, you all must figure out a way to bring more stones and earth before the next flood peak arrives."

The "Lord Tingyao" on Qiwa’s lips naturally referred to the four-armed Mountain God.

In a sense, the reason the village could establish this highly functional makeshift dike before the flood arrived relied precisely on that reluctant Mountain God.

"Understood, we’ll head there, you rest here for now!"

The hunter couldn’t help feeling concerned about Qiwa’s state, and thus sighed helplessly.

This time Qiwa didn’t refuse the hunter’s goodwill.

Instead, he sat down against the wall battered by the rain constantly.

To prevent himself from being washed away while resting, Qiwa tied a thick rope from his waist to a nearby wooden stake.

In just a little while, Qiwa fell into a deep sleep.

Leaving only the Mountain God, ascending once more amidst the flood, gazing at this mortal with eyes that were either in admiration or speechlessness.

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