In the grandest mansion of Ming Mountain, the courtyard was packed with a massive crowd, inside and out. Dozens of corpses were neatly arranged in the courtyard, and the decapitated heads had all been sewn back onto their bodies.
Though the heads could be reattached, life could never be restored.
The air was filled with heartrending wails, and many people were gathered in front of a certain bedroom. A hundred-year-old man stood at the door, and on the large bed behind him lay several children.
"Uncle Gao, how could you leave these children here?!"
"Yes, the urgent matter now is to send these children to the immortal village!"
"What if the mountain god gets angry..."
The surrounding people spoke in a flurry, but Uncle Gao remained unmoved.
"If you want to harm a single hair on these children, you will have to step over my dead body!"
Under the complete control of Fang Yuan, Uncle Gao spoke with unwavering righteousness.
"Then, Uncle Gao, how did those young people outside die?" soone else asked.
Fully controlled by Fang Yuan, Uncle Gao wouldn't betray his master. He replied sternly, "They committed suicide, all of them committed suicide!"
The people were confused. Who would cut off their own head in a suicide?
At that mont, a loud shout rang out from outside:
"I see the Mountain God!"
"Everyone, co out and see, the Mountain God is in the sky!"
Upon hearing this, the people inside the room hurriedly rushed out and looked up.
Sure enough, they saw the Mountain God! It looked similar to a statue, dressed in green clothes, though strangely much fatter.
"Bow to the Mountain God!"
The people began to kneel in unison, bowing to the figure in the sky.
"The Mountain God truly has great powers, he can fly upside down in the sky!" soone praised.
"Why does the Mountain God have a snake's tail..." A child innocently asked, but was imdiately covered by an adult's hand.
"Wait, look! There's soone else in the sky!"
Soone noticed sothing strange. As they looked closer, they saw a young man in white, holding the Mountain God's tail and floating in midair.
The Mountain God wasn't flying upside down—soone was holding it up in the air!
The young man was so much smaller than the Mountain God that they hadn't noticed at first.
The townspeople were in shock, staring at this scene in disbelief.
The Mountain God, whom they revered so much, was being dangled in the air like a dead fish by soone.
The entire city's people began to gather around the young man, who then flew to a certain spot:
The market square of Ming Mountain, the widest and most bustling place in the city, and historically used for executions.
With a release of his hand, the Mountain God fell heavily to the ground. Fang Yuan swooped down and stomped hard on her head.
The impact woke the snake demon from her stupor. She opened her eyes and saw Fang Yuan's cold, indifferent gaze, along with the terrified citizens surrounding her.
"Don't look at !" the snake demon cried, covering her grotesque face. The people who had always seen her as a divine being now saw her in such a shaful state...
Qin Hai squeezed through the crowd, dressed in rough hemp clothes, and ca to Fang Yuan's side. "Lord Fang," he said.
Fang Yuan nodded lightly, then his voice echoed across Ming Mountain:
"My na is Fang Yuan, the new Lord of Jianghai Palace, and the new Lord of Jianghai Prefecture."
"I hereby announce that this snake demon pretended to be the Mountain God, devouring children. She is to be executed!"
With that, Fang Yuan raised his right hand, and a massive sword materialized.
At the ntion of her execution, the snake demon nearly lost her mind. She no longer cared about hiding her appearance and scread:
"I am the Mountain God of Ming Mountain! Save !"
At once, more than a dozen people rushed toward Fang Yuan—n, won, old and young—all with eyes red and faces twisted, like they had gone mad.
"Anyone who disrupts the execution shares the sa fate as the snake demon," Fang Yuan said coldly.
Despite his words, the group did not stop.
Boom!
A bolt of lightning struck down, instantly turning the dozen or so people into charred corpses!
Seeing this thunderous display, the surrounding citizens froze in fear, not daring to act out, yet they knelt, crying out:
"Lord Fang, please have rcy and spare the Mountain God!"
Fang Yuan ignored their pleas, and with a swift motion, his sword struck down.
Splat!
The fat head rolled away, transforming into a grotesque snake head the size of a cart, its mouth still snapping open and closed.
The green robe was shredded, revealing the exaggerated, bloated snake body that continued to twitch and convulse.
The Mountain God was supposed to be a bamboo viper, but through constant feeding, it had grown as bloated as a Gaboon viper.
The citizens stood frozen, their once hopeful expressions replaced by pure fear.
Even though they had known for so ti that the Mountain God wasn't human, seeing this horrifying scene still shocked them.
Then, Fang Yuan gently ran his right hand over the snake's body, and countless grid-like cuts appeared on the skin.
With a rich, roasted aroma wafting through the air, the tender snake at blood open like flower petals.
Fang Yuan plucked a piece of the at and disappeared in an instant.
He reappeared next to an elderly man who had knelt the hardest earlier. Without saying a word, Fang Yuan placed the at in his mouth.
"I'm desecrating a god! I must spit it out!" the old man thought at first, but the at was so delicious, so smooth and tender, that he couldn't resist.
His throat moved, and he swallowed it.
"Tell , does your Mountain God taste good?" Fang Yuan asked, looking down at him.
Tears filled the old man's eyes, but he nodded. "Delicious!"
It was indeed delicious; he had never tasted anything so good.
"Are you proud of it? After all, this is the treasure you all fed and raised," Fang Yuan said with a light smile, then looked around at the crowd of citizens, his voice indifferent:
"The demon is dead. From now on, if you continue to worship this so-called Mountain God, I will send you to et it!"
With that, Fang Yuan tapped his foot and soared into the sky once more.
"Lord Fang, wait for !" Qin Hai shouted, grabbing a large piece of snake at and eating it as he chased after him.
The citizens remained motionless, dazed and still in shock from the events.
Only the elderly man who had tasted the snake at suddenly sprang into action.
He rushed to the Mountain God's side, and with a look of yearning, he bit into it!
The irresistible aroma of the at wafted to the other citizens. Seeing the old man devour it greedily, they too could no longer resist.
The second person, the third person rushed to the Mountain God's side, and more people followed, eagerly partaking in the delicious snake at feast.
What was supposed to be a Mountain God's ritual had now turned into a feast for the Mountain God.
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