When David awoke once more, he was already in an entirely unfamiliar world.
This was a world completely different from the Cyber World.
In the sky, two suns, one bright and one dark, hung high. One remained stationary, while the other moved tily.
"This place is..."
In disbelief, David surveyed the surroundings only to find mountains and plants everywhere.
You must know, in the Cyber World, everything is artificial, even the ground beneath is made of reinforced concrete.
At his most extravagant, David had only ever nurtured a small plant in his apartnt.
And to keep that tiny plant alive, David used artificial organic soil, an air self-circulation device, and simulated natural light radiators among other luxurious equipnt.
"What exactly is this place?"
Slowly getting up from the ground, David's prosthetic eye constantly expanded and contracted, scanning everything nearby.
The result shocked him: this wasn't so virtual data-structured bionic space, but a real, genuine natural world.
"This is the Yunng Marsh!"
Just as David hesitated to reach out and touch the ground, a voice suddenly ca from behind him.
Whether it was a sound wave sensor or a life detection device, none had detected anything unusual in advance. David quickly turned towards the direction of the voice, on alert.
Unexpectedly for David, it was indeed not a normal living being.
Suspended in mid-air in a bizarre posture, David could even see through its body the forests behind it.
"An electronic life form? Or a virtual projection?"
Unable to suppress his inner doubts, David cautiously took two steps back.
Upon hearing David's words, the near-ghostlike presence across from him seed montarily taken aback.
"Are you a Burrowing Insect?"
The body gradually shifted from ghostly shadow to substance.
The unknown entity frowned, a hint of curiosity in its words.
"No, you don't resemble a Burrowing Insect."
"Those beings may modify their bodies, but they would never turn themselves into a complete steel monster like you."
Here, we must ntion David's current form.
After years of prosthetic implants and biological modifications, David was no longer the physical form he once had.
The current David more closely resembled a freely moving shape-shifting machine.
The multi-footed chassis allowed him to be as steady as Mount Tai...
The tal limbs, agile like those of an octopus, could extend and retract freely...
In addition, David installed multi-eyed prosthetic eyes for a broader perspective...
At this mont, David's overall appearance seed both bizarre and majestic, even evoking an unusual sense of beauty.
Of course, although David's form was bizarre, the unknown presence opposite him was not any normal creature either.
Even transford from a shadow to substance, the unknown presence remained in a half-human, half-beast form.
With a slim body, sharp claws and teeth, and wings at the arm positions...
The unknown entity resembled a banshee from Earth mythology yet added with several hints of terror and savagery.
"Allow
to formally introduce myself, I am the Mountain God of this mountain—Chi."
Lightly flapping its wings, Chi continued to curiously scrutinize David on the opposite side.
"You are not a creature of this world; you are not even a living being."
"Like the skeletons outside the mountain, you are a life form existing between life and death."
"How peculiar, that such a unique existence as you can exist in this world, and I can even sense the power of a 'God' within you?"
"Are you an Ascender? Or an Apostle?"
Perhaps not having spoken to anyone in a long ti, Chi seed extrely talkative.
In this barrage of questions, David, unable to grasp the situation, looked utterly confused.
Fortunately, David's electronic auxiliary brain was operating swiftly, quickly extracting useful information from Chi's words.
"Mountain God? You are actually a God?"
With a hint of amazent, David compared Chi with the deities in his database.
He found that the other indeed bore so resemblance to deities.
But the power gap between them was extraordinarily vast; Chi did not seem omnipotent like genuine deities.
"Of course I am a God!"
Appearing to dislike having its identity questioned, Chi promptly emphasized.
"Though I am currently just a Mountain God..."
"But at least I am closer to the True God and the great Creator than you Ascenders!"
This was the second ti Chi ntioned the term "Ascender."
With a vague inference, David suddenly opened the palm of his prosthetic limb at the front, revealing the Misfortune Paper Crane that had turned into the "Eye of the Creator."
"I think I was brought to this world by this totem."
"Is this ancient god you ntion the 'Creator'?"
Although phrased as a question.
David, as he said these words, actually already knew the definite answer in his heart.
As expected, seeing the "Eye of the Creator" left Chi dazed on the spot, unable to collect its thoughts for a long ti.
"Why is the Creator's totem in your hands?"
After a brief stupor, Chi looked at David with a shocked expression.
In the Mountain and Sea Realm, the Creator's totem is not a rare item.
Even in the Marz World, where Burrowing Insects exist, the Creator's belief is widespread throughout their civilization.
But now the problem was, David clearly was not a follower of the Creator.
Moreover, the Creator's totem in the hand of the other party wasn't sothing that an average Prophet could make.
Rich in divine power, subtly emitting spirituality, and possessing an aura like a true God...
In Chi's understanding, even Balian, the Prophet closest to God among the Immortals, could not produce such a level of Creator's totem.
Rather than calling it a totem, it seed more like an incarnation of the Creator, in a sense.
"I found it."
With Chi's expression of bafflent and ineffability, David casually stated.
"If you don't want to say, then don't make excuses."
"The Creator's totem is spiritual, especially this level of Creator's totem."
"If it doesn't want soone to find it, no one can."
"Conversely, it ans you've received the Creator's recognition."
Chi, eyes rolled to the heavens, felt David was stalling.
In her experience, no one ever claid to have simply found the Creator's totem.
"Fine, on behalf of the Creator, I reluctantly accept your explanation."
"After all, seeing you like this, you can't possibly be a native creature of the Mountain and Sea Realm..."
"In the Mountain and Sea Realm, there are rules, especially in Yunng Marsh, which is my territory!"
"If there's sothing you wish to ask or know, you can directly ask
now. Just don't make any significant commotion."
"Otherwise, if you attract the attention of other Mountain Gods or River Gods, don't bla
for not protecting you."
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