The two looked at each other and fell silent, and the atmosphere in the room gradually became depressed. The water girl looked at the dancing flames in the oil lamp, and suddenly asked:

"Is the mountain god really silent?"

Patriarch Qingshan nodded: "It's been almost four years, and I have never heard the voice of the mountain god again. If the mountain god was still there, nothing like this would have happened. After killing the demon bird today, I led my people to sacrifice to the mountain god according to the ancient ritual. The beliefs of the people are incomparably simple and sincere, but I still haven't received the slightest response, as if the mountain gods have long since left us. ”

Although today's events are rare, but after a long time, it is normal to encounter a few times, and the reason why it has been safe and sound in the past hundred years is because there has always been a mountain god here to protect it. In the past, when such demon birds entered this area, they would receive warnings and guidance from the mountain gods. The mountain god did this not only to protect the various tribes that worshiped him, but also to protect these demons.

The difficulty of the psychic of birds and beasts is comparable to that of people entering the realm of transformation, and it is a great luck to open up spiritual intelligence to embark on this path of cultivation, and it is a pity if it leads to unnecessary casualties in ignorance and also brings unnecessary harm to oneself. The mountain god obviously didn't want to see that happen.

Obviously, the two of them are different from ordinary clansmen, they know some things that clansmen don't know, so the status of the two of them on the way is also very special.

Shui Gu sighed: "When you told me that the three gods were going to fall asleep, I didn't believe it at the time, but then it seems that this thing is true. Now that the mountain god has not responded, and the Daming clan not far away has also been wiped out, there must be something wrong here. ”

"I think there are three possibilities. ”

"The first possibility is that the three gods have been exhausted and are already dead. ”

Shui Gu shook her head slightly, "I don't think it's possible, the mountain god is so powerful and has a long lifespan, how can he die so easily." ”

Patriarch Qingshan said, "There is nothing impossible, although the mountain god is regarded as a god by people, it is impossible to last forever, and there will be a day when the longevity will be exhausted." ”

"The second possibility is that he is really going to fall into a deep sleep for some reason, and it is hard to say how long he will sleep and when he will wake up. ”

"What about the third type?"

The Qingshan Patriarch sighed, "This third type is that the mountain god is really like the legend, feathered and ascended to the immortal, and left this world, this possibility is the lowest." ”

After hearing this, the water girl thought thoughtfully, "Is it possible that the mountain god chose to leave us?"

Patriarch Qingshan shook his head, "This possibility is even smaller, after all, the mountain god has guarded all tribes, and all tribes have been for so long, and the mountain gods have said that they want to give up on us." And even if the mountain god really chooses to leave us, we didn't offend him, there is no need for him to leave so suddenly, under normal circumstances, he would have arranged everything in advance, after all, he once guarded this place and made sacrifices for this place. ”

Shui Gu frowned slightly and said, "If that's the case, everything can only rely on ourselves." You and I were guided by the mountain god back then, and practiced the secrets he passed on, so that we could stay alive and youthful for a long time. But even the mountain god himself will be gone one day, and we can't stay here forever. ...... As far as you can see, what is the realm of that demon bird today?"

The old patriarch of Qingshan said: "It can take pictures in the air, and it should be a demon bird of the Three Realms." In addition to you and me, only Da Zhuang and Er Zhuang were fortunate enough to enter the first realm and be able to cultivate, but now they have entered the second realm, but they have not yet completed the ninth transformation. After all these years, it may be difficult for them to break through the Three Realms, we need to see, who in the clan will have any hope of achieving higher in the future?"

Legend has it that if you want to ascend the immortal road and become an immortal, you must go through eighty percent 9 turns and seventy-two steps, and only in this way can you reach the ultimate realm.

Shui Gu said: "Legend has it that when you enter the Three Realms, you will have the ability to take objects in the air. And that demon bird is afraid that at most it only has the power of the first transformation of the three realms, it wants to catch the violet, but it catches all the things around it together, and the magic power of the object should not be used like this at all. The true ability of the object, the divine sense locks on whatever is something, even if it can't be taken away, it will not take other things by mistake, and the monk who truly grasps the ability of the object will not make this kind of mistake."

The old patriarch shook his head, "It's hard to say, after all, they are cultivated by animals, how can they think like people? Back then, you and I were fortunate enough to enter the ranks of cultivation, and it was during the sacrificial ceremony that we were guided by the mountain god, and now that the mountain god is gone, he has only us to guide the clansmen, but we are the guide, I am afraid that it is much worse than the original mountain god." ”

In any case, we must try our best, no one in the clan has done such a thing for a hundred years, and I hope that someone can step into the initial state under the guidance of you and me, and achieve higher things in the future. ...... It's a pity that you and I haven't entered the Six Realms for so many years, and we can't leave a truly complete inheritance, so we can only take one step at a time, and look forward to another fortunate encounter for future generations. ”

The two discussed how to guide their clan into the Initial Realm, something they had never tried before, and it took a long time before they made a decision. Then Ruoshui took out an object from his sleeve and said: "This is the bone of the wing root of that Three Realms demon bird, it obviously has the ability to refine the body, and it is as tough as iron and stone." If you take a closer look, the dog on it has actually left a tooth mark on it! So it seems that the dog we took in at the beginning is not a simple dog, it should also be a kind of demon beast, but after so many years, I haven't seen any changes, and I don't know if it's good or bad. ”

Qingshan saw these tooth marks and asked in surprise, "You treated it today, its dog teeth were not broken, right?"

The aunt replied, "Its teeth are not at all, except that a cut has been made in its shoulder." ”

Qingshan took the wing bone and rubbed it for a long time, then pulled out a knife and lightly scratched it a few times, leaving no traces. He narrowed his eyes and said, "During the day, we were still talking about whether this dog was expected to become a psychic beast. It seems that it is really not an ordinary dog, it has been gifted with supernatural powers, and it is about to open its minds. ”

Shui Gu muttered: "The psychic years of the beast are often very long, and if it is lucky enough, it may even enter the four realms and transform into a human form. But with your and my longevity, I don't know if we can see this day, and I don't know if this dog's fate can wait until this day?"

"Hopefully we can see it, and it can wait. I can see the actions of that guy very clearly during the day, although it is not the opponent of the Three Realms Demon Bird, and it can't even be said to have entered the initial realm, but it has opened the talent and supernatural powers, as long as it is trained well, ordinary wolves, bears, tigers and leopards and other fierce beasts are no longer its opponents. The clansmen can take it with them when they go out hunting, and it is a good guardian beast. ”

"It may not be appropriate to say that it is trained, but it is better to teach it like any other tribe, it does not think of itself as a dog at all. What the people are doing, it will deliberately learn to do, but it must be taught not to cause trouble outside. ”

Qingshan smiled, "Fortunately, this one seems to have a good relationship with Baoyu's little guy, so let Baoyu's guy take him, maybe there will be unexpected gains." ”

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The daily necessities of the barbarian tribes are all processed from local materials, such as hemp silk and kudzu silk as thread and cloth, sewing animal skins into clothes and mattresses, cutting bamboo and wood to make utensils, as well as stone tools, bone tools, pottery tools and metal tools. In that place and in that era, the concepts of "tool" and "instrument" are different, and not everything can be called "instrument". "Vessel" represents preciousness and rarity, and even symbolizes some mysterious power.

Hard stone can be processed into a variety of cutting and chopping tools, while pottery is fired in a special way with special clay. As for metal artifacts, it is difficult for ordinary tribes to obtain, and ordinary people cannot process them at all.

All kinds of metals are made by quenching the essence of earth and minerals, and those monks with high realms can condense the essence of physical properties from the ore and obtain metals with powerful mana and incredible magical powers. Therefore, the utensils of metal casting and forging are called "tools", and they need to be used by magical power to appear.

As far away as the patriarch knew, far away from the mountains, in the vast plains densely populated, in those majestic and prosperous countries, there were masters who taught the people how to build furnaces to smelt metal, and there was no need to borrow the magical power of the monks. But to do so, it requires a huge collection of manpower and material resources, and a larger number of people need to work to support these people, which is unimaginable for the tribes in the wilderness.

In the deep mountains, these scarce metal utensils are very precious things, and their sources are relatively accidental, except for some caravans that specialize in entering the mountains to sell goods, and then they can only rely on luck. Some monks who have advanced cultivation, they can use supernatural spells to directly refine weapons and create various metal utensils, and there are some defective products that they discard, if someone is lucky, it is a good thing to pick up.

As for these metal artifacts in the current ethnic group, a large part of them were given by the mountain gods. Once the mountain god told the tribe the shape and characteristics of various ores, asked the tribe to identify, and then let the tribe meet and bring them back and put them on the altar, the tribesmen worshiped the mountain god with special rituals, and occasionally the mountain god would make many utensils for them with great magical powers.

Of course, the tribal groups in this vicinity are under the jurisdiction of the nearest mountain god, and the largest tribe in the vicinity belongs to the Daming clan, so it is natural that they have obtained the most tools. All the items that can be called "utensils" are treasures in the eyes of the clan, and they will be carefully kept and passed down from generation to generation. And now that the mountain gods are silent and the Daming clan has been destroyed, this source of metal artifacts has also been broken.

In fact, with the current abilities of Qingshan and clear water, they are already monks of the Five Realms, and of course they can do this. However, the spells they practice are not good at this, and it takes a lot of energy to do so, and even half the effort, so they rarely do it in normal times.

However, in the past few years, they have occasionally attacked, and the few weapons used by the clansmen with stainless steel arrowheads and shuttle tips have been damaged from time to time, and the Aoyama patriarch has placed them on the altar to worship and pray to the mountain god as before. These arrows and shuttle tips have indeed been repaired, and the people still think that it is the mountain god who has appeared, but in fact he is secretly casting spells.