coobybook Chapter 242
Chapter 242
Zhang Hao wondered why the mountain spirits were treating him with such high honors when he was not familiar with them.
Just as he was wondering, the ceremony for the Mountain Demon King's succession began.
"If there is someone in the mountains, covered with lychee and wearing ivy..."
As the song began, roars of beasts also rang out.
A group of lynxes, leopards, and tigers walked onto the stage and lined up on both sides.
Then a woman of average height, barefoot, walked onto the red carpet.
With each step she took, a golden bell on her foot would ring.
The voice was like magic; all the birds and beasts present fell silent and allowed her to do as she pleased.
"Wow, this mountain spirit is so beautiful!"
"She can actually control birds and beasts with a bell; the Mountain Demon King's abilities are real."
"It's just incredible."
……
As Meng Qianzi, who had succeeded as the Mountain Ghost King, passed in front of Zhang Hao, a system notification sounded in his mind.
[Ding! Rare item detected: Beast-Subduing Golden Bell.]
It turns out that the bell on her foot is the Beast-Taming Golden Bell, a rare item, which explains why she can control birds and beasts.
"My Mountain Spirit lineage has been passed down for over 1,800 years. Today is the succession ceremony for my 39th generation Mountain Spirit King. Thank you all for coming to support me."
Next comes the first item of the inauguration ceremony: Please welcome the Mountain Spirit King to ascend the throne!
As the host announced this, Meng Qianzi walked to the center of the stage and sat down on a golden chair carved with the five poisonous creatures, amidst everyone's blessings.
As soon as she sat down, the centipedes, scorpions, snakes, toads, and other creatures on the chair seemed to come alive, wriggling in a dazzling golden light.
"With the ascension to the throne complete, the next step in the inauguration ceremony is the second part: beast control."
Upon hearing about beast control, Meng Qianzi began to perform the beast control technique using the beast-taming golden bell on her feet.
The birds and animals are now controlled by the sound of bells to perform various actions.
When it was almost time, the host's voice rang out again.
"The third part of the ceremony is walking through mountains of knives and seas of fire."
Immediately, someone brought out a staircase made of forty or fifty large machetes and lowered it down from the upper floor.
And then a 20-centimeter-thick layer of fire was created underneath by covering it with red-hot charcoal.
Meng Qianzi stood up from her seat and walked barefoot into the sea of fire.
When her delicate feet stepped onto the red-hot charcoal, her expression remained unchanged.
Through the red flames, Zhang Hao could see that her soles were burned bright red by the intense heat.
This is real; it's not a trick used by magicians.
After walking through a sea of fire three or four meters long, she began to climb the mountain of knives step by step.
The knives used in regular performances are unsharpened, so it's perfectly safe to step on them.
The swords used at the inauguration ceremony were sharpened; each one gleamed coldly, and a single strand of hair falling from the sky could be easily cut in two.
Anyone without real skill wouldn't last a second on that platform.
However, Meng Qianzi stepped on the ground and grabbed the ground without any problems whatsoever.
"Brother Zhang Hao, this woman seems to have some real skills; there's nothing fake about what she's doing."
"The mountain spirit has such a climate in western Hunan. If it were fake, it would be laughed to death."
……
Zhang Hao watched the entire inauguration ceremony very attentively.
He didn't find anything unusual during this process, and most importantly, the mountain spirit didn't have the same stench of a corpse as the water demon.
This means that although they gained special abilities, their bodies were not taken over by the consciousness of others.
If we could find out the reason, we might actually be able to find a way to destroy the god, and also solve Yi Sa's physical problems in the process.
The entire inauguration ceremony lasted for three hours before it ended. Meng Qianzi came over as the guests were leaving.
"Gentlemen, you probably want to ask about the mutation of the water demon, and why our mountain spirits broke free from the control of the person behind them, right?"
She got straight to the point, which saved her a lot of trouble.
“That’s right. We came here from the clues left by our ancestors. We want to understand the reason for the mutation of the water demon and also want to know how to kill the god.”
"Let's tackle the problems one by one. The key to the water demon's mutation lies with the water spirit. The water spirit can transform a person into a perfect water demon, and he is also the mastermind behind it all. As long as we eliminate him, all the problems will be solved."
Of course, the Water Sprite isn't so easy to kill; you have to find its nemesis, the Mountain Gall.
Meng Qianzi's few words contained a great deal of information.
First, she knew that the water demon's mutation was due to the water spirit.
Zhang Hao and his group had seen this thing before in the Ancestral Golden Soup.
At that time, crystal gall and water essence appeared. After Ding Changsheng swallowed the crystal gall, he mutated and reverted to his ancestral form, becoming a giant monster fish.
Those water spirits also have special abilities; Ding Changsheng's dead subordinates were immediately resurrected after touching a water spirit.
Zhang Hao and his group had only known of the existence of this thing, but they did not know what it was made of.
No one expected that the answer they had searched so hard for clues to find would be so easily revealed by the mountain spirit.
In addition, Meng Qianzi also offered a solution.
The mountain gall can subdue the water spirit; as long as you obtain the mountain gall, you can completely eliminate the water spirit.
The water spirit is related to the mutation of the water demon, and the name "mountain gall" is likely related to the mutation of the mountain spirit.
How can we find the mountain gall?
Zhang Hao asked directly.
"The Mountain Gallbladder is in the Ninefold Mountain; even with my strength, I might not be able to get in."
It turned out she knew where the mountain gall was.
Meng Qianzi then explained the situation of the mountain gall in more detail.
Grave robbing is called "daodou" (倒斗), water demon grave robbing is called "kaijintang" (开金汤), and mountain spirits are called "poshan" (破山).
In the jargon of the mountain spirits, the number of mountains is used to express the difficulty; the larger the number, the more difficult it is.
Ninefold Mountain is the most difficult of them all; even the Mountain Demon King wasn't confident he could break through it successfully.
"Uncle, are you confident you can get in?"
Zhang Hao shook his head: "I don't know. I haven't experienced it and don't know what the real difficulty is like, so I'm not sure if I can go in."
Meng Qianzi glanced at Zhang Hao and said meaningfully, "The reason I told you all this is because of you. I have witnessed your methods. You were the one who took away those troublemakers outside in the first place, right? I believe that with your methods, it shouldn't be difficult for you to reach the Ninefold Mountain."
"Oh, in that case, does that mean we can head to Mount Kujū to get the Mountain Gallbladder now?"
Meng Qianzi shook her head and said, "The Mountain Gallbladder is a sacred object of our Mountain Ghosts. To take it out, we must obtain the consent of our nine ancestors. Only in this way can we obtain the map that records the location of the Mountain Gallbladder."
"I can help you get the consent of seven out of the nine ancestors. For the remaining two, you'll have to rely on yourselves. I don't get along with either of them, so it's definitely no use if I go."