Chapter 59

The hazy night enveloped the earth, with a bright moon hanging in the sky.

The indistinct moonlight shone down, and in the 29th mountain, various monsters emerged, each with different forms and postures.

Some stood, some lay down, and some tilted their heads...

Regardless of their postures, they were all now within the area where the moonlight could reach.

Absorbing the essence of the moon, at the same moment, countless monsters and demons across the land were doing the same thing.

Inside the Crow Cave, Yang Qifeng and the Great Marsh Mountain God were having a pleasant conversation. At some point, the thin ropes that bound the Great Marsh Mountain God had disappeared.

The two sat on stone chairs, drinking fruit juice, like long-lost brothers.

The Great Marsh Mountain God was extremely accommodating, allowing Yang Qifeng to set a restriction on him, which led to the current scene.

However, Yang Qifeng was not without his own sacrifices; he made a Heavenly Oath to remove the restriction after five hundred years.

After considering it, Yang Qifeng immediately agreed.

Five hundred years later would be around the time when the Great Tribulation of the West was nearly over.

By then, the Great Marsh Mountain God would neither be much of a help nor a threat to Yang Qifeng. If Yang Qifeng wanted to seek revenge, his combat power would need to reach the level of a deity.

If he couldn't become a deity, he wouldn't even have a chance to save his own life after five hundred years, and the matter of the Great Marsh Mountain God would be long forgotten.

There was no conflict of interest between the two. The only dispute, once resolved, quickly brought them together. They had no conflicting interests but shared the same benefits.

To get through the current tribulation, their alliance was inevitable.

Both parties were in agreement, and they quickly aligned, making Heavenly Oaths as if they were free.

Yang Qifeng would help the Great Marsh Mountain God regain his divine position, and in return, the Great Marsh Mountain God would provide the blood of a demon god.

Yes, you read that right, the blood of a demon god.

While the demon god's blood was highly beneficial to monsters, it had little use for deities. Its only use was for forging weapons or refining elixirs, and they could not assimilate it themselves.

The Great Marsh Mountain God, who knew neither how to forge weapons nor refine elixirs, had collected the demon god's blood and stored it, planning to use it as a trade item.

However, he was unfortunately deposed and suppressed before he could implement his plan.

The situation of the Great Marsh Mountain God truly reflected the saying, "One cannot judge a person by their appearance, nor measure the sea with a bushel."

When the Great Marsh Mountain God revealed his background, Yang Qifeng was genuinely surprised.

The Great Marsh Mountain God was not a deity through self-cultivation but was deified after death.

In life, he was just an ordinary person with some martial skills, not yet transcending the mortal realm.

After death, he was fortunate enough to be deified as a third-rank mountain god.

This was because he had followed the right master and was on the winning side.

Watching the Great Marsh Mountain God go to rest, the surprise in Yang Qifeng's eyes was impossible to hide.

The Great Marsh Mountain God had actually participated in the Deification War and was a personal guard of Nangong Shi, a general of the Western Qi.

Do not underestimate Nangong Shi in mythological legends; he was far less prominent than figures like Nezha and Yang Jian.

However, Nangong Shi held a high position in the Western Qi, even higher than Nezha and others. Nezha was merely a vanguard, while Nangong Shi was a distinguished general.

He and Tai Dian, Hong Yao, and San Yisheng were known as the Four Ministers. When King Wen of Zhou went to Chao Ge, he entrusted external affairs to Nangong Shi.

When Bo Yikao went to the capital, he also entrusted military affairs to Nangong Shi.

Hearing the name Nangong Shi, Yang Qifeng was no longer surprised that the Great Marsh Mountain God, after being deified, could secure such a favorable position.

Thirty thousand years ago, during the Deification War, King Wu's campaign against Zhou, as a member of the victorious side, Nangong Shi could not have arranged for his personal guard to become a celestial deity, but a mountain god was still within his power.

As for the demon god's blood, Yang Qifeng had initially doubted its authenticity.

He was suspicious because of the significant difference in their powers. However, if it was obtained during the Deification War, everything made sense.

Although it was somewhat unbelievable for a personal guard of Nangong Shi to obtain the demon god's blood, it was still within the realm of possibility.

Normally, one would need to defeat a demon god to obtain its blood, but the Deification War, a significant battle marking the end of the ancient era, was incredibly brutal.

It was not unheard of for demon gods to be injured or even killed.

The Great Marsh Mountain God could have taken advantage of the situation.

Yang Qifeng's gaze returned to calm, and the shock over the Great Marsh Mountain God's background from the Deification War had subsided.

While the Deification War was of great interest to Yang Qifeng, the Great Marsh Mountain God's position was not high enough to access any secrets.

Moreover, the remaining benefits from the Deification War were not for Yang Qifeng to obtain.

Those who participated in the Deification War, such as Nezha and the Pagoda-Bearing Heavenly King, had already divided the benefits.

However, what concerned Yang Qifeng was how the Great Marsh Mountain God, with his connection to Nangong Shi and his background, could have been deposed and suppressed for ten thousand years.

The Purple Emperor, second only to the Jade Emperor in power, was his greatest support. Logically, his background should have been the foundation of the Purple Emperor's power. Who would dare to touch him?

Yet, he was deposed and suppressed for ten thousand years. After some thought, Yang Qifeng decided to stop investigating further.

The matter was too complex, involving the Purple Emperor, and it was not something a small demon like him, who had not yet reached the level of a deity, could meddle with.

Thinking too much about it would only bring unnecessary trouble.

What Yang Qifeng needed to do now was to cultivate and master the second of the Six Secrets of the Golden Crow.

The Six Secrets of the Golden Crow is a collective name for six mystical arts.

One of them, the Rainbow Transformation Technique, which Yang Qifeng had already cultivated, requires the body of a Golden Crow to achieve full mastery and unleash its full power.

As for the remaining five, Yang Qifeng had not cultivated them because his cultivation level was not high enough. In the ancient era, a Golden Crow was born with the power of a deity.

Yang Qifeng, who currently only had a demon core, was still too early to cultivate the other five secrets.

Yang Qifeng had always relied on his physical strength and was not in a hurry, but after the battle with the Great Marsh Mountain God, he realized that he was extremely weak when facing opponents of the same level. This meant that while he could bully weaker opponents like the Poison Snake Commander, he was no match for stronger ones, a typical case of bullying the weak and fearing the strong.

Originally, Yang Qifeng was focusing on the study of forging, but he switched to the study of combat techniques and mystical arts.

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