Chapter 76: The Heart of the Mountains

  "Are you sure you're not joking with me?"

  Luo Wei glanced at the bookshelves in the center of the magic chamber, then shifted his gaze back to the female ghost Ke Luo Wen.

  "Of course not."

  The female ghost Corvin shook her head and then beckoned towards the bookshelves in the center of the magic chamber.

  As the female ghost Corvin moved, two thread-bound books and three sheepskin scrolls flew up and down in front of Rove like they had grown wings.

  "Everything you want to know is in here."

  After confirming that touching the book wouldn't trigger another attack from the Luminous Ghost, Luo Wei finally reached out to the nearest thread-bound book.

  The text inside the thread-bound book was still not Chinese, but Luo Wei unfolded it without any obstacles because the text used in the thread-bound book was Gadon - the mountain people had their own language, but they didn't have a systematic writing system to match.

  After flipping through a few pages of the thread-bound book, Luo Wei discovered that the contents recorded in this thread-bound book were actually very detailed records of the life of Meng Ling Cai Da Shaman.

  So Luo Wei soon discovered that Meng Ling Cai was not a mountain dweller ——

  After a battle of moderate scale, an Amazon warrior named Thessaly discovered a dying infant boy outside the mountains and, with her maternal instincts suddenly kicking in, took him back to her tribe, naming him Monglirchak and raising him as one of their own.

  At the age of ten, Meng Ling Zhe awakened his own Yōu Hún Bào Xuè Mài, and then he became a Rotten Corpse Manipulator at the age of twelve through self-study and reading books from outsiders in the tribe's public warehouse.

  At the age of twenty-five, Mungan Chata became the first male shaman in Amazonian tribal history because he fully matched an ancient prophecy of the Amazon tribe.

  Mong Ling Cha is a competent shaman, and under his leadership, the Amazonian forces have been expanding continuously - dozens of originally powerful mountain tribes have become vassals of the Amazonian tribe, and large areas of mountains that were originally shrouded in dark mist have become new hunting grounds for the Amazonian tribe.

  But the good times did not last long, in the third year after Tristis became the queen of the Amazon tribe with the help of Mong Lichat, the evil lord of Gaton from outside the mountain led countless armed soldiers to invade the Ferroja Mountains.

  The Ferozah Mountains were all lands opened up by the great mountain tribes, including the Amazon tribe, little by little driving back the dark fog.

  No matter how the mountain people's tribes fight each other, it doesn't matter, but no one among the great mountain's descendants can tolerate outsiders jumping out and wantonly occupying their land.

  Just as the old ballad goes: No one can occupy the hunting grounds and homes of mountain people, unless the mountain people... die out!

  The negotiations between Mongleng Cha and the foreign Khat leader ended in failure as expected, but what enraged all Amazon warriors and mountain people was that the despicable Khat leader brutally killed all the Amazon warriors who escorted Mongleng Cha to negotiate!

  Only Meng Lingcai relied on his cunning magic and escaped back to the tribe with a wounded body.

  Then, a war between the mountain people and the despised Gadtonians broke out without any surprise.

  The despicable Gaddians, by means of bribery, induced the stupid and greedy King of the Imdugud Desert to turn against them; they formed a league together to attack the Mountain People's army led by Queen Tisith.

  The mountain people fought bravely, time and again defeating the despicable Gaton people's leader, and after severely punishing the foolish and greedy earth spirit king, forced the earth spirits to turn their spears around and fight together with the mountain people against the Gaton people.

  The coalition of mountain people and earth spirits achieved victory after victory, but they were never able to completely drive out the despicable Gadton lord's forces from the Ferroja Mountains and the Imtdon Wastes.

  Finally, in a great war driven by the insight of Mong Ling, the Amazon warriors, exhausted from the long war, fell into the treacherous plot of that despicable and cowardly leader, suffering a huge defeat with over 1,000 Amazon warriors killed.

  As the treacherous earth spirits betrayed them once again, the remaining mountain warrior could only retreat back to the nurturing Ferroja mountains with a deep sense of resentment and scars all over their bodies, forever losing control over the Immdon wasteland.

  Due to this unprecedented defeat, Muling Zha finally persuaded the tribe to agree to his request, which he had hastily proposed after learning of the invasion of the Yuedon wilderness by the Kadon people - to move the Heart of the Mountains, which was enshrined in the Sacred Valley, and re-hide it deeper in the mountains...

  "Who recorded such detailed information?"

  After flipping through dozens of pages of thread-bound books in one breath, Luo Wei finally couldn't help but ask this question.

  "We ancestral spirits, apart from assisting in the training of qualified Amazon warriors, our most important task is to observe and record the major events and deeds of important people within the tribe."

  The female ghost Corvin replied to Rove's question.

  "What about our ancestors?" Rovi subconsciously glanced in the direction of the bookshelf, then asked again: "Are there other ancestral spirits besides you?"

  "You think the Amazon tribe's ancestors only have me? Ha! You're quite an ignorant fool, you should know - the reason why Amazon warriors are Amazon warriors is because each ancestor can choose a little one and thoroughly merge with their body and soul! Only with the help of the ancestors and constant training will those tender little ones grow into real female warriors, understand?"

  The female ghost Korova said with a slightly disdainful tone, although she didn't mean to be so, it was just her habit.

  Hundreds of years ago, Amazon tribes were a matriarchal society where women dominated men.

  "What is the 'Heart of the Mountains' that Meng Lingchao repeatedly tried to take away in this record?"

  Rovi ignored the female ghost's scornful words and asked directly after nodding.

  In fact, Luo Wei also wanted to ask what "the dark mist-shrouded mountain ridge" meant, but the importance of this question was obviously not as great as Meng Ling's gaze at the heart of the mountains, so it was temporarily thrown aside by Luo Wei.

  "The heart of the mountains is, of course..." The female ghost Corvin originally opened her mouth to answer, but stopped abruptly when the words reached her lips. After a brief pause, she stared into Rovi's eyes and said: "Rovi, Rotting One, you must swear an oath in the name of your revered Rotting Lord that you will absolutely not reveal what the heart of the mountains is to any third party except yourself!"