Chapter 85 (1/2)

Chapter 85

Chapter 85 Forest Divinity

“I should be the one to tell you about this . ”

Xiao Hua looked at Long Chen and then glanced at her grandpa .

“Xiao Hua…” The old man frowned .

“Grandpa, Long Chen is my man . He will also be one of our villager’s people in the future . He has the right to know about this . ”

The old man argued no more . The others all quickly drank their thin porridge and returned to their homes, leaving only the three of them .

“That Magical Beast was offered as a sacrifice,” explained Xiao Hua to Long Chen .

“Offered as a sacrifice?” That was the first time Long Chen had heard of such a thing .

“Ye . Your wounds were too severe and you were on the verge of death . We had no other method but to send you to the forest divinity . The forest divinity healed you, but the price was that we had to offer the Magical Beast as a sacrifice . That’s also why you were able to completely recover in just a short three days . ”

Did this world really hold divinities? That completely toppled his understanding .

“Not only that, but because your injuries were so severe, our village also had to offer all the meat we had had stored away . And even so, we still owed the forest divinity more . We’ll have to pay back our debt slowly through hunting . ”

Only then did Long Chen understand why the entire village only had some thin porridge to eat .

The young men definitely required meat in order to get stronger . But for him, they could only go hungry . He couldn’t help feeling bad about this .

“Long Chen, I’m explaining this to you not so that you feel guilty . But you’re also a member of the village now, so I thought you had the right to know this . ” Xiao Hua quietly explained this all .

But that only made him feel even more ashamed . This kind of trust made him feel incomparably warm, especially since he was used to the cruel schemes inside the royal capital .

“Can you tell me about this forest divinity?”

Xiao Hua looked at her grandpa, and only after he nodded did she tell him a true story that was practically mythic .

Not long after this village had been first built, one of their ancestors found an extremely mystical tree . That ancestor was once wounded by a Magical Beast and almost died . He had managed to flee to in front of that large tree .

The tree dripped a drop of liquid onto him and their ancestor’s heavy wounds completely healed in just half a day .

In order to thank the large tree, they hunted a wild beast and placed it as a sacrifice in front of the large tree . Then they saw that that huge tree actually swallowed away that dead beast in the blink of an eye .

Every since then, whenever someone was injured, the villagers would all run over to the tree to be treated, and every time the tree would completely restore them .

In order to display their reverence and respect for tree, they had begun to call it the forest divinity . Not long after they began to offer sacrifices to the tree, it actually began to communicate with them and established an agreement with them .

It could heal the villagers’ wounds, but they would need to offer sacrifice to it in reciprocation . As for the amount of the sacrifice, it would depend on how heavy the wounds were .

This was just like a doctor asking for payment . But in all these years, the forest divinity had never asked for that much as a reward .

They hadn’t ever needed to offer it that much . But now, Long Chen was an exception . The forest divinity had demanded a shocking price to save Long Chen .

“What did it want?” asked Long Chen .

Xiao Hua looked at Long Chen and ground her teeth . “Ten first rank Magical Beast and one second rank Magical Beast . ”

Long Chen was shocked . A single first rank Magical Beast already required Xiao Hua’s entire village to prepare for a long time and still posed an extremely great danger .

As for a second rank Magical Beast, that would require several Blood Condensation experts to join hands in order to kill . To the villagers, that was something completely impossible . That so-called forest divinity’s price was far too great .

Looking at Long Chen’s indignant expression, Xiao Hua hastily said, “Long Chen, you definitely can’t feel any resentment towards the forest divinity; the forest divinity has always been extremely fair over all these years . No matter how heavily injured we were, it never required such a high price . There’s definitely a reason for it to demand for so much this time . Plus, now you’re healed . You can help us and I trust that we’ll be able to quickly repay our debt . Even if it was ten second rank Magical Beasts, we still would have accepted . We couldn’t just silently watch you die…”

At the end, Xiao Hua began to sob . She fell into Long Chen’s chest . Her grandpa sighed, “Long Chen, the forest divinity is absolutely fair . For it require such a price, there is definitely a reason . Don’t get angry . ”

“I want to go see the forest divinity . ” Long Chen wanted to figure out just what this forest divinity was .

As for the price that it had demanded, Long Chen wasn’t worried at all . Now that he had recovered, first rank Magical Beasts could be killed in an instant . As for a second rank Magical Beast, as long as he wasn’t careless, that was also something he could bring down .

A second rank Magical Beast was equivalent to a human Blood Condensation expert, however, due to how tough a Magical Beast’s physical body was, humans on equivalent levels were not a match for Magical Beasts .

But who was Long Chen? Below the Muscle Rebirth realm, he had no fear for the Blood Condensation realm . He didn’t like to have to owe anything . If he confirmed that this forest divinity wasn’t some fake swindler, he wanted to pay it back as fast as possible . He also wondered to know just what this divinity was .

Xiao Hua’s grandpa acquiesced and so Long Chen followed Xiao Hua out of the village on a mountain path .

Xiao Hua was clearly very familiar with this area . With a bow and quiver on her back, she would occasionally pause to listen to the surroundings .

She would also occasionally go bring Long Chen to check some of the surroundings traps and snares they had set up to see if they had captured some wild beasts .