In ancient times, they secretly became gods in the deep mountains.

Chapter 99 Grandma, I saw a fairy!
Li Xiuhe sat on the ground, crying helplessly.

She looked around, a look of fear on her face.

The surroundings were deathly silent, without even the chirping of insects or birds. The trees overhead cast a dark, damp, and cold shadow, and the air reeked of decay.

Li Xiuhe felt uneasy and fearful.

Looking back on my short life, it seems both pitiful and laughable.

She was not loved by her parents from a young age, and she was always hungry and cold. Her parents and younger brother died in a drought. She was taken to her second uncle's house and worked hard from dawn till dusk. Her life was bleak with no light in sight, but fortunately, her grandmother loved her very much.

After the drought ended, the wild vegetables on the mountain and the water in the river were not clean; drinking them would cause people to grow scales all over their bodies and die.

Grandma is dying of thirst.

There was a Toad Immortal in Hama Ridge. Everyone would exchange the flesh of their relatives for water. My second aunt said that if she offered herself to the Toad Immortal, she could get water to save my grandmother.

So she was sent to Hama Ridge.

The Toad Immortal disliked her for being so thin and small. Although he kept her, he did not give her the water to save her life. She stole the Toad Immortal's water and went down the mountain. She was chased by the tiger sent by the Toad Immortal, which knocked over the water. She also got lost and did not know where she had run off to.

Now, she can't find her way home.

She's going to die here!

"Waaah—" Unable to face death calmly, she could only use crying to cover up her inner panic.

Suddenly, a powerful nine-colored divine light and golden light shone brightly, and at the end of the deep forest, there was a celestial palace that appeared and disappeared.

Li Xiuhe was stunned.

Was it a hallucination she had before she died?

She stood up and stumbled toward the place where the light shone.

Reaching the edge of the deep forest, they suddenly discovered a sacred and magnificent palace nestled on a high mountain ahead.

She looked shocked.

Has she wandered into the territory of a demon?
Looking at the tearful girl in the water mirror, Gu Yuexi asked, "Who are you? Why are you here?"

"A...a monster!" Li Xiuhe covered her mouth and collapsed to the ground. Although she was terrified, her legs felt weak and powerless.

Under a clear blue sky, amidst the stillness of the surroundings, a woman's voice suddenly rang out from the shadows, saying that no one but a demon would appear here.

Li Xiuhe swallowed.

"This lady is not a monster!"

"I am the Golden Saint Goddess, the spirit of the Golden Saint Mountain Range. I have come here to save the people from the drought I have heard of."

"You're not a monster?"

Li Xiuhe, emboldened by some unknown source, heard that she wanted to save the people and secretly believed that she was not a monster.

Teenage girls are innocent and naive.

She didn't have any other thoughts.

She was simply wary and curious.

“You might think of me as a god!” Gu Yuexi replied.

"immortal?"

Li Xiuhe trembled, her lips shaking as she asked, "Are you really a deity?"

"Of course!" Gu Yuexi replied calmly. Although she was not a true immortal yet, it didn't mean she wouldn't be in the future.

"Why are you here? And why are you being chased by a tiger?" Gu Yuexi asked again.

Li Xiuhe was surprised that she even knew this.

Deep down, I believed it to some extent.

She...she...she met a true deity!

"Thump!" She knelt down and kowtowed: "Goddess, please have mercy and save us."

She cried out, “My name is Li Xiuhe, and I’m from Xiahe Town. The people in the town have been suffering for more than three years. For three years, there has been a drought, and for half a year, we have been starving and destitute. During the drought, more than half of the people in the town died. We finally waited for the drought to end, but the water in the river and the plants on the mountain were poisoned and could not be eaten. We haven’t had a full meal for several years!”

"My grandma is dying of thirst!"

"Goddess, please have mercy and save us!" Li Xiuhe's voice was dry and unpleasant, barely better than the squeak of a mouse.

“You haven’t answered my question yet!” Li Xiuhe hurriedly replied, “Your Majesty, you may not know this, but on Toad Ridge, not far from the town, there is an Ink Pool where a Toad Immortal lives. If a person cuts off a piece of their own flesh, they can exchange it for clean water with him.”

"In order to save his grandmother, Xiaomin was given to the Toad Immortal by his aunt. The Toad Immortal disliked Xiaomin for being too thin and weak. Although he kept Xiaomin, he did not give him water to save his grandmother. So Xiaomin stole a jar of water from the Toad Immortal."

"The Toad Immortal discovered me and ordered his tigers to eat me. During my escape, I fell into the water and got lost, ending up here."

The girl kneeling outside was very thin, disheveled, and skin and bones, with only her dark eyes showing remarkable spirit.

Her face was full of longing as she awaited divine intervention.

Gu Yuexi exchanged some steamed buns and water for her and said, "I have some urgent business to attend to right now. I'll come and help you as soon as I've finished what I need to do."

Li Xiuhe knelt on the ground, respectful and devout, when suddenly an inconspicuous cloth bag appeared out of thin air in front of her, the bag bulging inside.

She seemed to smell the aroma of steamed buns.

Upon opening it, I found it indeed contained steamed buns, along with several heavy bamboo tubes.

The bamboo tube was filled with clean water!

"Bang bang bang!" Li Xiuhe kowtowed excitedly: "Your Majesty is so merciful and compassionate, saving us from suffering. We will never forget you!"

She kept kowtowing.

When I looked up, the scene before me had changed dramatically.

The Temple of the Immortals was no more; before us stood the entrance to Xiahe Town.

"I'm back?"

Holding the cloth bag in her hands, Li Xiuhe was in a daze, her heart filled with horror.

She muttered to herself, "Thanks to the Golden Saintess!"

Clutching the food and water in her arms, she hurried home.

Grandma is still waiting for her.

She had a stroke of incredible luck today; she encountered a true deity!

The goddess saved her from her suffering and gave her water and steamed buns, which she wanted to share with her grandmother.

"grandmother!"

Grandma Li was unable to get out of bed while lying in the hospital. When she heard her granddaughter's voice, a glimmer of light flashed in her old eyes. Xiuhe was back!

"Xiuhe!" she called out weakly.

"grandmother!"

When Li Xiuhe returned home, her second uncle's family was not there.

Thankfully, he wasn't there.

The first thing she said when she walked in was, "Grandma, I saw a fairy!"

"Silly child, what nonsense are you talking about?" Grandma Li thought her granddaughter was trying to cheer her up.

Seeing that she didn't believe her, Li Xiuhe became anxious: "Grandma, it's true. She said she came to save us. I think her name is something like Jin Sheng Niangniang. She also gave me steamed buns and water."

She quickly opened the cloth bag.

Grandma Li's expression changed: "Quickly close the door."

Li Xiuhe nodded and closed the door.

These things are incredibly valuable after a drought, and if someone accidentally sees them, it could lead to their death.

"Grandma, these are white steamed buns, and there's also cool water in the bamboo tube," Li Xiuhe said happily.

"Put it away quickly, or it will cause trouble if someone sees it!" Grandma Li said in a panic.

"Grandma, you're sick, please have some water."

Li Xiuhe carefully fed Grandma Li a sip of water.

"Snapped!"

Suddenly, the door was pushed open from the outside.

Her heart skipped a beat, and she immediately hid the water and steamed buns under the bed. Fortunately, neither of them had a particularly strong smell.

Her aunt came in, and she was shocked to see Li Xiuhe.