Only at the Mahayana Stage Does the Reversal System Appear - Chapter 472

Chapter 470 The River God Who Sweeps the World

“Uncle Bear, run! The demons are coming!” Several Deer Tribe girls hurried out of the dungeon. Seeing Li Er still watering the broken tree, they were filled with anxiety.

Li Er chuckled, “The World Tree will protect us.”

The Deer Tribe girls tried to drag Li Er away, but found him as heavy as a block of iron and impossible to pull away. They abandoned him and returned to the city to prepare to fight the Black Tide.

A few kilometers away, a dark mass of demons rushed towards the city: slimes, goblins, skeletons, two-headed wolves… all irrational, low-level demons.

Reasonable demons had no reason to leave the dungeon to attack the three tribes. The old Demon King’s orders were to fight the three tribes in the dungeon, not to attack outside.

Orc soldiers stood in formation on the city walls. The guild summoned adventurers to fight the Black Tide. The Deer Tribe girls nervously gripped their weapons, ready to unleash various spells.

Based on past experience, at least a third of the adventurers who participated in the battle perished in the Black Tide.

“I wonder what happened to the uncle.”

“We can’t even pull him away. He’s gone berserk, obsessed with his sapling!”

Despite this, they remained concerned for the bear uncle’s safety and, from the city wall, gazed toward Li Er’s position.

“When the Black Tide arrives soon, the uncle might be the first to fall…”

They remained silent, understanding their companion’s meaning.

“Look, what’s that!”

they cried out. From Li Er’s position, a beam of light shot skyward, and a giant, emerald green tree towering into the sky appeared before everyone’s eyes.

They couldn’t even see its top.

The World Tree.

This thought crossed everyone’s mind. They had recently treated the story of Li Er watering the tree as a joke, but upon truly seeing the giant tree, they were reminded of the “World Tree” Li Er had spoken of.

The World Tree had nine massive branches, each apex adorned with a mysterious ball of light, as if containing a world of its own. As the leaves

swayed, a tiny vortex generated by one of the balls of light rolled through the leaves, eventually becoming a sweeping hurricane.

Other balls of light also displayed their power. Light, darkness, fire, water, metal… the elemental forces intertwined, surging towards the demonic tide with a hurricane-force force.

The demonic tide, so feared, was like a piece of paper, easily broken by a poke before the might of the World Tree.

The demonic tide vanished, and peace returned to the world.

If the World Tree had not still stood, the orcs would have believed the demonic tide to be a collective hallucination.

“River God… Chaos… The First Tree? Could everything the uncle said be true?” The miraculous event unfolded before their eyes, forcing the deer maidens to believe it.

Seeing the deer maidens gazing at him with admiration, Li Er, who had activated the World Tree Dharmakāya, fell into deep doubt.

The Human Emperor had once promised him that if he followed his instructions, he would surely earn the orcs’ worship, perhaps even enshrining them.

Now the Human Emperor had established himself, and the World Tree had also stood, but he couldn’t leave.

He was the World Tree. To reveal himself, he would have to dismantle the World Tree Dharmakāya, which would have exposed his true identity.

“Could it be that the Human Emperor has tricked me?” After transforming into the World Tree, Li Er couldn’t even move.

A World Tree with legs and running around—how could that be possible?

…

As the River God’s greatest miracle, its appearance made its existence known to everyone.

No faction would ignore the World Tree, which could completely eliminate the Black Tide.

Belief in the River God is growing among the Humans, Orcs, and Elves. Some even spontaneously built churches along the riverbanks to pray for the God’s protection.

Compared to the Seven Gods, the River God is clearly more reliable.

If you believe in the Seven Gods, obtaining any profession or skill depends entirely on luck. If you believe in the River God, you can learn something called “Cultivation of Immortality.”

While progress is slow, it offers a high degree of freedom. Achievements depend on talent, not luck.

Furthermore, cultivation can extend lifespan.

In the Ella world, even a Level 5 adventurer can only live to 100 years old.

Cultivation of Immortality is different. With a minimum age of 130, there’s no upper limit. Who wouldn’t want to cultivate?

Only a few could become adventurers. The vast majority were ordinary people toiling in the fields. They lacked the talent for adventurers and were unable to venture into the dungeon.

Drawing Qi into the body didn’t require innate talent; following the guidance of the River God, reaching the Qi Condensation stage was easy.

Many ordinary people chose to cultivate immortality.

Cultivating immortality also requires a certain state of mind;

those who are impulsive and eager for quick results are not suited to it. This calmed down some adventurers who aspired to make a splash in the dungeon.

Adventurers who battled in the dungeon always carried a bottle filled with river water.

Consuming river water cleared the mind, restored strength, and healed injuries, far surpassing potions with a cooldown period.

Before the appearance of the River God, people relied on the healing skills of priests.

Priests weren’t voluntary, and their fees were high, making them unaffordable. For example, if the black cat girl’s mother had the money to hire a priest, she wouldn’t have ended up on the verge of death.

After the River God appeared, people began to use river water for healing.

The Church bitterly denounced the River God, but was powerless to do anything about it, knowing that he might truly be the deity of the Chaos River, as rumored, appearing before the God of Light.

Even those within the Church secretly formed a River God sect.

After all, the Church believed in “God,” not seven gods; as long as they were gods, the Church would believe.

Previously, the Church hadn’t recognized the doctrinal flaw, believing that since God always referred to seven gods, there was no need to emphasize it.

Now that they knew the loophole, the Church would be in an awkward position should a new god emerge.

The Cardinal repeatedly prayed to the seven gods, hoping for revelation.

Unfortunately, this was useless, and the seven gods were still in a coma.

…

“What kind of trick did you use to cure the disease by drinking river water?” Ruyi Gourd was surprised, thinking that Jiang Li’s method was truly miraculous.

If there were any Mahayana or Jiangli sects, it would definitely offer three incense sticks.

“The Taiyi All-Bing Water Method, I learned it by chance in the Dao Sect’s Sutra Library.”

“You are so powerful, why don’t you help the cultivators in Jiuzhou realize their wishes?”

Jiang Li shook his head gently: “Wishes must be realized by themselves. If I help them realize their wishes, they will only develop the habit of getting something for nothing. If that happens, I will be useless.”

“What I want to do is to reduce the difficulty of cultivation and try to give everyone equal opportunities to practice. For example, I encourage the Spiritual Medicine Sect to develop more simple pill recipes and reduce the price of pills so that ordinary cultivators can afford them and avoid being injured and unable to pay for treatment.”

“For example, I wrote a cultivation manual, hoping to use more easy-to-understand language to let children know how to practice.”

“There are many more things like this. I give the cultivators in Jiuzhou opportunities, not results.”

“This time in the world, you are temporarily serving as the River God. Once you find the Seven Gods, your status as the River God will end.”

(End of this chapter)