Feng Ruoxing continued, "After the coroner left, a young man who had gone into the mountains with the older generation secretly pried open the corpse's mouth and saw that the person's tongue was gone."

"When the coroner was there, not a drop of blood came out of the corpse's mouth. Only when someone pried open the dead man's mouth did black blood gush out. At that moment, the dead man's pupils shrank to pinpoints, and his head tilted, staring at the person next to him. That person had also cursed the Mountain God."

"That night, the person who had been stared at by the corpse also died. It was said that he bit off his own tongue while eating. The tongue fell directly into his rice bowl."

Ye Yang said calmly, "How many people died in total?"

"Four people died!" Feng Ruoxing said, "According to legend, these four people suffered misfortune because they were disrespectful to the Mountain God. The last person who died in the Mountain God Temple even brought a gun with him."

"That night, the people outside clearly heard gunshots from inside the Mountain God Temple. When they rushed in to see what had happened, they saw that person standing in the courtyard of the Mountain God Temple, with his hands behind his back, shooing them away."

"The people outside thought that the person's gun had gone off accidentally, so they retreated. No one expected that the next day, they would see a corpse with a bullet hole through its head."

"The coroner's conclusion was still accidental discharge, because the shot had gone through the dead man's head diagonally from his chin upwards…"

"The coroner's analysis was very logical, but the people present were almost scared out of their wits. Because they had only heard one gunshot, and the dead man was only missing one bullet. The one who chased them out of the courtyard that night was a dead man."

"From then on, no one dared to mention demolishing the Jinshan Temple."

"Although the Jinshan Temple was rumored to be incredibly mystical, there were still people who were not afraid to go and find out what was going on. Anyone who went to the Jinshan Temple, as long as they stepped through the temple gate, would become unable to speak. Only after kowtowing to the Mountain God and leaving the temple would they recover."

"The Jinshan Temple has thus become a taboo."

Ye Yang asked in return, "Which god is enshrined in the Jinshan Temple?"

"I don't know!" Feng Ruoxing shook his head and said, "Zhao Ci doesn't have any definite information either."

Ye Yang said to himself, "If Ben Gou were here, it might be better." (Ben Gou – literally "Stupid Dog," likely a nickname)

I grew up in the Northeast and knew more about the things there. Although Ye Yang had some connection with Bei Yiye, their main focuses were different. He was better at cracking ancient tombs, rather than fighting wild gods.

Jinshan Temple. If it was a Mountain God Temple that the lumberyard workers had to worship when they entered the mountains, the ghosts and gods inside must be extraordinary.

Besides bandits, there were only three types of people who went into the mountains in the Northeast: medicinal herb and ginseng gatherers; hunters who hunted for furs; and lumberjacks.

Lumberjacks had to worship the Mountain God before entering the mountains. Most lumberyards were located in deep forests, and were fixed in a certain place. After entering, apart from the dangers encountered during logging and guarding against wild animals in the mountains, they also had to see if the Mountain God would give them a way to survive.

There were strategists among the bandits, and there were already sorcerers among the medicinal herb gatherers and hunters. Only the lumberjacks had no such traditions. Whether they could walk out of the mountains depended on whether the Mountain God they worshiped was effective. Therefore, the ritual of lumberjacks worshiping the gods before entering the mountains was extremely solemn.

However, most Mountain God Temples in the Northeast did not have statues of gods. Many Mountain God Temples only had a spirit tablet that said "Mountain God."

Because, in most cases, the lumberjacks themselves did not know the name of the Mountain God they worshiped. They would not worship the ancient Mountain Gods whose names had been passed down through scriptures. First, the ancient Mountain Gods could not be invited, and second, the lumberjacks of the past were not well-educated and could not call out the names of the ancient Mountain Gods.

However, they knew that there was a god for every mountain, and that building a temple would definitely attract a Mountain God to enjoy the incense offerings. If the Mountain God was effective, the Mountain God Temple would naturally be expanded.

Therefore, the more effective the Mountain God Temple, the larger its scale, and the more powerful the gods who received the incense offerings would become.

Ye Yang didn't understand the rules of the mountains. He just instinctively felt that the Mountain God Temple was extraordinary.

Ye Yang drove the car all the way to where there was no road, and then went up the mountain according to the map sent by Zhao Ci.

With Ye Yang and Feng Ruoxing's foot strength and skill, even cliffs and precipices were like flat ground to them. Chen Xiaobao couldn't keep up after only walking a short distance, so Ye Yang and Feng Ruoxing had to take turns pulling him up the mountain.

Before long, Ye Yang saw the woods marked by Zhao Ci.

Directly in front of the forest should have been two towering trees. According to local legend, the two trees were the left and right door gods of the Mountain God Temple. After passing the trees, you could see the Jinshan Temple.

Ye Yang stopped about twenty meters away from the two locust trees that were about the same thickness and height: "This is the Double Ghosts Guarding the Gate Formation."

Feng Ruoxing exclaimed, "You said there's a Feng Shui formation here? Why didn't I see it?"

Ye Yang said, "The Feng Shui formation you learned is for the living. The Feng Shui here is for the dead. It's also called an Yin Formation."

Ye Yang didn't explain what an Yin Formation was. Feng Ruoxing later learned that there was a very special branch of Feng Shui masters who only took on business from the dead, arranging Feng Shui for the dead. That kind of Feng Shui formation went against the way of the Yang Jian (human world), and the Feng Shui formation they arranged was more conducive to the cultivation of the dead. It could also help them target the living, or cause trouble for sorcerers.