People were supposed to be the ones coming to him for answers. When had he ever had to suffer this kind of embarrassment?0

“My family’s old manuscripts say…” The moment those words left He Lingchuan’s mouth, Dong Rui rolled his eyes so hard they practically clicked. “…that the Red Peak Mine in the northwest of the Chipa Highland was once occupied by an unknown creature. It ate miners, villagers, and even the patrol guards who went in to deal with it. It could fuse the human mother and the mine together into a nest, resulting in the interior structure resembling a human body!”0

He Lingchuan then pointed at the tendon-like cords hanging around the platform. “Once the human mother lost consciousness, the ravenous devourer used these tendons to connect her to the cave and reshape it.”0

“A nest?” Dong Rui’s brow furrowed even tighter. “And they made it resemble a human body?”0

“The ravenous devourer is also a god’s child or divine child,” Zhu Erniang chimed in, her voice low and eerie. “Among the gods, the Ferry-Crossing Mother isn’t considered powerful, but it can give birth to ghostspawn. The strongest and most savage of them is the ravenous devourer, and those sometimes even exceed their mother’s ability. From the moment it’s born,...0