Illustration of Mountains and Seas: the Taotie Oath

The earth's veins have dried up, and the wilderness is thousands of miles bare. The strange beasts in the mountains had no way of survival, and they rushed out of the mountains in groups. The tribes along the way were completely empty. The day Jiang Wu took over the jade staff from the Jiang family was the critical moment of life and death for the tribe. Outside, the Lieshan clan invaded to grab water. Inside, the food was exhausted, the springs dried up, ferocious beasts were watching in the northern mountains, and vultures came out to eat people at night. The tide of beasts got tighter day by day, and the walls of the village were shaky and might collapse at any time. The tribesmen only worship the mountains to pray for the gods, and place their livelihood on the mountain gods. There was only one thing in his hand - an ancient relic, a fragment of the Mountain and Sea Atlas. This thing can find water veins, drive away strange beasts, and bring out a glimmer of life from dead earth veins. But every time it is used, one point of the soul is bitten away. Over time, it accumulates until it is beyond redemption. Under the fragments, there is also a forbidden technique that has been passed down for thousands of years, called "feeding the spirit with one's body". Sacrifice your own flesh and blood and soul, and in exchange for the resurrection of the mountains and rivers, you will have good weather for ten years. The price is to never be a human again - the animal nature devours the heart, turns into a gluttonous and vicious beast, and will never be reincarnated. If you abide by the ancestral precepts, the entire clan will be destroyed before your eyes. Breaking the taboo, he transformed into a ferocious beast and ceased to be a human being. When the last sight of the spring water completely dried up, when the tide of beasts hit the wall and began to tremble, Jiang Wu raised the cold bronze fragment. He takes the road that no one dares to take. He bears the sin that no one dares to bear. Even if you become a glutton and fall into the realm of beasts, you must guard this side of the human world for eternity.