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The children who had been spanked were so focused on the pain in their bottoms that they momentarily forgot what they had just witnessed.
Parents pulled their children away from the river, and only after the chaos had settled did someone suddenly burst into an excited scream.
"Mom! We... we saw the Mountain God!!"
The boy, bare-chested and animated, pointed excitedly toward the river.
"Mom! Right there, I just saw the Mountain God, it was huge, just like in the stories, all majestic and white, it even saved Ayu and Brother Li Zi!"
The little boy's mom immediately slapped him on the back.
"Nonsense! Have you lost your mind?"
Seeing his mother didn't believe him, the boy became frantic, "Mom, I'm not lying to you, if you don't believe me, ask them, everyone saw it. Ayu was drowning, Brother Li Zi tried to rescue him, and then the Mountain God came out of the river and pushed them to the shore, it was so big, I couldn't have mistaken it."