石母 Mother of Stones
事有机缘刚凑巧，命若蹭蹬总归空。
莫以本事论英雄，且看眼前造化功。
As fate aligns, chance plays its part,
Yet misfortune leaves an empty heart.
Judge not a hero by skill alone,
But by the fortune that they have shown.
昔年，黄风岭曾有两位山神。他们受一位高人相助，得了一颗大妖怪的内丹。
他们分而食之，得了大法力，自此有了人心人形。为报答高人的恩情，他们主动为其塑造山场起来。
山中的土地没能分到这好处，便十分羡慕山神的机缘，得知他们可以任意化生山中的石精，便一直谋划着想夺过来。
但他却不知，化生石精，需要消耗许多灵蕴。山神们一直是从自己的体内，分出灵蕴来，才孕育了出石精们，搬山造石，栽种花草。
土地却每日惹是生非，企图夺他们的道行与修为。这日，山中化生了个巨大的石精，众石精都拜他为先锋。那土地还是不知死活，寻衅滋事。被石先锋又打又砸，直至捶进了土里，还在骂骂咧咧。
咦，为人为事若要往坏处里去，多半无人拦着，但若要往好处去，却总有些人想方设法制造些困境，想拦住你哩。
Long ago in the Yellow Wind Ridge there lived two mountain deities. By the grace of a wise one, they came into possession of a great yaoguai's inner pill.
They split and consumed it, gaining great powers from within. Thenceforth, they bore the shape and heart of humans. In gratitude, they bent their newfound strength to make the mountain's wilds thrive for the wise one.
The Keeper of the mountain, however, received no share of this boon. Envy wormed its way into his heart upon learning that the deities could conjure rock guais at will. He schemed to wrest this power for himself.
Little did he know, their conjurations drained deeply from their own Will. The mountain deities poured out their own power to birth rock guais, who shaped crag and stone, and nurtured green and bloom.
Day by day, the Keeper of the mountain sought to pilfer their practice and cultivation through low deceits. Then came a day when a great rock guai emerged, and the lesser guais bowed to him as their Vanguard. Still, the Keeper, heedless of his peril, provoked strife as he had done before. Blow after blow, the Stone Vanguard rained upon him until he lay pummeled in the dirt. Even then, he did not cease hurling curses.
Alas, those who are bent on wickedness find few obstacles in their path, while those who pursue virtue encounter many hardships, often set by those with ill intentions.
