"Him?" Zuan was taken aback. "Who is he? Male or female?"

I don't know why, but when Mi Li mentions someone else in such a sighing tone, it's understandable if it's a woman, but it always makes people feel a little uncomfortable.

Huh, why do I have this mindset?

Mi Li had no idea what he was thinking, otherwise she probably would have already given him a good beating: "Have you ever heard of Xu Fu?"

"Is he Xu Fu, the one who led three thousand boys and girls into the sea to find the elixir of immortality for Qin Shi Huang?" Zu An smiled. "It's hard not to have heard of him."

“Yes, it’s him,” Mi Li said, looking at the two lines of text beside the door. “These two lines are about Xu Fu. Actually, I had a guess when I saw the exterior of this temple before, and now it has been completely confirmed.”

"After Qin Shi Huang unified the world, he had no rivals left. He was extremely ambitious and boasted that his achievements surpassed those of the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors. Naturally, he was unwilling to end up like the previous emperors and turn into a handful of dust. So he began to pursue the way to immortality."

"When the news spread, it attracted countless sorcerers from all over the world. Among them, Lu Sheng, Han Zhong, Xu Fu, and Hou Sheng were the most famous. Of course, Xu Fu was the most famous."

In the 28th year of Qin Shi Huang's reign, Xu Fu submitted a memorial stating that there were three immortal mountains in the sea—Penglai, Fangzhang, and Yingzhou—inhabited by immortals. Qin Shi Huang then dispatched Xu Fu with several thousand young boys and girls, along with three years' worth of provisions, clothing, medicine, and farming tools, to seek these immortals at sea, incurring enormous costs. However, Xu Fu and his followers sailed for several years without finding the immortal mountains. In the 37th year of Qin Shi Huang's reign, Qin Shi Huang toured eastward to Langya. Xu Fu claimed that he had encountered a giant, monstrous fish that blocked his path, preventing him from continuing his voyage, and requested that more skilled warriors be sent to deal with the fish. Qin Shi Huang agreed and dispatched experts from the palace to kill the monstrous fish.

Mi Li paused here, looked at the temple in front of her, and said, "If I'm not mistaken, this temple was built using the skeleton of that strange fish."

Zuan was immediately taken aback: "Such a huge temple is actually made of a fish? How big must that fish be?"

Mi Li rolled her eyes: "Do you think an ordinary big fish could have made Ying Zheng believe that Xu Fu was blocked by this for so many years and mobilized all his experts to kill him? If you really think about it, that strange fish's strength is roughly equivalent to a grandmaster in your world."

"Grandmaster..." Zu An couldn't help but swallow hard. A giant, strange fish with the strength of a Grandmaster was clearly the overlord of a sea area. Who did it offend? This is an unexpected disaster.

"After all, it hindered Ying Zheng's path to immortality. The corpse of that strange fish was brought back, and Ying Zheng even went to see it in person. However, there are no further records of it. I never expected that he would put the fish bones here."

"And then what happened? Did Xu Fu find the elixir of immortality?" Zu'an couldn't help but ask. Although he was quite familiar with the relevant stories, the history of this timeline was not the history he knew. It was more like a mythical version of the Qin Dynasty, so he was not sure if the subsequent developments were the same as what he remembered.

"After killing that powerful monster fish, Xu Fu led his people out to sea again, but I don't know what happened after that, since I was sealed away not long after." Mi Li smiled self-deprecatingly, "But I suppose he didn't find the elixir of immortality, otherwise how could Qin have perished?"

Zu An frowned slightly: "That's not right. You just mentioned that Xu Fu submitted a memorial in the 28th year of Qin Shi Huang's reign, and that this powerful monster fish was killed in the 37th year. You know all these things. At that time, Qin Shi Huang had been on the throne for 37 years, which means he was at least in his fifties. And you were Ying Zheng's empress... Hmm, how old were you at that time?"

He remembered the moment he first broke Mi Li's seal. She looked like a young girl. Although cultivators often had the skill to preserve their youth, there was no trace of time on her face. It was really hard to associate her with words like "old woman".

Mi Li snorted: "Asking about a woman's age is not a polite thing to do."

Zuan chuckled awkwardly, "The main thing is that we're so familiar with each other, what can't we say?"

"I'm not his first wife..." Mi Li explained, then became a little impatient. "Whether I was eighteen or eighty back then, I'm eight thousand eight hundred and eighty now, more than enough to be your great-grandmother, hmph!"

Zuan: "..."

"A woman three years older than her husband is like holding a gold brick," and "A woman eight thousand eight hundred and eighty years older than her husband, what should we say about that?"

He could only keep comforting himself, reminding himself that matters of the cultivation world couldn't be judged by old notions of age. Were the fairies in mythology really tens of thousands of years old? Hmm, by that logic, Mi Li was still young.

Just then, Bi Linglong's voice came from beside him: "Azu, what are you talking to yourself about?"

Zuan snapped out of his daze: "N-nothing...it's nothing."

The speed of communication on a spiritual level is quite fast. Although so many words were spoken to Mi Li in his mind, in the real world, not much time had passed for others.

"Come and see, what are these statues?" At this moment, Bi Linglong pointed to the two rows of dark statues in front of her, her voice trembling slightly. This place was eerie.

Because the temple was too dimly lit, Zuan used his Flame Blade to ignite some torches and candlesticks nearby. He was surprised that they could still burn after so long.

Soon the temple was filled with light, and the two were able to see the situation inside.

There are a total of eight sculptures on the left and right sides, each with either a pointed snout and a monkey-like face, or a ferocious and menacing appearance.

"It seems like there are a lot of evil gods worshipped here." Bi Linglong felt a chill run down her spine and subconsciously moved closer to Zu An. Neither the temple's appearance, nor the various encounters she had just experienced, nor the ferocious appearance of these statues made her associate anything benevolent with it.

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