I thought that if Ping'an Village caught us, not only would Miao Xiaoxian be punished according to the clan rules, but I would also be unable to escape death.

Unexpectedly, the clan chief told us to leave.

At this moment, both Miao Xiaoxian and I stood still.

"What are you standing there for? Get moving!"

The clan chief took a jade pendant from his waist and tossed it to Miao Xiaoxian: "Keep walking straight ahead. The passage has been opened. The people outside will let you go once they see the token."

Miao Xiaoxian took the jade pendant and handed it to me: "I caused this trouble, so I'll keep it!"

The clan chief roared angrily, "What are you doing here? Are you going to your death?"

Miao Xiaoxian stubbornly replied, "You said it yourself, I have your blood in my veins. If you let me go, people will surely say you're bending the law for personal gain! I led people to the Temple of the Evil God not for myself, but to free others! Now that it's done, I'll bear the consequences alone!"

The clan chief chuckled: "Bending the law for personal gain? Do you think a bunch of dead people would have such thoughts?"

"dead?"

After hearing the clan chief's words, I immediately frowned: "Old man, what do you mean by that?"

The clan chief ignored me and looked at Miao Xiaoxian with a meaningful smile: "In a way, you have succeeded, because from today onwards, the Temple of the Fierce God is gone, and the mission of the village clan for thousands of years can finally come to an end."

After hearing the clan chief's words, Miao Xiaoxian's eyes were full of confusion: "You mean, the village has always had the ability to destroy the Temple of the Ferocious God, right?"

Do you know the story of Yu Gong moving the mountain?

The clan chief smiled at Miao Xiaoxian: "Actually, the main reason why our ancestors suppressed these monsters in the Temple of the Ferocious God is that these monsters are immortal! They were not only exposed to radiation, but also underwent genetic modification."

After listening to the clan chief's words, a question immediately popped into my mind: I never expected that such a reclusive old man would know the term "genetic modification."

On second thought, he realized that Ping'an Village, this cage, only imprisoned the villagers; the information sources of the higher-ups were not controlled, so he quickly felt relieved.

The clan chief looked at the carcasses and monsters fighting below the platform, and then at the huge cave: "Actually, don't I feel the same way you do? I feel that this mountain is a cage that imprisons the future and destiny of the clan! When I was your age, I also hated it."

After hearing the clan leader's words, Miao Xiaoxian's lips moved, but she didn't say anything.

“You’re right. As your grandfather, I haven’t shown you much care. So today, I’ll tell you a story.”

The clan chief took a deep breath: "Some say this story originated in the Xia Dynasty, while others say it began in the Shang Dynasty. As for the specific era, it's no longer important!"

There was once an ancient tribe whose ruler was extremely cruel, causing widespread suffering among the people! After their rule was overthrown, they fled to Mount Tuohu, which is recorded in the Classic of Mountains and Seas. The mountain was home to a special kind of grass called Zhichu, which, when eaten, could prevent people from sleeping. The fleeing people used this plant as their food.

Later, a meteorite fell in the mountain, and a fire burned for several days. The surrounding people were all burned to death, but the refugees survived and discovered that the paper mulberry could resist the radiation of the meteorite, and could also make people sleepless and have superhuman strength!

So they destroyed the entire mountain of paper mulberry trees, took the meteorite back to their driven-out tribe, and wreaked havoc!

Hearing the clan chief's explanation, I finally understood why the people in the murals who came into contact with meteorites were melted, and how someone could put it in a clay sculpture.

The clan chief continued, "Those people not only possess immense strength, but they also seal themselves with paper mulberry and a special kind of soil. This way, those who are irradiated will become strongmen like them, but they cannot live forever. Instead, they will die from exhaustion like madmen."

At that time, ordinary armies were no match for them, so the high priest of the court led his disciples and followers to suppress them! And these people were the ancestors of Ping'an Village!

In order to fight against those monsters, our ancestors ate the fruit of a tree called "Cinnamomum" from Zhongqu Mountain, and defeated the fugitives with the great strength brought by the fruit!

But before our ancestors could even feel relieved, those monsters came back to life! Only then did they realize that these monsters were relentless and determined to fight to the death!

So our ancestors used all their clan's strength to seal those monsters in a large, unfinished tomb, which they named the Temple of the Evil Gods! To prevent those monsters from continuing to wreak havoc on the world, they established a rule that their descendants would guard it for eternity until they could completely destroy it!

However, as time passed and several war-torn dynasties went through, those ancient witchcrafts not only failed to improve, but were gradually lost, leaving only the Golden Body Technique, which is now known as the Human Gu Poison.

The prerequisite for making a human poison is that the corpse must have the blood of the village people flowing through it, because our ancestors once ate the fruit of the elm tree, which changed their genes.

This change is like a harmless genetic disease that can make our bodies stronger and more resistant to the erosion of the Gu worms.

To prevent the monsters from escaping, the villagers, generation after generation, had to find other ways to solve the problem.

They first concealed the news of the Temple of the Evil God, and then began to study mechanical arts. Through generations of effort, they made huge changes to the area around the mountain.

Until the Republican era, thanks to the advent of machinery, the transformation process was greatly accelerated. Although we could not eliminate those monsters, we were able to destroy this mountain.

At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, the Ming army attacked Dadu. At that time, a powerful minister of the Yuan Dynasty learned that the Temple of the Evil God was full of traps and wanted to move the Yuan court to this area and release those monsters to reverse the fate of the world!

When our ancestors heard the news, they used all the resources of their clan to create a flesh-filled gu, intending to seal the entrance to the Temple of the Evil God as soon as the Yuan army arrived!

The Flesh-like Gu resembles moss, but it is hard and reproduces extremely quickly. Once released, it is like a living, multiplying stone.

Before this plan could be implemented, the Yuan Dynasty collapsed! But this crisis also made our ancestors feel uneasy, and they began to set up multiple traps to fill in the evil god's temple!

However, due to the mistake made by the person who set up the witchcraft, the fleshy Gu had already adhered to the cave wall like moss, forming a hard protective shell.

Those flesh-eating gu were cultivated using the blood of the village people. To lure them away, we needed the blood of a villager containing special genes! Reluctantly, this plan had to be shelved! The village people also set up countless traps on the flesh-eating gu! But it was from that moment that we fell into a vicious cycle.