"It can't escape your eyes?" Yan Che asked curiously. "Could it be that you, Great Shaman, can sense it?"
The Great Shaman smiled slowly. “Our Eighteen Villages have only had one Great Shaman in each generation since ancient times. That is because the Great Shaman holds the method to communicate with the divine beings. The Sacred Cave of Wuyun Mountain is actually a prison for deities who have made mistakes. It is our Great Shaman’s duty to guard and suppress the magic array.”
When the great shaman got to this point, Yue Qi, who had been watching from the sidelines, finally understood. It seemed that the so-called divine object they were talking about must be a special magical artifact used to suppress the cave god in the sacred cave.
"What exactly is this divine object that the great shaman spoke of?"
Yue Qi's question echoed Yan Che's thoughts, and the two of them turned to look at the Great Shaman.
Although the high shaman was blind, he accurately detected their gazes. He waved his hand and smiled.
"The divine object was created by the guardian deity of the Nine Netherworlds—the Eight Heavenly Dragons Yaksha King. Its essence is the Asura Netherworld Token, which consists of eighteen pieces. This object can communicate between life and death, and the user can use it to escape the cycle of reincarnation, thereby achieving a kind of immortality."
The great shaman pulled out a piece of parchment from his robes, which looked exactly like the parchment with the rules written on it in the world of strange tales about rules.
Yue Qi's pupils contracted slightly as the great shaman accurately handed him the parchment.
The parchment felt exactly like the copy of the rules parchment, and he was almost convinced that these were new rules introduced in the copy.
Upon opening it, however, it turned out to be an introduction to the Asura Netherworld Token.
"Asura Netherworld Decree:"
One of the personal magical artifacts of the Eight Heavenly Dragons and Yakshas King of Buddhism, it was forged from his own bones before he attained enlightenment. It is about an inch in size, completely black, and feels neither like wood nor jade. There are two sets, mother and mother.
The Mother's Decree consists of thirty-six tokens, belonging to the Eight Heavenly Yaksha Kings. Holding it allows one to communicate with the living and the dead, and reverse life and death. The Son's Decree consists of eighteen tokens, their whereabouts unknown. Holding it allows one to deceive the six realms of reincarnation and escape death.
Below the description was an image of the Asura Netherworld Token, which looked dull and gray, like any ordinary small black wooden plaque. There was nothing particularly special about it.
"So, have you seen this before?"
As soon as Yue Qi handed the parchment to Yan Che, the Great Shaman began questioning him. He seemed certain that Yue Qi had seen this object before.
But Yue Qi knew very well that this thing had never appeared in his memory. Yet, for some inexplicable reason, he felt that it was very familiar.
He couldn't explain this strange feeling himself.
"I don't know," was the only answer he could give.
The high shaman once again revealed an extremely mysterious smile, and he even took the initiative to comfort Yue Qi.
“Young man, don’t be in a hurry. Some things, you will know naturally when the time comes. — By the way, I heard that you are going back to Cangyun Mountain. I do have some things here that should be useful to you.”
The great shaman slowly walked into the house, searched for a long time, and then slowly came out with a dark object in his hand.
“This item does not belong to our village. It was left here by an outsider like you when he escaped from Cangyun Mountain.”
The great shaman sighed, "Unfortunately, that person was already seriously injured when she escaped and died soon after. This parchment is the last thing she left behind. She said that if anyone escapes from Cangyun Mountain, this should be given to him."
A piece of dark parchment was handed to Yue Qi once again. This parchment looked completely different from the ones he had ever seen. It looked as if it had just been pulled out of the ashes of a furnace, and it was very old and worn.
Yue Qi examined the parchment over and over for a long time, almost tearing it to shreds, but still couldn't find a single word on it.
“This—Great Shaman, if I may be so bold, didn’t that person say anything else at the end?” Yue Qi was somewhat perplexed. “There isn’t a single word on it!”
The shaman shook his head. "The old man has been blind for many years, and I have preserved this item exactly as it was. As for the dying words you mentioned, they are indeed gone."
"When that girl escaped, she was almost on her deathbed. After she managed to say those few words, she passed away. So, I can't answer your question."
The shaman's expression turned somber again. "The only thing I can do to help you now is to tell you the truth about the Holy Cave."
It turns out that on that joyous day more than a hundred years ago, after the woman from Luohua Cave fled because of a man who suddenly arrived, something happened afterward that no one knows what happened, but in the end she was still captured and brought back.
Finally, the two were thrown into the sacred cave. Their fate remains unknown to them.
All that is known is that half a day later, all the villagers had safely retreated down the mountain for a long time, but none of the shamans and elders who attended the wedding returned.
The villagers waited and waited, but the elders did not come down the mountain until dark. They became anxious and someone suggested going up the mountain to search for them.
However, this place is deep in the mountains, a paradise for wild animals at night. For thousands of years, they have been nocturnal, so going up the mountain at night is absolutely forbidden.
In the end, everyone made a quick discussion and decided to go up the mountain early the next morning to take a look.
However, that very night, something unexpected happened.
"It was probably while everyone was fast asleep when suddenly a violent tremor shook the sky. Everyone thought it was an earthquake, so they rushed out. But, incredibly, the village didn't suffer any damage whatsoever—"
The great shaman recalled what the old people had said, "I didn't see that scene with my own eyes. But many people saw it. Wuyun Mountain, which was originally hanging on the top of Cangyun Mountain, actually fell vertically down."
"Although it was already midnight, the sky in the distance was as bright as day. Wuyun Mountain, along with the Holy Cave, just fell from the top of the mountain, and no one knows where it fell to."
"The earthquakes continued throughout the night, but the affected area seemed unusually small. The eighteen villages at the foot of Cangyun Mountain are so close; in theory, such a large tremor should have leveled them to the ground long ago. But even after the shaking stopped, the villages remained perfectly safe, and not even the houses were damaged in the slightest—this was truly miraculous."
Even now, the great shaman still finds it incredible, as this event is indeed difficult to explain using normal scientific knowledge.
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