Chapter 431: The Grandmaster Just Wants to Go Home
"We have invited all the Taoist priests from the orthodox Taoist temples to come down the mountain. They may be able to solve the mystery of this stone statue."
"Everyone, take a good rest first. I will tell you the news as soon as possible. When the Taoist priest comes, I will let you be present."
"Although you are from a parallel universe, we are a family after all, and we will not refuse to help you."
To give them some time to think calmly, Xie Yuanxiang left the ward.
Three days later, all the heads of orthodox Taoist temples gathered together.
Several people passed the statue and the stone to each other for observation.
Taoist Priest Huang Ming: "This is indeed the head of our Taoist founder. This stone should be the part below the pedestal of the founder."
"But it's very strange. There is only a little bit of aura fluctuation on the stone statue. If you don't look closely, you can't feel it at all. It gives people the feeling that it is a very ancient and old stone, with traces of long-term worship."
"I can't really say whether the arrival of these people was caused by the statue of our ancestor."
"And I can't understand why the Grandmaster brought them here from other time and space."
Yuan Ren: "Don't you Taoists have the kind of magic that allows you to ask your ancestors for advice?"
Several people smiled bitterly. One of the Taoist priests looked at Xie Yuanxiang, who had the highest status here, and replied, "Yes, but this magic has been lost due to the war, and no one can invite the ancestor now."
Several professors and special forces were originally full of hope, but now they felt extremely disappointed after hearing these words. This period of time was enough for them to understand the history of Xia Country.
History took a turn, and the history here was turbulent for a long period of time. A lot of important information was destroyed in that turmoil.
But it is also strange that their technological development suddenly took a major turn more than a decade ago and began to advance by leaps and bounds.
The technology that they have in Long Country is also available here.
Could these changes be caused by the stone next to the statue?
Several people looked at the stone thoughtfully.
There was no result, so the short meeting had to end. Several Taoist priests pestered Xie Yuanxiang, trying to get him to agree to let them take the statues and stones back for worship.
Xie Yuanxiang dealt with these people in a few words, hurried back to the base, and said to Su Zi with a tired look:
"Those people in the Taoist temple don't have any clue either."
Su Zi poured a cup of hot tea for Xie Yuanxiang, "Uncle Xie, I suddenly remembered something very important. My hand seemed to be injured at that time, and my blood was also on the stone."
"Was there blood on the statue when you brought it back?"
Xie Yuanxiang frowned, "Of course there is, half of the statue is covered in blood."
"I'll try dropping some blood now." Xie Yuanxiang was about to do it as soon as he thought about it.
Su Zi held him back, "Maybe dripping blood later may not be useful. What we need to do now is to find other parts of the ancestor."
"I have been thinking these days, why did the Grandmaster bring them here?"
"Until just now, I suddenly had a bold idea."
"What?" Xie Yuanxiang's heart was beating fast. He intuitively felt that Su Zi's assumption might be the reason why this happened.
"I guess... Grandmaster wants to go home."
During that dark period, wars broke out, artillery fire raged everywhere, and the invaders burned, killed, looted, and committed all kinds of atrocities.
It is very likely that the invaders broke into the Taoist temple, and some ignorant fools thought that the stone statue of the ancestor that was highly enshrined was special, so they took the statue away. In the process of taking it away, the statue may have been damaged and torn into pieces.
The broken stone statue was scattered as time passed.
Su Zi felt that there was no need to overthink the ancestor's purpose. Maybe he just wanted to go home and return to his roots.
"According to our style of doing things, we would rather die in glory than live in disgrace. This ancestor may have destroyed his own body."
"But this is just an idea of mine. My suggestion is to find the other missing parts first."
Xie Yuanxiang walked around the office, and the more he thought about it, the more he felt that Su Zi's idea was likely the truth. "Your idea makes sense. Often the more absurd and impossible something is, the more likely it is to be the truth."
"We can't go looking for them in a big way, so we can only ask the Taoist temple to come forward. I will notify them now."
Su Zi had asked the original owner to go to Longguo and check the place where several people disappeared. There was no stone statue there. He also asked Commander Leng indirectly, and they did not find anything strange there while looking for people.
When everyone was skeptical about the claim that the stone statue could carry people through time and space, she had already determined that this matter must be related to the stone statue.
Every time the original owner was reborn, she could see her life trajectory, so it is possible that this stone statue was related.
Several Taoist masters also agreed with this view. Each Taoist temple had its own account, which was used to publish a lost and found notice. The official then promoted it, and with a generous reward, the lost arm of the stone statue was actually found.
After finding one of the parts, the first thing everyone did was to test whether the time travel was caused by the stone statue.
Put the seven people from Dragon Country at the positions where they came from, and then the seven people take turns dripping their blood on the broken arm of the stone statue.
Several sect leaders who wanted to observe closely were isolated.
Xie Yuanxiang was worried that the stone statue would take the innocent people around it to another time and space.
Everyone can only see the situation in the dense forest through aerial drones.
Everyone was sitting in the conference room, staring at the big screen without blinking. They saw seven people standing in a circle, cutting their palms at the same time and dripping their blood on the broken arm of the stone statue.
Whether it was the 7 people present or everyone in the conference room, everyone was holding their breath.
People in the conference room only felt that the image on the screen began to distort, and finally the entire screen went black.
After the change happened, everyone stood up. This process lasted for 10 seconds. After 10 seconds, everything returned to normal and the scene of the dense forest appeared on the screen. But the only difference was that the 7 people were nowhere to be seen, leaving only the broken arm of the stone statue lying quietly in its original place.
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Dragon country.
"Commander, they're back. All seven of them are back!"
As soon as Commander Leng stepped into the base, one of his men came to report that seven people had safely emerged from the dense forest.
"Is the news accurate? How did they get out?" He looked surprised.
I asked for help from Comrade Xiao Su some time ago, but the answer he gave was very disappointing.
The spirits around her didn't notice anything wrong.
This is even more weird.
The only person who came out alive suffered a severe brain injury when he woke up and forgot everything that happened in the jungle.
They all thought that this group of people were in great danger, but who knew there would be such a big surprise early in the morning.
"The news came from the border. We have already spoken to them. Now seven people want to speak to you directly. They have made a major discovery."
“Go!”
Commander Leng couldn't wait to return to his office and immediately dialed the number on the other side of the border.
The seven people stayed by the phone, and when it rang, one of them picked up the receiver.
"Hello, this is the Army Headquarters, I'm Leng Zheng."
"Reporting to the commander, Special Operations Team 3 is reporting to you that we are safe!"
"Just come back safely, come back quickly, I want to know everything that happened to you during this period of time."
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