Before the giant beast appeared, this Axe Valley was just an ordinary canyon. Although it looked smooth and steep, it was not worth exploring or studying.

There is not much data available on this aspect.

So much so that local officials can directly give the land to a foreigner to plant trees.

But now it’s different.

The appearance of the giant beast casts a veil of mystery over the Axe Valley.

What is the truth? Zhang Shouquan silently looked at the report sent by the researchers and couldn't help but fall into deep thought.

[Summary of geological exploration in Fuzao Valley]

This report document records a series of research data on Fuzao Valley starting from last night.

"According to research, this Axe-hewn Valley has existed for nearly 600 years."

"The bottom rock layers show signs of being squeezed vertically by huge forces. Like the bottom rock layers of most craters, different layers of rocks are melted and mixed together."

Although Zhang Shouquan is not a scientific researcher, he was still able to extract some key information from the report sent by the researchers.

Nearly six hundred years ago, this place was squeezed from top to bottom by a huge force, forming the Axe Valley.

Researchers are still uncertain about the specific reasons for the formation of this Axe-carved Valley.

What kind of thing could produce that huge force to create such a long and narrow canyon?

It is still unknown.

The only useful information available at present may be from this point in time about six hundred years ago.

Zhang Shouquan pondered for a moment, then ordered his subordinates to look through the county annals of nearby places to see if there were any relevant records in the history of about six hundred years ago.

Maybe you can find a few words from it.

As for himself, he began to think about the possible whereabouts of the giant beast.

It's really hard not to care about the giant beast that disappeared inexplicably.

Almost all of Qi Weiguo's troops have been sent out to search the mountains for possible traces, but so far they have only found the last footprints of the giant beast stopping somewhere, and then there are no more traces.

Apart from a devastated forest, no clues could be found in the surrounding area, not even a bit of biological tissue that might have been left behind by the giant beast has been discovered so far.

What they didn't know was that with Chen Sheng's experienced handling, they wouldn't be left with any trace of the giant beast.

However, Mr. Chen deliberately left one thing untouched.

"Report! There is a major discovery!"

A messenger suddenly broke into the temporary command post and spoke to Zhang Shouquan who was deep in thought.

Looking at the panting and serious-looking messenger, Zhang Shouquan's eyes became serious.

After connecting the screen of the temporary command post to the team of experts at the bottom of the Axe Valley, Zhang Shouquan saw with his own eyes the major discovery mentioned by the messenger.

That is a piece of jade.

The palm-sized ancient jade was placed on a makeshift laboratory table at the bottom of the Axe Valley.

A group of experts were staring at the jade on the table in shock.

When the picture zoomed in, Zhang Shouquan, who could clearly see the entire appearance of the jade, subconsciously froze in place.

There is no special story about the jade itself, and it does not look like a precious variety, like the variety found in the jade mine nearly a hundred miles away from Anqing Village.

The jade itself was covered in cracks, as if it would shatter in the next second.

But there was a sun pattern and a string of unfamiliar characters on the jade.

Looking at this string of characters, Zhang Shouquan silently applied to his superiors for a higher level of confidentiality, and slowly said, "Yong Zhou sealed the monster here in the first year of Xuande."

"We should all be able to somehow understand this string of strange characters, right?"

Zhang Shouquan asked the geological experts in front of him through the screen, and the answer he got was silence.

After Zhang Shouquan finished speaking, he couldn't help but become distracted while sitting in his chair.

Things are really becoming more and more mysterious.

Yong Zhou sealed the monster here in the first year of Xuande...

Such a piece of information really reveals something extraordinary.

Zhang Shouquan's originally confused thoughts were instantly sorted out by this piece of jade.

Yong Zhou is probably not a person's name, but the name of a supernatural organization. The giant beast that appeared yesterday was most likely sealed by Yong Zhou in the first year of Xuande.

That Axe-carved Valley might have been created when Yongzhao sealed the giant beast!

Now that the jade has cracks, it probably means that the seal has failed. Then the giant beast escaped.

Then the giant beast suddenly disappeared. Perhaps it was the Eternal Day, which he didn't know whether it had continued to this day, that struck again? ! Thinking about it, Zhang Shouquan swallowed his saliva.

This story inferred from the jade is not complicated, but Zhang Shouquan finds it hard to convince himself that it is true.

He couldn't believe that a supernatural organization had always existed in history.

At least since the first year of Xuande nearly six hundred years ago, that extraordinary organization has been silently protecting mankind in secret.

In the first year of Xuande 597 years ago, was there really an organization called Yongzhou that sealed a giant beast in this mountain range?

Zhang Shouquan narrowed his eyes.

Although there was all sorts of hard evidence before his eyes, he still remained skeptical.

This is his stubbornness towards the materialist conception of history that he has believed in all his life.

Opening the electronic version of the county annals of the surrounding areas, Zhang Shouquan tried to find loopholes in the records of the first year of Xuande to reveal this extraordinary story hidden behind history.

He wanted to personally look up the county annals and read the history of the surrounding areas in the first year of Xuande.

County annals are specialized books that record the history, geography, customs, people, culture, education, and products of a county.

The historical records generally only include various major events, which are not very numerous.

Zhang Shouquan quickly browsed through all the county annals in the surrounding areas that contained records from the first year of the Xuande period.

Among them, Zhang Shouquan discovered a point that had not attracted the attention of historians in the past.

In addition to various records of daily information such as field harvests and officials taking office, county annals in the surrounding areas seem to have recorded the same strange phenomenon at the same time.

"Anping County Annals": "In the first year of Xuande, on the 15th day of the fourth month, fire was seen flowing in the sky, dragons were seen turning over on the ground, and beasts were seen roaring, which were suspected to be evil spirits in the mountains."

"Annals of Anning County": "In the fourth month of the first year of Xuande, a bright light suddenly appeared, and it was suspected that a ferocious beast was howling from the mountain, frightening countless people and animals."

"Ankang County Annals": "In the first year of Xuande, in April, the sky was bright, and a beast roared from the mountains. We followed the sound to find the beast but to no avail. The dragon turned over and we returned home in fear."

This record can be found in almost all the county annals surrounding Fuzao Valley.

On April 16th of the first year of the Xuande reign, all the counties surrounding the mountain range where Fuzao Valley is located saw what seemed to be an unusual light in the sky. Then a huge roar of a beast came from the mountain, and finally there was an earth-shaking movement.

With such consistent records, in the past he would have thought that there was a ferocious beast in the mountain, and then there was a fire that looked like a meteor lighting up the sky, and an earthquake occurred when it fell.

But looking at it now, he can see a different story hidden in it.

The organization called Yong Zhou sealed the giant beast on April 16th of the first year of Xuande. The roar of the beast was the call of the giant beast, and the light and the shaking of the earth and mountains at that time, as well as the axe-cut valley formed six hundred years ago, were the noises produced when Yong Zhou sealed the giant beast.

The more we compare the existing evidence with historical records.

The more Zhang Shouquan thought about it, the more he felt as if he had discovered something extraordinary.

It’s as if I’ve glimpsed the truth from history.

I was blocked again before the last chapter, and it took me a long time to be unblocked. I feel so sad and cry.

(End of this chapter)