Chapter 525: A world buried by time!

Given that there were many illiterates in this group, with only a few people recognizing the words on the cliff, and even the likes of Great Commander and Young Commander only recognizing a portion, Su Xuan felt deeply pained. He believed that literacy work was still necessary, especially since they were members of the Yin-Yang School; not recognizing even a few ancient characters made Great Commander and Young Commander a great disappointment to him.

They were not like those mud-legged Mohists; it was excusable for the Mohists not to know ancient scripts.

After grumbling to himself, Su Xuan began to explain the content of these words to everyone.

These words were written by Gan Jiang Gan Jiang Taigong, Gan Jiang Shang, and were a message he left for those who would come after.

In the text, he recounted some of his life story.

He claimed that he was originally an ordinary old man who, by a stroke of fate, encountered a phoenix at Qishan and obtained the Heavenly Book left in the human world by the Nine Heavens Mysterious Maiden. Subsequently, he studied the Heavenly Book at Qishan and realized the supreme art of war.

Later, he assisted King Wu in attacking Zhou.

After the Shang Dynasty was overthrown.

He continued to study the Heavenly Book, from which he glimpsed a secret hidden for a thousand years, and even saw the secrets of heaven.

In the revelation of the heavenly secrets, he saw a corner of the future, and even the destruction of the Zhou Dynasty.

Although there is no dynasty that does not fall, the Zhou Dynasty had only just been established at that time, and seeing its destruction made Gan Jiang Shang unwilling to accept it. Thus, in order to defy heaven and change fate, and to allow the Zhou Dynasty to continue, he hoped that even if the Zhou Dynasty were to fall one day, it could be restored.

He left behind many treasures.

Within the treasures were many gold and silver riches, as well as blueprints for weapons and machinery. If the Zhou Dynasty were to fall one day, the descendants of the Zhou Dynasty could find these treasures and, with their help, have the capital to make a comeback, perhaps even succeeding in restoring the Zhou Dynasty.

In addition to these arrangements, Gan Jiang Shang also passed on the trace of heavenly secrets he had realized—that ancient secret hidden for a thousand years.

He created seven bronze boxes.

The material of the bronze boxes was extremely ancient, made from the fragments of the War Demon God destroyed during the Battle of Zhuolu in the ancient era. Although the War Demon God was destroyed by ancient gods and demons, it was the sturdiest material in the world, ensuring that the bronze boxes would not be easily damaged even after a thousand years.

After the bronze boxes were completed, he hid the secret within them, hoping that one day someone with great cultivation would be able to realize their mysteries and subsequently master this secret.

He believed that such a history and such a secret should not be extinguished.

Because the secret of unlocking these seven bronze boxes was related to the seven constellations in the sky, he named them the "Seven Luminaries of the Azure Dragon"!

He even left behind a statement.

He claimed that whoever could master the Seven Luminaries of the Azure Dragon and unravel its mysteries would possess the power to control the world.

However, it seems that because he passed down the secret of the treasures and the secret of the Seven Luminaries of the Azure Dragon at the same time, gradually, people's understanding became skewed, and they identified the treasures as the secret of the Seven Luminaries of the Azure Dragon.

It was not until Duke Zhuang of Zheng, relying on the clues obtained when he received a bronze box, actually found a treasure, causing the Zheng State to rise, that more people identified the Seven Luminaries of the Azure Dragon as a massive treasure.

But in reality, the true Seven Luminaries of the Azure Dragon was never a treasure.

The treasure was merely a backup plan left by Gan Jiang Gan Jiang Taigong for the restoration of the Zhou Dynasty. Because its secret was passed down together with the Seven Luminaries of the Azure Dragon, many people confused the two as one thing.

The treasures were hidden in some secret corners of the Central Plains, while the true secret of the Seven Luminaries of the Azure Dragon was isolated overseas.

The truth of this secret was a history sealed by time, an era that was gradually fading away.

Regarding this era.

Gan Jiang Shang also gave it a name: the "Mountain and Sea Era!"

The mountains were Kunlun and Buzhou; the sea was the vast ocean.

This was a mythological era.

From the moment the Nine Heavens Mysterious Maiden descended into this world, she brought the extraordinary to an otherwise ordinary world. Immortals and gods gathered in the world, the four spirits—dragon, phoenix, tortoise, and qilin—were extremely active, and there were many immortal mountains and divine mountains in existence. In that era, the divine realm and the human realm were connected; many gods traveled to the human world and even left behind many descendants. As the descendants of gods and humans, they were born extraordinary.

However, such an era did not last for a very long time.

By the time of Emperor Emperor Zhuanxu, he realized supreme power and also realized the hidden dangers that gods wandering in the human world would bring to humanity. Thus, there was the "Severing of Heaven and Earth," the Jianmu tree collapsed, and the path between gods and humans was severed.

However, the descendants of gods and humans still remained in the human world, and the extraordinary never truly left. This continued for several more eras, until the era of Great Yu.

Great Yu controlled the floods and organized the mountains and rivers; in the process, he killed many evil gods.

He even received the help of the Ying Dragon.

Later, he cast the Nine Cauldrons to stabilize the mountains and rivers. From then on, the extraordinary faded away, and the human world belonged entirely to humans, no longer to the gods.

But this was only the public explanation.

In reality, the true extraordinary world still existed.

They were merely forced to be separated from the human world and were sealed in another space.

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It was named the "Mountain and Sea Realm," which was the world where Su Xuan and the others were currently located.

After sealing the Mountain and Sea world in another space, the Ying Dragon took many ancient beasts and descendants of gods and humans and left this world. Afterward, he left behind the key to this world, hiding it in the Heavenly Book left in the human world by the Nine Heavens Mysterious Maiden.

The Heavenly Book appeared in troubled times, and as time passed, it fell into the hands of Gan Jiang Gan Jiang Taigong, Gan Jiang Shang.

Gan Jiang Shang realized the secret within, took out the key, cast it into boxes, and thus the Seven Luminaries of the Azure Dragon were spread throughout the world.

Su Xuan recounted all these details one by one.

After hearing these things, everyone remained silent for a long time.

The silence had a reason; it was simply because this content was too shocking.

Anyone who learned that beyond the world they lived in, there existed another world called the Mountain and Sea Realm, would be incredibly shocked.

One must know that before this, many people only regarded the things in the Classic of Mountains and Seas as legends or illusions. Even though many figures from ancient myths appeared during the process of searching for the Seven Luminaries of the Azure Dragon, this did not mean that everyone could accept that those things in the Classic of Mountains and Seas were real.

"This is truly hard to believe!"

After a long silence, Jing Ke voiced everyone's inner thoughts.

Hard to believe was the only feeling everyone had at this moment!

— Author's Notes —

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