Chapter 849: The Mystery of the Canglong Seven Constellations

Given that most of the people in this group were illiterate, with only a handful recognizing the characters on the cliff face—even the likes of Da Siming and Shao Siming only recognized a portion—Su Xuan felt deeply pained. He believed that the literacy campaign needed to continue, especially since they were members of the Yin-Yang School; it was truly disappointing to him that they could not even recognize a few ancient characters.

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

After a moment of silent criticism, Su Xuan immediately began to explain the content of these characters to everyone.

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

Within 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 Mount Qishan and obtained the Heavenly Book left in the human world by the Nine Heavens Mysterious Maiden. Subsequently, he meditated on the Heavenly Book at Mount Qishan and realized a supreme art of war.

Later, he assisted King Wu in overthrowing King Zhou.

After the Shang Dynasty collapsed.

He continued to meditate on the Heavenly Book, glimpsing a secret hidden for a thousand years, and even saw the secrets of heaven.

In the manifestation of these heavenly secrets, he saw a corner of the future, and even saw 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 the scene of its destruction made Jiang Shang unwilling to accept it. Thus, in order to defy heaven and change fate, he sought to ensure the Zhou Dynasty would continue, so that even if it fell one day, it could be restored.

He left behind many treasures.

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

Beyond these arrangements, Jiang Shang also passed down that sliver of heavenly secrets he had realized—the ancient secret hidden for a thousand years.

He created seven bronze boxes.

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

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

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

Because the method to unlock the secret of these seven bronze boxes was related to the seven constellations in the sky, he named it the "Canglong Seven Constellations"!

He even left behind a single sentence.

He claimed that whoever could master the Canglong Seven Constellations and penetrate their 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 Canglong Seven Constellations at the same time, people's understanding gradually deviated, and they identified the treasures as the secret of the Canglong Seven Constellations.

It was not until Duke Zhuang of Zheng, relying on clues obtained when he acquired a bronze box, actually found a treasure cache that the State of Zheng rose to power, leading more people to identify the Canglong Seven Constellations as a massive treasure.

But in reality, the true Canglong Seven Constellations were never a treasure.

The treasure was merely a backup plan Jiang Taigong left behind for the restoration of the Zhou Dynasty. Because the secret regarding it was passed down alongside the Canglong Seven Constellations, many people confused the two as being the same thing.

The treasures are hidden in certain secret corners of the Central Plains, while the true secret of the Canglong Seven Constellations is isolated overseas.

The truth of this secret is a history sealed away by time, an era that has gradually drifted away.

Regarding this era.

Jiang Shang also gave it a name, calling it—the "Mountain and Sea Era!"

The mountains refer to Kunlun and Buzhou, and the sea refers to the vast, boundless ocean.

This was an era of mythology.

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 spiritual creatures—dragon, phoenix, tortoise, and qilin—were incredibly active, and many immortal mountains and divine mountains existed in this world. 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, who were born extraordinary as the offspring of gods and humans.

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

By the time of Emperor Zhuanxu, he realized supreme power and simultaneously realized the hidden dangers that gods wandering the human world would bring to it. Thus, the "Severing of Heaven and Earth" occurred; the Jianmu tree collapsed, and the passage between gods and humans was severed.

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However, the descendants of the gods 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 slew many evil gods.

He even gained the assistance of the Yinglong.

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 official explanation.

In reality, the true extraordinary world still existed.

They were merely forced to separate from the human world, sealed away in another dimension.

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Its name is the "Mountain and Sea Realm," which is also the world where Su Xuan and the others currently find themselves.

After sealing the Mountain and Sea Realm in another dimension, the Yinglong took many ancient exotic beasts and descendants of gods and left this world. Afterward, he left behind the key to this world, hiding it within the Heavenly Book that the Nine Heavens Mysterious Maiden had left in the human world.

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

Jiang Shang realized the secret within, took out the key, and cast it into boxes; thus, the Canglong Seven Constellations were passed down to the world.

Su Xuan recounted all these details one by one.

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

There was a reason for the silence; it was simply because this information was far 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 during the process of exploring the Canglong Seven Constellations, figures of people and objects that only existed in ancient myths appeared, but this did not mean that everyone could accept that those things in the Classic of Mountains and Seas were truly real.

"This is simply too unbelievable!"

After a long silence, Jing Ke voiced the thoughts of everyone present.

Unbelievable—that was the only feeling everyone had at this moment!