The wooden cart couldn’t go up, so it stayed down with the black pot. Though Granny Sha was old, she was nimble and followed him onto the cliff.
The cliff was a floating island of about eight or nine hundred acres, as if it had flown out from the large southern lake, chained by gods and demons to prevent it from flying beyond the sky. Moss covered the island everywhere, even on the trees, making it very damp.
Walking on the cliff, the air was fresh, and the scenery of clear mountains and water stretched before their eyes.
There were actually people chopping wood here, but it was difficult to carry the wood down because the chains were also slippery with moss, and one could easily fall off if not careful.
Chen Shi was puzzled, how did they transport the wood down?
Granny Sha explained, "They are residents here. The place isn’t large, but it has six or seven villages."
Chen Shi exclaid in surprise, "They live here? How do they get down?"
"They don’t bother going down since it’s inconvenient."
Granny Sha laughed, "It’s also hard for the governnt officials to co up here to collect taxes, so they manage to survive."
Chen Shi earnestly said, "It might be difficult for the governnt officials to co up, but evil spirits easily make their way here. How do they deal with them?"
"You will see if you follow ."
Granny Sha led Chen Shi to a temple on the cliff, and surprisingly, the villages on the cliff were built around this temple!
In front of the temple, there was an altar with lit incense sticks, the incense fire qi curling into the temple.
This temple served as the godmother for all the villages on the cliff!
Chen Shi was greatly surprised; he had seen several hundred godmothers, but it was his first ti seeing a whole temple being used as one!
On the wall outside the temple gate, talismans were painted. Chen Shi stepped forward to examine them, and soon confird that they were crafted by his grandfather.
These talismans were purification talismans used to drive away spirits and ghosts, and even people could not get near; getting too close would result in being forced to kneel and retreat.
Of course, these talismans only deterred people without cultivation. They weren’t much use against individuals with indomitable wills.
Granny Sha opened the temple doors and led him inside.
Entering the courtyard, Chen Shi looked around and saw that the temple was quite expansive, occupying more than ten acres. In the courtyard of the temple, there was a large tree whose crown covered an area of six or seven acres, and several smaller trees occupied the corners.
These large trees served to shield the temple, preventing sunlight from reaching inside.
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Chen Shi looked up. Although sunlight could be seen through the dense leaves, it seed unlikely that the True God would notice this place.
The temple was precisely located at the center of the floating cliff, and the chains anchoring the cliff were buried right at the four corners of the temple.
Chen Shi thought to himself, "It seems Uncle Azhuo was telling the truth. It indeed looks like sothing was suppressed here during the True King Era."
Granny Sha continued to lead him inside the temple, saying, "No need to guess anymore; your grandfather ca here with people from the Heavenly Court years ago to explore this place. We’ve verified that the temple stems from the True King Era. Below the temple is a deep pit, chilling and bottomless, leading straight into the interior of the cliff. The builders of the temple constructed a well over this pit, and the well’s opening is right inside the temple."
Chen Shi saw the well, a cast iron well with black iron walls, about a yard wide at the opening, with a well base around it arranged according to the Iron Trigram.
Besides the trigram, there were also ancient seal script characters like "As swift as lightning, inspiring wind and thunder", "Endowing longevity, harmonizing with the Immortal Way", "Transforming marsh into mountain, easy as a flip of the hand" (Drawn from the ancestral court of Bai Yuchan at Hainan Wubifeng Peak).
Chen Shi read them one by one, pausing thoughtfully, thinking, "These are about the Eight Diagrams and the realm of Harmonization!"
Unfortunately, the Iron Trigram had only eight aspects, and the knowledge concerning the Harmonization Realm contained on it was too scant to deduce the content based on these fragnted phrases.
He approached the well and looked inside; it was pitch black, and he couldn’t see the bottom, only feeling the bone-chilling cold wind blowing out of it.
There was another Iron Trigram outside the well, presumably the well cover, but for so reason, it was discarded to the side.
Whatever had been suppressed in the well must have long escaped.
"We’ve been down to the bottom of the well and found nothing," Granny Sha said. "It’s unknown who opened this well, and where whatever was inside has gone."
Chen Shi speculated, "Could it be that so prehistoric demon god was suppressed within the cliff? Otherwise, why would the people of the True King Era specifically erect a temple to suppress it?"
Granny Sha smiled, "That remains unknown. Even though sothing did escape from the well, the world is still at peace, and no great events have surfaced."
Chen Shi nodded lightly.
Whatever had been in the well might have been refined to death or eradicated after escaping.
He ca to a great hall with a plaque reading "Kaizhang Holy King Hall."
"Kaizhang Holy King? Is he also a divine being from China?"
Chen Shi paused for a mont, then entered the hall. The central shrine was empty, devoid of any statues, with only extraordinary power lingering.
"The incense has never ceased here even after the True King Era ended, but no divine presence has ever ford."
Granny Sha followed him into the hall, saying, "It’s a pity about the extraordinary power of this place. Your grandfather left a Heroic Spirit Talisman in the shrine, but despite the years, it has never awakened the heroic spirits here."
Chen Shi examined the shrine closely; there indeed was a Heroic Spirit Talisman on the shrine wall, harnessing the extraordinary power of the place.
But because no consciousness lingered, the extraordinary power in the shrine couldn’t coalesce.
This place’s extraordinary power was too strong; all the incense fire qi from the village’s worship of the godmother flowed into this shrine causing divine energy to accumulate at the bottom, forming a bright, shining liquid emitting divine light!
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