If There Were No North-South Roads Beyond the Door, Parting Sorrow Would Be Spared in This World

The following day, Jiang Dali mobilized some of the players in Hangzhou City to conduct another painstaking, brick-by-brick investigation of Leifeng Pagoda.

After finding neither mechanisms nor any other strange features, they temporarily gave up investigating Leifeng Pagoda.

By then, the Song State imperial family had also sent back information related to Leifeng Pagoda and the architectural plans for Jingyan Palace, while Liao Rushan had finally arrived in Hangzhou City.

The Song State imperial family did indeed possess records concerning the secrets within Leifeng Pagoda, but the information recorded was not extensive.

After reading through all of it, Jiang Dali found only two key pieces of useful information.

First: the anomalies within Leifeng Pagoda had already begun to emerge when Hangzhou City was still Tang State territory. The legend of the White Snake had begun circulating at that time as well. During those years, Hangzhou City had suffered an exceptionally bloody martial world massacre, and the Tang State court had completely lost control of Hangzhou City during that period.

Later, when Song State relocated to Hangzhou City amid its war with Jin State, Song State seized Hangzhou City and made it its capital. Before that, Hangzhou had belonged to Wu Yue Kingdom.

Second: after Hangzhou was incorporated into Song State territory, the Emperor of Song State ordered all martial world records related to Leifeng Pagoda destroyed. Only the mythic tale of the White Snake legend was permitted to circulate. Furthermore, no one was allowed to dismantle or relocate Leifeng Pagoda without authorization; it had to be properly restored and maintained.

"Based on these records, the grudge between Sou Shen Gong and the White Snake beneath Leifeng Pagoda must have begun when Hangzhou was still Tang State land.

"After that, the reason such a terrible martial world bloodshed erupted was likely