What was earth?
Among the Five Elements, earth was the most special.
Because earth could nurture all things and return all things to the earth, Chen, Xu, Chou, and Wei among the twelve earthly branches were known as the Four Great Tombs and Storages. Tombs buried things, while storages kept them.
It lay between wood, fire, metal, and water, symbolizing the cycle of endings and beginnings.
Then...
What did the mound of earth before him represent?
As he pondered this.
He suddenly noticed that the Soul-Calling Banner he had carried with him all along seemed to have undergone some unexpected changes.
"Hm?"
Jiang Qiao froze for a moment.
He discovered that the Soul-Calling Banner, which had originally been extremely old and even had a moldy bamboo pole.
Had actually become brand-new!
Not only that.
The four large characters, "Receive Souls and Ascend to Immortality," written in thick black ink, had also become exceptionally vivid.
It was as though they had come alive!
"Is the Soul-Calling Banner connected to this place?"
A thought struck him.
He immediately raised the Soul-Calling Banner in front of him and tentatively began walking slowly toward the mound.
He had barely taken two steps.
When two short figures suddenly appeared on either side of the Soul-Calling Banner.
They were two children, one boy and one girl.
They looked about seven or eight years old.
They wore bright-red dudou. The boy wore a melon-skin cap, held a gold ingot in one hand, and lightly pulled at the banner with the other. The girl wore her hair in a bun, held a jade ruyi in her left hand, and carried a small lantern in her right.
The lantern's light was dim and yellow.
Yet it traveled a great distance.
Under the lantern's radiance, the void on either side