"Mass Burial Grounds?"
Li Yan was stunned when he heard that. "That's the West Traveling Beggars' territory. Yin Energy gathers there—it's no good place. Heavenly Spiritual Treasures can grow in that kind of haunted place?"
Zhao the Donkey scratched his head. "Brother Li, you don't know the whole story. Heavenly Spiritual Treasure is only a general term. It means a spirit object nurtured by Heaven and Earth, but not all of them are good things."
"Some can be refined into magical artifacts, some can extend lives and heal people, and some can form their own configurations. Placed in a home, they can regulate the feng shui... Anything beneficial is a blessing of Heaven and Earth."
"So whenever we obtain a treasure, we have to shout, 'We've received a blessing!'"
"Conversely, they're called inauspicious objects. Not only are they harmful to take, some can even transform into spirits, monsters, and demons. You have to invite a great orthodox sect of the Mystic Gate to suppress and seal them."
"There's something you may have heard of. During the Tang Era, Guanzhong suffered a great drought. A dragon-bone treasure reef appeared in the Wei River. People believed it was the Dragon King's bone, so they burned incense and worshiped it. That very night, flying sand and rolling stones swept through the area, and countless people died in the surrounding villages. That was an inauspicious object."
"Later, Wei Yangzi of the Tai Xuan Orthodox Sect established an altar and performed rites, set up a prison to capture the evil, and brought down a Thunder General to destroy it. Passed down among the common people, it became the tale of the Wei Yang Immortal Slaying Dragon God."
"I see..." Li Yan suddenly understood.
He had heard that opera before. He had thought it was merely