Everyone's attention immediately shifted away from the three Dominator-grade items and turned to Onodera.
Furugori Magatsu hurriedly asked, "Why are you gasping? What does it say?"
As an outstanding Fire Master, he had muddled through his nine years of compulsory education by skipping classes and sleeping. He had practically forgotten there had even been Chinese lessons in school. The moment he saw the dense classical Chinese text on the bamboo slips, wave after wave of dizziness washed over him.
Kobe Ichiro and the others were certainly more educated than Furugori Magatsu, and some had even graduated from prestigious schools, but they likewise could not understand the contents of the bamboo slips.
Onodera looked at the corpse with a complicated expression. "He was Xu Fu, and he was also Amaterasu."
The Thousand Crane Group fell silent as one, gripped by the helpless feeling of "we guessed as much, but we didn't want to face it."
Kobe Ichiro urged in a deep voice, "What does it say?"
"This is Xu Fu's autobiography. According to the bamboo slips, he had set out to sea under the First Emperor's orders to seek the elixir of immortality. It says: There is a supreme treasure in the Eastern Sea, left behind when the Empress Nuwa mended the heavens. Ten suns rest upon it. Whoever obtains it can live forever, never die, and endure as long as heaven itself," Onodera said.
"Xu Fu led boys and girls, as well as the jade disc bestowed by the First Emperor, out to sea. With the abilities of an Occultist, after several years, he finally found the island nation in the vast ocean. After several more years, he found this place.
"To open the secret realm, he traveled across the island nation, gathering precious jade, casting stone carvings, and crafting