Everyone fixed their eyes on Master Dari Ahe.
Master Dari Ahe nodded.
At last, he said:
"Yes, I recognize these few ancient Xiongnu characters. They say Black Abyss Sutra."
"Black Abyss Sutra?"
"..."
No one understood.
Dari Ahe continued:
"In the legends of the Black Shamans, a Black Abyss is sealed beneath Burkhan's sacred mountain.
The Black Abyss is also one of the Black Shamans' beliefs.
The name of this scripture is Black Abyss Sutra.
Perhaps it describes certain things within the Black Abyss beneath Burkhan mountain."
Dari Ahe spoke.
Mao Jing nodded slightly.
"Burkhan mountain's full name should be Burkhan Khaldun Mountain. It is indeed a sacred mountain of the Mongol lands, a place ancient shamans believed bordered the heavens..."
After hearing this, Zhang Yuchen said directly:
"Then it's pointless. Sacred or evil, what does it have to do with us?"
But Zhang Yuchen had forgotten that Mao Jing's greatest trait was his thirst for knowledge.
Of all of us, he was the one who loved learning and exploration most.
Zhang Yuchen cultivated only to slay demons and exorcise evil, so that one day he could become a master exorcist and guard a region.
But Mao Jing cultivated to explore and seek knowledge, pursuing the so-called "truth of the Great Dao" and the "true nature of things."
Holding the parchment scroll, Mao Jing said:
"Then I want to know what it says even more. Besides, it was stored inside a bronze box.
The Great Fiend Eye appeared on that bronze box.
Perhaps this Black Abyss is somehow connected to the abyss beneath the Nine Corpse Tower."
When Mao Jing put it that way, I truly felt it was possible.
Otherwise, why would the Dark Axe fragment in my hand have been stored in that box and ended up in