The stone chamber was empty, with only a fire, a stone statue before the flames, and a hunched old man with his back to the stone door.
Luo Yunji looked around and could not help feeling a little disappointed, so he idly turned his eyes to the room's only decoration: the stone statue in front of the fire.
The statue was of a strange big dog. It was strange because it had ten legs and two pairs of wings. This was an exotic beast Luo Yunji had never seen before. Or perhaps it was something the Miao People had imagined, something that had never truly existed in the first place.
Luo Yunji's unrestrained act of staring straight at the stone statue of the exotic beast and sizing it up made Tumagu, standing to the side, look displeased.
"Do not be disrespectful to the Dog God!" Tumagu shouted coldly.
His rebuke successfully drew the attention of Tian Buyi and Zhang Xiaofan. Tian Buyi knew how deeply people with faith revered their "gods," so he hurried to Luo Yunji's side, pressed his hand against the boy's head, and gently turned it, making his gaze fall elsewhere.
"I'm sorry! My young disciple is rash and ignorant. Please forgive him!" Tian Buyi said to Tumagu, his face full of apology.
Originally, Luo Yunji had done a great favor for the Miao Tribe of Qili Cave, and Tumagu had only instinctively felt revulsion toward someone who blasphemed against their divine statue. When he heard Tian Buyi's sincere apology, he immediately came to his senses. He knew the three people before him might not even know that the statue in front of them was the Deity they worshiped, and only then did his expression ease a little.
"It is nothing!" the hunched old man in front