Divination

Fengdu.

The sky was dark.

An ancient, primitive altar had already been erected.

Shi Taiyi and Shi Liugen stood to one side, watching those shamans don Nuo Masks, light incense, wield witch instruments of every sort, and dance bizarre, twisted dances as they beat out frenzied rhythms amid the flickering flames...

All manner of inexplicable witch curses issued from their mouths. Not only were they difficult to pronounce, but they also carried a strange, ancient cadence.

Under the witch curses, the wind seemed to come alive. It swept ceaselessly toward Fengdu, faintly dispersing the pitch-black smog and revealing collapsed walls and broken ruins...

"The path of the [Shaman] is quite mysterious as well."

Shi Taiyi watched the scene and thought to himself.

As a member of the Chu Kingdom's imperial household, the education he had received since childhood naturally meant he knew that Great Chu had originated from Great Jing!

And the ancestor of the Jing Kingdom, that East Lord, had attained the Fruit Seat of [Shaman]!

That great figure later came to possess another name—[Eastern Sovereign Taiyi]!

He was a truly supreme god, the Lord of the Great Sun! He also held divine offices and upheld an entire pantheon!

The later ascensions of witch gods such as [Lady Xiang] and [Wind Earl] had truly relied greatly upon that great figure.

"Strictly speaking, our Shi Household also shares the bloodline of the Jing King... After all, the Jing King had many children, and one of my ancestors married a royal woman..."

A thought surfaced in Shi Taiyi's mind, then swiftly faded.

After all, if one were to reason that way, the feudal lords across the realm whom the Son of Heaven of Jing had enfeoffed back then would basically all possess a trace of the Son of Heaven of Jing's