The Buried Secret

[Remember forever the names of the cult's high priests: Decker and Maha.]

Yin Ming finished reading the original text on the mural. Another passage had been carved beneath it later.

After a pause, he continued deciphering it: [How absurd! For centuries, we sang the praises of those who doomed our people. Let future generations mock us all they like. Hahaha...]

In the second mural, a deathly white moon rose above a blue bonfire. Beings half bone and half flesh danced around it in a strange ritual.

[We preserved the god's remains in crystal to serve as the supreme scepter by which we control the god.]

[Cast off useless flesh. Tear the wailing organs from your chest. Bathe beneath the Undying White Moon and become immortal bone, enduring forever...]

[It is...]

The third mural showed countless White-Bone Undead Skeletons battling enormous, bestial humans.

Some Undead Skeletons were gathering bones to piece their broken bodies back together.

[Fight! Fight! Warriors who embrace death fear nothing...]

[Gleaming bones beneath the flesh...]

The fourth mural...

The fifth mural...

The sixth mural...

The first twelve murals told the history of the Undying God Cult. After the First-Generation Moon God fell, its two high priests, Decker and Maha, used a fragment of the "moon" law and its mark to create an Ancient God.

They had taken a small people on the brink of destruction in the Xu plane and made them strong enough to defeat the Beast God Cult, rule the entire plane, and establish the Undying Empire.

Their population remained nine-tenths living beings and one-tenth Undead Skeletons. The skeletons were immortals transformed through a ritual.

This was a reward for those who had served their people and for the elite. Whenever the number of Undead grew too high, they competed by various means. The losers'