"World-Honored One, what was that just now?" Manjushri looked utterly astonished. The primordial force unleashed by those twelve black banners truly slew gods and extinguished Buddhas alike. Its power was terrifying beyond measure!
"That was the Capital Heavenly Fiend Formation. The twelve banners represent the Twelve Ancestral Witches!" Tathagata's face darkened. Could those ancient fossils have not died? Impossible!
"The Twelve Ancestral Witches?" Samantabhadra looked as though his balls had shattered. What were witches? Witches were not something that could be easily explained.
There were many interpretations of witches. In foreign lands, they represented mysterious witchcraft, a supernatural explanation for all things that could not be interpreted through scientific values.
They existed not only in Europe, with its legends of witches, but also in Latin America. Mysterious and ancient witchcraft was a means by which humanity resisted the natural forces of heaven and earth, as well as a power that conformed to them. It was the art of borrowing heavenly might and, likewise, a reverence for heaven and earth. That was the origin of shamans offering sacrifices to heaven, and such rituals could be found everywhere throughout the world.
Foreign lands had them, but China had possessed them thousands of years ago. In the lands of Chu State, shamans offering sacrifices to heaven was an exceedingly sacred matter. Qu Yuan was the chief ritual master—put bluntly, he was in charge of sacrifices to heaven. Witches did not represent evil, nor did they represent darkness. They were a belief, a reverence for heaven and earth, a way to place one's spirit, a way of understanding the world.
The Twelve Ancestral Witches originated in the Primordial Wilderness and were even more ancient than the Buddhist School. Their power was no weaker than that of renowned great experts, and some of them had