This was not the power of Mount-Viewing Kiln itself.
This power was older than the time of his arrival.
It was even older than the time when the people of the Xia Dynasty discovered Mount-Viewing Kiln.
This might have been the reason Mount-Viewing Kiln became Mount-Viewing Kiln—the wording was a little convoluted, but the matter itself was actually quite simple. Mount-Viewing Kiln was merely the name used by the people of the Xia Dynasty and retained by the Shang Dynasty afterward. Even Heaven-Bearing Temple was something built by latecomers compared with this Mount-Viewing Kiln.
The true body of Mount-Viewing Kiln was a "sleeping" divine creature.
In other words, without this "sleeping divine creature," there would have been no Mount-Viewing Kiln. But how this divine creature had come here was a major question.
Originally, Slender Ghost had thought otherwise.
He had thought a divine creature had been "sleeping" here, and that the people of the Xia Dynasty had discovered it and built the Mount-Viewing Kiln Factory.
Or perhaps the Mount-Viewing Kiln Factory was a site with auspicious feng shui, capable of storing a divine creature's "flesh and blood"—all the soil here—and so the people of Western Xia had built Mount-Viewing Kiln here.
"Neither."
Slender Ghost saw the marks on the ground. Together, they formed a strange Totem pattern.
Slender Ghost did not recognize this Totem pattern.
It was precisely because he did not recognize it that he was shocked.
Sometimes, however modest he might be, he knew that he had obtained power no ordinary person could possess.
There was almost no distance between him and nature.
Yet he did not recognize this Totem pattern at all.
The pattern was so piercing that a single glance made his heart flutter with unease. And the function of these strange Totem patterns was *Continuous