Hearing what this fellow disciple said, the four of us instinctively crouched down in fright.
But surely there had to be some warning before the ground collapsed. At least the ground should shake a little.
Yet we hadn't felt anything.
How had he noticed?
"The main hall! Something strange is happening inside the main hall! Look for yourselves!"
After hearing him, Zhang Rong and I saw that the ground still hadn't moved, so we hastily plucked up our courage and shone our flashlights inside.
A long crack had suddenly opened across the floor of the main hall, and white smoke was rising from it, as though someone were burning a fire underground.
I suddenly remembered that Shen Siwei had written in the Confession Letter that the Fox Immortal's tomb lay underground. Tang Fangxian and his clansmen had built it to bury the physical body the Fox Immortal had left behind after ascending.
At that thought, I quickly shifted my flashlight toward the stone statue of the Fox Immortal and soon saw another strange sight.
White smoke was rising from the Fox Immortal's stone statue too, as though the Fox Immortal were riding clouds and mist.
"Holy crap! Is the Fox Immortal manifesting?" Zhuge Ming shouted behind us.
No sooner had he shouted than an even stranger phenomenon occurred. The sky above the entire village suddenly lit up, though not very brightly, only enough to make things out dimly, like the first light of dawn.
And the light spread out in a sheet, as though a giant disc were glowing above the village, with a slightly greenish tint.
I suddenly remembered that in some regions, this phenomenon also appeared when an earthquake struck. It was called "earthquake lights," and it occurred alongside earthquakes, lasting anywhere from a few seconds to several