novelraw Chapter 308 - 188: What Rank Is Fox Mountain Among Sects?
Chapter 308 - 188: What Rank Is Fox Mountain Among Sects?
Swish...
The car stopped beside the excavation site.
Bai Mo got out of the car and saw that his apprentices had already dug a huge pit on the mountaintop.
A faintly visible blue stone high platform, buried under thick earth, was revealed in the pit.
All around, various great tripods, grand bells, and bronze documents and steles had been unearthed, stacked and awaiting transportation.
Bai Mo approached a fallen bronze stele, squatted down to observe it, and saw that the front of the stele was engraved with the three large characters "General Selection Platform."
Turning it over, the back was engraved with the origins and outcomes of a particular battle.
Though some of the words had been worn away by time, the entire proclamation could still be understood in context.
[... Today the Cyan Moon Pill Palace marches, and Marquis Qing Yue selects generals here...]
As Bai Mo read, a bronze mask suddenly flew out of the pit beside him... it was the same mask Quanquan Hu always carried. At this moment, the mask floated beside Bai Mo, its face showing endless melancholy and sorrow, accompanying Bai Mo in reading the stele.
[... With Sequence Four, Master of Flint Wood, a hundred...]
[... With Sequence Five, Grass Pill Master, a thousand...]
[... With Sequence Six, Master of Communication, ten thousand...]
What’s this?
Communication, Grass Pill, Flint Wood?
Are these the names corresponding to Sequences Six, Five, and Four?
Bai Mo’s eyes lit up.
This could work!
Sounds way more respectable than something like Soup Man or Fireman!
But these numbers, are they correct?
Ten thousand of Sequence Six?
A thousand of Sequence Five?
Bai Mo looked at the General Selection Platform in the pit, its area was not large, enough to stand a dozen or so people at most.
Looking at the dilapidated General Selection Platform buried in the earth, Bai Mo could vaguely imagine that millions of years ago, under the stormy skies, Marquis Qing Yue stood on this high platform, raising his hand to call out, and below the platform were Masters of Communication and Grass Pill, in countless numbers, followers like clouds...
But today, this General Selection Platform has been worn down by the ages into a deep pit, and those countless Masters of Communication and Grass Pill beneath the platform have long since become indistinguishable dust.
"Cyan Moon Pill Palace... is it the predecessor of our Fox Mountain?
"The documents we excavated, the grass seeds we planted, were all left by the Cyan Moon Pill Palace?"
As Bai Mo watched, a fox apprentice taking a break came up, its furry fox head leaning in to watch with the master.
[... To crusade against the usurping Fallen Immortal...]
[... The Fallen Immortal usurps, the Nine Kingdoms collapse...]
Fallen Immortal?
Usurpation?
What does all this mean?
[... A Fallen Immortal is not an Immortal, a Fallen Immortal is not human...]
[... If a Fallen Immortal attains the Dao, the kingdom will be unkingdomed, the people will be unpeopled...]
A Fallen Immortal is not human?
Not a human being?
Bai Mo continued to read, gathering from fragmented words that the so-called "Fallen Immortal" had also been an Immortal. But for some reason, they had fallen out of the category of humans, chosen not to be human anymore, dismissing themselves from humanity, and were thus crusaded against by the Immortal Dynasty.
"What the hell?"
The proclamation stated it simply, lacking in information, leaving Bai Mo unable to deduce more.
Continuing to read, it still consisted of fragmented phrases.
Bai Mo wandered around the pit, finding several more steles, most of which contained motivational speeches intended to encourage and cheer for departing Immortals, with no substantial content.
He found another one.
"Ah, this one describes the status of the Cyan Moon Pill Palace in the Ancient Immortal Dynasty!"
The resting foxes, dozens of furry heads, immediately gathered!
In the Ancient Immortal Dynasty, what status did Fox Mountain hold?
With so many herbs, with so many documents found, Fox Mountain must have been very powerful, right?
Bai Mo stared at the stone slab, wiping away the dirt, frowning as he deciphered the script on it.
"In the Ancient Immortal Dynasty, there were Nine Kingdoms.
"Each path formed its own country."
The foxes nodded together!
It seemed Fox Mountain was a relic of the Dan Kingdom?
"In each country, only those above Sequence Three qualified to establish a sect.
"The Cyan Moon Pill Palace once belonged to Marquis Qingyun."
Upon hearing this, the foxes pricked up their ears.
The Bronze Mask showed a strange expression.
"The Dan Kingdom had a Celestial Palace, eight hundred Holy Lands, three thousand Pill Palaces.
"Fox Mountain... ranked two thousand five hundred and eighty... what in the three thousand Pill Palaces?
"The last digit can’t be seen."
The foxes were suddenly dumbfounded.
What does that mean?
Three thousand Pill Palaces?
Ranked two thousand five hundred eighty-something?
Isn’t that basically bottom tier?
Quanquan Hu frowned.
"Aw!"
This rotten stele must be disrespecting Fox Mountain!
Black Star brandished a small shovel, baring its teeth.
"Waah!"
It was going to blast this rotten stele with an electric cannon!
Pang Youyou, Big Head, and Black Toe had already rushed over, punching and kicking this rotten stele!
Star Ear opened its mouth, grabbing the stele to take a bite!
"Hey, stop!"
Bai Mo quickly stopped his apprentices.
"It’s not just like this!
"What does it matter what happened to the Cyan Moon Pill Palace to us?
"The current Fox Mountain is ours!
"The current Fox Mountain is the best!"
After his reassurance, the apprentices calmed down.
Each followed the master to continue reading the stele.
They sometimes tilted their heads, whispering, slowly understanding, starting to grin mischievously.
"Waah waah waah!"
"Waah waah!"
... Using the unremarkable Cyan Moon Pill Palace ruins, Fox Mountain has developed to be invincible in the present world, which more demonstrates the master’s awesomeness, and that they, these foxes, are awesome too!
Bai Mo continued to read the steles, searching for useful information.
"What was the outcome of the Cyan Moon Pill Palace’s expedition back then? Did they win?"
He searched for a long time but couldn’t find the answer.
Then suddenly realized...
"Am I out of my mind?
"Given the Cyan Moon Pill Palace’s pathetic state, it’s obviously gone.
"Even the Nine Kingdoms’ joint campaign against the Fallen Immortals probably didn’t win.
"Otherwise, why would the Immortal Realm be in such ruins today, full of devastation?