Book 1: Chapter 192


    ck sses'' shlight swept across this levels wooden walls, revealing a bunch of slippery-looking things. When we walked over, the people above came down. I told them our thoughts while ck sses used his hand to scrape away theyer of things on the wall, revealing the mural behind. "The style of this mural is the same as the ones I saw in Mute Vige, he said to us. The corpse of that immortal that was found in the cave in Mute Vige really belonged to the Jin Tong Sect. That vige also started to be mute during the Ming Dynasty. The cult at that time really did unscrupulous things to be immortal.


    There werent many details on the Jin Tong Sects esoteric teachings in the historical records, but if we looked at it like this, things gradually became clearer.


    If the Jin Tong Sects method to bing immortal was to listen to thunder, then one of their leaders may havee to Mute Vige at that time to find a way to enter the South Sea countrys underground river system. Many of the vigers used to fish in the underground river in the past, so they knew all about the water system. That was why the cult leader chose this vige and controlled the vigers by drilling holes into their skulls. Maybe he was trying to get help as he searched for the secrets that could be heard in the South Sea countrys thunder, so he created such a strange custom in the vige.


    If that was the case, then this ce should be the Jin Tong Sects ancestral hall and everything they had found and learned about listening to thunder should be in these towers.


    My cursory analysis indicated that the Jin Tong Sect''s leaders may have discovered that there were secrets in the thunder and learned about the legend of the West Seas Falling Cloud Country by consulting ancient texts. They thought that this was a shortcut to bing immortal, so they came to Fujian and preached on the side while searching for the West Seas Falling Cloud Country. The leader that stayed in Mute Vige was one of these people. Eventually, one of them finally entered the West Seas Falling Cloud Country and got the secret to listening to thunder.


    It was possible that these ancestral towers were built as part of the West Seas Falling Cloud Country at that time, or they were built by the Jin Tong Sects disciples themselves. Were Boss Jiao''s people who had holes in their skulls and listened to thunder part of the modern Jin Tong Sect? Was Boss Jiao rted to this cult?


    The reason why we were so confused this time was because we kept feeling like we didnt know where to check. In other words, we didnt know the history behind listening to thunder.


    I took a deep breath.


    Fatty calcted the height of the tower on one side based on my earlier statement. He did it more than a dozen times, but he couldn''t do it in the middle. "Based on what youve said, we have to hurry up, he said to me. The tower appears to go deep below the rock stratum. It may take half a month for us to reach the bottom since we''re asionally stopping and looking around. And as you can see, when you go to the next level, the Buddha statues form arger circle and the floor is a little higher. The bottom level might as well be a hundred meters high. How can we get down when we reach it?"


    "There was no such thing in the ancient Chinese institutional system. China was very particr about their standards, so only local cults could do this kind of thing without following proper specifications," I said.


    "This is a sky tower," Poker-Face suddenly said. We all looked at him.


    <em>Have you seen something like this before?</em> I thought to myself. It suddenly urred to me that when I expressed my knowledge before, no one responded at all. Why did everyone instantly turn to look at him as soon as he said something?


    Maybe fewer words had more of an impact.


    We waited for Poker-Face to exin, but all he said to us was: "Everyone, walk in my footsteps." With that said, he ignored us and went down.


    ck sses nced at me and made a "let''s go" gesture. I sighed. As our group followed after Poker-Face and started to move down quickly, Fatty shouted from the back, "Say a few more words, Little Brother. I''m still a child and can''t stand the suspense. What exactly is a sky tower?"