The Unruly Immortals

Upon hearing Chun Xiaoman mention Scholar Lv, Top Scholar Lv couldn't even bother to take another puff of his cigarette, his expression full of indignation.

"Don't get me started on that jinx, he actually dared to steal money! If you run into him on the road, remember to tie him up and bring him back to me, see if I don't break his legs!"

As the two carriages passed each other, Chun Xiaoman continued toward the village, just reaching the Bai Family Courtyard when Bai Lingmiao quickly got off and walked toward the Ancestral Hall. "Sister Xiaoman, you rest first, I'll go to the Ancestral Hall to light incense."

Chun Xiaoman, somewhat anxious, looked around and said to a passing doggie: "Come over and take this carriage to the stables."

"Why should I? Do I have 'Coachman' written on my face? My wife is pregnant! I'm going to stew an egg custard for her!"

Chun Xiaoman extended her hand and directly stuffed the whip into his, ignoring his shouts as she hurried toward the Bai Family Ancestral Hall.

When she stepped through the third entrance and saw rows of black spirit tablets, Chun Xiaoman breathed a little lighter, her eyes filled with curiosity and fear as she looked around this place she had never visited before.

Honestly, aside from Bai Lingmiao, few others ever approached this place, always saying behind the scenes how eerie it was.

Seeing Bai Lingmiao was truly just kneeling in the middle of the Ancestral Temple praying to the spirit tablets, Chun Xiaoman finally breathed a sigh of relief and surveyed her surroundings.

Actually, there wasn't much to see here; the Ancestral Temple was quite empty, with only a few items placed against the wall and not even a bench to sit on.

Glancing once more at Bai Lingmiao, who was kneeling there and murmuring something, Chun Xiaoman's gaze swept across the objects on the tables.

As someone born in a humble family, Chun Xiaoman couldn't understand what was special about these odd trinkets.

Just some strange stones set on plates and some brightly colored ceramics. Why did wealthy people insist on placing these things in a house?

After looking them over, a palm-sized bronze ornament in the middle caught Chun Xiaoman's attention.

It was three monkeys squatting side by side, one covering its ears with its hands, another shielding its eyes, and the third pounding its head with a balled fist.

"What's the meaning of these three monkeys? Why do rich people always like these incomprehensible things? But these little monkeys are quite interesting and exquisitely made."

Chun Xiaoman walked over, wanting to pick up the little monkeys for a closer look, but as soon as she touched them, she realized she couldn't move the three monkeys.

"Hmm? What's the matter, are they stuck to the base?" Just as she was wiggling them back and forth, the monkeys suddenly shifted to the left.

Accompanied by a rumbling sound, a large section of the spirit tablet wall beside them shook and fell, revealing a frigid black hole before them.

"Dad!" An excited Bai Lingmiao rushed over, and with a pained heart, she began picking up the spirit tablets from the ground, but as she was picking them up, she stopped and looked at the black hole in astonishment along with Chun Xiaoman.

As if drawn by something, Bai Lingmiao felt compelled to walk toward that hole.

A silhouette passed by her and stepped into the black hole before her. "You stay here, I'll go check it out."

After a while, Chun Xiaoman emerged again from the hole, "There's lots of writing on the walls inside, go get Gao Zhijian over here!"

Not long after, Gao Zhijian walked into the Bai Family Ancestral Hall, his figure clad in half-armor with a slate hanging from his chest, in one hand he carried a heavy Wolf Fang Club, fully armed.

"There's no need for that, since it's the Bai Family Ancestral Temple, there shouldn't be any danger inside."

"Just... just... just in case!" The tall Gao Zhijian blocked in front of the two women and went in first.

The black hole was vast inside, and the inscriptions on the wall caused Gao Zhijian to pause in surprise.

"Mud originates from Chaos, the beginning! White Lotus appears and the great era is lifted!"

Then he looked up at the ceiling, where some banners imprinted with lotus symbols still hung.

"Isn't this the Bai Family Ancestral Hall? Why would there be such things inside a secret passage?" Gao Zhijian was very puzzled.

Although he did not know what these things were, he always felt that something was amiss.

"Don't stand in the middle of the road and block the way, keep moving down."

Upon hearing the urging voice, Gao Zhijian clutched the weapon in his hand and slowly made his way further in, step by step.

From the steps on the ground, Gao Zhijian could feel that they were descending.

The dark chamber was very large, and the phrases that occasionally appeared on the walls only deepened the unease in his heart.

"White Lotus descends! The masses overturn their fate!"

"Mother Wu Sheng! True Home of Emptiness!"

Whenever Chun Xiaoman asked what was written on the walls, he responded with a shake of his head.

After winding their way through several turns, the staircase finally ended, and a pitch-black expanse appeared before them, with the green luminous stone in their hands only illuminating a very small area around them.

"Stick...stick...stick to the wall! Be...be...be...careful!"

Gao Zhijian took the lead to feel along the wall and, feeling around, he found a book, which he began to read by the light of the luminous stone.

The characters did not look like they were from recent times, but he could understand them, although he had some difficulty comprehending the content.

"Gao Zhijian, what do you see? Don't just read it, talk, will you! You're driving me crazy."

Under the incessant patting and urging of his companion, Gao Zhijian started to stammeringly translate the content into words that the other could understand.

Mother Wu Sheng is the ancient Buddha who exists eternally without birth or death! She can lead us mortals back to the True Home of Emptiness, avoiding calamity!

Everything in this world should belong to Mother Wu Sheng! At that time, every inch of land and sky was the true Home of Emptiness.

We were born, grew up, and grew old under the care of Mother Wu Sheng. That is until someone betrayed her! It was the nobles at her side that she trusted the most!

When the unspeakable armies grew from within Mother Wu Sheng's Dantian, a group of nobles conspired with them and betrayed Mother Wu Sheng!

They killed those nobles who refused to betray her and stripped Mother Wu Sheng of everything!

They discarded what they did not want and swallowed what they desired, ultimately shamelessly standing in the very place where Mother Wu Sheng was meant to be!

These betrayers, fearful that their shame would be uncovered, altered the historical records, changed the history known in everyone's hearts.

But we did not, our history will always belong to Mother Wu Sheng, and we will forever remember, waiting for the moment when Mother Wu Sheng returns!

Mother Wu Sheng, who is neither born nor dies, may seem to have been deprived of everything by them, but this also means that Mother Wu Sheng cannot lose anything anymore.

When a person is covered in wounds, he will never suffer new ones, and an existence that has been stripped of everything will no longer be stripped of anything!

Mother Wu Sheng is always trying, whether it's day or night, whether it's a man or a woman, whether it's Yin or Yang.

The perfidious traitors are watching, they are fearful, they keep obstructing Mother Wu Sheng who is with us.

They can keep sending their lackeys to stop us, but it does not matter, as long as we succeed once, then Mother Wu Sheng will return to her rightful place, openly and rightfully atop six ceramic horses!

"No matter how long, I will keep waiting, as the sole surviving noble, even if I am killed, my son who crawls out of my body will also continue waiting.

And if my son dies, my grandson will be there. I and my descendants will forever wait!! Mother Wu Sheng, True Home of Emptiness!"