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"What's weird?" San Mao, Monkey and I asked in unison. San Mao added on at the end, "Could it really have been used to suppress the White Lady? Were you there when I was digging up the Thunder Peak Tower? "Legend has it that someone saw a huge white snake back then. Is that true?"

San Tu frowned, and replied with slight helplessness: "That is still just a rumor … "Rumors …"

San Mao curled his lips and said: "What's so weird about that?"

San Tu pointed at me and said, "You are right, when we were digging about the Thunder Peak Tower and the underground palace, there was indeed an Ah Yu King Tower that was dug up, and it was filled with Buddha beads and sariras. But about the events of 2001, there was even a live broadcast of it by a television station, but what you guys don't know, in 2000, we actually did an archaeological excavation of the Thunder Peak Tower's sky palace …"

"Oh? Is there a white snake there? " San Mao interrupted and said.

San Tu shook his head and continued: "The Heavenly Palace is also a similar Ah Yu King Pagoda!"

"Tsk, what's so weird about that?" San Mao scoffed.

"It's not the same!" San Tu shook his head and said: "The Ah Yu King Pagoda unearthed from the underground palace has twelve sariras in its golden bottle, but inside the Ah Yu King Pagoda unearthed from the sky palace, there is a small seal!"

"The Asura Seal that you spoke of?" I interrupted.

San Tu nodded and said, "The 'Asura Seal' is a name given to it by our academic circles. In truth, the archaeology world has always been arguing about what this seal is, because its shape and design do not look like an Eastern object at all, but more like something from ancient Europe."

When San Tu said this, it piqued my curiosity. I couldn't help but say, "How does it look? "Why don't you open it for us to see?"

San Tu was startled, then looked at the few of us, as though he felt that even if he rejected us, it would be useless. He nodded his head, placed the embroidered box on his knees, and then slowly opened the lid with his hands.

We all looked over our heads. There was originally no light in this room and the lighting in the room was dim. With so many people covering the box, it was hard to see clearly, but I could vaguely see a small golden mark embedded into the silk at the center of the box. The golden mark was about two centimeters square.

Just then, Uncle Feng happened to move the pot on the stove and licked two pieces of wood. The fire suddenly sprung out and the small stamp in the box was illuminated by the fire, releasing a ray of golden light. I saw clearly, on top of the golden seal, astonishingly was a snake biting its own tail!

I thought I was mistaken, rubbed my eyes, and took a glance inside the box. That's right, the carving on the golden seal is indeed the Biting-tail Snake!

San Tu carefully took out the golden seal from the embroidered box and placed it in the center of his right hand. Holding it in front of his eyes, he slowly rotated his left hand and the golden seal became even brighter under the illumination of the fiery light.

"Moreover, its contents... "It's the words on this seal …" San Tu turned the golden seal over, turning the side of the character towards us. I saw some curved lines and simple geometric figures engraved on it, and I could see that it was a kind of glyph-like glyphs.

"It's not Chinese, nor is it Sanskrit. We consulted a lot of experts in ancient languages, and we confirmed that it's an ancient Hebrew language, a language used by a branch of the Semitic race. This branch is also known by Jewish researchers as the race of King Solomon.

San Tu paused for a moment before continuing, "We had once sent a copy of the book to an expert in ancient Hebrew at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem to have a look, but they were unable to translate it either, they could only vaguely tell what kind of spell it was."

San Tu held the golden seal up and held it up so that all of us could see it. Then he placed it back in the groove of the embroidered box and closed the lid.

"Tsk, I thought it was some weird stuff. After all that trouble, it was just a broken seal. Even if it's made of gold, it's not worth much right now. It can't even be exchanged for a catty of rice!" Monkey straightened up and said in disdain.

"This is no trivial discovery …" San Tu was very excited, he adjusted the black-framed glasses on his nose, and spoke with confidence and confidence, as if he was a professor lecturing on a podium, "You have to know that the construction of the Thunder Peak Tower was more than a thousand years ago. At that time, in order to imitate the story of Ah Yu King, King Qian of Wu Yue created eighty-four thousand pagodas, and gave the order to build eighty-four thousand gold towers within the borders of Wu Yue, Lei Feng Pagoda is the most important one of these gold towers."

"You must know that Qian Chi is a king who respects Buddha very much. He even let one of his sons shave his family, but why should such a pious believer worship an object that is obviously pagan in such an important pagoda? It is as incomprehensible as the fact that a Muslim family does not worship the Koran, but instead has erected a Jesus! "

A thought struck me and I recalled the story that the Taoist had told me about Solam and Solomon's treasure deposit.

"This …" I immediately forgot the name on San Tu's name card, so I could only follow San Mao's way of calling him: "San Tu … Teacher, what's so special about the snake coiled on this imprint? "

"There's another oddity to this golden seal …" San Tu didn't mind my addressing and smacked his lips: "This Biting-tail Snake should be said to be one of the oldest mythical symbols in the world, it has existed in all kinds of ancient civilizations in the world."

"In ancient Greek culture, the Biting-tail Snake was also known as Ouroboros. This snake coiled around the entire universe, separating it from the endless primal chaos and maintaining the order of the universe. When it devours its own body, the universe dies. Then it spits out the body, and the universe is born again, meaning infinite cycles, eternity, immortality. "

"Now, some quantum physicists believe that the process of Ouroboros swallowing the universe and spitting it out is a metaphor for the Big Bang principle of the universe. From a small dot exploding to a universe, then shrinking back to a dot, in modern mathematics, the symbol ∞ that represents an infinite number is a horizontal number 8, which is transformed from the image of the Biting-tail Snake."

In the legends of the East, or even in the philosophical systems, Biting-tail Snake often signifies reincarnation, an infinite number of times. In the legends of India, the Serpent God Shesha encircled the Turtle God, supporting the eight elephants that were responsible for carrying the entire world on their back.

"Of course, the most famous usage of Biting-tail Snake is alchemy. In alchemy, the symbol of the Biting-tail Snake is a magic spell that contains the power to cleanse. The alchemist thinks that the Biting-tail Snake is a dramatic symbol that can combine and assimilate opposites. The feedback from this process of self-integration and assimilation is immortality. Because while the Biting-tail Snake is destroying itself, it is also giving it life. It is nurturing itself and thus allowing it to gain life. "

"Whether it is the alchemists from the east or the alchemists from the west, all of them have the human body as their ultimate goal. The basic meaning of Biting-tail Snake is that they can live forever …"

"Hmph, immortal?" San Mao suddenly said evilly: "Isn't that the damn zombies outside?"