Chapter 634 - An Ancient Clan?
After hearing the doubt of the middle aged man with the earring, some of the other council members were interested in it too.
"I’d like to know more as well." Gun Kai, who was on the side of Shantung asked.
~Sigh~
"I guess I can explain this to you all... this is not something that is known to the people of the recent few generations..." Shantung said.
"Why is that so?" Jingming Shang suddenly asked.
"There are many reasons for it, but the biggest one is that... it has simply been far too long. In fact, even I don’t know when all this exactly happened." Shantung replied.
"I see... please do explain it to us." Jingming Shang stated.
"As I said before, I don’t really know when this all happened, but it’s safe to assume that it’s been thousands of years. As of now, I think only a few of the cultivation sects including the top cultivation sects, the different aristocrats of the kingdoms and a few old clans, know about all this.
Even I myself only know about this because I once traded a few old documents in exchange for a lot of money. Originally, I had thought that these documents maybe some kind of a cultivation technique or a Qi skill that was found from a ruin.
But it turned out to be something far more shocking." Shantung said, and took a pause.
The scroll had a metallic stamp imprinted on one of its edges while golden tassels hung from its corners. Shantung took the ancient scroll carefully and observed it with his spirit sense.
"This... I’ve never seen paper like this before... it’s woven with formations..." Shantung said as he continued to observe it.
"Exactly! I’ve never seen those kinds of runes and scriptures before other than in some of the extremely old ruins. But even then they only had a few of those scriptures and charterers, not hundreds like on this scroll." Miss Fen stated.
’What is in that scroll?’ Lin Mu wondered and tried to focus on it.
’Oh? Dao Script?’ Lin Mu recognized the characters.
"This looks like the primordial script that some of the formations masters use." Shantung suddenly said.
"Primordial script? But isn’t that a lost language? Even the formation masters only know how to write them but don’t know their meaning." Another old man suddenly said.
Lin Mu’s ears perked up as he remembered that Old Man Jing Wei had also called Dao Script as the primordial script before. He had also seen some Dao Script characters being used in the formations Jing Wei had made.
While Lin Mu could not fully read the scroll from this angle, he decided to use his spirit sense to see what it exactly was. Since it had Dao Script written in it, Lin Mu was sure that there would be traces of spirit Qi that would allow him to read without directly interacting with Shantung’s spirit sense.
"What’s written in it?" Jingming Shang asked the question that everyone else had been wanting to ask.
"The scroll states that during the ancient war, a lot of clans that survived the collapse of the western continent moved to the great Zhou continent. These clans eventually joined other cultivation sects or created their own. While many faded away to the annals of time, a few still managed to survive.
But when the clans were escaping the western continent, not all of their people evacuated. There were still the main powerhouses of those clans that needed to stay back to fight the war. The few that were sent out were either younger members of the clans or even some of the branches.
The Mu clan of Fenlong kingdom is from one such Ancient Clan of the western continent... The Mulong Clan!" Shantung read.