Bai Junjun calmly reminded, "The Ancient Treasure Box."
Everyone finally came to their senses and nodded, "Right, right, right, let’s continue our discussion."
"What was the Ancient Treasure Box used for again?"
"..." Bai Junjun sighed helplessly and continued to prompt, "How to make the living dead."
"Ah, right, right, right, what is the principle behind this?" Everyone turned their eyes to Wu Nuan, ready to listen.
Wu Nuan didn’t expect that everyone still remembered this matter, but now she knew that since they were all in the same boat, there was no need to hide it anymore, so she told the truth, "The stone inside the Ancient Treasure Box is a meteorite from beyond the sky. It is said that Immortals brought it to this continent, and at that time, with Immortals and Demons causing chaos, the Immortals brought this stone to suppress the energy of the Demons. Unexpectedly, once the stone arrived in this world, it went out of control. Not only could it suppress the energy of the Demons, but even the energy of the Immortals was affected.
Later, both Immortals and Demons withdrew from this world, leaving the stone to be guarded by the descendants of the Immortals.
The descendants of the Immortals are the predecessors of Witch Ancestor Mountain. To suppress the stone’s energy, they melted the first of the Four Ancient Swords, Azure Tail, into the Mystic Iron Treasure Box."
What Wu Nuan spoke of was the deeply held secrets of Witch Ancestor Mountain, unknown to ordinary people.
Hearing this, Mr. Shan Hai sighed deeply, "No wonder for thousands of years, sightings of Bailou, Mysterious Dipper, and Vermilion Demon have occurred multiple times, but never that of Azure Tail. People thought Azure Tail had departed this realm with the Immortals, little realizing that it had been destroyed long ago."
As he spoke, he sighed with heartache, and everyone could feel that his mood was even more somber than when they heard about the destruction of the ruler’s tomb in the central mountains.
No wonder, after all, Azure Tail was the foremost of the Four Famous Swords and its long absence from the world only added to its mystique; anyone would feel heartache hearing that such a treasured sword was destroyed.
"How can this stone, meant to suppress foreign entities, also be used to create living dead?" Obsessed with academic research, Dan He, and unlike Shan Hai, who was obsessed with material research, was only focused on the stone itself and found it all the more curious.
"The meteorite indeed only used to suppress the energy of Immortals, Demons, and the like, associated with the five elements, but a thousand years ago, Witch Ancestor Mountain once had a Great Gu Master, who secretly refined the meteorite. Since then, this stone has had the power to turn living humans into Poisoned Men. However, the Great Gu Master eventually sealed the stone himself and destroyed the secret technique of its creation. Little did he know, not long after, there were traitors from the Five Ancestors Mountain. They stole the Sacred Object, and henceforth the Ancient Treasure Box has been lost to the outside world."
What Wu Nuan said was undoubtedly very useful information for Bai Junjun, given that she was, after all, the person who had been in contact with this stone the most in this world.
She had never imagined the secret of the Treasure Box would be found here.
Speaking of which, this stone inherently possesses Earth Series Abilities, and there is a concept of barriers within the Earth Series itself; it must be this ’barrier’ that disrupted the elements such as metal, wood, water, fire, and earth around it, rendering them into a state of nothingness.
Therefore, they are unable to use any Special Abilities.
Regardless of whether Immortals, Demons, and such existed in ancient times or not, even if they did, their Spells were probably related to metal, wood, water, and fire, and thus were suppressed.
That’s why the Immortals disposed of this harmful treasure.
As for why it was later able to refine Poisoned Men with Earth Series Abilities, it must have something to do with the strange soil eaten by Little Moss.
Perhaps the Gu Master attached some soil containing Gu insects and fungus to the surface of the stone; as long as the fungus is awakened, it could immediately infect a person, turning them into the so-called Zombies.
The method for creating Poison Practitioners was destroyed by the Great Gu Master, leaving the traitors no choice but to steal the stone and research it on their own.