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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.