Book 2: Chapter 9

Book 2: Chapter 9

I was very familiar with this sentence. Uncle Threeor someone elseleft it for me at the bottom of Warehouse Eleven.

The so-called Thunder City was said to be the place where Lei Zu (1) lived. Lei Zu was also known by two other names: the Heavenly Lord of Universal Transformation Whose Voice of Thunder Resonates from the Origin of the Nine Heavens and the Perfect King of Universal Transformation Whose Voice of Thunder Resonates with the Origin of the Nine Heavens.

In Taoism, Chen Wenyuthe governor of Leizhou in the Tang Dynastywas regarded as Lei Zu in later generations. Chen Wenyu was the child of a hunter from a tribe of ethnic minorities that had gathered at the edge of the South Sea during the Sui Dynasty. The hunter's name was Chen You. One day, he found a huge egg among a cluster of thorns. When a thunderstorm broke out, the egg cracked opened to reveal Chen Wenyu inside. Later, Chen Wenyu became the governor of Leizhou. He then went on to become an immortal in his later years. He was the only recorded Lei Zu in history.

Lei Zu was said to be the top-ranked god among those in the Thunder Department (2). It was also said in Chinese mythology that he was an extremely accurate "slayer" god.

The map in the South Sea Kings tomb indicated that the thunder contained some information that pointed to Thunder Citys location, but I didnt think the Thunder City there was the real Thunder City in the traditional sense. The people at that time probably got information from the thunder and thought that the place this map pointed to was Lei Zus immortal city.

In Taoism, thunder was the key to becoming immortal, so the alchemists all thought that it was an immortal land. Believing it to be a shortcut to becoming immortal, they flocked to it.

Coincidentally, the names Chen Wen-Jin and Chen Wenyu were very similar. And when Uncle Three was listening to thunder in the mountains, Chen Wen-Jin was among those in his group. For me, it was impossible to solve the mystery of Yang Daguang's family's origin of thunder, whether Chen Wen-Jin was related to the legendary Chen Wenyu, or whether it was all just coincidence.

But if we simply took it at face value, then the information appearing in the thunder may not have anything to do with the myth at all. It was a little too far-fetched for future generations to insist on associating Thunder City with a myth.

Uncle Three's so-called alleviating all regrets had nothing to do with Slayer God Lei Zu.

On the surveillance monitor, the sorceresss daughters mouth formed ten sentences in total. In fact, the amount of information was very sufficient, and Black Glasses only had trouble figuring out one sentence.

Ill write the information contained in these nine sentences below:

1. Going to Thunder City can alleviate all regrets.

2. Your mother is waiting for you there.

3. The people who go to Thunder City are actually chosen by heaven. Its not a spontaneous idea, you just dont realize it.

4. Only those who have huge regrets can feel the thunders message.

5. The people who come back from Thunder City arent humans, but immortals.

6. Immortals arent gods, but other things.

Then what exactly was the chumaxian that came back to the sorceresss daughter?

Could it be that immortal thing?

Did it make the sorceresss daughter directly flick her eyes back and forth like that so that it could look at people? Was the consciousness that twisted her limbs the same "thing" that came out of Thunder City?

If so, then did it kill the sorceresss daughter? In other words, it had been on the girls body and Black Glasses arrival suddenly motivated it to kill her.

This theory was later verified by Black Glasses, because after returning from the Northeast, he started to notice that something was riding on the back of his neck. That thing was a strange power that prevented him from looking up. Not only could he only look at his own feet, but his eyes began to rapidly deteriorate.

That immortal thing had finally come after him.

"But," Xie Yuchen said, "this time, it encountered a hard bone to swallow."

How did Black Glasses avoid the same end as the sorceress and the sorceresss daughter? How did he fight against this non-human, non-ghost thing and finally win? Thats a story for another time; a story thats related to a tall "living immortal". Its not convenient to discuss more here, but the final result was that the immortal thing suddenly disappeared and no one knew where it went.

Lets return to the jungles of Myanmar.

Black Glasses got rid of the so-called immortal thing and later thought that it was just a rare eye disease. Then, he met a woman who couldnt speak in Mute Village. After doing some calculations, he found that the womans age matched that of the little girl he had saved from the fire.

He saw that there was a strange thing behind the woman that looked like the thing he saw when he was doing the Chuma ritual with the sorceresss daughter.

This brought back his memories.

Long time no see, he thought to himself as he looked at that thing that was entangled around the girl's throat. Black Glasses smiled, its time for a showdown.

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TN Notes:

(1) Lei Zu is the highest ranked thunder god in Pure Taoist Religion according to this site. Lei Zu () can mean Thunder Patriarch or Thunder Ancestor. Fun fact: Lei Zu has a 3rd eye, which can see all things in the world and is in charge of yin and yang, good and evil, the Thunder Department, five elements, descendants, etc.

(2) Lei Bu (), or Thunder Department/Agency is a fourteen-member department that Lei Zu oversees. They deal with the functions of thunder, from providing rain to announcing fortune or misfortune, and even to conferring life or death after the inspection and evaluation of people.