Chapter 1145: Oracle Bone Inscription Stele - The temptation behind gentleness - NovelsTime

The temptation behind gentleness

Chapter 1145: Oracle Bone Inscription Stele

Author: Dazed old cat
updatedAt: 2025-09-21

After making all preparations, Su Fan carefully led Bai Jiajia into the thick fog.

The visibility in this place was extremely poor, and beyond ten steps, almost nothing could be seen.

However, for some unknown reason, there was always a path where the fog seemed lighter than the surrounding area.

Su Fan turned back for the last time and glanced at Bai Zongze.

He noticed Bai Zongze the Grandmaster's weathered face was filled with heavy gravitas and seriousness.

It was as if they weren't visiting the White Family Ancestral Land, but heading to the execution ground.

This made Su Fan abandon any joking mindset and become serious.

He continuously focused his attention on the surroundings while silently counting his steps in his mind.

Bai Jiajia followed behind him, not daring to breathe heavily.

According to Bai Zongze's instructions, Su Fan soon walked over two hundred steps.

Yet he still hadn't seen anything peculiar in this place.

Everything around was unchanged from the beginning.

He even felt like he might have been tricked by Bai Zongze the Grandmaster.

It wasn't until he had walked three hundred and sixty-five steps that Su Fan realized there were indeed things in this world that he couldn't understand.

A long stone staircase appeared in front of him, similar to those mountain climbing steps seen in any scenic area.

These stone steps led upward, seemingly to a mid-mountain location.

Bai Jiajia noticed Su Fan stopping and couldn't help but ask, "Is something wrong?"

Su Fan pointed at the stone steps and the mountain before them, saying, "During the day, this mountain should be visible."

"But we've been here many times, and I've never seen these stone steps."

"In other words, during the day, these stone steps seem to not exist."

Bai Jiajia was shocked upon hearing this, "Really?"

Su Fan said uncertainly, "Maybe I overlooked them, or the mountain I saw was not this one."

"But as far as I know, Yue Tan Mountain has never been developed by any tour company."

"These Han dynasty white jade steps are clearly not naturally formed."

"Although I don't know why, it appears something strange did happen."

"Let's go up and take a look."

Bai Jiajia nodded, then took a semi-automatic handgun in her hand, nervously following Su Fan tightly.

Su Fan wielded a three-foot sword and began to lead Bai Jiajia up the mountain.

Climbing up these white jade stone steps, one could reach the mid-mountain area.

This place was an incredibly large platform.

On the platform, there were many Han Dynasty-style buildings.

At the entrance, there was a large turtle carrying a long stone tablet.

The stone tablet bore a simple map.

Unfortunately, the characters on it were all Oracle Bone Script, none of which Su Fan could recognize.

But from the simple map, he could roughly understand.

Following the side path further up, it led to the White Family Ancestral Tomb.

As for other places on the map, they were more difficult to guess.

Su Fan simply took out his phone and started taking pictures.

The phone had no signal here, but it didn't affect the basic functions.

After taking pictures, Su Fan said to Bai Jiajia, "Let's go back first, we'll return tomorrow."

This place was very large and contained many areas.

Trying to thoroughly study these places couldn't be done in a short time.

Moreover, the architecture was similar to the Han Dynasty, but the written characters were the even older Oracle Bone Script.

To gain something here, it might require studying Oracle Bone Script after returning.

Luckily, they were Orientals, whose language and script evolved from Oracle Bone Script.

If foreigners came here, it would be troublesome, they might think this was left by extraterrestrial visitors.

Even if they recognized it as Oracle Bone Script, their studies of Chinese might drive them to despair, learning Oracle Bone Script would be too difficult.

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