Chapter 59: Taotie, the Gluttonous Beast

Translator: Dragon Boat Translation Editor: Dragon Boat Translation

Gu Qingluan shook her head, unable to fully understand the origin and meaning behind it all.

She refrained from indulging in further speculation and slowly scanned the reliefs.

She had a lingering sense that these carvings held more than just decorative value.

Perhaps they could reveal something crucial.

Su Lie, upon hearing her analysis, joined her in the search.

Suddenly, Gu Qingluan’s gaze halted.

On one of the walls, there was a carving—a depiction of a Taotie with the body of a bull and the face of a human, its mouth wide open, revealing its blood-stained maw. Before it lay a twisted representation of the cosmos, encompassing the sun, moon, and stars.

The representation of the sun, moon, and stars symbolized the vast universe and all creation.

As for the Taotie, it was one of the four ancient ferocious beasts, notorious for its insatiable greed.

Though Gu Qingluan had never seen a Taotie in person, she had heard of its existence.

was said to consume the heavens, the earth, and even the air,

such a

symbolize their desire to consume all the wealth in

touched the relief. Unlike the Pixiu, which symbolized wealth accumulation,

family use the Taotie to represent their obsession with amassing

furrow formed on Gu Qingluan’s brow as her finger traced over

pain, as if pricked

the wound, seeping

force drawing her blood away, Gu Qingluan’s expression turned solemn. She tried to

if it were stuck to the stone wall, and the blood from her body continued

was something amiss with this stone

raised her other hand and quickly pressed several acupoints on her

fingertips gathered profound energy and struck the stone

the wall,

sensing the fluctuation of profound energy, looked over and noticed something was amiss. He hurriedly

air, his heart tightened, and he

towards her,

Gu

Lie’s hand froze in mid-air, realizing that the situation was

there!” Gu

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