I immediately looked back to see Chuyi’s reaction and he confirmed my guess.

This place was indeed Mount Shouyang, the real one. Boyi and Shuqi had died in that cave because of hunger. They had witnessed the brutal ruling of the Zhou Dynasty before they died; that was the reason for their lingering resentment after their deaths, as they left this world with concerns about the welfare of the common people.

Evil cultists eventually found their corpses; they dried them and sealed the resentment energy inside the grain pouch, to later harness it against the Zhou Dynasty.

The grain pouch had slowly turned into an otherworldly item. The two dried corpses remained, strengthening the effect of the pouch and turning the mountain cave into a lair of hungry ghosts.

The descendants of that evil...