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Li Banfeng opened the seal box. A golden seal lay inside. The front of the seal was engraved with a silvery-white ring identical to the pattern on the box.
He put both the seal and the box away. The soil underneath was looser than the ground around it, most likely so the seal could absorb cultivation more easily.
Li Banfeng dug more than fifteen centimeters down with his bare hands. He did not find a contract, but he did find a gleaming iron plate shaped like an arched roof tile.
What is this iron plate for?
Eight large crimson words had been engraved vertically across its surface: The proof of this land spanning fifty kilometers.
Is this the contract? Li Banfeng wondered.
Dark flecks of blood stained the engraved characters.
Whose blood is it? The local land deity's?
Li Banfeng looked at the back of the iron plate. Two lines of small words were engraved there.
The first line read: The Mountain-Uprooting Lord was granted this land.
The second line read: The Mountain-Uprooting Lord was defeated by Bei Wushuang and ceded five kilometers of land to the southeast.
What does the second line mean? Li Banfeng wondered again. He knew what it meant. It meant that the Mountain-Uprooting Lord had been defeated by a land deity named Bei Wushuang and had ceded five kilometers of land.
Li Banfeng just couldn't help but wonder, Who wrote that line? Did the Mountain-Uprooting Lord engraved it herself after being defeated? That can't be right. Once a contract is buried, it can't be dug up again.
Digging it up would cost the land deity their standing. In that...
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