My Substitute CEO Bride (Nash Calicraft) novel Chapter 2602

Esen began his tale. Fogort already knew about the Six Ritualistic Weapons, so only a brief explanation was given.

[In the past, the human emperor wielded the Six Ritualistic Weapons to battle the divine emperor. That battle was said to have shaken heaven and earth. In the end, the human emperor was exhausted and was eventually defeated by the divine emperor.

[From then on, humanity fell completely under the gods' control until a thousand years ago.

[At that time, the last human emperor fought desperately against the gods' rule. Ultimately, he gathered the power of the Six Ritualistic Weapons to wound the divine emperor severely. After that, humanity regained control of the earth.

[The divine emperor appointed the gods’ overseers under the pretext of healing his injuries. During that time, he secretly searched for the lost Six Ritualistic Weapons. He wanted to destroy them.

[At the same time, the descendants of the human emperor established the Six Great Sects—Hydra Hill, Goodspear Mountain, Abundance Mountain... These six sects were entrusted with a great responsibility, and each sect master came into possession of one of the artifacts.

[Their mission is to select worthy individuals to inherit this power and fight when the gods return. This is the secret I want to tell you.

[Goodspear Mountain holds the artifact known as the Chaos Talisman, while Hydra Hill's artifact is called the Heaven-Shaking Tome.

[You've probably guessed most of it by now. Your grandmaster and my junior, Mirolav, chose to fight to inherit the Heaven-Shaking Tome. But in the end...

[That day, after Mirolav went mad, I struggled to subdue him. But strangely enough, I couldn’t find the Heaven-Shaking Tome anywhere… Even after turning Hydra Hill upside down, the tome was nowhere to be found.

[I often go searching for it in the past years. It was during one of those searches that I met Whistler. While I still haven't found it, perhaps you're capable of inheriting it.

[But that’s beside the point. To avoid drawing attention and exposing the situation, I kept the truth hidden all these years and searched for it on my own… Unfortunately, the Heaven-Shaking Tome seems to have vanished without a trace. Even with my cultivation level, I haven’t been able to locate it.

“Actually, there's something I still don’t quite understand,” Fogort interjected.

“What is it?”

“If what Master Aellopus said is true and Alistair's body holds the Heaven-Shaking Tome, how exactly did he come to possess it?”

“What are you trying to say?”

Fogort shook his head. “Nothing, I'm just thinking about something irrelevant. Anyway, let’s figure out our next steps.”