Shen Yue's expression was somber.
The change was very strange; when he had seen the cat-shaped stone statue, he felt something odd in his heart. It was indeed a stone sculpture resembling a cat, but in such a place, why would someone carve a stone cat and place it here?
In ancient China, many tombs possessed tomb-guarding beasts.
Tomb-guarding beasts were an ancient custom. The ancients believed that after death, various wild ghosts and lost souls would harm the spirit of the deceased so they used tomb-guarding beasts to ward off evil, to prevent the tomb owner from being harmed.
The "Rites of Zhou" recorded that there was a monster called Wangxiang that fed on the liver and brains of the dead, and a divine beast called Fangxiangshi that drove away Wangxiangs, as such in ancient times, people liked to place Fangxiangshi beside tombs to protect the dead.
