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Eventually, the brave general died in a bloody battle. The moment He was killed by the enemy, the wind started to pick up and the clouds rolled in forming into a shape of a horse in the sky. The horse radiated an aura and then flied to Bảo Hà. When it reached Bảo Hà; the sky suddenly got clear and
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A watercolor painting depicts the Second Venerable Mandarin of Mountain in the Four Palaces denomination, Vietnam's indigenous Mother Goddess religion.
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