A Sect from a Spirit Vein

Chapter 485: Chapter 436: Immortal Temple (Part 2)

She turned back and instructed the strong man a few words, who looked at Lu Qian with discontent before retreating.

Soon, Lu Qian understood what arrangements were being made.

The master of Tieyuan, Golden Core Master Ye Xiao, had moved his traveling palace here!

It was a giant floating battleship, sixty zhang long from head to tail, four times the size of the Void-Soaring and Distant-Guarding Divine Ship.

The ship was covered with arrays and talismans of various colors, dazzling and mesmerizing. On the deck, there was a splendid seven-story pavilion, luxurious and magnificent, with gold gleaming banners fluttering on the masts.

The massive sails bore the name of this divine ship.

Spirit Flying Shunji Divine Ship!

Without a doubt, this was also an elite-level floating battleship. Its enormous size was truly breathtaking.

But the specifics of its armaments were unclear; now this divine ship served simply as Ye Xiao’s traveling palace.

In Ye Xiao’s words, during Lu Qian’s array-breaking period, he was a guest of honor, and all his demands would be met in the traveling palace.

Curious, Lu Qian boarded the ship and entered the building. Despite having experienced modern decadence, he could only marvel at a scene like this he had never witnessed.

All requests could be fulfilled—this was not an empty promise.

After dismissing the triplet girls with charming, pure, and pitiable styles, Lu Qian decided it was best not to engage too much to maintain his simple and austere lifestyle.

However, Lu Qian did not perceive Ye Xiao as an extravagant Golden Core Master. He also encountered other guests in the building. After brief exchanges, Lu Qian understood the significance of this traveling palace.

This was merely a method for the poor Tieyuan County and the weak Huanggen Sect to attract cultivators.

In being so overt in their efforts, Master Cangfeng could say nothing, yet he had faith in Lu Qian and did not interfere in the slightest.

Seeing Lu Qian eat and drink as he should, rest a while on the Spirit Flying Shunji Divine Ship, and then return to the cave to continue breaking the array, showing no signs of decadence, Ye Xiao was not the least bit annoyed, even praised him in front of Master Cangfeng.

Indeed, this Sect Leader Lu was no ordinary person!

In the blink of an eye, twenty days passed. The group returned to the array’s front, waiting quietly.

Lu Qian clapped his hands lightly. The Dao Pattern moved, and a transforming Five Elements Spiritual Qi was injected into the final node.

The spiritual energy in the array fluctuated, transformed, twisted, and resonated. The node shattered, the pattern fractured. ℯℯ𝘭.𝘤ℴ𝘮

With a pop, like a bubble bursting, the glow flared up and receded, mist dispersed, and the ancient array was broken!

The cave’s rock walls only shed some dust without collapsing.

”Glad not to have failed.” Lu Qian opened his eyes, his wave-like Divine Sense completely withdrew to the Niwan Palace, and the spiritual power in his body settled down.

”Well done!” Ye Xiao praised, as the group looked into the array. Everything in the mountain’s belly appeared crystal clear before their eyes.

A round three-tiered altar, an approximately zhang-high... temple?

Master Cangfeng pondered for a moment: ”Yan Beixing, you stay and guard, don’t let irrelevant parties in.”

In truth, this place was in the heart of Tieyuan County, and Ye Xiao’s Spirit Flying Shunji Divine Ship had left after completing its task, so no one would enter anyway. He said this only out of safety concerns, not wanting Yan Beixing to take risks.

Ye Xiao thought for a moment and left the strong man as well.

The two Golden Core’s gazes turned to Lu Qian, who waved his hand: ”I’ve expended quite a bit; I’ll rest for a while and not go in.”

Even though he claimed a tenth of the spoils, this ancient array was at least ten thousand years old. With both altar and temple inside, it was exceedingly mysterious, so why take the risk?

Besides, since Master Cangfeng and Ye Xiao had made their commitments, truly any gains wouldn’t exclude his share.

The two Golden Cores would naturally not press, glancing at each other, their formidable Golden Core Divine Senses filled the hundred-zhang-wide cave.

They explored almost inch by inch, though found nothing else.

No mechanisms, no hidden objects, just an altar and a temple.

Simultaneously, Golden Core Spiritual Pressure rose from both, and the Spiritual Light of magical treasures in their chests flared out as they cautiously moved inside.

Lu Qian sat cross-legged, quietly observing their actions. The previous reason was just an excuse; actually, everything on the last day went smoothly, with little Divine Sense consumption, no adjustment necessary.

Master Cangfeng and Ye Xiao maintained an outward flow of Divine Sense, approaching the altar, inspecting it bit by bit.

The three-layered jade altar was actually a third-level jade tier. At the top of the altar, sat a large square tripod.

Though so much time had passed, nourished by the Spirit Vein’s spiritual energy, the jade altar had not fossilized and still emitted a gentle glow, while the nine-foot-long square tripod glimmered with a faint azure light, showing no signs of rust.

But on the tripod and jade steps, mottled, irregular black-brown stains were everywhere, deeply soaking into the jade steps, forming large patches of color in the white jade.

Master Cangfeng said solemnly, ”It’s blood.”

Indeed, it was blood, splattered everywhere, saturating the altar in fresh blood.

Ye Xiao squinted, the glow of his treasured artifact shining brighter. The two Golden Cores stood side by side, leapt up, and peered into the tripod.

Inside the tripod were disordered piles of skulls and bones!

Once, a cruel ritual took place here, with the sacrificial offerings being humans!

To sacrifice humans, this place was by no means good!