Chapter 3037: Strange Altar

Meng Shan suddenly understood: "I was wondering, how could she have missed such a battle before?"

Two hundred years ago, Liu Tiao became a heroic spirit along with everyone in Panlongcheng; although he later sacrificed himself in the Panlong world, the Great Square Vessel turned from void to substance, bringing all those heroic spirits back to the human world.

She also thus reunited with the door panel.

After returning to reality, she remained a renowned female general in the Panlong Army, which is why Meng Shan asked about her.

"By the way, after returning to reality, I occasionally get headaches at night. The Red General said it's due to the overlapping of inner and outer memories. What about you? Do you experience the same?"

"I'm fine, no problems." Men Ban touched his nose, "But when we just returned to reality with the Great Square Vessel, I saw Liu Tiao again, overjoyed I hugged her, only to be punched twice by her, seeing stars and bleeding from the nose."

"Heh heh, well punched!" Then Meng Shan asked, "Why?"

"Liu Tiao sacrificed early in reality and never married me, so she thinks I'm clumsy. After returning to the human world for half a day, she only then remembered everything from the Panlong world, feeling a bit embarrassed." The two sets of memories overlapped, inevitably causing some discrepancies.

He sighed: "Such situations are not uncommon in the army; we've caused quite a mess."

"But back two hundred years ago, we wouldn't dare dream that one day we could destroy both the Between Between Between Beijia and Qie Ya barbarian states!" Meng Shan declared heroically, "There's a restaurant ahead, come on, let me treat the brothers to a meal!"

Back then, Panlongcheng's opponents were only Ba Ling and Xian You, while Between Between Between Beijia lurked behind the scenes as the black hand; the entire city's military and civilians sacrificed tragically and resentfully; now Panlongcheng has joined Cang Yan and the War Alliance, in just over ten days first destroying Po Lang then Hao Ling, such exaggerated battle achievements were unimaginable even in dreams before! ￥￥￥￥￥

The battle at Hao Ling Palace has ended, with logistics already clearing the battlefield and handling aftermath.

He Lingchuan then went with Dong Rui to the Jia Lou Heavenly God Temple one

He still harbored resentment toward this place.

Dong Rui held a small bowl in his hand, inside which a peculiar plant was grown in humus soil, entirely snow-white from stem to flower.

"What is this?"

"It's the Crystal Orchid given by the Red General, also called the Flower of Death, which is especially sensitive to the aura of demons."

They walked into the vast square before the temple, Dong Rui carrying the Crystal Orchid back and forth for several hundred steps. This orchid originally drooped its head, forming a closed trumpet shape, but as he moved to different positions, the flower opened and closed intermittently, though with varying degrees.

Then, Dong Rui stopped at the western side of the square. Only upon reaching this spot would the orchid bloom fully.

"Dig downward from here."

He Lingchuan snapped his fingers, and several thousand people arrived with tools.

The reason divine powers or Jin Jia divine generals weren't used for digging is because manual digging allows finer precision, making it less likely to damage what lies below.

The large white jade bricks on the surface were dug up, and the underground soil was turned over.

Then, the laborers unearthed something at a depth of two zhang underground.

This is a huge oval stone slab, about two zhang in length, entirely dark green, with surface carvings resembling leaves or some kind of insect. He Lingchuan gazed at it, noting it bore some resemblance to the trilobite specimen he had seen in another world.

The slab looked like stone carving, but felt elastic to the touch; pressing hard a few times still caused it to rebound, like some kind of hard rubber.

Dong Rui suddenly said: "Hey, look—the petals of the Crystal Orchid have suddenly flipped outward, revealing the stamen."

The entirely snow-white Flower of Death, its stamen is actually bright red, striking and alluring, like a drop of blood fallen on snow.

"What does this mean?"

"I don't know." Dong Rui scratched his head, "Better ask the Death God herself."

He Lingchuan had no choice but to open the mirror and activate long-range divine communication.

Soon, Sun Fuling's apparition appeared in the mirror:

"What's wrong?"

She had already changed back into her regular clothes.

The Red General also doesn't like wearing helmets and masks much, bored.

He Lingchuan lightly coughed: "Busy or not?"

"Busy."

"Where are you?"

"In the palace." Sun Fuling replied irritably, "You dumped all the work on me—can I not be busy?"

He Lingchuan chuckled twice, knowing he was being somewhat inconsiderate. Dong Rui expressed dissatisfaction beside him: "Hey, can we talk about the proper matter?" He then reported the abnormal conditions at the Jia Lou Heavenly God Temple.

Upon hearing that the Crystal Orchid had flipped to reveal red stamens, Sun Fuling immediately said:

"Interesting."

"How so?" He Lingchuan asked her, "Could there still be relics of Jia Lou Heaven here?"

"No. Only when it senses the aura of a divine life essence does the Flower of Death flip to reveal a red heart."

"Divine life essence?" He Lingchuan startled: "Ling Xu Sheng Zun?"

"Let me examine those talisman slabs."

He Lingchuan flipped the mirror, aligning the mirror surface with the talisman slab just unearthed by everyone.

"Ling Xu Sheng Zun possesses many life divine talismans; this is one of them." Sun Fuling examined the carvings on the slab, "It represents the converging power of life."

"Converging?" He Lingchuan pondered, "What does he intend to converge here?"

Then he had someone ask the Hao Ling King. The latter had his cultivation sealed and was imprisoned.

Not long after, the answer arrived:

After the fall of Jia Lou Heaven, this temple was abandoned. However, a few days ago, Ling Xu Sheng Zun demanded the Hao Ling King establish an altar on this square, with blueprints already specified; the most important point was burying the stone slab underground.

Moreover, it must be completed within half a month.

Ba Ji City had only finished half the work when the Cang Yan army arrived to attack, so the altar was naturally left unfinished.

As for what this altar is for, Ling Xu Sheng Zun did not specify.

"An altar?" Sun Fuling mused, "Do you still remember the two altars dismantled by Shuang Ye?"

Shuang Ye was a man-eater, and incidentally dismantled the altar the Heavenly Palace was constructing.

Now the Hao Ling state has seen a third one appear.

He Lingchuan had been studying the stone slab, and at this moment discovered a clue: "Is there still a mechanism here?"

He found the slab was actually double-layered; pressing the mechanism could detach the upper layer, while beneath lay another symbol.

Still the symbol of the heavenly demon.

Sun Fuling looked at it and said: "Interesting, it's actually the divine talisman of Vaisravana Heaven?"

Many of the great heavenly demons and heavenly demons who recently joined the Lingxu Assembly are from Vaisravana Heaven, one of them. Chi had long been at odds with Bai Zhan Tian, and only after Bai Zhan Tian fell did he agree to join the Lingxu Assembly.

Many heavenly demons have divine talismans, which are marks of their individuality and identity.

"Why would the divine talisman of the great heavenly demon Vaisravana Heaven be mixed together with the life divine form of the Lingxu Holy Venerable on this altar?"

Sun Fuling pondered for a long time before saying: "The残躯 of the Luxuriant Hidden Divine Lord in the hands of the heavenly god was originally insufficient for all heavenly demons to use in descending to the lower realm, and this batch of heavenly demons and great heavenly demons from Vaisravana Heaven were later additions to the Lingxu Assembly. That is to say, the mortal vessels in the lower realm may have already been fully distributed, leaving none for us."