Chapter 3096

He finished speaking and pointed out two of the divine sigils in particular.

These two symbols run through almost all formations, but they exist neither in human language nor in the language of the heavenly demons.

The Red General glanced at them and said: "These are quite ancient characters, called fu ling, dating back to the era of the Three Holy Gods, usually used as the central symbols in formations. After the era of the Three Holy Gods, most heavenly demons can't read them either. The meaning of the first fu ling above is 'soul', and the second is 'body'."

"Soul? Body?" Xiao Hanzi actually reached up and scratched the back of his head, "This doesn't quite make sense."

He Lingchuan asked: "How so?"

"Among these seven formations, there are open formations and hidden formations. Open formations are immediately visible, serving to guide and gather, with the central fu ling being 'body'; but the hidden formations lurking beneath have the core function of separation, with the central fu ling being 'soul'. Xiao Hanzi added, "Not to boast, but few people in the world can extract the hidden formation from this composite formation. Even if this sigil formation was carved by the God of Coming and Going, he knows nothing of the true profundity of formations."

He Lingchuan believed this, because he himself found it exceptionally obscure.

Xiao Hanzi emphasized his tone: "If you take away those three open formations above and only look at the lowest hidden formation, I would think,"

The main event has arrived: "This is a sacrificial sigil formation."

Sacrifice? He Lingchuan and the Red General couldn't help but exchange a glance, then asked: "Are you sure?"

It wasn't that they doubted Xiao Hanzi's expertise, but this inference was really somewhat — 【12】 Xiao Hanzi wasn't annoyed, equally solemn: "I'm not sure, this is just my speculation."

Xiao Hanzi wasn't angered either, wearing an equally solemn expression: "I'm not certain; this is merely my inference."

The Red General immediately said: "Who does the Lingxu Holy Venerable wish to sacrifice, and to whom is it offered?"

In other words, who is made the offering, and who enjoys the offering?

"What the formation draws out is the soul." Xiao Hanzi also puzzled, "Unless these altars will have other offerings at the time, and what is drawn out is the offering's soul. Otherwise — 【16】 The implication of his words was very clear: if no other offerings are prepared, then the five great heavenly demons themselves are the offerings!

The implication of his words was already quite obvious — if no other offerings were prepared, then the Five Great Heavenly Demons themselves were the offerings!

"The function of the final sigil formation is 'gathering'." Xiao Hanzi explained, "Any effective altar will transmit the energy of the offering to a designated target, this process is called 'gathering'."

"In this altar, the target of the gathering is the Lingxu Holy Venerable, right?"

"This symbol." Xiao Hanzi took out a piece of blue jade tablet from his storage ring, "The formation master has finished carving it, but hasn't yet placed it into the Pisha Heaven Altar. They handed this over to me."

This jade tablet is of excellent quality, with no impurities, and moreover it is spirit jade, which could fetch a good price even if thrown into a market for sale. The symbols on the tablet are also quite composite, at first glance like three waves rotating clockwise, then like three fern fronds, and when stared at until the eyes swim, it seems like a rotating three-pronged dart.

In the center is embedded a round blue gemstone.

The Red General glanced at it and said: "This should be the life sigil of the Lingxu Holy Venerable."

"Should be?" Xiao Hanzi wondered, "I once saw the life divinity of the Lingxu Holy Venerable in the ancient war, and it didn't look like this."

"The life divinity is different, it changes appearance." The Red General explained, "The Lingxu Holy Venerable loves to say one thing: life has no constant state."

He Lingchuan casually picked up the blue jade tablet: "So the energy gathered by this altar will flow toward the life divinity."

As soon as he finished speaking, the blue jade tablet burst forth with a faint blue light.

Has the life sigil been activated?

The three were greatly startled, and the Red General immediately said: "Be careful!"

He Lingchuan and Xiao Hanzi both gathered their true energy, staying on guard, but this divine sigil tablet merely glowed, with no abnormality.

He Lingchuan placed the tablet back on the table, and the blue light gradually faded.

"I've held it and studied it for several days, and it didn't glow. Why is it different in your hands?" Xiao Hanzi casually picked up the tablet.

Sure enough, nothing happened.

But when He Lingchuan just took the divine sigil tablet from his hand, the tablet began to glow blue again.

Xiao Hanzi and the Red General looked at him and then at the tablet, both feeling puzzled.

"This sigil tablet points to the life divinity." Xiao Hanzi said with a playful tone, "Are you connected to the tablet, or to the life divinity?"

He Lingchuan spread his hands: "I'm also completely at a loss."

He is the vanguard in the fight against the heavenly demons, if one were to say who in the world is irreconcilable with the heavenly demons, besides the Red General, it is him.

Yet why does the sigil tablet pointing to the life divinity glow as soon as it is handed to him?

Strange and marvelous.

The Red General gave him an idea: "Can you use your fate divinity to peek into the causality there?"

"I've tried, and I only saw a blue line on this divine sigil tablet, leading into the sky. This should be the connection between the life divinity and this sigil tablet." He Lingchuan reported truthfully, "As for my entanglement with the life divinity, it's intermittent, I can't see it clearly."

The power of causality isn't that easy to use, because he himself hasn't figured out the cause and effect, so he can't make a proper deduction.

Xiao Hanzi exclaimed in surprise: "You really have a connection with the Lingxu Holy Venerable!"

The word "connection" made He Lingchuan fall into silence, because he suddenly recalled something:

Although he has never met the Lingxu Holy Venerable, there is indeed a connection between them:

The heart core of the small world!

According to the God of Coming and Going, the Lingxu Holy Venerable destroyed a small world over twenty years ago, seized its heart core, and then brought it to the Eternal Volcano for refining. The Red General also judged that the Lingxu Holy Venerable likely fused it with his own life divinity.

And He Lingchuan's soul very likely comes from that world.

So reversing the inference, the blue jade sigil tablet glowing upon touching him is very likely because the world's heart core and his soul have produced a certain — 【50】 Resonance?

Resonance?

This also confirms that the Lingxu Holy Venerable is the culprit who destroyed his original world!

But this secret, he has never shared with a second person, not even the Red General knows.

The three fell silent for a while, then the Red General asked again: "How long does it take to construct this altar?"

"The foundation alone takes two months." Xiao Hanzi had also asked those formation masters about this question, "The formation is overly complex, just carving it consumes labor and time, and a single mistake requires starting over. Moreover, after carving, it still needs polishing and inspection to ensure smooth operation when the time comes."

Fine work takes time, speed cannot be rushed.

"The Lingxu gods have already descended to the human realm, and the second descent won't be far off." Judging from the current situation, after the Lingxu gods descend, they do not have an overwhelming advantage over human forces, so the Lingxu Holy Venerable and other great heavenly demons also want to descend to the lower realm as soon as possible. "In other words, the altars of the other great heavenly demons are also being rushed into production."

"The God of Coming and Going said he carved the divine sigils of the five great heavenly demons. That is to say, by then there will be at least five altars of great heavenly demons activated in the world."