by Fang Xiang
They had lost their minds but the jinzhi inside their bodies were still present so they innately feared the presence of the sun.
The Sun Crystal seed was a true sun, even though it had not fully formed, it still had the purest sun presence. Qing Lin had also used the entire power of the shen temple to open a bit of the Sun Crystal Seed’s seal. Even though it was just a thread, it was the purest sun presence and was bright like a star in the night sky.
Passing through the Bloody Water Secret Realm, he came to the sacrificial altar.
The altar in the Sun Shen Temple was extremely large in scale. It was shaped like a sun, its entire structure was golden yellow like it was made from pure gold. It was more than three li in diameter, and had eighteen flights of stairs that were each five li long which spread outwards from the altar to form eighteen sun flame strips.
At the very center of the sacrificial altar, a bright red flame was silently burning.
Zuo Mo climbed onto the alter. Under his feet were dense scripts that formed formations that he could not understand. Maybe it wasn’t a formation. It was hard to say if there were formations in that era.
His gaze landed on that thread of red flame in the center of the altar.
That flame was just the size of a finger, its entire body as red as blood as it silently pulsed.
At this moment, the Sun Crystal Seed on top of Zuo Mo’s head suddenly hummed, a golden light shooting from the Sun Crystal Seed towards the red flame in the center of the altar.
The red flame suddenly expanded to the height of a person.
Boom!
An invisible ripple spread inside the shen temple with the flame as the center.
The scripts on the floor of the altar started to light up. The red light flowed onto the scripts on the ground as though red blood was being added.
Zuo Mo felt his head ring.
An ancient and desolate horn, the howls of unusual beasts that covered the sky, the figure among the sunlight that seemed like a god … …
It flowed across his mind and he lost focus.
———
The sun in the sky above the Sun Shen Temple suddenly released countless red flames that wrapped onto the dark gold sun!
A deep rumble came from the ground as though there were monsters underneath.
The xiuzhe that had been staying near the Sun Shen Temple gaped. Their eyes seemed to be glued to the Sun Shen Temple and were unable to move away.
The Sun Shen Temple of which only a corner could be seen was now being pulled up.
There seemed to be an invisible hand that was forcibly pulling it up.
The cloud sea roiled, the golden light was thousands of zhang!
After being sealed for tens of thousands of years, the shen temple of the once-greatest tribe slowly rose and showed its true appearance.
After the passage of tens of thousands of years, it was enough to turn sea into land, enough for immortals to turn to dust!
The hero that had once dominated the world only had one last gasp left, like an old person that was sick and weak.
But the hero was still the hero. Even if there was only one breath left, he still had the presence that could look down on the world!
Among the great rumble, the Sun Shen Temple was pulled up. The blinding light pierced the sky and the layers of the cloud sea roiled.
The Sun Shen Temple that had disappeared for tens of thousands of words appeared proudly in front of the world with its powers from the ancient era tens of thousands of years ago.
On some of the eighteen enormous golden pillars was a golden crow statue. The golden crows stood silently at the top of the pillars and looked down indifferently at the people. It was unknown if they were inanimate or not.
The enormous pillars seemed to be made from gold. It had flowers, grasses, strange beasts and suns carved on it. The eighteen golden pillars were placed in a zig-zag manner. Light and shadow moved between the pillars and there were layers of light so that one was only able to barely discern the structure of the temple inside it.
The curtain of light was like thin layer of silk that separated the shen temple from the outside.
The mountains around the shen temple were dyed gold by the light and became golden mountains.
Elder Shen and Li Shu who had rushed over due to the disturbance had ugly expressions. Their faces were full of disbelief as they looked at the shen temple. For the first time, Li Shu had a panicked expression.
Was the shen temple being activated … … how was it possible … …
How could the sect leader’s divination be incorrect?
Wasn’t there two more days before the shen temple would open?
———
Not far away from them, the middle-aged male’s face was black.
Impossible … … how could the shen temple activate prematurely?
Beside him, the Masked Assassin stood woodenly.
At this time, the empty eyes of the golden crows on the tops of the pillars sudden became filled with golden flame. The statue-like golden crows twisted their bodies. Crack bang, crack bang, shattered stone continuously dropped from their bodies.
They had become alive!
Translator Ramblings: Filler chapter … …
And in addition to my workload, I am officially a part of the winter flu population.
Chapter 498: Golden Crow Sacrifice
The red eyes of the golden crows were like two burning balls of fire. Their inky black wings had criss-crossing golden scripts that appeared blinding and grand. They stood high up on the rock pillars and looked down at the people, their fire-red eyes filled with the indifference and disdain like that of deities.
They seemed to have just woken up from a deep sleep as they lazily flapped their wings as though no one was around.
The spectators had started to rumble. Golden crows, wondrous beasts from the ancient times, were alive right in front of them!
In the ancient era, the golden crow was a beast that represented the sun. The flames it produced were as fiery as the sun and could dissolve the hardest metals. They were so strong that people feared them!
But like the other famed beasts of the ancient era, they disappeared in the long river of time and disappeared from people’s views.
At this time, there were ten golden crows appearing in front of them. The blow and shock that they gave the spectators was peerless! Even the yuanying, Elder Shen, couldn’t help but gape with his eyes tightly locked onto the ten golden crows.
“Golden crow … … there really are golden crows!” Elder Shen murmured.
Li Shu was so shocked that he was unable to speak. No matter how much importance the sect placed on him, he was just a third-generation disciple. When had he ever seen such a spectacle?
“That’s not right!” Elder Shen’s eyes suddenly narrowed and he recovered his calmness. “These are not the true bodies of the golden crows!”
Hearing this, Li Shu instantly froze. “Not the true bodies? Then what is it?”
“It should be the souls of the golden crows!” Elder Shen sighed emotionally. “To be able to seal the souls of golden crows to guard the shen temple, such skill is divine!”
Li Shu realized it. He carefully inspected the ten golden crows. As he expected, he found that the borders of their bodies were slightly blurry but from this distance it was hard to detect if one did not look closely.
“But do not underestimate the souls of golden crows. Their power is not any less than seventh-grade ling beasts. There is also ten of them. If based on brute force, we are not enough even if we have ten lives,” Elder Shen gazed at the golden crows and said to himself.
“Elder, why are the beast soul guardians of the temple suddenly coming out?” Li Shu asked, puzzled. “Has someone moved? Provoked them? But they haven’t attacked … …”
As he spoke, Li Shu felt something was increasingly wrong and his expression changed dramatically.
Elder Shen’s face also changed.
At this time, the golden crows that had been perched on the golden pillars suddenly looked at the red sun in the sky. Ten red lines of fire sprouted from the open mouths of the ten golden crows and wrapped around the red sun!
The little sun exploded in brightness and burned fiercely. The air in the surroundings increased in temperature again.
At the same time, the curtains of light between the ten stone pillars of the Sun Shen Temple became bright and the curtains of light covered the entire Sun Shen Temple.
“Haha, I hadn’t thought that we would trip up in such an easy place, someone else has managed to trick us!” Elder Shen’s face was black as he gritted out, “I want to see who has the guts to dare play tricks under this old man’s eyes!”
Li Shu’s expression was also terrible.
The fact that the temple guardian souls had appeared but did not attack anyone meant that it wasn’t caused by someone intruding on the defenses of the shen temple. Then there was only one possibility left, someone was controlling the defenses of the shen temple and activated the temple guardian souls!
“Didn’t the Sun Tribe die out?” Li Shu refocused and asked.
Sect Leader’s divination would not be incorrect. Both he and Elder Shen believed deeply in this. The change in this matter definitely had occurred in these last two days!
What Li Shu voiced was what he was most puzzled by. The Sun Tribe had died out long ago, the sect had been sure of this a long time ago. This was the result of having repeated divinations done. This was also why the sect had targeted the Sun Shen Temple.
The clanspeople of the Sun Shen Tribe had died out and meant that the possibility of having something unexpected happen was not high. Normal people would not be accepted by temples like this.
Yet what they had not expected was that an accident had occurred at the very place they felt the safest.
Elder Shen was experienced and knowledgeable. He calmed down and said coldly, “Don’t pay attention to that. We must enter the shen temple immediately before the other completely grasps the shen temple. This is the only chance. These beast spirits will not attack us, they are making a sacrificial ceremony!
Li Shu froze. Making a sacrifice was a very unfamiliar term for any xiuzhe of the present. His eyes quickly did not show any more shock. Someone was sacrificing using ten golden crow souls!
He turned around his thinking, using ten golden crow souls as a sacrifice … … what did the other want to do?
Elder Shen’s expression was dark and showed slight urgency. Before the two people could react, his sleeve twirled around them and the three people disappeared.
At the same time, several lights flashed across the sky at the same time all flying towards the stone pillar. Evidently, Elder Shen was not the only one to think of this.
The lights in the air flew at the curtain of light.
Woosh!
Several xiuzhe did not have the time to wail before they exploded into balls of fire. Several dots of light appeared on the light curtain and then disappeared in the blink of the eye.
Only when one flew near the curtain of light could they truly feel how high the temperature was!
Those that were slightly lacking in cultivation would be swallowed by flames if they just came into contact with the curtain of light. Some others saw the situation and started attacking the stone pillars in hopes that they could avoid the curtain of light. Yet what they had not expected was that the stone pillars were extremely hard and were undamaged no matter how they attacked.
But there were also people that charged into the curtain of light.
Elder Shen took the two people along and turned to a stream of fire that easily passed through the curtain of light.
There was a xiuzhe who wrapped his entire body in a layer of water and easily passed through the light.
Some xiuzhe had swords protecting their body as they passed.
All kinds of moves were used but there was one common quality. All those that could pass through the curtain of light were experts. Some of them were of mysterious origins but the great majority were experts that had been famous for a long time in Cloud Sea Jie.
There were people constantly turning to dust. The heated hearts of the spectators cooled greatly. The greed at one moment could daze their minds but no one would do something such as knowingly rush to their death.
Those that charged at the curtain of light were all people that had absolute confidence in themselves.
Among the crowd, exclamations occasionally occurred.
“It’s Cao Bei, he also came!”
“Look look! That is Hai Wu Ya!”
Expert after expert appearing caused the mood to reach a small climax. Since they knew they could not enter the shen temple, many people gave up and decided to peacefully watch.
This place became the center of Cloud Sea Jie. More than half of the experts had come to attend this magnificent spectacle.
The golden crows continued to shoot flames at the little sun. The fire of the little sun grew, and the heated waves were hard to tolerate. The spectators continuously retreated.
Such presence caused everyone to pale.
Some of the people that felt they had the abilities to enter couldn’t help but hesitate. The presence of the Sun Shen Temple was great, just like the sun, blinding and unable to be looked at. It probably was not so easy to enter.
Some that were more cautious even flew backwards far from the shen temple ruins.
If they lost their lives because of watching this, it was not worth it!
———
Zuo Mo was also alarmed by the change in front of him.
Truthfully, no matter if it was Qing Lin or the strange corpse, they were not too clear about the value of the Sun Crystal Seed to the Sun Tribe. The Sun Crystal Seed were forged by every totem warrior of the Sun Tribe and was the core inherited item of the Sun Tribe.
Not just this seven-star shen temple, Zuo Mo who possessed the Sun Crystal Seed could easily receive the recognition of even higher-ranked Sun Shen temple.
How could such an ignorant Zuo Mo truly understand the profoundness in this? He dazedly looked with a puzzled face at the shocking change of the sacrificial altar.
At this moment, something suddenly happened.
A golden pillar that seemed tangible came from the sky and covered Zuo Mo.
Zuo Mo felt as though he was soaking in a hot spring. His entire body was warm and comfortable.
Where did this golden light come from?
Zuo Mo didn’t know. He did not have time to think. At this time, his mind was in a very special state. The Sun Crystal Seed in his body was unusually active. Threads of golden light and red energy swam from all directions towards the Sun Crystal Seed.
They smelled something familiar.
If Zuo Mo was clear-minded, he would find to his shock that this ray of light that was so solid it seemed tangible came from that little sun at the top of his head.
The Sun Crystal Seed was like a key that opened this sealed storehouse.
———
Elder Shen raised his head to look at the sky. His expression became even worse and his mood darker.
The little sun above his head had reached a peak in brightness, and was not lacking compared to the true sun in the sky. The figures of the ten golden crows were visibly fading.
Elder Shen knew what was going on.
Someone was manipulating the power of the Sun Shen Temple! No, more accurately, someone was absorbing the power of the Sun Shen Temple!
If he was not seeing it with his own eyes, he definitely would not believe it.
Only those who were descendants of the Sun Tribe could absorb the power of the Sun Shen Temples! No matter how certain he had been before that there were no survivors of the Sun Tribe, reality was in front of him. He had to accept that the sect leader h
ad been wrong in his divination!
Once this conclusion came out, he could not stop the murderousness he felt!
The sect leader placed great importance on this ruin. He had found a clue by accident and after effort on multiple fronts, they had gradually locked onto the position of the ruins. During this time, the sect leader and the other major personages of the sect had expended great effort to divine to finally get this result.
This person who was able to escape so many divinations either had a great treasure or his power was astounding.
If he waited for the other to finish absorbing the power of the Sun Shen Temple, it would be too late!
Elder Shen took a deep breath. His gaze was serious. No matter what, he had to get the Sun Shen Temple!
“Stay carefully behind me,” Elder Shen said in a deep voice. Without another word, he strode forward.
Li Shu’s heart shook and tightly followed behind Elder Shen. Lu Zhen also did not dare to speak and hurriedly followed.
In front of them were endless sand dunes.
Translator Ramblings: Zuo Mo is a wrench in the plans of everything.
Chapter 499: Those Daring Die From Bursting
“This is the Overflowing Earth Secret Realm, be careful of what is under your feet.” Elder Shen’s tone was serious as he looked into the distance. It was vast there with endless dunes that stretched without end.
Nothing grew on the endless dunes and it was possible to see a pile of bones occasionally. The entire landscape was unspeakably desolate and lifeless. The air was abnormally hot that even jindan like Li Shu and Lu Zhen felt their mouths dry.
This caused the two to become alarmed. At their cultivation level, they were not affected by water nor fire. How could their mouths feel dry?
“The Overflowing Earth Secret Realm is an earth element secret realm,” Elder Shen said slowly. “Rather than say it is an earth element secret realm, it is more accurate to say it is an earth element cage. The guardian of the realm must be someone skilled in earth element shen power.”
However, a thread of a smile came onto his tightly tensed face. “Fortunately, Sect Leader had foresight.”
As he finished, he took out a little tender and green tree sprout.