Baby with Daoist Monarch System

Chapter 184: Chapter 72: The Giant Altar of the Talisman Vengeful God???

Ye Ping’s expression was unprecedentedly serious: ”If that’s the case, it’s going to be very tricky. The first flesh altar succeeded, the second soul sacrifice also succeeded... The fourth time might be even more secretive, even to the point that we can’t detect it at all!!!”

Xu Ran narrowed his eyes: ”Don’t panic yet, I’ll go take a look at the runes on the riverbed boulder. If I can understand them, we can find a way to break the situation.”

Ye Ping patted Xu Ran’s shoulder: ”We can only rely on your Miracle Root Bone. After all, you’re the only one who can sense the dangerous aura in the second edition of the Mysterious Talisman.”

”Wishing upon you, Xu Ran!”

Xu Ran: ”...” Has this become a joke now?

He didn’t know how to respond, because... his battle achievements were actually quite extraordinary...

Nightmare Vengeful Mother, ground to dust!

Flying Head Ghost, ground to dust!

Unyielding Celestial Calamity, defeated once!

Talisman Vengeful God, defeated once!

His past monstrous achievements made his explanations seem so ”powerless.”

He could only silently bear this dazzling brilliance.

...

Half an hour later.

A special vehicle stopped by the riverbank.

The yellow warning line was tight and conspicuous, with patrol officers guarding nearby.

The warning line was set up because the Investigation Corps suspected that the runes at the riverbed might produce a strange effect that causes drowning, so they began to strictly monitor the area.

However, the warning line was ineffective for Xu Ran and Ye Ping; they were officers.

”Inspector.”

”Special Commander!”

Ye Ping: ”How is it? Standing here, you haven’t been lured into drowning, have you?”

Investigation Corps member: ”Reporting to the commander, no, we haven’t!”

Ye Ping thought for a moment: ”It must be ineffective against cultivators above the Hill Realm; there seem to be no drowned victims with a high Qi Blood Value, either.”

Murmuring to himself.

Ye Ping looked towards Xu Ran: ”I’ll separate the river water, revealing the riverbed below, so you can take a look at the boulder. How about it?”

”We can start at any time.”

Xu Ran was eager, already impatient to retaliate against the Talisman Vengeful God and disrupt that bastard’s setup.

”Alright! You step back first.”

As soon as the words were spoken.

Ye Ping’s Qi Blood roiled, forming a grayish-white flame outside his body as tall as a mountain.

He raised his hand, pressing towards the upstream, and in an instant, a gust of wind swept through, with the grayish-white flame surging forth, emitting the thunderous sound of a waterfall crashing down!!

The members of the Investigation Corps were startled by the thunderous sound of Qi Blood, their faces turning pale, and they stepped back several paces.

With horrified expressions, they watched Ye Ping.

As for Xu Ran, he stood unmovingly in place.

Calmly watching everything happening in the river.

Ye Ping’s Qi Blood, on the upstream of the river with a width of over thirty meters, condensed into an impenetrable dam, and not a single drop of water from above could seep through.

The downstream water quickly disappeared, revealing the muddy riverbed.

Xu Ran: ”Uncle Ye, I don’t see the riverbed boulder.”

Ye Ping smiled gently: ”Don’t worry, there’s more to come.”

As he spoke, he lifted his right hand, directing the upstream water to scour the position of the boulder below.

The mud rolled downstream.

A riverbed boulder was exposed.

”Oh. So it was here.”

Seeing the riverbed boulder exposed, Xu Ran leaped gently, stepping on an air wall, and jumped onto the boulder...

Because the boulder had been washed several times already, the surface was clean.

Each engraved mark was as thick as a wrist, more than ten centimeters deep, firmly biting into the boulder, robust and powerful.

Xu Ran frowned tightly, staring intently at all the symbols: ”The symbols are complex, the glow is not visible, obscure and complicated, hard to understand...”

”Alright... I can’t understand these symbols at all, but within them, there is indeed a slightly disturbing, eerie aura!”

”Only a very faint trace...”

”If such symbols were covered by silt and a few dead fish carcasses placed on top, I wouldn’t be able to detect them at all!!!”

After observing for a while, Xu Ran’s handsome features became increasingly serious.

He realized the Talisman Vengeful God’s methods were becoming more hidden.

The days when they could easily uncover Mysterious Talismans by the roadside were gone.

”Truly troublesome!!!”

Xu Ran sighed softly.

Ye Ping landed beside Xu Ran: ”How is it? Is it the work of the Talisman Vengeful God?”

Xu Ran nodded: ”Yes, there’s the same eerie aura, but it’s very faint, so faint that even a dead fish’s carcass could cover this eeriness.”

Ye Ping was stunned: ”So the Talisman Vengeful God has already completed its third transformation?”

Xu Ran narrowed his eyes: ”I’m afraid so.”

Xu Ran’s conclusion.

Made Ye Ping’s expression serious: ”If the Talisman Vengeful God has completed three transformations and hasn’t shown itself yet, it means it wants to become even stronger and is planning an even bigger scheme!!”

”A Resentful God who created a flesh altar and then a riverbed soul sacrifice. It even succeeded...”

Ye Ping’s tone grew heavier.

Xu Ran: ”Uncle Ye, did you bring a map of Jing City? Let’s take a look. Won’t these riverbed boulders form a massive altar around Jing City?”

Ye Ping was stunned: ”Your thought process aligns with mine.”

”If it’s a well-prepared large-scale altar, and if the Talisman Vengeful God realizes we’ve discovered it, it might activate the altar in a panic, and the situation will be dreadful.”

”Should we destroy the boulders first?!”

Xu Ran agreed with Ye Ping’s suggestion: ”Alright. Let’s destroy this thing first, slicing it whole and throwing it to the shore should be enough.”

Ye Ping didn’t hesitate, directly slicing off the riverbed boulder and lifting it to the riverbank.

”For safety’s sake, I’ve destroyed all the riverbed boulders.”

Watching the boulders stripped from the riverbed, Ye Ping raised his hand, a shockwave shattering the riverbed boulder: ”Alright, should we consider this destruction successful?”

Xu Ran was a bit uncertain: ”Almost. If you cut this weirdly marked boulder into four pieces, maybe it’ll be safer.”

Despite the desire to grind it into powder to disgust the Talisman Vengeful God, it hadn’t been fully researched yet, so they had to take back research materials.

”Should we cut it?”

”Cutting would be safer; it can be studied even if cut.”

”Alright.”

Ye Ping raised his hand and did as instructed.

But as the boulders were cut, the strange symbols on them suddenly lost energy, and the boulders quickly turned into powder.

”Hmm?”

”There’s such a change?”

”Not destroying the congruent lines, yet the eerie symbols are damaged?”

”It seems the symbols on this section of boulder form a whole; their power comes from the harmony and resonance between the symbol lines...”

Xu Ran pondered thoughtfully.

Ye Ping felt a pinch in his heart: ”Huh? It self-destructed! What do we do? We haven’t finished researching it yet!”