When the first ray of dawn shone over the grassland, Wenbu quietly sent Tang Ling out of the village.
Looking at Tang Ling's back, Wenbu sighed. He only hoped that his decision to bet the village's fate was the right one.
Bartu, on the other hand, curled his lips into a cold smile as he watched Wenbu and Tang Ling leave.
Riding on the Iron Scale Horse, Tang Ling galloped across the grassland in the early morning.
In fact, he didn't want to waste time, and he didn't want to get involved in the disputes of the village on the grassland.
According to his plan, he would leave today and continue his journey since he had to reach Darkness Port before December.
Even if he was grateful for Valencia's help and touched by Wenbu's honest and passionate attitude, the most he could do was to bring the family away from this land of strife.
However, the omnipresent shadow of the Stardust Council still held him back.
He could not ignore this colossus.
It was the one who had destroyed the Dragon Army.
Tang Feng's death was definitely related to the Stardust Council. As a matter of fact, Tang Ling did not care about Tang Feng at all.
However, Uncle Su Siao's meridians were all broken and he could no longer cultivate. He had to rely on the Time Turning Potion to recover his strength, and it was also related to the Stardust Council.
Uncle Su Siao's notes did mention something about this, even though it did not go into detail.
As for Tang Ling himself, his biggest threat at the moment was the Stardust Council.
As expected, the main sponsor of the arrest warrant was a councilman from the Stardust Council.
However, the Stardust Council was very mysterious. No one knew how they rose to power, how many trump cards they had, or how powerful they were.
Their ambitions were also very strange. They seemed to be exploring, yes, exploring this planet.
They did not seem to be dangerous because they basically did not participate in the competition between factions. Since the start of the Purple Moon era, they had only targeted the Dragon Army and started a world-shaking war with the Dragon Army.
But the reason? Other than the higher-ups of both sides, no one knew about it, not even Tang Ling. According to Su Siao's notes, Tang Ling would only know about it after he met Zero.
Fine, no matter what, the Stardust Council had become a shadow in his life that he could not get rid of. They were enemies that he would have to face sooner or later.
The deaths of her mother-in-law and her sister were definitely related to them.
Therefore, he really wanted to get to the bottom of their scheme! Perhaps this temple on the plain was a breakthrough point.
The journey was not too far. He departed early in the morning and rode the iron-scaled horse for less than half an hour before he reached the edge of the Goddess Tear Lake.
The lake water here was very strange. Even though the morning wind was so strong, the surface of the lake did not ripple at all.
Occasionally, when he focused his gaze, he would see a few huge shadows under the lake, which made his hair stand on end.
After he dismounted, he chased the iron-scaled horse away. According to Wenbu, it would return to Barbarto Village on its own.
This should be the place, on the side of the canyon facing the God's Tear. As long as he walked up 100 meters, he would find an inconspicuous cave.
Taking a deep breath, Tang Ling climbed up the valley. It was not a difficult climb since the six villages of the grasslands would offer sacrifices here every year, so they had paved a path that was not really a path.
The cave was not difficult to find, because there was only one cave here. The entrance was not big, and after entering, they found that it was an ordinary dead end.
No wonder the six villages did not care about others finding their place of worship. What could they find out from the bare cave?
Tang Ling's curiosity was piqued. He walked deeper into the cave and when he reached the end, he took out a black and red pill and lit it up.
Yes, it was the Holy Blood Pill that Valencia mentioned. Every direct descendant's main family would keep three of them, and if they ran out, they would use a secret method to make more.
Wenbu was the direct descendant of Barbarto Village, so he could provide Tang Ling with a Holy Blood Pill.
He heard that the people from the Stardust Council had also obtained the Holy Blood Pill from the Uvandidi tribe and entered the temple.
However, Wenbu only smiled in disdain and said something that baffled Tang Ling, "If it's not the right person, it doesn't matter even if he enters the temple."
What about me? Tang Ling had his doubts, but Wenbu only shook his head. He explained that the deal between them was just for Wenbu to give Tang Ling a chance to enter the temple.
The Sacred Blood Pill burned quietly, emitting a strange smell with the smell of blood.
Tang Ling sat aside and waited. Gradually, he had a strange feeling. He sensed a mysterious energy fluctuation at the bottom of the cave.
However, he could only sense it with his Precise Instinct. What did it mean? Tang Ling closed his eyes and tried to sense the source of the energy fluctuation, but it was at that moment that he heard a few almost inaudible strange noises.
The noises seemed to be made up of a language, and it was accompanied by a soft click as if a lock was being unlocked.
Tang Ling could not understand the strange language at all, but he somehow understood one of the layers of meaning behind it. Compatibility?
Of course, Tang Ling did not really think that it was compatibility. He did not believe in baseless guesses. He was just astonished. Why was there a door in front of him?
Was it the same principle as the 3D holographic projection in the Hope Barrier?
Tang Ling placed his hand on the door. The stone door felt very real to his touch. It felt as real as when he touched the mud wall where the door used to be.
It had far exceeded the technological range of the 3D holographic projection because the illusion could even deceive human touch.
What a mysterious and advanced technology! However, why did the totem on the door feel so primitive?
Tang Ling took a quick glance at it and he felt like it was the totem that the prehistoric humans had drawn in the history books that he had read before.
However, compared to the pictures that had lost their luster due to time, the one on the door was still fresh and red. The simple drawings were vivid and lifelike. There were all kinds of strange animals and abstract humans.
The animals looked familiar to Tang Ling, but he could not remember where he had seen them before.
With that in mind, he exerted a little strength and pushed the stone door in front of him open. Behind the stone door, he entered.
According to Wenbu, the place where they worshiped the temple was in the cave behind the stone door. What Tang Ling could discover was up to him.
What a strange way of putting it. With that in mind, Tang Ling stepped through the stone door.
The moment he stepped through, the stone door automatically closed and blocked all the light.
Tang Ling was not nervous though. Wenbu did say that he could just place his hand on the stone door if he wanted to come out.
He lit up the torch that he had prepared beforehand and saw a dirt staircase leading downwards. It was only wide enough for a single person to pass through at a time.
After he came down, he saw a huge cave, but …
Tang Ling looked at the scene before him in disbelief. It was an empty cave, and compared to the cave outside, other than being bigger, there was nothing different.
Where's the temple? Where's the pile of silver eggs that Wenbu mentioned? Are they all gone? Were they taken away by the Stardust Council?
No, it can't be! If the Stardust Council had achieved their goal, why would they spend so much effort to control the village?
It could only mean one thing. If one was not the direct descendant of the village, one might not even be able to see the so-called temple, let alone touch it.
No wonder Wenbu would laugh in disdain at the Stardust Council's action of entering the temple. No wonder Wenbu had a strange opinion about Tang Ling entering the temple.
Is there really no other way?
Tang Ling did not want to leave just like that because the stone door had proven that there was a secret here!
But what was the solution? Tang Ling thought about it calmly for two seconds before he closed his eyes and started to operate his Precise Instinct.
From a certain aspect, Precise Instinct was like a pair of eyes. It was better than a real pair of eyes that could see the essence of things and see through it.
As his Precise Instinct operated, Tang Ling finally sensed traces of different energy fluctuations coming from all directions.
Then, abstract images started to form in his mind, but they were still a little blurry.
What if he opened his eyes at that moment? Tang Ling felt like his Precise Instinct still needed his eyes to capture some images.
He felt like his Precise Instinct was responsible for helping him break through a layer of shackles that came from his brain! Humans could only see things with their eyes, and the way they formed images came from the brain.
Therefore, when Tang Ling opened his eyes, everything before his eyes changed.
The first thing he saw was a lot of eggs, similar to the silver egg that he had stolen from the Udy crows' nest.
The eggs were piled up in a messy pile. There were at least a few hundred of them and each of them was emanating a faint energy fluctuation.
Behind the pile of eggs was a huge rack. On top of the rack were six shapeless metallic objects that looked like a pile of mud.
The metallic objects were glowing faintly and had an unknown attraction. Tang Ling could not help but walk up and pick one up for a closer look.
However, he could not pick up the first one. He could not pick it up! This piece was the most tempting one! Tang Ling felt a little disappointed.
What about the second one? The third one? Tang Ling tried every single one of them, but he could not pick them up. It was as if there was a powerful force binding the shapeless metallic objects.
Unwilling to give up, Tang Ling set his eyes on the last one.
The last one was very small. It was only the size of half of Tang Ling's fist. Compared to the other five colorful ones, this one was inconspicuous. It was black and the glow it emitted was not as bright as the other five.
In short, it looked like a piece of coal.
If he could not pick up the big one, he should be able to move this small one, right? Tang Ling clenched his teeth and mustered all the strength in his body to move it!
Still, it did not budge! However, because he used too much strength and the sharp edges of the black object, Tang Ling's skin was cut open, causing his blood to flow.
"What the hell?" Tang Ling grumbled as he wiped the blood off his body. Then, he saw a strange scene.
The black object wriggled a little.
Yes, it wriggled like an animal. Then, Tang Ling's blood was quickly absorbed as if it was spilled on a sponge.
What's going on? Is this a blood-sucking stone?
Tang Ling had tried everything, so he could not help but reach out to grab the black stone again. The moment he grabbed it, he could not help but laugh.
This was because he felt that the invisible binding force had disappeared, and the black stone was in his hand.
However, he did not expect the stone to be so heavy. The moment he grabbed it, he was caught off guard and his hand sank, causing him to fall to the ground.
When he fell to the ground, something that Tang Ling had been keeping in his pocket fell out and coincidentally fell beside the black object.
Then, Tang Ling watched a strange and shocking scene unfold before his eyes.
The thing that fell out of his pocket was the broken dagger that he had gotten from the Agnes family's storeroom.
Tang Ling had taken it away because his hands were covered in blood, but when he put the dagger down, he realized that all the blood on his hands had disappeared.
Is this dagger the legendary blood-sucking dagger? Back then, Tang Ling took it with a simple thought in his mind.
Later on, as he continued his journey, he realized that it was not a blood-sucking dagger at all!
It would never suck the blood of the wild beasts that he killed along the way.
Was it a picky eater? Tang Ling experimented with his own blood.
He realized that when his blood dripped on the dagger, it absorbed it, but at the very next moment, a drop of black liquid condensed at the edge of the dagger and dripped down.
Of course, Tang Ling collected the drop of black liquid, but after a careful inspection, he came up with an exasperated conclusion. The black liquid was actually blood, and it seemed to be a mixture of many people's blood.
Of course, without advanced equipment, Tang Ling could not be sure with his Precise Instinct alone. He kept the piece of cloth that collected the black liquid and planned to verify it when he reached a certain Safety Sector.
If that was the case, Tang Ling had some guesses.
However, regardless of what he guessed, how could this dull and useless strange dagger hook up with the black object that he had painstakingly taken down?
Tang Ling could not find a better word to describe the dagger. When it got close to the black object, a few roots grew out of the dagger and rooted themselves into the black object.
"Damn it! This is mine! What are you doing?!" Tang Ling's face flushed red as he ran over and grabbed the dagger.
It was firmly attached to the black object, and no matter how hard Tang Ling shook it, it did not budge.
Tang Ling punched the object angrily, and the seemingly sturdy black object cracked right before his eyes.
It split into two, and half of it was occupied by the dagger as it rooted itself to the ground.
The other half was in Tang Ling's hand.
A strange feeling rose in Tang Ling's heart as if the dagger had unwillingly made a division with him. This half was mine and the other half was yours!
What the hell is going on?! While Tang Ling was frustrated, confused, shocked, and doubting his life, he heard a strange noise again.
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