The ice storm's explanation verified Meng Chao's deduction.
The temple should be some sort of civilization legacy left behind by the ancient Turanians to their descendants.
Perhaps the ancient Turanians who had once created a brilliant civilization had already predicted that their descendants would gradually decline.
After all, the corrosive power of the River of Time was too terrifying, and the Other World was a place where countless powerful existences lurked.
Even if the Turan civilization had once ruled over a region …
They could not guarantee that their civilization would not degenerate or even collapse one day.
Every temple was like a 'seed of civilization'.
Even if their entire civilization was destroyed and their descendants, due to various reasons, degenerated to the era where they ate raw meat and drank blood …
As long as the civilization seed was not completely destroyed …
There was a possibility for them to rise to power again.
Of course, the current high-grade orcs did not seem to understand their ancestors' painstaking efforts.
They only treated the temple as a place to worship and offer sacrifices.
They believed that they could please their ancestors' spirits just by being brave and ruthless.
They never thought about unlocking and inheriting the outstanding technology hidden in the depths of the temple.
He had to admit that it was a very regrettable thing.
With this thought in mind, Meng Chao looked at the full coordinates of the Turan Temple above his head. His gaze became even more profound, and he was filled with an interest to explore it.
'What's that?'
At that moment, he noticed that at the center of Turan Lake's map was a starlight with the largest halo and the most dazzling. It was surrounded by dark red electrical arcs, as if it was bound by chains.
He had a vague feeling that …
The starlight's luster should be far greater than that.
"That's the famous Sacred Mountain Temple in Turan Lake," the ice storm told Meng Chao.
"You can see two different forms of starlight on the complete map of the temple. One of them is like the coordinates of the Blood Skull Temple. It shines brightly and is pure.
"This means that the Blood Skull Temple has already been opened. It has been worshiped and worshiped by the Turan descendants all year round. Powerful settlements, families, clans, and flourishing towns have been built around the temple.
"However, there are some temples that are slightly dimmer in color and surrounded by dark red arcs of light. This means that these temples are still sealed in the river of time. No one has been able to find them and open them to inherit the power inside."
"Is that so? How could that be?"
Meng Chao could not understand it. 'Since the temples contain powerful totem power, there might also be a large number of divine weapons from millions of years ago. The warriors of Turan, who are obsessed with the pursuit of power, should be doing everything they can to open all the temples regardless of the price they have to pay.
"The coordinates of those temples have been marked on the map. Why didn't the ambitious warriors of Tulan search for those temples according to the map?"
"Warrior Turan, of course you want to find all the temples, but things aren't as simple as you think."
"Although the coordinates of all the temples are clearly marked on the map, the map is too small. If a dot on the map is projected into the real world, it is very likely that it will cover a radius of a hundred miles.
"And these sealed temples are often not erected on the ground so that people can see them at a glance. Instead, they are hidden behind all kinds of abysses, caves, and even waterfalls.
"In fact, when some of the really ancient temples run into danger, they don't just hide in caves or behind waterfalls. Instead, they use an unbelievable method and disappear from the world. You have to master the corresponding method to open them before you can bring them back to the world.
"If it weren't for that, the fierce holy light army would have found all the temples in Turan Continent and destroyed them a long time ago during the Major Extinction Order. Do you think that the holy light humans don't know how to dig three feet into the ground and get rid of the root of the problem? After all, their most loyal allies are the dwarves, who live underground and are the best at digging and mining!
"There are pros and cons to this method. The good thing is that most of the temples have been preserved since more than ten thousand years ago and haven't been discovered by the enemy.
"The bad thing is that as the flames of war destroyed a lot of heroic epics that recorded the method to open the temples. Even the current high-grade orcs don't know about the appearance of many temples and the method to open them!
"One or two thousand years after the Major Extinction Order, the people of Turan gradually recovered. The five major clans sent out a large number of adventurers and exploration teams to the barren lands that were rarely visited by humans in search of these 'lost temples'.
"They did find some and built new strongholds around the temples, expanding the clans' territories.
"However, after such a dragnet search, the temples that have yet to surface will probably not reappear in the world in the next few hundred years.
"The 'Sacred Mountain Temple' that you mentioned just now is one of them.
"In the heroic epics' records, it's not only the largest and highest among all the 'lost temples', but it's also the one with the highest specifications.
"In fact, it's the oldest and most noble temple among all the temples in Turan Continent.
"The Sacred Mountain Temple doesn't worship the ancestral spirit of any of the five clans. Instead, it's the most ancient ancestral spirit that all of the people of Turan Continent share.
"It's the most sacred place that belongs to all the people of Turan.
"According to the oldest heroic epic in history, 'Turan's Song', only the bravest and most fearless heroes who have sacrificed themselves in the most spectacular way on the battlefield are qualified to ascend to the Sacred Mountain and enter the temple of the Sacred Mountain. There, they can enjoy the joy of eternal battle and be worshiped by all the people of Turan.
"The Sacred Mountain Temple is like the common heart of all the people of Turan. During the era of the Major Extinction Order, it was naturally an unstoppable place that the army of Holy Light wanted to destroy at all costs.
"In the end, when the Army of Holy Light paid a terrible price and finally attacked the sacred mountain of the Turan people, countless fanatical believers raised their wings of light and tried to burn their lives to summon the supreme light energy from the sky to destroy the temple of the sacred mountain. However, the most important temple of the Turan people disappeared into thin air right before their eyes.
"The army of Holy Light suffered a great loss and returned without achieving anything. They could only retreat from Turan Continent resentfully.
"The people of Turan barely managed to escape the calamity of the Major Extinction Order, but the price they paid was that no one saw the true appearance of the Sacred Mountain Temple for three thousand years.
"Even to this day, the priests, chiefs, and warriors of the five clans still yearn to find this lost temple that is of utmost importance to the people of Turan.
"Countless newborn calves entered the Sacred Mountain with great ambitions.
"But if it wasn't for the fact that they never returned and disappeared into the abyss, fog, caves, or the stomachs of totem beasts in the depths of the Sacred Mountain, they would have never returned.
"Otherwise, they would stagger back to the foot of the Sacred Mountain in the form of Origins Warriors, never to remember what happened to them in the Sacred Mountain.
"As a result, the warriors of Turan speculated that the Sacred Mountain was where the ancestral spirits slept. If they rashly disturbed the ancestral spirits' slumber without sufficient strength, the ancestral spirits would naturally think that they were too frivolous and rash, and they would be cursed by the ancestral spirits.
"There were also people who believed that the Sacred Mountain, which was filled with danger and abnormal phenomena, was the first test the Sacred Mountain Temple set for the warriors of Turan.
"If they couldn't even pass this test, how could they have the right to enter the Sacred Mountain Temple to unlock and inherit the oldest, strongest, and most violent power?"
"I see … Sacred Mountain Temple …"
Meng Chao repeated the name repeatedly.
It was as if there was a burning steel needle in the depths of his mind that was repeatedly stirring his brain and stirring up the memories of his previous life that had been sealed away for a long time.
He found the name Sacred Mountain Temple very familiar. He seemed to have heard it more than once in his previous life, and it was connected to the war in the Other World that destroyed Dragon City.
Under what circumstances did he hear it before?! Damn it! Hurry up and remember!
Meng Chao rubbed the center of his eyebrows, and his expression turned a little savage.
"Harvester, what's wrong with you?"
Ice Storm sensed that Meng Chao's brain was rapidly heating up. She felt as if his brain was about to turn into magma and erupt like a volcano.
She thought that Meng Chao had yet to completely control Cranium Crusher and was showing signs of turning into an Origins Warrior.
She quickly waved her hand and released an ice fog in an attempt to cool down Meng Chao's brain.
A chill seeped into his brain through the cracks in his skull, and Meng Chao shuddered.
He remembered now!
Right then, the Sacred Mountain Temple, which was incredibly important to the high-grade orcs, was indeed still sealed in an unknown fog.
But in his previous life, when Dragon City rushed out of Monster Mountain Range and formed an alliance with the Turan civilization, the Sacred Mountain Temple was discovered and unlocked!
And the person who discovered the Sacred Mountain Temple was none other than the future overlord of the Turan civilization. He was about to lead tens of millions of orc warriors during the longest Glory Era, and he was known as the greatest war chief in the past three thousand years. He was also the one who dragged the Turan civilization and Dragon City civilization into the abyss of destruction, Jackal Canus!
More accurately speaking, it was because of his achievements in discovering the Sacred Mountain Temple and obtaining the ancient legacy in it that Canus was able to turn from a Corpse-eating Dog into an Apocalyptic Wolf. He suppressed the many powerful fighters of the lion and tiger races and became the first war chief in the history of the wolves who could command all of Turan Continent!
"That's right. In my previous life, heroic epics about Jackal Canus were everywhere in Turan Continent. They described how he used his supreme wisdom and courage to get rid of all the dangers in the Sacred Mountain and obtained the blessings of the most ancient ancestor spirits to become the greatest winner of the competition between the five races!
"Even though heroic epics are definitely exaggerated and flattering, it's a fact.
"But Jackal Canus discovering the Sacred Mountain Temple was a fact that was about to happen in the near future.
"This achievement allowed Canus to obtain invincible power and incomparably lofty prestige.
"It also made all the people in Turan believe that the power of the ancestor spirits had completely recovered from the Major Destruction Order three thousand years ago, and they were about to lead all the warriors in Turan to wash away the three thousand years of humiliation and hatred.
"That's why when Jackal Canus used everything he had and led his army north to stir up the war in the Other World, the high-grade orcs were filled with blind and zealous belief in the victory that was bound to come. That's why the flames of war instantly reached their peak, and they could not be stopped!"
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