As Dog Two ran like crazy, Wang Ling and the others got closer and closer to the Altar of Water in the south. The structure of the world of the Palace of Mirrors was actually very simple, but the invasion of the black shadow army had forcibly complicated it.
Wang Ling and the others stopped near the Altar of Water and stealthily approached it.
Seizing the altar was the current method of regaining sovereignty over the world. When the Five Elements Altar resumed its operation, the black shadow army that had invaded this world would be forcibly sent back to their original world by the power of the nomological laws of the Palace of Mirrors, and the souls of the dead who had been stranded in this world would return to their original world to rest in peace.
There were also some innocent people who had been killed by the black shadow army and turned into the world of the Palace of Mirrors. The nomological laws of the Palace of Mirrors would create new bodies for these people, and then strip them of their memories of this world before sending them back to their original world.
The nomological laws of the world of the Palace of Mirrors were a kind of order in itself.
When order was out of balance, it would descend into chaos.
When order returned, everything would return to its original state.
In the real world, Gu Shunzhi's role was to maintain the order of the universe.
But he obviously couldn't predict the world of the Palace of Mirrors.
This was a special world that was caught in a crevice.
And such a special world would usually only open under special circumstances.
So there was a new problem in front of Wang Ling now.
If the mastermind behind the invasion of the black shadow army wasn't the master of this world, then who was the real master who had created the Palace of Mirrors?
Every altar had its own body.
An altar wasn't a simple magic array, and its structure was much more complicated than that.
There were three elements that made up an altar.
One: a physical object that matched the nature of the altar and had a great deal of spirituality.
Taking the Water Altar as an example, it was very likely that the Water Altar was a river or a lake.
Two: a sacrificial object of the same nature used to construct the altar.
Sacrificial objects were usually magic artifacts with a great deal of ancient power. Most of these magic artifacts were antiques that had already lost their original effects, but could be used as offerings. For example, the Holy Thunder Pill in Wang Ling's possession was a holy relic passed down from generation to generation of the Thunder clan, and was actually the perfect sacrificial object for the altar.
Finally, the third and most inhumane element: the altar emissary.
The Altar Emissary was a person who was sacrificed in the Altar like a sacrificial object. Their attributes were compatible with the Altar, so they were probably chosen after careful selection.
After becoming an emissary guarding the altar, they would obtain the altar's power and become an immortal existence. However, they would lose their freedom forever.
The existence of the altar was like a cage to the Guardian Emissaries. They were imprisoned within the altar, unable to see the light of day …
In the ancient cultivation world, all kinds of elemental altars were usually used to arrange the protection of cities. Ancient cultivators used the power of the altars to protect their own land.
However, with the development of modern cultivation civilization, the altar became an inhumane forbidden technique.
A few hundred years ago in the modern world, there were also cultivators who conducted research on upgrading altars. The third alternative after upgrading altars were "artificial puppets". However, these soulless puppets were dead objects after all. They could not exert even a tenth of the power of a living person. After their power was greatly reduced, the arrangement of altars naturally became obsolete.
Later on, with the unfolding of the cultivation modernization, the Erotic Altar was also included in the Cultivator Convention, becoming a forbidden law that was explicitly forbidden.
Wang Ling had heard Old Antique talk about this history in class before, but it wasn't a test point, and was just a special expansion of modern cultivation history.
Old Antique's experience was much more extensive than anyone could imagine; he could be said to be erudite and knowledgeable, and could almost be described as omniscient. Wang Ling still remembered that class vividly, because Old Antique had caught him eating crispy noodle snacks on the sly in that class and confiscated them!!!
As everyone expected, there was a marsh in front of them, surrounded by a sea of tall reeds. The field of vision was so bad that an adult could be completely submerged in it.
"What a strong aura." Dog Two stopped in front of the sea of reeds, its eyebrows tightly furrowed, and the fur on its body naturally stood on end. This was a natural sense of danger in its beast form, and it was a foretaste of the hidden danger in the sea of reeds.
"This is the Altar of Water. I came here to explore it before, and I almost got trapped in the sea of reeds." I almost got trapped in the sea of reeds and couldn't get out. "Mother Juan shivered as she said this.
"You weren't discovered?" Dog Two was astonished.
"The black shadow army has never laid a hand on the indigenous people of this world. Being an indigenous person is equivalent to being exempt from death. I pretended to have amnesia and mistakenly entered this place. After I was discovered, they sent me out, "said Mother Juan.
Although Mother Juan's cooking skills were a little weaker in the Palace of Mirrors, her realm wasn't low, and she was at the late Nascent Soul stage. However, it was very dangerous for her to get close to the altar.
The reason why the black shadow army hadn't silenced her was probably because they were well aware that the indigenous people of this world would gradually lose their sense of self.
"Don't worry, let me and Old Guo take a look first." They hid behind a rock. Wang Ming stretched out his index finger, and the mechanical cover on it slowly opened. Several mechanical flies then flew out and scuttled directly into the sea of reeds.
This was a small reconnaissance drone in the shape of a fly, and Dog Two swallowed when it saw it.
It had already been a long time since it had eaten a large fly … it really missed it.
Just as Guo Ping was analyzing the map scanned by the drone, an ear-piercing sound suddenly rang out in Wang Ming's and Guo Ping's earphones, and they felt dizzy and their ears ringing.
"What's going on?" asked Dog Two.
"The drone has been intercepted … Not a single one of the twenty-nine flies was left …" Guo Ping brought up the image of the last fly drone before it disappeared. A small, muddy hand stretched out from the swamp on the ground and directly dragged the drone into it before swallowing it up.
"It looks like crossing this sea of reeds won't be as easy as we thought." Dog Two's heart trembled when he saw this image.
It looked like the sea of reeds had already been completely under the enemy's control. This type of area-of-effect spell was very tricky, because you couldn't immediately find the caster, while the other party could immediately monitor your position. Once you were dragged into the swamp, you probably wouldn't be able to break free with your strength alone.
The nature of a swamp was that the more you struggled, the deeper you sank.
"Let's go." Wang Ling stood up.
At that moment, Wang Ling got up and walked in the direction of the sea of reeds.
Then, an incredible miracle happened.
As Wang Ling moved forward, a passageway opened up in the swamp below him.
The Great Sea-Division Spell was one of Wang Ling's Passive Heavenly Dao.
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