Inside the temple, there were still some murals left on the broken walls. Although these murals were also incomplete, one could vaguely see that the murals depicted some scenes of war.
Seeing this, Lin Li couldn't help but be a little puzzled. Judging from the architectural style of the temple and the information revealed by the murals, it didn't seem to have a close relationship with the ancient God of Light that the Illuminati believed in. Could it be that this temple wasn't created by the ancient God of Light? Apart from the Ancient God of Light, were there any other gods here?
In fact, even Edmund and the others were bewildered after seeing everything in the temple. Clearly, the information that Edmund had could not fully explain the existence of the temple.
While looking at the murals around them, they walked all the way to the main hall in the center of the temple, where there were several damaged statues that were enshrined. Only a portion of them could vaguely be seen to be the statue of the Serpent of Light, Shagar. The power of the Serpent of Light that Lin Li had released had also escaped into the broken statue, seemingly wanting to rely on the Power of Faith in the statue to obtain a new life.
However, Lin Li and the others could feel that there was no longer any Power of Faith in the broken statue, and everything had become the most ordinary sand statue. The few of them searched carefully but did not find anything of value, let alone figure out the origin of this temple.
However, Lin Li did not give up. He instinctively felt that the appearance of the temple definitely had an extraordinary meaning. Hence, he explored the temple more carefully than the others. In the absence of clear and useful information, Lin Li did not even let go of the rubble on the ground of the temple. He carefully checked almost every piece of broken tiles and rubble.
Seeing that Lin Li was not giving up, High Priest Poer naturally mocked and ridiculed him again. He said to Edmund and Zumar, "This is just a very ordinary ruin. I don't know how many ruins like this are buried in this desert. You can't possibly dig them out one by one, right? Some people just want to reap without sowing, thinking that they can pick up a treasure just by stretching out their hand. But how can there be so many treasures for them to pick up in this world? I think it's simply a waste of time. "
However, Lin Li couldn't be bothered to pay attention to High Priest Poer at all, and continued to seriously rummage through the pile of rubbish in the eyes of others. On the other hand, Elder Zumar seemed to be a little annoyed, and he tried to persuade High Priest Poer. "Poer, you can't say that. President Felic just wants to know more about this place. If he can really find some useful clues, it might be of some help to our mission."
"Zumar, why are you still speaking up for him? Don't forget what relationship he has with us. Back when you were in the Breezy Plains, you seemed to have been extorted by him a lot." High Priest Poer naturally wouldn't listen to Zumar, and he even brought up the matter of Zumar in the Breezy Plains.
However, just as High Priest Poer and Elder Zumar were having a small argument because of Lin Li, who was an outsider, Lin Li suddenly stopped, and picked up a piece of stone to take a closer look at.
Seeing this scene, High Priest Poer was about to mock Lin Li a few more times, but he didn't expect Saint Edmund to walk over. This time, before the situation was clear, Poer had no choice but to swallow his words, and wait to see what Edmund wanted to do lest he scolded Edmund too.
"President Felic, did you find anything?" Edmund asked as he walked towards Lin Li, and stopped in his tracks at the right time. He didn't immediately look at what Lin Li had found.
Lin Li didn't pretend to be pretentious or anything, and seemed to have not noticed the change in Edmund's attitude. He simply threw the stone over, and said, "There seems to be some records on it, but there are too many flaws. I can't figure out what it means. There should be some more such stones here. Maybe they can provide some clues."
Edmund grabbed the stone and took a look at it, only to see that there were only a few ancient words on it. They were not in Titan Print, but in an ancient common language. After careful identification, he could only confirm that the words on it probably said "Our God", and he couldn't see any special meaning at all.
However, Lin Li's discovery also made Edmund a little happy. He turned around, and said to Zumar and Poer, "What are you waiting for? Look around and see if there are any more such stones with words on them."
Faced with Edmund's orders, High Priest Poer dared not disobey at all even though he was reluctant. Hence, he had no choice but to follow Elder Zumar and search through the pile of rubble in the temple like how he had mocked Lin Li previously.
On Lin Li's side, Connoris and the two Undead servants did not idle around, either. They were almost digging three feet into the ground in search of any clues that might be useful. Even if they saw a few scratches on a stone, they would turn it over and over again to see if there was any meaning to the scratches, let alone the stone with words on it.
After searching for a while, they really did find a lot of things, especially the stone pieces with words on them. They found hundreds of them. However, even then, the hundreds of stone slices could not be pieced together to form a complete thing, and most of them had probably turned into stone powder.
After putting the stone slices together, they could roughly form the shape of a stone slab. Of course, most of the rest were gone. Lin Li and Edmund stood in front of the severely damaged stone slab, and carefully identified the words on it. They even had to discuss the meaning of those words.
To be honest, this matter was probably even more difficult than finding the stone slices. After all, there were too many missing sentences, and almost none of them were complete. It was easy to imagine how difficult it would be to deduce the true content recorded on the stone slab from these intermittent or even just a few words or phrases.
After the discussion between Lin Li and Edmund, they roughly pieced together some sentences from the stone slices. First of all, the stone slab mentioned that endless light rose from the east, which was obviously not referring to the sunrise. In Lin Li's opinion, it was likely to be referring to the power of the Ancient God of Light, Zagar. In particular, it also mentioned how the Divine Kingdom quickly melted and collapsed in the endless light. Then, the great god of courage sacrificed the lives of tens of millions of divine servants, but they could not stop the arrival of the apocalypse.
Why was it specifically mentioned about the god of courage? Perhaps this temple belonged to the God of Courage, and the sudden arrival of the Ancient God of Light, Zagar, destroyed the Divine Kingdom of this god. As for the owner of this Divine Kingdom, he was temporarily called the God of Courage. He probably did not have a good ending, and had probably perished together with his Divine Kingdom.
It was actually not a big deal that the Ancient God of Light killed the God of Courage, because the ancient gods were not ordinary gods. The ancient gods were much stronger than ordinary gods in the first place. The reason they were called ancient gods was that they were born gods, and they were powerful existences that had a god's position since the beginning of the world. Or rather, they could be called the gods. This was a powerful race where even their babies had a god's position.
The gods were different. For example, the so-called God of Courage usually increased his strength through his own efforts, and finally ascended to the realm of gods. Only then did he become a god. This could actually be seen from the name of the god or the power that he mastered. The ancient gods generally mastered the most essential Laws, while the new gods often mastered some derivative Laws.
If the rules were a tree, then those who controlled the branches of the tree, such as the God of Valor, the God of Speed, the God of Strength, the God of Forging, the God of Wine, and so on, were all new gods, or they could be compared to the ancient gods and be called new gods. The power that the ancient gods mastered was the trunk of the tree, such as the Ancient God of Light, the Ancient God of Darkness, the God of Fire, the God of Water, and so on.
After receiving such a piece of information, Lin Li was really a little dumbfounded. He originally thought that even if there was a Divine Kingdom here, it should be the Divine Kingdom of the Ancient God of Light that the Illuminati believed in, and the incarnation of the Twin Serpents of Light and Darkness should also be created by the Ancient God of Light. After the Immortal King came here, he destroyed the Divine Kingdom of the Ancient God of Light, and left behind the ruins. He then suppressed the Ancient God of Light.
But now, there was actually the God of Courage. Although he should be a new god based on the power that he had mastered, since he could have a Divine Kingdom, his strength was definitely not simple. In that case, what secret was hidden in this place that actually attracted a god and an ancient god to come here one after another, and even caused a war between the two gods?
Lin Li then thought, Did the Immortal King come all the way to this place for the same secret? Besides, did the world that Geresco left behind lead him here step by step for the sake of that secret? What kind of secret could it be to actually attract so many powerhouses here!?
On the other hand, although Edmund's expression was normal, he also looked at the pile of stones for a long time without saying a word. Obviously, this piece of information was also quite unexpected to him. Perhaps no one in the entire Illuminati would have thought that a god had actually fallen in their Sacred Land.
"Saint Edmund, what do you think about this matter? You don't seem to have mentioned it to me before. I can't believe such a thing actually happened in your Sacred Land." Actually, Lin Li could also tell that even if the people of the Illuminati knew more about this place than he did, there was definitely a limit. He asked Edmund this question not to make fun of him, but because he wanted to take this opportunity to find out more about the Illuminati.
Indeed, after hearing Lin Li's question, Edmund couldn't help but smile bitterly. He did not deliberately try to hide anything, and instead frankly said, "President Felic, you may have some misunderstandings. Although this used to be the Sacred Land of the Illuminati, no one from the Illuminati has ever stepped into this place except for the founding saint, Aquilo, and the powerful mage who came later. We were only able to learn a little about this place through some of the notes left behind by Saint Aquilo. "
"Oh." Lin Li nodded, and did not say anything else that would make Edmund feel awkward. Edmund's answer also confirmed his guess that the Illuminati's understanding of this place was obviously not much better than his. Besides, even if the Illuminati had Aquilo's notes, thousands of years had passed, and no one knew what kind of changes had taken place here. Hence, even if the Illuminati had the information, it was actually not very reliable.
After completely recording the contents of the stone pieces, Lin Li and Edmund left the dilapidated temple with their respective people. However, it was clear that the discovery in the temple did not bring them any pleasant surprises. Instead, their moods became much heavier.
Indeed, the God of Bravery had already fallen, and the ancient God of Light had also been suppressed by the Immortal King. It seemed that there was no longer any danger in this place. However, no one could be sure that the shocking secret hidden here would not cause any unexpected changes again with their arrival. This place was shrouded in thick fog again for both Lin Li and Edmund at this moment.
After leaving the temple, the two teams resumed their journey, and Edmund still followed the ancient information in the Illuminati, and led the team in the direction where the holy relic might be.
Although Lin Li no longer believed the information that the Illuminati had, he did not question the direction that Edmund was leading in. After all, no matter what, Lin Li was completely clueless about this place, and regardless of whether Edmund was reliable or not, he at least had some clues.
Not long after the two teams left, whirlpool-shaped sand pits suddenly appeared in the surrounding desert, followed by a group of giant scorpions that were larger than carriages. They crawled out of the sand pits and attacked the two teams.
The appearance of these giant scorpions was similar to the giant scorpions that appeared in the desert of Anril. However, their entire bodies were glowing with white light, as if they were wearing silver armor. That might have something to do with the environment here. Besides, their strength was basically above the Legendary-level. If they were in Anril, they would be rather terrifying.
However, the two teams had already seen too many powerful existences here. Hence, no one made too much of a fuss about the Legendary-level Radiant Scorpions.
Faced with the attack of the Radiant Scorpions, the Sanctuary powerhouses did not take action, and instead left the battle to their subordinates. After all, in such an environment, the Sanctuary powerhouses had to be wary of any accidents that might happen at any time. God knew if there would be another terrifying creature like the Radiant-winged Giant Python.
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