Zhang Tianle looked at the ring handed to him and hesitated for a moment.

Master Hui'an gave him no time to hesitate and forcefully stuffed the jade pendant into Zhang Tianle's hand: "You are the successor of the Great Dao lineage, so you have the responsibility to shoulder your share of the responsibility."

She's figured it out now.

Worrying about it all is pointless.

The fact that Zhang Tianle was able to obtain the Golden Seal of Merit shows that he is quite capable, and that no one is more suitable than him to do this task.

If his senior brother had told this child earlier, he might not have died.

Thinking of this, Abbess Hui'an sighed and didn't say anything more to Zhang Tianle, leading him up the stone mountain.

Half an hour later, led by Abbess Huian, the two arrived at the foot of the rocky mountain.

Master Hui'an gave Zhang Tianle a meaningful look.

Her junior apprentice is truly remarkable.

Back when they were at Qingxia Ancient Temple, she knew that this junior disciple was very powerful, capable of subduing even a Ghost Emperor-level expert. Now it seems that when he dealt with that Ghost Emperor, this junior disciple hadn't even used his full strength.

She was able to follow him without making a sound, and they climbed nearly ten miles uphill for half an hour. They even used methods to lighten their bodies and raise their breath. She was slightly out of breath when they reached this place, but her junior disciple didn't even change her expression.

"We've arrived." Master Hui'an pointed to the large rock in front of them and said to Zhang Tianle, "Look at this incantation yourself, and then recite it silently."

She took out a card and handed it to Zhang Tianle.

"This was given to me by your master. Now I'm returning it to you. Oh, right, remember to recite it silently, don't say it aloud. Don't ask me why, it's what your master told you. Just do as he says. Once you're inside, you'd better take out your Merit Golden Seal. There, it either absorbs lifespan or it absorbs merit, but of course, it prioritizes the power of merit."

That's all I know. If you want to know the specifics, you'll have to go see for yourself. I've never been inside, so I don't know what it's like inside.

"If there's nothing else, I'll be going now."

After finishing her sentence, Abbess Hui'an turned and left gracefully, leaving Zhang Tianle staring blankly at the card in his hand.

The card had a string of incantations written on it.

Zhang Tianle narrowed his eyes.

He sat cross-legged facing the stone gate, just as he remembered his master doing, and silently recited the card his aunt had given him.

The incantation had just been recited.

The stone gate then opened.

White light poured out from the opened stone door.

Zhang Tianle got up and walked towards the cave entrance.

After Zhang Tianle entered the cave, Master Hui'an, who had originally left, returned.

What we saw was Zhang Tianle walking into the cave entrance, and the stone slowly closing.

She frowned and sighed again, "I don't know if what I did was right or wrong, child. I hope you won't blame your aunt."

When her senior brother asked her for help, she originally wanted to refuse because of past events, but her usually arrogant senior brother knelt down and begged her.

Seeing his humble appearance, she finally couldn't bear it and helped him.

Since she was originally a disciple of the Great Dao lineage, and her fellow disciples could not be relied upon, she could only rely on herself.

Now that Zhang Tianle has the strength to support the Great Dao lineage, he should also shoulder the responsibilities that belong to the Great Dao lineage.

She took a deep look at the closed stone door, then sat cross-legged in the spot where Zhang Tianle had previously sat.

She waited for him to come out. If something really happened to him, she would risk her life to rescue her nephew.

This is also her responsibility.

On the other side, after Zhang Tianle entered the stone cave, all he could see was a vast expanse of white light.

It stretches as far as the eye can see.

It was as if I had entered a completely white world, with nothing else.

After walking for fifteen minutes, Zhang Tianle was about to get snow blindness when he saw a huge statue in front of him.

The statue sits on a twelve-petaled lotus, with its back to him, and is entirely golden in color, radiating a faint golden light.

The golden light would flash every now and then.

It's as if it could go out at any moment.

Zhang Tianle continued walking forward.

When he walked forward, he saw an incense table in front of the statue, on which sat a large cauldron and countless rows of small human-shaped candles, each with a faint flame burning on it.

What burned on the cauldron was not incense, but streaks of golden light stained with blood.

This blood-stained golden light appeared and disappeared intermittently, as if it were about to be extinguished at any moment.

At that moment, Zhang Tianle looked up and saw the statue above.

It was a faceless statue.

It was exactly the same as the faceless statue that his master knelt on in the audio-visual recording provided by the system.

At this moment, Zhang Tianle looked at the faceless statue, then at the cauldron, and then his gaze fell on the candles on the table.

These candles, arranged in a way that resembles the Great Wall, form a structure.

Thinking about what Yama and the others had been talking about these past few days, and then looking at the candle in front of me.

Could this be a miniature of the Great Wall that blocks the way to the Chaos Heaven beyond the Thirty-Three Heavens?

What appears to be burning on this large cauldron is blood-stained life force.

However, the lifespan of the large cauldron was almost gone, and the candles were about to fall.

As for the golden light on the faceless statue, it seemed that it would be extinguished in the next moment.

[Task: Consecrate the statue with merit to gain 1000 years of lifespan. This matter is related to your master; if this lifespan is exhausted, your master will truly be beyond saving.]

As soon as the system's voice faded, Zhang Tianle's eyes narrowed.

What he hates most is being threatened. He's willing to fight to the death with these people, preferring to break rather than surrender.

But this matter also involved his master.

He had to be careful.

He remembered what his aunt had said before he entered this place.

He took out a gold seal of merit and placed it on the cauldron.

The moment the Golden Seal of Merit came into contact with the Great Cauldron, countless golden rays burst forth from the seal.

A miraculous scene unfolded.

These golden rays seemed guided by an invisible force, distributing the meritorious golden light evenly across...

The candlelight, which had been so dim it seemed it might go out at any moment, suddenly became bright.

The golden light behind the faceless statue also became more dazzling.

As for the crimson light inside the cauldron, it stabilized under the influence of the golden light of merit, and even showed signs of gradually recovering.

The original golden seal of merit inside the cauldron has disappeared.

Upon seeing this, Zhang Tianle narrowed his eyes, took out another merit seal from his toolbox, and placed it on the cauldron.

This time, however, the cauldron did not react at all.

The merits on the merit seal were not extracted again.

Zhang Tianle did not retrieve the Golden Seal of Merit. He took a deep look at the bloody light and turned to walk back the way he came.