At the end of time and space, the ancestral temple.

The star coin rotated rapidly in the groove, and countless huge rocks under the platform suddenly moved, as if some kind of switch was pressed, making a low and loud noise!

As the stone groups changed, these huge stones were divided into twelve complex huge stone arrays according to the positions of the twelve ancestral stone statues on the edge of the platform. They were displayed in a circle below the crowd, similar to the Bagua trend of Daxia Taoism, but also different. There was a mysterious meaning hidden in the disorder.

"What is this? A maze?" Nezha asked puzzledly.

Lingbao Tianzun stood in the center of the platform, looking down at the endless array of twelve huge stones below, his brows slightly furrowed, as if he was thinking about something.

After a while, he slowly spoke:

"If I'm not mistaken, this should be the ceremony for the Ancestral Temple to absorb the power of faith."

"Ritual? Does absorbing faith require a ritual?"

“They are different from us. The ancestral god myths of the primitive times did not have anything like the origin of the kingdom of God.

They gathered the invisible power of faith onto the central platform, and through some mysterious method, transformed it into divine power that they could absorb, and then dispersed it into the bodies of each ancestor god through these giant stone arrays. "

Lingbao Tianzun pointed at the twelve stone statues around him, and then pointed at the twelve giant stone arrays below, "At the end of each giant stone array is an ancestral god."

"A mysterious method to transform faith into power?" Jade Ding Zhenren pondered and asked, "How did they do it?"

“I don’t know either. This may be the biggest secret of the Ancestral God mythology…it may even be related to the existence of the gods themselves.”

After hearing Lingbao Tianzun's words, everyone looked at the empty altar at the same time, as if they were all trying to imagine what was originally placed on it...

"Tianzun, what should we do next?"

Guan Zai pointed to the twelve huge stone formations below and said, "Do you want to go down and take a look?"

"After all, this is the kingdom of the ancient gods. Wouldn't it be too risky for us to go down and explore like this?" said a Great Xia god.

"Not necessarily. The era of the Ancestral God has passed for too long. Even the Ancestral God himself has disappeared. There shouldn't be much danger here."

"If this ancestral temple was hostile to us, it would have reacted long ago."

“…”

While everyone was discussing, Lingbao Tianzun pondered for a moment, counted on his fingers, and said:

"This place should not be dangerous... Since we are trapped in the wall of time and space, instead of sitting and waiting, we might as well split up and search. Maybe we can find something left over from the Ancestral God era."

When Tianzun spoke, everyone immediately stopped objecting and agreed at the same time.

“Taiyi, you take Si Lu Star Lord, Shang Sheng Star Lord, Tai Bai Jinxing, and this little friend Lu Wuwei to the Shuizu Stone Formation. Yuding, you take Meng Zhang God Lord…” Lingbao Tianzun divided everyone here into groups one by one, trying his best to ensure that each group has a main god-level combat power.

"...Friend Zhou Ping, please take them to the Thunder Ancestor Stone Formation, and finally..."

Lingbao Tianzun's gaze fell on Lin Qiye. After a pause, he said, "Lin Qiye, you and I will go to the Dark Ancestor Stone Formation."

Lin Qiye was stunned for a moment, then immediately nodded, "Yes."

After dividing the groups, Lingbao Tianzun took out the mother and child dragon flags and distributed the child flags to different groups, while he kept the mother flag for himself to facilitate sensing the positions of all the child flags.

After doing all this, everyone walked down the platform and entered the corresponding stone formation.

Lin Qiye followed closely behind Lingbao Tianzun, passed through a towering rock the size of a mountain, and entered the array that looked like a maze.

Each of these huge stones that make up the stone formation is hundreds of meters high, and there is no trace of splicing or polishing. It seems that the stones are already so huge and natural, but the sizes and outlines are different, and they are intertwined and stand like a forest of huge stones.

As soon as Lin Qiye stepped into the array, the light above his head quickly dimmed, and a pitch-black sky enveloped the stone formation, making it pitch dark inside the array.

"Why did it suddenly get dark?" Lin Qiye asked puzzledly.

"It's not that it got dark suddenly, it's that it's dark inside this huge stone array." Lingbao Tianzun walked in front of him and said lightly, "Looking down from above, these arrays are just some complicated stone blocks, but the mysteries contained in them are far more than that.

Each of the giant stone arrays here is a space in itself. We are walking in the Dark Ancestor's stone array, so the array of these stones corresponds to the power of the Dark Ancestor."

“Can just some scattered stones have such an effect?” Lin Qiye stretched out his hand and rubbed the surface of a huge stone beside him. It felt cold and rough, no different from the stones outside.

“Don’t underestimate the myths of the ancestral gods. Although their existence may seem primitive and crude, they have a power that you and I cannot imagine.”

Lin Qiye nodded. He couldn't use his mental power to perceive here, and could only rely on his weak vision in the dark to barely follow Lingbao Tianzun...

cluster--!

Balls of flames bloomed from the void around Lingbao Tianzun, dispelling the surrounding darkness and illuminating the giant stone array near the two people with extreme clarity.

The familiar face turned around and looked at Lin Qiye in the firelight, and said softly:

"Now, can you see clearly?"

"……Um."

Looking at the Taoist's face, Lin Qiye's heart trembled slightly. In a trance, he seemed to see the shadow of Baili Pangpang...

"The terrain here is complicated and there may be some remaining traps. Just follow me closely... But don't worry too much. Even if you get lost, I can find you as soon as possible." Lingbao Tianzun said calmly.

When Lin Qiye heard these words, he felt inexplicably relieved. He followed closely behind Lingbao Tianzun, and after hesitating for a long time, he finally spoke:

“Tianzun…”

"What is it?"

"...Fatty?" Lin Qiye spoke cautiously.

Hearing these two words, Lingbao Tianzun paused and stopped.

He let out a long sigh, and slowly turned around surrounded by burning flames, facing Lin Qiye with a complicated expression.

"Lin Qiye, I... no, I know what you are thinking." Lingbao Tianzun paused for a moment, "Baili Pangpang is the last of my reincarnations. Although he is not the most tortuous of my countless reincarnations, he is the most impressive to me.

You, Qingyu, Jiang'er, Caoyuan, Jialan, and Zhua Ge... Baili Pangpang is the bond of [Night], and you are also his. No one understands this better than me. "Lingbao Tianzun pointed to his heart,

“I’m sorry that my return took away your Fatty Baili, but we had no choice. This is what he wanted.

You have seen the current situation of Da Xia. Now I must be a Lingbao, not Baili Pangpang... Can you understand?"