Hesitant as he was, sometimes when the great tide arrives, personal feelings don't matter.

Even though the Giant instinctively resisted those Taisui, the other dragons were very fond of them.

Or rather, they liked anything that might come from beyond the Mountains and Sea.

The kind old lady triceratops had carefully chosen a red and a green Taisui, placing them in the holes in her horns, using them as decorations.

Beside her, the dinosaur, roughly the size of the Giant, with a tail like a great sword, chose two Taisui with firm lobes and clamped them onto its prized sword-like tail.

The sensation was so chilly yet soft and firm, it was overwhelmingly comfortable.

If it weren't for the limited number of Taisui, it would have wanted to clamp on a few more, to create a Taisui sword sheath.

Seeing the dragons already polluted by the Taisui, the Giant sighed and then said to Zhang Ze, "Please follow me."

The Giant's instincts once again made the right decision.

It felt that the priority now was to separate Zhang Ze from the other dragons.

...

The mechanism chamber was still the room filled with Mo Family's mechanical magical artifacts.

Under the Giant's control, the mechanism chamber began to change shape, walls flipped, mechanisms opened and closed.

In the blink of an eye, a tea room modeled after the Human Race's structure appeared before Zhang Ze.

The tea room was elegantly furnished with everything complete, apart from being larger, there was not a flaw.

Zhang Ze looked at the teacup, which could easily serve as a bathtub for him, and politely refused the Giant's offer of tea, then straightforwardly stated his request.

"Where is the Ancestral Temple that Xiao Yaozi mentioned, can you take me to see it?"

The Giant was taken aback, "How do you know about the Ancestral Temple? This matter..."

Seeing the Giant's surprise, Zhang Ze didn't hide anything. He recounted how he had previously infiltrated the mechanism chamber and eavesdropped on the Giant's sleeptalk.

"Sorry, I only did it because I didn't know where those Nine Huis had possessed. I won't do it again next time." Zhang Ze apologized sincerely.

The Giant, ?

There's a next time?

Just about to get angry, but its instincts once again played a role, its wild intuition told it not to waste time with Zhang Ze on such petty matters, as it would surely be pointless in the end.

Best to quickly get to the point.

"I have no problem, but whether to go to the Ancestral Temple or to see the Saint's remains requires both me, Horror Saint, and Xiao Yaozi to go together."

Saying this, a low growl like a fishbone caught in the throat came from the Giant's throat.

After growling for a while, it spat out a small mechanical box from its mouth.

Some wind came from nowhere and dried the slime on the box, the mechanism turned, and the box opened to reveal a strange polyhedron, half of which had numbers carved into it.

"What is this?" Lin Feng, who had been observing intensely from the side, asked.

He intuitively felt that this thing was incomplete.

"A die, twenty-sided. I, Horror Saint, and Xiao Yaozi each hold a part. When the three come together, they form the key to enter the Ancestral Temple."

"A die? How do you use it? Do you stick it into some hole?" Zhang Ze joked.

Now, just the word "hole" made the Giant somewhat sensitive, and it shook its head.

"No... no insertion required, just roll a 6 with the die to open the Ancestral Temple."

Zhang Ze, "?"

Zhang Ze, "And what if you don't roll a 6?"

The Giant, "Then keep rolling."

After a moment of silence, Zhang Ze asked, "Um... may I ask, that Saint you mentioned, who exactly is he? What does he look like, is he... is he me?"

Linking together the General Coin that served as proof of a new era, the classics circulated among the schools of thought across the Mountains and Sea, and this seemingly naïve but somewhat brilliant way of opening the door,

Zhang Ze had reason to suspect that this Saint was intricately linked to him.

But unexpectedly, the Giant shook its head, "I don't know. To be honest, though your kind looks like the Saint, I can't distinguish your faces.

"To me, you and your companions all look quite similar.

"Moreover, we don't have a portrait of the Saint. I don't know if you've seen those Horror Temples built at any random spot by Horror Saint, but all the statues inside are faceless."

Zhang Ze, "Then what about the remains? Are they a corpse or a relic or something?"

The Giant shook its head again, "I don't know what it is, there's no description or record of it in the scriptures.

"It's just because it appeared after the Saint left that we call it the remains."

Zhang Ze wanted to ask more but was interrupted by Brother Feng.

"Gulp... Talking so much here is meaningless, why don't we just go find Horror Saint and Xiao Yaozi, open the Ancestral Temple and take a look inside... gulp."

Brother Feng said as he drank from a teacup a head taller than him, which was indeed a rather comical scene.

Zhang Ze, "..."

Lin Feng, "This tea is good, you should try it."

Zhang Ze, "No thanks, you can have my cup."

Lin Feng, "Thank you, senior brother... gulp... gulp."

...

While this side was filling up on water, on the other side the Giant was activating the array to the Ancestral Temple.

Soon, a small array, using the Giant's size as a reference, appeared within the mechanism chamber.

Both of them and a dragon entered together.

...

A moment later, in a deserted wild forest somewhere in the Mountains and Sea.

The ground trembled, giant trees bowed down, an array appeared out of nowhere, the Five Elements' Spiritual Qi swirling, and destroyed everything within its range.

Zhang Ze was the first to leap out of the array.

Straightening his robe, Zhang Ze could only say that the 'Teleportation Array' of the Mountains and Sea was indeed a bit primitive.

Due to the peculiar environment of the Mountains and Sea, the teleportation arrays here were different from those of the Four Continents.

Instead of using Space Spells or Earth Vein Transmission to move via Earth Sea, it was more straightforward and crude, using a brute force miracle method.

Opening a passage between two locations with the Five Elements Escape Technique, then using either a vacuum suction or catapult-like start to directly kick the user to the destination.

So violent was the method that a cultivator below Nascent Soul could not physically endure the 'transmission's' pressure.

This teleportation array, if placed in the Four Continents, would definitely be classified as a death trap.

"How wild, no wonder only the strong and leaders from various clans are qualified to behold the remains, apparently, the weak aren't even fit to live through the journey.

"But speaking of... where have Brother Feng and the Giant gone?"

For some reason, Zhang Ze waited for a long time, until the array disappeared, yet there was no sign of the Giant and Brother Feng.

Clearly, they had entered the array together just now.

Zhang Ze flew into the air, looked around, but saw no one, let alone any building resembling the Ancestral Temple.

Attempting to contact Lin Feng, there was no trace either.

It was as if these two had vanished.

Thinking for a moment, Zhang Ze decided to head back to Mo Pass to see if it was the array malfunctioned or someone had tampered with it.

Only before he could cast a spell to leave, a familiar voice shot at him from behind.

The array lit up behind Zhang Ze, causing the attack to deflect to the side, plowing a deep trench in the ground.

Turning back, Zhang Ze found that the one attacking him was actually Horror Saint.

Its appearance was without warning, and it was somewhat not in the right state.

Compared to when he first entered the Mountains and Sea, the Horror Saint was now a bit larger, black slime turned into tiny tentacles, emerging from torn muscular wounds, preventing the wounds from healing.

Continuous purple dust leaked from Horror Saint's mouth, attracting a swarm of unknown red firebugs.

The firebugs hungrily attacked those tentacles emerging from Horror's wounds, pecking, laying eggs, or being caught by the tentacles, forming a strange balance…

Judging by the tentacles from those wounds, it was highly likely that Horror Saint had been parasitized by Nine Huis.

As for what those other things were?

Zhang Ze was no professional doctor, but even he could tell that Horror Saint was almost like a biochemical prototype, the strongest petri dish, a self-contained ecosystem.

Apart from the visible symptoms, Horror Saint had at least seven or eight additional mutations at this point.

These symptoms seemed to have reached an eerie balance, preventing Horror Saint from transforming into a disaster akin to Lord Shang's son.

But it was only a temporary matter.

Just when Zhang Ze was perplexed, a blue 'paper crane' landed on Zhang Ze's shoulder.

Xiao Yaozi's voice sounded in Zhang Ze's ear.

"Don't worry, it's just a bit of sickness."

"What kind of sickness..." Zhang Ze asked reflexively.

Xiao Yaozi, "Black tentacles from outer space, mad dragon syndrome, life-eating worms, blazing blood, heart poison...

"No worries, it won't die for now."

Zhang Ze, "..."