Since Heaven's Mandate Core could not decipher it, they could only pin their hopes on the Monkey Lords.
Though there was little hope, Luo Zheng still took the stone fragments over to ask.
Kong Gu showed no impatience. He examined the stone fragments for a while, then answered bluntly, "This isn't Sanskrit."
"Not Sanskrit?" Luo Zheng raised his brows slightly.
Everything on these stone fragments had been recorded in Sanskrit. Could the Four Spirits Sect have used another script as well?
Holding a stone fragment between his fingers, Kong Gu said, "It's a Blood Control Method. Look at these winding patterns. Don't they look like the shape of a monkey?"
Luo Zheng, Primal Celestial Venerable, and Nuwa's true self turned their gazes back to the stone fragments.
With Kong Gu's reminder, they noticed it too.
Though the lines were tangled, they actually looked much like the meridians within a body.
"That's a human, isn't it?" Primal Celestial Venerable could not help pointing out.
"A monkey!" Kong Gu shot him a glare.
One reason the Human Spirit Sect and the Monkey Spirit Sect had the closest relationship was the similarity of their physical forms.
Basically, of the various methods Bitter Tree had created, anything human spirits could use, monkey spirits could certainly use as well. That was not necessarily true of bird spirits and snake spirits.
"How do you use this Blood Control Method?" Luo Zheng asked again. "Just circulate it through the meridians shown by the patterns. These four diagrams each represent a Lesser Celestial Circuit. Together, they form a Greater Celestial Circuit..." As Kong Gu spoke, he examined the Blood Control Method on the stone fragments again. His expression suddenly changed. "This circulation method is so unusual
—could it really be for source divine blood?"
In fact, Bitter Tree's