Xu Xiaoshou had seen the Heavenly Mechanism Puppet pattern with the embarrassed face before.
It had been at the end of the Relics of the Gods, when he was pursuing Sui Yin.
Using the Illusion Sword Technique and psychological warfare, he had forced Sui Yin to use Heaven-Stealing Sun-Swapping. In the end, he had traded a pair of underwear for the Origin True Stele: Dragon! The underwear had come from Dao Qiongchang.
That underwear had borne a Heavenly Mechanism Puppet pattern with an embarrassed face.
Compared to the pattern now revealed on the Devil Ancestor stone statue's chest by the Will Dao Disk, it could not be said that they were unrelated—it could only be said that they were exactly identical! "So Dao Qiongchang had been here?"
"But Dao Qiongchang had not even been born in this era. How could he possibly have come here, bypassed the Cold Palace Saint Emperor, and left behind a 'Dao Qiongchang was here'?"
This was a thousand years ago!
Or had Dao Qiongchang also traveled through the River of Time and drifted here?
"That can't be right either..."
Xu Xiaoshou's mind shook violently. Every understanding he had previously built of Dao Qiongchang felt as though it needed to be overturned and rebuilt.
Yet before he had enough time to think, to sort through the threads of everything, a teasing call came from behind him. "Young man..."
Xu Xiaoshou whirled around.
He had not seen the Devil Ancestor on the stone statue.
But upon turning, he saw a mass of seven-colored auspicious clouds floating in midair within the stone hall. A lofty sacred altar stood upon the clouds, and atop that altar stood a tall, burly figure.
It wore a purple-feathered cloud crown and crimson-scaled golden armor. Rosy wings spread from its back, dazzling with