The mountaintop was not some rugged peak, but a very flat place, like a plaza.
The entire mountaintop formed a roughly circular plaza, with a barrier around its perimeter protecting the area.
The circular plaza covered roughly ten thousand square meters and was extraordinarily vast. At its four equidistant points—the east, south, west, and north—stood four enormous beast statues. Each was nearly several dozen meters tall, modeled after the ancient Four Saint Beasts: the Azure Dragon in the east, the White Tiger in the west, the Vermilion Bird in the south, and the Black Tortoise in the north.
At the center of the plaza stood a massive altar, upon which rested a bronze coffin. A huge flower bloomed atop the coffin.
"Soul Guiding Flower!" Chen Mo stared at the enormous blossom, genuinely shocked. He had never imagined, much less seen, such a gigantic flower.
The Soul Guiding Flower had a diameter of nearly a hundred meters and stood over two hundred meters tall. Its massive red petals rose in layer after layer, resembling a tulip.
The enormous petals wrapped around the flower's core, layer upon layer, exquisitely beautiful. Yet the core seemed to drift within a sea of fiery red light, its shape resembling a gigantic skull face.
Around the flower's core were long, ribbon-like stems resembling tentacles. They extended beyond the petals and swayed around it, each reaching a hundred meters in length.
The entire Soul Guiding Flower gave off a blood-red radiance. In particular, the skull face within its core made one feel that this flower was hardly anything good.
However, Chen Mo knew how rare and precious the Soul Guiding Flower was. It could expand one's Spiritual Sea and extend one's lifespan. If refined into a Calamity-Breaking pill or other precious medicinal pills, it could help cultivators