In the end, the black stones fell still. Yet upon every one of them was an odd carving.
The carving was crescent-shaped. Ye Tian did not yet know its exact purpose. Once it had fully formed, it began shining brilliantly and fell from the Chaos Stone Tablet.
By the time Ye Tian reacted, he had already been sealed inside the ancestral hall.
"Is this Earth-Shattering Gold Essence?" Ye Tian reached out and touched the door before him. Waves of tingling numbness that struck straight at the soul surged through him.
At that point, Ye Tian was completely certain of the material. It was Earth-Shattering Gold Essence, a legendary substance.
Nearly a million years ago, it had been the strongest material in existence. But now it had long been lost, reduced to a creation of legend.
Its strength was enough to ward off any harm. Even Ye Tian's demonic ash could not absorb the divinity within it.
Faced with creations from ten million years ago, Ye Tian only felt increasingly powerless, his ability to deal with matters growing ever weaker.
"I always feel that my dantian still has room to expand further." Ye Tian looked inward at his dantian, gazed at the restless demonic ash, and sighed.
Even the poorest materials used around the ancestral hall were Demon Annihilation Gold, making Ye Tian feel deeply uncomfortable.
Demon Annihilation Gold was specifically meant to deal with demonic cultivators. It was costly, and for ordinary sects, aside from its vivid appearance, it had no other use.
Normally, no sect would spend a fortune to purchase Demon Annihilation Gold.
Ye Tian paced to the rear of the ancestral hall and saw a stone statue. Incense offerings had been placed directly before it.
"A statue with such a face... is this the object of the