In the image, the skulls of the seven great demon kings had been cracked open, and strands of their lifeblood essence flowed along the altar's patterns, converging into the mouth of an altar at the center.
Even more bizarrely, a phantom of the Map of Mountains and Rivers appeared above that altar.
"What exactly is Xuantianji plotting?"
Li Yunjing murmured to himself, "Didn't he take the Map of Mountains and Rivers to the front line? Then what is this one here? How are they connected?"
He was somewhat at a loss.
He truly could not see through Xuantianji's thoughts, nor did he know what the Heavenly Net Dao Sect intended to do next!
"Senior, do you know whether large numbers of cultivators have gone missing within the Heavenly Net Dao Sect's territory over the past three years?"
After a long while, Li Yunjing suddenly raised his head and asked in a deep voice.
"How do you know that?"
Yue Wuya's pupils constricted. "The subordinate sects alone have reported over a hundred cases, but they were all suppressed."
Yue Wuya's beard trembled slightly, and he lowered his voice. "What's even stranger is that most of the missing were Golden Core cultivators, and..."
He abruptly cast a soundproofing spell. "They were all people who didn't get along well with the Heavenly Net Dao Sect..."
Hearing this, Li Yunjing cracked the teacup in his hand with a soft crack, a fine fissure splitting across it.
He seemed to have understood something!
"Senior, have you ever heard the legend of 'blood sacrifice to mend the heavens'?"
Li Yunjing dipped his fingertip in tea and drew a Map of Mountains and Rivers on the stone table.
Yue Wuya's expression changed drastically, and he suddenly pressed down on his hand. "Speak carefully! That ancient forbidden art..."