At Xu Tian's words, Tai Yi wasted no time. He stepped up to the stone door, and at his lightest touch, it opened on its own.
Tai Yi found that curious. He led Xu Tian and Xu Chenghuang inside.
They entered a vast underground cavern. Something unknown on the rock walls lit the entire space, keeping the place of inheritance from being plunged into darkness.
Tai Yi looked toward the center. A Sacrificial Altar rose more than ten meters high, with nine pillars on top: eight around its edges and the largest standing in the middle.
Each pillar bore a sculpture of a Purple Brilliant Heaven Destroying Dragon. The one on the central pillar was especially lifelike, as though it might come alive at any moment.
Xu Tian's heart ached at the sight. This place had belonged to his family for tens of thousands of years, but now it was no longer theirs. Xu Chenghuang had a different thought:
My family had a place like this, and I only found out about it when I was already at the end of my life.
Tai Yi wondered:
Does the Purple Brilliant God still have any essence left? That's what the God King of Destruction needs. If there's none, the Purple Brilliant God can never be revived.
Just as Tai Yi was about to climb the Sacrificial Altar for a closer look, the entire place of inheritance began to shake.
The sculpture of the Purple Brilliant Heaven Destroying Dragon atop the central pillar of the Sacrificial Altar seemed to come alive. It changed into a purple dragon radiating destruction and flew toward the three of them.
Xu Tian froze. The pressure from the suddenly awakened dragon was immense. Then realization struck him. A Purple Brilliant Heaven Destroying Dragon in the place of