Su Shi'er's heart tightened. He immediately circulated his True Yuan in secret and quietly urged the Chan Ding Nine Heavens method to steady his mind.
At the same time, he used his own True Yuan to suppress the Nine Heavens Exquisite Pagoda's strange movement once more.
Yet the expression on his face never changed in the slightest.
And just as the Nine Heavens Exquisite Pagoda trembled, among the nine stone steles around the altar, the one closest to Su Shi'er suddenly lit up with a thin glimmer along the ancient veins on its surface.
The glimmer was like blood, slowly wandering along the stele's veins.
In the distance, within the humanoid skeleton pieced together from tens of thousands of withered bones, an extremely faint thread of vitality flashed past as well.
The change lasted for only the briefest moment. In the blink of an eye, as Su Shi'er circulated his cultivation art at once, it dimmed again.
But even if it was only for an instant, it was enough for everyone present to react.
Pan Yue's pupils suddenly shrank.
"It lit up again?"
"The aura of an ancient god on this man actually stirred the clan's Ancestral Stele? It even..."
Pan Yue muttered under his breath, but his voice abruptly stopped at the end.
His huge eyeballs rolled, and when he looked at Su Shi'er again, there was finally a trace of true gravity in his gaze.
Earlier, outside the clan land, the veins had lit up in the distance. Though he had been shocked, there had still been distance between them after all.
But now, it had happened right before his eyes.
Watching with his own eyes as the Ancestral Stele reacted because of Su Shi'er's arrival, the shock this brought was naturally entirely different.
Su Shi'er frowned slightly