In Oracle Bone Script, Di was a standalone character with a special meaning, never used interchangeably with other characters.
It was a special character used in sacrifices.
Before coming here, Lin Feng had never imagined that someone would worship the Heavenly Emperor in this tiny place, somewhere that was not even within the Yin-Shang's main sphere of activity.
Violating the Yin-Shang sacrificial hierarchy was even more terrifying than overstepping one's station in later feudal dynasties. A sacrifice to the Heavenly Emperor could only be presided over by one person.
The Shang King himself.
Offering sacrifices to the Heavenly Emperor was the Shang King's inherent right.
But would the Shang King really have traveled all the way here from the heart of the Central Plains?
With that thought, he dug deeper. He knew that if this was a site for worshipping the Heavenly Emperor, the offerings should not have been this "meager."
Sure enough, before he had been digging much longer, Lin Feng's Earth Staff Technique stopped working.
Something with immense magical power lay below, rendering even his Earth Staff Technique helpless. Lin Feng was not surprised. At the same time, he heard a game notification.
The game notified him that he could save here.
Lin Feng chose to save.
This place was called [Abandoned Yin-Shang Sacrificial Pit].
Lin Feng shaped the wind into a huge hand and dug downward. Soon, he uncovered another offering, another skeleton, but one unlike anything he had ever seen.
"What a beautiful thing."
It must have been extraordinarily beautiful when alive. Even after being dead for thousands of years, its skeleton had not decayed. Every bone looked as though it had been cast from gold, and strange patterns marked their surfaces.
Those were natural patterns, characters that could be used on Talismanic Seals. The ancient