The Pearl Relic House Master supplemented Cloud Crane True Lord's words:
"That's right. A Skeleton Army led by a Mystic-Bone Soldier is stationed there year-round, numbering at least eight hundred."
"However, perhaps because of the Jade Bone Grass on the hillside, even Black Crystal Bone-level Skeleton Demonic Soldiers cannot approach that stone stele."
"That is why the stone stele is still there after all these years."
Their words dispelled the last trace of doubt in Xu Taiping's mind.
He could already vaguely ascertain that the flagpole planted beside the stone stele was probably something akin to an Iron Armor Token.
So, as though making idle conversation on their journey, he tentatively asked Cloud Crane True Lord and the others:
"Have you ever considered, seniors, that the flagpole might be something used to command the Treading the Sea Army, just like our Iron Armor Tokens?"
Cloud Crane True Lord and the others remained perfectly calm at Xu Taiping's conjecture.
Cloud Crane True Lord replied with a smile:
"Naturally, we have suspected as much. Not just us-the cultivator who transformed the fallen souls of those Treading the Sea Army soldiers into Jade Bone Grass back then conjectured, upon seeing great swathes of Jade Bone Grass clustered around that stone stele, that the flagpole was very likely something used to command a military formation."
The Pearl Relic House Master also smiled and continued:
"But by that time, the Divine Souls of those Treading the Sea Army officers and soldiers had already suffered the Demonic Beast's corruption for thousands of years."
"Ordinary battle intent could not awaken them at all."
"What's more, inviting a battle general capable of controlling four Heaven Rank Iron Armor Tokens simultaneously to come here and die, just to wipe out that bunch of skeleton soldiers-no one would do such