After carefully examining the stone pillar's appearance, Xu Taiping could not help blurting out:
"This stone pillar is actually identical to the one inside the Daoist temple?!"
Hearing this, Mo Qingzhu immediately wanted to step forward and ask him about it, but the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage stopped him.
Xu Taiping, however, was immersed in the images within the Divine Soul Mark and naturally noticed none of this.
After taking a deep breath, he continued watching.
In the scene, after the three approached the stone pillar, they suddenly reached up in unison and pulled out the feathers tucked into their hair.
Once he saw those feathers clearly, Xu Taiping was once again filled with shock:
"Aren't those the feathers plucked from the griffin Blightbone?"
Just as he was wondering why the three had entered the valley with griffin Blightbone feathers in their hair, only to pull them out now, a rumbling that shook heaven and earth suddenly rang out from the scene.
Immediately afterward, Blightbone demonic beasts the size of small hills came charging madly through the valley entrance.
In an instant, Xu Taiping suddenly understood:
Those griffin Blightbone feathers... must be used to conceal cultivators' auras. That was why those Blightbones only discovered us after we pulled the feathers out!
But immediately, another question arose in Xu Taiping's mind:
Since those feathers have the divine power to conceal our auras, why did we pull them out of our hair?
While Xu Taiping was puzzling over this, he suddenly heard himself and the others in the scene declare loudly without warning:
"We are willing to sacrifice thirty Blightbones to the Jade Mother. We ask the Jade Mother to send down sweet dew upon this land, within a radius of a hundred li, and cleanse this land of its filth!"
As they