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Triangular Thunder Dragon Banners encircled the stone base, the thirty-six generals of the Thunder Department were carved onto the peachwood posts, and jiao-suppressing talismans lay beneath the four legs of the Ritual Table...
As one detail after another was added, the altar grew ever more complete.
A mirror stood at the right-hand corner of the Ritual Table: the Scripture Master's ritual implement, the Qianyuan Treasure Mirror. In the Ritual Platform Cheng Xinzhan was performing, this mirror revealed the straw effigy's location and the altar's progress.
For example, twenty-six days had passed since the altar was erected, and the mirror already clearly displayed the Dragon Staff Incarnation. The scene in the mirror now showed that Mu Longzhang's incarnation was not in vine-staff form, carried on his original body, but traveling independently as an incarnation. Judging from the dense varieties of vines behind him, however, he was probably still on Ailao Mountain, beside a river.
It was a large river with surging waters. Combining the angle of the sunlight with the river's course, Cheng Xinzhan could roughly determine that it was a tributary of the Pushu River on Ailao Mountain. At that moment, the Dragon Staff Incarnation was sitting beside the river casting a spell. Strange plants resembling lotus seedpods grew out of the river, spraying pale blue water from their holes.
Cheng Xinzhan shook his head. He could guess that Mu Longzhang was probably experimenting with channeling water to guard against fire, but it was too late.
At the right-hand corner of the Ritual Table stood an oil lamp, its flame burning quietly. This was the straw effigy's Life Lamp, which indicated its condition: light meant life, flickering meant injury, and extinction meant death.
Curse-delivering Altar Rites were further divided into "urgent altars" and "gradual altars." The