socalfunplaces Chapter 1090 Temple of the Sea God
Chapter 1090 Temple of the Sea God
Chapter 1090 Temple of the Sea God
Connecting his mind to his mental clone, Huo Yuhao's vision gradually revealed the scene beneath the crystal-clear ice layer.
What Huo Yuhao saw first was not the grand hall connected by the power of destiny, but a cluster of buildings resembling a city.
The style of these buildings is unlike any other in any other empire, and there are no similar clues whatsoever.
Huo Yuhao floated quietly in the air, looking at everything in front of him, when suddenly a word from a storybook popped into his mind.
Lost World!
Although the city is more like a small village, its towering buildings make it impossible to associate it with a village at all.
"Is this a miniature city frozen in ice? Was there human activity in the far north before?"
Huo Yuhao's mind was filled with doubts as he slowly descended.
During his descent, he carefully memorized the areas he could observe.
A significant portion of the city was still hidden within ice, but thanks to the crystal-clear ice, Huo Yuhao was still able to see the frozen city behind it.
There are about five tall, old-fashioned city buildings surrounding a five-story main hall in the center. The main hall appears to have been damaged; the entrance is shattered with broken stones, the tall pillars have collapsed, and even the two statues guarding the entrance are severely damaged, with their heads missing and their hands and feet mutilated, leaving only their torsos made of an unknown material.
Huo Yuhao didn't look at the five cities that showed signs of life, but went straight to the main hall in the center.
If I'm not mistaken, this temple ruins were once worshipped and believed in by people, and the surrounding city buildings should have been the residences of believers.
The most valuable item at present is the Nautilus conch shell that appeared in the main hall.
Carefully avoiding the still pristine, tall pillars, Huo Yuhao entered the main hall.
However, the scene at the door made Huo Yuhao's pupils shrink, and his mental clone suddenly unleashed a surge of mental energy.
A large group of skeletons dressed in tattered armor lay sprawled haphazardly at the entrance of the main hall.
Huo Yuhao calmed himself down. He wasn't afraid of the human bones, but rather that the skeletons' deaths were extremely gruesome, with severed hands and feet being the least serious injuries among them.
The skull in the very center had shattered armor, its bones riddled with cracks, its chest bones broken open with large holes, its skull covered in fragments, its arm bones broken like twisted rope, its thighs broken in several pieces, and its knees riddled with holes, as if caused by repeated sharp weapons. There were even bite marks on its calves.
It was as if they had been brutally murdered.
Huo Yuhao couldn't help but shudder, as if he could still hear the general's unwilling roar before his death.
For a fleeting moment, Huo Yuhao felt that this general must have died with his eyes wide open in disbelief.
"Foreign invasion?"
Huo Yuhao stood still for a moment, bowed slightly, then floated up and bypassed the group of tragically killed gatekeepers.
The gate led to three passages. Huo Yuhao hesitated for a moment before releasing the power of destiny.
The next moment, the power of destiny was guided by the leftmost passage.
Without hesitation, Huo Yuhao immediately flew towards the passage on the left.
Along the way, he saw many signs of battle. He entered a large hall where many skeletons dressed in armor lay dead.
Huo Yuhao noticed the weapons on these skeleton remains: tridents.
He didn't pay much attention to it, but simply remembered the discovery.
This may help to uncover the origins of this great hall.
Huo Yuhao sped along, focusing solely on the direction guided by the power of fate.
It took Huo Yuhao about fifteen minutes to arrive at the place where the power of destiny had previously connected with him, the area where the statue of Nautilus was held.
This is an unusually spacious hall, with statues arranged on both sides and a recessed area in the middle that resembles a water trough.
Beneath each of the two statues is a base made of an unknown metal, upon which rests a four-sided crystal.
The statue Huo Yuhao was looking for was the first one on the left.
"Found it!"
Huo Yuhao breathed a slight sigh of relief and began to carefully observe the hall. When he saw the statue in the very center, he vaguely understood why the palace was built.
The central statue is five or six times larger than the statues on either side. It holds a trident aloft, has wings spread on its back, and its long hair is so finely carved that even the individual strands are clearly visible. On either side are surging waves, as if they might transform into real waves and crash down at any moment.
The statue has delicate and handsome features, with a trident pattern between its eyebrows and nine halos behind its head. However, the statue's eyes have been damaged. At the core of the trident, where the three spikes extend outward, there is a three-dimensional triangular indentation, as if some regular triangular object was previously installed there.
When Huo Yuhao saw the trident and the pattern on the statue's forehead, he finally recognized the origin of the statue.
"It's the Sea God! This is a temple dedicated to the Sea God!" Huo Yuhao finally understood.
The nautilus is a sacred object used by believers of the sea god for sacrifice. Wherever there is a nautilus, there is naturally a temple of the sea god!
Huo Yuhao seemed to have forgotten that he didn't need to breathe while in his mental clone state. He held his breath and carefully flew towards the first statue on the left.
Huo Yuhao stared intently at the Nautilus, as if he could hear a heartbeat in his ears, but he was currently a mental clone and did not have a heart.
He could feel the attraction that the statue held for him, an attraction to the power of fate.
That Nautilus shell wasn't carved; it's very likely a real treasure!
Just as Huo Yuhao approached the Nautilus and used the power of destiny to communicate with it.
Behind Huo Yuhao, the statue on the first right suddenly moved.
"Huh!? Danger!"
Suddenly, the power of fate gave a warning. Huo Yuhao jumped back and floated in the air, looking back. His spiritual power condensed into a ball of light in his right palm, ready to be unleashed.
"Ugh..."
A skeleton clad in half-broken armor stood shakily in the spot where Huo Yuhao had been standing, holding a longsword that had already decayed.
"This is... a ghost!!"
Huo Yuhao was shocked; there were actually undead creatures here!
The light in the skull's eye sockets flickered, its movements were stiff, and its neck twisted and turned as if it were severely rusted.
It seemed to be searching for the target that had just tried to approach the Nautilus.
Huo Yuhao slowly approached. He wasn't afraid of undead creatures.
The answer is my master, Electrolux!
However, he has not yet tried using necromancy while his mind is in a clone state.
"Practice makes perfect; you'll know once you try."
Huo Yuhao immediately began chanting a strange incantation, and his entire spiritual clone began to emit a faint gray halo.
The longsword-wielding skeleton suddenly seemed to have been struck by a heavy blow, its whole body trembling, its head turning rapidly as it tried to locate Huo Yuhao.
Huo Yuhao slowly raised his hands, his fingertips together, revealing space between them, and aimed them at the longsword skull.
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"Obey my orders!"
A gray halo suddenly rose from beneath the longsword-wielding skeleton's feet, like a tight band, rapidly shrinking towards the skeleton's head.
The longsword-wielding skeleton suddenly let out a hoarse roar, and a ghostly blue light burst forth from its eyes.
Huo Yuhao sensed an unusually strong residual will from the longsword skeleton, which puzzled him greatly.
Judging from its architectural style and religious information, this temple is at least several thousand years old.
Because of the large temples that worshipped the sea god, Shrek Academy's statistics show that the last large temple to collapse was exactly 1,300 years ago.
The sea god's followers on the mainland have almost completely disappeared.
However, this did not arouse the curiosity of Shrek Academy.
After all, maintaining faith in a god requires not only a large number of believers and money as a foundation for continuation, but more importantly, the conflict between soul-guided technology and tradition has led to a large loss of believers.
Huo Yuhao remembered that Elder Lu, who specialized in the history of deities in the academy, had also said that the loss of believers was largely related to the operation of these temples themselves.
Ye Nanxiao went to ask him about it after class, but Huo Yuhao himself wasn't very interested at the time.
"You'll have to catch up on your studies when you get back."
While Huo Yuhao was pondering, the longsword skeleton had already been controlled by Huo Yuhao's necromancy.
Huo Yuhao issued some commands to the longsword skeleton, which the skeleton obeyed.
"Phew, I never expected that the dead would be born here. It's unbelievable. It's also possible that this area is too deep underground. The large amount of cold air from the far north and the soul power flowing from the group of soul beasts constantly fill the far north, causing the souls to be trapped here."
However, the next moment, Huo Yuhao suddenly noticed that the longsword skeleton was standing still in place, its body had changed position, and its gaze was fixed on the statue of the sea god.
When did it turn?
When your necromancy issues a command, shouldn't it be facing your own direction when it's in standby mode?
A deep, chilling feeling suddenly emerged.
Huo Yuhao unconsciously swallowed.
Is there a ghost?
No, I'm a necromancer, what's there to be afraid of!
Huo Yuhao continued to give several instructions to the longsword skeleton, such as sword flourishes, turning around and bending over, and singing and dancing movements.
The longsword-wielding skeletons did as instructed, and after each action, they would turn towards Huo Yuhao.
But soon, the longsword-wielding skeleton will turn back to face the sea god statue.
I tried several times, but the longsword skeleton remained the same.
Huo Yuhao guessed that this might be related to the will remaining deep within the soul of the longsword skeleton.
What kind of will compels the longsword-wielding skeleton to keep gazing at the sea god statue?
Could the longsword skeleton have been an extremely devout believer in his previous life?
Huo Yuhao felt that this was the only explanation that made sense.
Or perhaps we could have the longsword skeleton pay homage to the sea god statue?
As Huo Yuhao pondered this, he guided the longsword skeleton toward the sea god statue.
Only when the obsessions of life are fulfilled can the soul be completely liberated.
The longsword-wielding skeleton slowly approached the sea god statue.
"He must have been a devout warrior in life. Rest in peace," Huo Yuhao thought.
But the next moment, his idea was shattered.
The longsword-wielding skeleton suddenly raised its longsword and slashed at the sea god statue.
"Holy crap!?"
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