My sister is Luna

"Boom-thump-"

A faint throbbing sound came from inside the East Temple.

The high walls separated Cain, serving as a boundary and conveying a sense of silence and mystery, making him feel that the Eastern Temple would be another world.

The flowing blood reminded Cain of some kind of ritual, and also of vampires; perhaps hell was in the Eastern Temple.

All of this confirms his suspicions, the worst possible outcome.

Cain leaped over the high wall. The hall was almost dark, making his vision even more obscure. But the blood shone with a crystalline glow, like lines cut from brilliant blood-red gemstones embedded in the ground. At the same time, he saw more blood extending along the cracks, winding around the building, and disappearing into the deeper darkness, seemingly without end.

The further he followed the blood, the clearer the beating became, like a rhythmic drumming. His heart pounded in response to the beat.

Finally, they arrived at a spacious plaza, where an altar stood upright in the center, its four corners corresponding to the four directions. The end of the blood trail was precisely at this altar.

As Cain walked, the increasingly complex and intertwined crimson patterns undoubtedly provided the basis for this unknown and eerie formation, absorbing the blood left behind by the war in order to perform some kind of ritual.

Cain frowned. To do such a thing with the blood of the fallen is a defilement of those who died in the war. The perpetrator must be an extremely cold-blooded and ruthless person.

This war that changed the world of Yunmengze became the sacrifice for the ritual before us.

But who did it? Aside from the blood and the platform, there was nothing else resembling hell. Cain was puzzled; in the face of such intense warfare, who would have the energy to do something like this?

"Dong dong - dong dong -"

A tremendous heartbeat came from beneath his feet. Cain stomped his foot on the floor and found it was hollow.

There's something alive underground!

Could it be that Donghuang Taiyi is sleeping down there? Is he drinking their blood, a vampire? What's being raised down there?

Countless questions flashed through Cain's mind, and even now, he still finds himself shrouded in mystery.

Forget it, let's change the flow of this blood and stop the ritual for now.

Suddenly, a powerful pressure descended upon Cain.

"Om-"

"—Click."

A massive black sphere instantly sent Cain flying from the side, intentionally bypassing the formation. Its near-demigod-level power smashed Cain through the wall of a grand hall, raising clouds of dust before silencing him.

"rustle--"

"Heh heh, a little bug has crawled in." A hoarse voice came through the sound of something hard scraping against the ground.

In the darkness, a pair of eyes, cold as a venomous snake, appeared.

A tall, slender figure began to emerge from the darkness, and the increasingly loud scraping sound seemed to announce Cain's death.

He moved to the altar, and as for Cain, in his confident opinion, the "bug" he had swatted was no longer worth a second glance.

……

Fan Zeng and Guiguzi were imprisoned by Siming, and Yao was also there.

"Master!" Yao exclaimed in surprise upon seeing Guiguzi.

"Ah Yao, what have you done wrong?" Guiguzi dusted himself off and looked up at Yao.

"I don't know." Yao stuck out her tongue, trying to bluff her way out of it.

"What about you, Master?"

Swimming in the river.

"Pfft, hahaha, Master, you're lying. How could swimming land you in jail? You must have broken the window to get in." Yao giggled.

"You'll definitely be staying for several days, I'm leaving tomorrow."

"You two have no tomorrow, Guiguzi. You're still laughing and joking around. Why are you still so stubborn?" Looking at the happy master and disciple, Siming grabbed Guiguzi by the collar and questioned him.

Startled, Yao fell silent, her large eyes darting around as if lost in thought.

"Such a great thing should not be buried; it is the profound meaning of life that we discovered together!"

“Yes, it is great; it should benefit all life, not become the privilege of a few.” As Si Ming said this, his expression changed slightly, but Gui Guzi continued:

"Moreover, it is not perfect. There is still a fog obscuring it. We have never understood it, just as we have never understood ourselves. A spiral full of cracks will eventually perish as it spins."

"What if we discovered a way to make it perfect?"

Guiguzi was taken aback, then burst into laughter:

"Hahaha, what a joke! I can't do anything about it, what can you little brats do? Wait until you know more than me, you gods who stay cooped up in your own little corner of the world."

"You can't do anything because you're old!" Si Ming glared at Gui Guzi, not caring whether others heard, and said directly:

"The Reincarnation Technique [Double Helix] is a biological genetic engineering technique, which can be called a true miracle. By editing the genome, it can develop the physical body of organisms to the extreme. It contains the genetic information of all things, but it is still not complete. That can only mean that we have missed some organisms and have not reached the true understanding of all things."

"Oh, you mean that the biological genetic information you've discovered can complete the double helix? Sigh, you guys are really stubborn." Guiguzi was somewhat surprised to hear this conclusion.

Si Ming didn't speak, but his arrogant gaze clearly said, "Of course."

"It sounds reasonable, but the risk is too great. What if this gene conflicts with it? Who would be willing to try it? Let me go, and we'll study it more carefully."

At that moment, a soldier whispered something in Si Ming's ear, and he nodded.

"That's not up to you." He personally grabbed Guiguzi to prevent him from escaping.

"Take this little guy with you too." With that, surrounded by the crowd, Siming and Ying escorted Guiguzi and Yao toward the East Temple.

Yao was initially happy to be able to go out, but for some reason, her mood suddenly became somewhat depressed. Her two deer ears drooped listlessly, just like a child following its mother. Seeing its mother cry, the child also wanted to be sad along with her.

At the same time, something was suppressing her heart; she felt that her heart was no longer beating on its own, but beating to some other rhythm.

Ying also noticed something was wrong and was puzzled, but she was only thinking about the future without the God of War, so she forcibly suppressed this feeling.

"What's wrong, Master?" Yao noticed that Guiguzi's mood was the same as hers, and seemed to be more serious than hers.

“The spirit of nature is weeping.” Guiguzi said with a strange sadness, his bright blue eyes becoming slightly moist.

"Hey, what have you done? Does what you did have anything to do with this? What did you do in the Eastern Temple? Stop right now! Do you want the earth to abandon us?!" Guiguzi said in a rare, serious tone, filled with anger.

"I think you're scared. Don't try to fool me," Si Ming said calmly, having sensed nothing.

"Master, what's wrong?" Yao asked sullenly.

“I don’t know either. This sadness is like a memory I never wanted to recall suddenly appearing. It seems that this planet hides a sad past that no one knows about,” Guiguzi sighed.

……