Who gave you permission to travel through time with Earth?

It took Chang Xiao a long time to exhale the pent-up frustration in his mouth and return to normal. Fang Jin had gone too far in testing the limits of the system's influence on the dungeon character, almost driving him to the brink of collapse.

This is similar to a diluted positive value, which can subconsciously blur the natives' perception of you, but if it is too conspicuous to the point of being completely unreasonable, the player's identity may still be revealed.

It is even possible that the truth about the extraterrestrial demons will be uncovered.

"...That seems kind of interesting?"

Meanwhile, the nobles watching from the hillside were also staring at the army in astonishment. They could clearly see the progress of the entire Jinxiu Army in Huatang, making it even more difficult for them to understand.

Who is this?

After all, so far, only three teams led by generals with tens of thousands of men have been able to advance unstoppably, traversing paths filled with blood swamps and mountains of corpses, thus taking the lead in the Flower Hall Maze area.

How come there's another centurion whose progress is on par with theirs? And Yin is even ahead? Eleven people is the minimum required unit, and most of them are already dead. How come they're so incredibly resilient?

"...Could this person really be your ancestor?"

On the four cutting boards, Chen, who had previously argued with Fang's father, subconsciously asked a question, and this time he really didn't mean to belittle anyone; he was simply a little dumbfounded by the intimidation.

He began his training at the age of seven and diligently practiced the school's techniques for sixty years. During that time, he experienced both good fortune and injuries, and even now, he has only accumulated forty-seven years of true qi...

Why does it seem like his performance is inferior to this young man's?

Fang, the registrar, was also somewhat taken aback, but most of the system's positive effects were concentrated on the person who was closest to the original owner. On the contrary, he was only proud of his own child.

However, Zhou Bensi's smile had faded at some point, and he even frowned slightly as he watched the Jinxiu Army charging into battle in the flower hall, a vague sense of displeasure and unease creeping into his heart.

"..."

At this moment, they were gradually approaching the edge of the flower room area. The nunnery was arranged in concentric circles, with the outer flower room and the inner ancestral hall, and the ancestral temple in the center. They were extremely wary of outsiders.

The Ancestral Temple was the final destination of the Jinxiu Army's extermination of Buddhism. It was not only because it housed the last few old charlatans of the Central Plains Buddhism, but also because killing them would sever the lineage of Buddhism in the Li Dynasty.

Furthermore, within the ancestral temple, there is a legendary mummified Buddha. It is said that he truly cultivated the divine methods within the sect, his physical body remains incorrupt and he is eternally youthful. When his spirit returns, he can even communicate with believers...

The final action is to knock it down, burn it, and throw it with the most filthy things in the world, such as feces, urine, and dog blood, and see if it can finally jump up and punch them!

After all... what could kill the Buddha in people's hearts more than destroying mountains, cutting down temples, killing people, and pushing over statues? Only by thoroughly proving the falsity of the flesh Buddha could the Li Dynasty take the final step in its campaign to eradicate Buddhism and rule the world by force.

"Bang—!"

When they passed through the last greenhouse, Fang Jin and his group used the same method of breaking down walls and digging earth, but this time they used even more force and the rubble spread over a wider area, for fear that there might be an army lined up to ambush them from behind.

But... they were overthinking it. After the stone wall collapsed, they discovered that there was no one behind them at all, and it was actually a relatively open green plain.

Unlike the flower hall in front, which is interconnected and forms a maze, the thirty-six main shrines are scattered and built directly on this plain, surrounded by the walls of the flower hall in the very center...

They could even see the location of the ancestral temple.

But this did not mean that the road ahead was smooth; on the contrary, it exuded a strange eeriness, because next to each ancestral hall, there were dozens of half-human-sized stone statues, arranged in a ring and expanding outwards.

They included malevolent demons and the Immovable King, as well as carvings depicting men and women entwined in passionate union, forming thirty-six distinct boundaries that appeared strangely eerie and ominous under the hazy sky.

"Ha, playing tricks."

At Fang Jin's nod, a person stepped forward, holding an embroidered knife upside down. He channeled his true energy into the blade and slashed at the stone statue in the shape of a jade maiden at the front!

This is a world of martial arts, where most people tend to use brute force to break through magic. This is because the upper limit of martial arts cultivation is much higher than other paths, and often a single strike is enough to break all kinds of strange and magical techniques.

The soldier with the brocade robes slashed directly at the maiden's neck, his actions ruthless and merciless. He even anticipated that if someone were to be hidden inside the statue covered in wax, this blade would be enough to force them out on the spot...

"puff--"

But then the stone mouth of the Jade Maiden statue suddenly collapsed, and a pink cloud of smoke billowed out. The soldier's body went limp silently, as if countless fibers were growing in his lungs, and then he heard a cracking sound in his ear...

But the mechanism did not stop there. The jade maiden statue began to move. The ground it was rooted in spun rapidly, and then a fierce image of a malevolent demon king immediately stood in front of it!

"……Um!"

A sharp shout came from underground, followed by two golden blades piercing the ground and aiming directly at the soldier's chest. The tips of the blades touched the breastplate hidden in his armor and shattered it in an instant!

"Change players."

Fang Jin had already reacted, immediately lunging forward, grabbing the soldier by the collar and throwing him backward, then her fiery fingers slashed and grabbed at the two golden swords in mid-air.

"Sizzle—!"

Their ten fingers, burning hot, left ten clear dents in the metal blade... but they couldn't pull the person from the ground up, because the ancestral hall's territory had already shifted again.

The two Pixiu statues turned to face forward and spat out dozens of scalding metal pellets from their mouths. As the lime skin was being used, it momentarily deprived him of the opportunity to press his advantage.

"Hehe... The young man from the Fang family has really mastered the Iron Forging Technique. He wouldn't dare to take your moves head-on. But it seems we don't need to go looking for trouble."

"Before this Vajra Wheel Formation, you might not even be able to exert three or four tenths of your strength. And what strange mechanisms are hidden beneath these thousand stone statues? We'll see how many main temples you can withstand!"

Accompanying the sinister laughter was a sudden disturbance in the ancestral hall before them: the three concentric rings of stone statues rotated simultaneously, and the star-like base rose and fell.

It was dazzling and terrifying, yet in the next moment everything returned to its place, the clicking sound of locking echoing in the air, and almost everyone subconsciously assumed a combat stance.

"One main hall has thirty-six stone statues, and the entire inner courtyard has thirty-six main halls, totaling a thousand mechanisms and countless variations... Where did they get the resources to set up such a grand formation?!"

Chang Xiao did a quick calculation and his forehead was already covered in cold sweat. Moreover, the positions of the stone statues could be combined and changed at will, and some of them even had martial arts masters hiding at their bases to launch sneak attacks...

How can we fight this?

"..."

"...This is fucking too easy to beat."