Only three seconds? He's already the Lord of All Realms, so it doesn't matter.

The blood was enveloped by the spiritual energy emanating from the stone statue, constantly drifting until it left Lan Town.

Ye Xuan followed along the way using his senses and consciousness, seeing mountains, streams, and hurried pedestrians and vehicles.

After traveling about a hundred miles, a city of considerable size came into view.

"Changning County?"

Ye Xuan stared at the wisp of spiritual energy in mid-air, which was clearly drifting towards the Immortal Shrine in Changning County.

Immediately using his senses to follow, Ye Xuan arrived inside the immortal shrine in the blink of an eye, ahead of the stone statue's magical power.

Compared to the ancestral hall in town, this place is more spacious, but the layout is almost identical.

Only in the very center of the ancestral hall stood a tall stone statue of a deity, and in front of the statue was a long table with a red cloth on it...

Inside the ancestral hall, only two people remained, discussing something in detail around the altar.

"Why hasn't the royal envoy arrived yet?" one person complained.

But the person next to him said:

"This matter is of great importance, and the capital cannot ignore it."

Even the county magistrate never returned; what strange thing happened in that paddy field village?

In their minds, both the county magistrate Bai Donglin and the two guardians of the ancestral hall were Foundation Establishment level experts.

In the Short Life Realm, where cultivation is restricted and immortals do not descend to earth, such combat power would absolutely dominate the region, and there has never been any case that they could not handle.

Ye Xuan listened for a while, and their words were full of worries about what was happening below.

The wisp of magical power that he had just left behind also entered the ancestral hall at this moment.

It was seen carrying its own blood as it slowly drifted into the pupil of the immortal stone statue, and a point of golden light appeared on the statue.

Using his senses to probe the interior, Ye Xuan noticed some kind of circuitry, similar to an array.

"Or perhaps it's a hidden meaning..."

He had seen similar statues in Lan Town, but the routes there were much simpler.

Staring at the magical lines presented in his consciousness, he had some understanding of spiritual power cultivation or studying spells, but he was completely clueless about these inexplicable lines.

He could only watch as his blood was enveloped by that spiritual energy and entered the circuit. Then the golden light converged, and the two pupils of the stone statue suddenly lit up!

The eyes, painted with vermilion, looked quite eerie, and now they were emitting a golden light, adding to the strangeness.

As these anomalies gradually subsided, Ye Xuan discovered that the spiritual energy fluctuations within the stone statue had disappeared, and his drop of blood had also vanished.

"What's going on?"

The two religious figures in the ancestral hall shared the same thoughts as Ye Xuan at that moment.

"There must have been a child born down there."

They stared at the strange changes that had occurred to the stone statue, feeling that something was wrong, but they couldn't quite put their finger on it.

Ye Xuan extended his senses and consciousness beyond the ancestral hall, expanding the area to a radius of ten miles.

He carefully scanned his surroundings, only to discover that his blood had vanished into thin air in that instant...

As he gradually calmed down, Ye Xuan regained his composure and released all his power.

Inside the ancestral hall of the immortals in Lanzhen, not only the offering platform in front of him, but also the tall stone statue behind him trembled slightly from the force he released.

Ye Xuan maximized his perception range, instantly covering the area within a thousand miles of the origin of his consciousness!

This time, he saw majestic mountains and heard the ceaseless flow of a great river in the far east.

The high city walls firmly surrounded the ancient city, and Ye Xuan felt dizzy as soon as his senses got close enough.

"A magic circle?"

He concentrated intently and forced his way into the city through the east gate. Although he felt a little dizzy, fortunately, his origin point of consciousness was not discovered.

The soldiers guarding the city walls continued to watch the mountains and rivers before them, completely unaware that someone had already infiltrated the city...

The dizziness in my mind disappeared, and the view of the city suddenly opened up.

Wide streets, pedestrians hurrying by, towering buildings surrounding an imperial palace in the center.

Ye Xuan immediately sensed a familiar aura in the ancestral hall within the imperial city, and manipulated his senses to arrive at the foot of the imperial city.

Almost the instant he sensed his arrival beneath the imperial city, a force even more powerful than the city's defensive array enveloped him, suggesting that an even more sophisticated array was hidden in the shadows.

Ye Xuan's mind raced, but he still chose to force a breakthrough.

After all, there couldn't be any experts in this short-lived world whose cultivation level was above Foundation Establishment, and he had nothing to worry about among those of the same realm.

Despite the dizziness caused by the magic array, he broke through the barrier and saw a shrine in the palace that was similar in style to the shrines in Changning County and Lanzhen, but was more than a hundred times larger in scale.

That familiar aura emanated from this ancestral hall.

Ye Xuan bypassed the guards stationed at the entrance of the ancestral hall and sensed his way into the interior.

At this moment, the priests, palace guards, high-ranking officials and relatives, all dressed in elaborate ceremonial attire, held their breath and stood solemnly with their heads bowed.

In the center of the ancestral hall, there is not an ordinary stone statue of a deity, but a human figure carved from a strange material that is several feet tall and resembles neither jade nor gold.

Its appearance is quite similar to that of the immortals in ancestral halls in various places.

Ye Xuan watched all this quietly, sensing that something was about to happen. Sure enough, not long after, the doors of the ancestral hall were pushed open.

Dozens of palace guards rushed into the ancestral hall, among them a beautiful woman holding a newborn baby in her arms.

The beautiful woman, with a hint of heartache on her face, still walked slowly to the altar, surrounded by her guards.

She placed the swaddled baby on the red cloth, kissed the infant's forehead before leaving, and tears welled up in her eyes.

The enormous statue of the immortal immediately sensed the presence of the infant, and two beams of golden light shot from its eyes, landing directly on the infant.

This scene is exactly the same as the offering ceremony in the temples of immortals in various places.

The only difference is that the baby on the red cloth may be from royalty or nobility.

Ye Xuan watched as a drop of the infant's essence blood was extracted and slowly floated into the statue, while a beam of golden light shot out of the ancestral hall.

He immediately activated his senses to keep up, as the golden light continued to rise, and rise again...

"No, I'm afraid if we go any higher, we'll reach the Realm of Immortality."

He withdrew his senses and his consciousness returned to himself thousands of miles away, which surprised Ye Xuan.

He hadn't expected that this immortal statue could connect to the Realm of Immortality. Although the passage was extremely small, almost the same size as his own origin point of consciousness, it did indeed connect the two realms...

Regarding the capital city thousands of miles away and the enormous immortal statue, Ye Xuan realized that the shrines in various places were probably just collecting essence blood, which was eventually transmitted to the headquarters.

The blood he had used to test the waters earlier had probably traveled to the Realm of Immortality along with the strange phenomenon he had just witnessed.

He didn't think he would be exposed, after all, the power of his true body did not belong to the Immortal Willow, and moreover, based on his cultivation of the "Immortal Willow of Immortality," he did not believe that this method was the work of the Willow Immortal.

Shaking his head, Ye Xuan suddenly felt somewhat tired.

However, he gained a lot from this trip. He realized that if he wanted to break through the limitations of the short-lived world in the future, he would have to make a trip to the capital.

As for the offerings that were made equally to everyone, Ye Xuan only looked toward the direction of Changning County.