Chapter 1230: Quan
The gate of the temple was extremely tall, clearly not meant for ordinary people but for Ancient Witches who had undergone the blood-sacrifice ascension ritual. Each of these Ancient Witches stood more than 5 meters tall, which fundamentally altered the structure of the temple.
At this moment, the temple gate was not closed. Since Lingshan Paradise had already been conquered by the Heavenly Sect, the gate could not have been shut, unless the Ancient Witches had revived and closed it again.
As soon as he stepped through the gate, Qi Xuansu saw a ferocious beast as large as a small mountain, blocking most of the entrance. This beast had been dead for a long time, yet it was not reduced to a skeleton. Its hide, fur, and flesh were all intact and lifelike, as though it had died only recently.
It seemed that the beast had tried, in its final moments, to use its massive body to block the entrance and hold off the enemies outside.
However, judging from the current scene, the beast had still been pushed aside by a tremendous outside force, leaving some distance between it and the temple gate. Instead of sealing the entrance, the beast now resembled a kind of screen wall.
Qi Xuansu did not let his guard down. He poked the beast with the Green Cloud, and the seemingly lifelike carcass, which looked as if it might revive at any moment, instantly turned into dust.
The Daoist predecessors back then were truly ruthless. It seemed that the vast majority of living beings here had completely lost all vitality and had no chance of revival. Only a small number slipped through the net. Still, the fact that these beasts’ bodies remained outwardly intact even after many years of death showed just how powerful they were in life.
After the beast turned to dust, the scene behind it was revealed.
A human figure sat with its head lowered, holding a wooden staff that resembled the Staff of Merit in its arms. Two serpents were coiled around the staff, but unlike the traditional image of two dragons playing with a pearl, the object between the two snakes was a grim skull.
This figure was not a 5-meter-tall Great Witch but rather of ordinary human size. It did not move at all, as though it had been dead for a long time.
Qi Xuansu began to imagine the Heavenly Sect’s armies surrounding the temple, the beast shielding its master and blocking the temple gate with its body, only to be slain by the Daoists in the end, while its master was likewise unable to escape and ultimately died here.
Not only was this figure of ordinary size, but it was also unarmed and unarmored.