According to the memories of the Eight-Legged Priest, the Heaven-Piercing Primordial Pearl was the only treasure the Heaven-Piercing Tribe brought from the outside world into the Primordial Era, held by their tribal chief.
Both the Heaven-Piercing Tower and the giants capable of slaying Saint-level great demons were, in their most basic forms, derived from the Heaven-Piercing Primordial Pearl.
It could be said that the Heaven-Piercing Primordial Pearl was the core of the entire Heaven-Piercing Tribe.
However, the Eight-Legged Priest was merely an artificial creation of the Heaven-Piercing Tribe, and the knowledge it possessed was only what the tribe selectively inputted during its creation.
The Eight-Legged Priest did not know many of the Heaven-Piercing Tribe's core mysteries, and after millions of years of slumber, much of its memory had been lost with the dissipation of its soul.
Through the Eight-Legged Priest's memories, Ye Ling could only glean fragments of information about the Heaven-Piercing Primordial Pearl, unable to discern its true appearance.
However, just from the name of the pearl, Ye Ling knew it was no ordinary item.
Seeing Ye Ling deep in thought, Feng Ke couldn't help but ask curiously, "What? Do you know the origin of the pearl I swallowed?"
Ye Ling shook his head, not explaining these matters to Feng Ke. Instead, he said to her, "Extend your hand."
"What are you doing?"
Feng Ke frowned and asked, but she obediently extended her hand.
Without hesitation, Ye Ling used his spiritual power to cut open Feng Ke's palm and drew some blood.
Feng Ke cried out in pain and quickly retracted her hand, clutching it and asking Ye Ling, "What are you doing? Why are you cutting my hand?"
Ye Ling suspended Feng Ke's blood in his palm and smiled, "I'm using your blood to help find the whereabouts of that pearl."
Since the Heaven-Piercing Primordial Pearl had been swallowed by Feng Ke and not expelled from her body, and there was no trace of it within Feng Ke, it was highly likely that Feng Ke had digested the Heaven-Piercing Primordial Pearl and integrated it into her bloodline.
If Ye Ling's guess was correct, Feng Ke had absorbed the power of the Heaven-Piercing Primordial Pearl, making her a secret treasure of the Heaven-Piercing Tribe!
With such a mobile treasure trove in the mortal world, if any descendants of the Heaven-Piercing Tribe were still alive, and they wanted to retrieve the Heaven-Piercing Primordial Pearl, Feng Ke would be in constant danger.
Could something like today happen at any moment?
Hearing Ye Ling's words, Feng Ke asked confusedly, "What does my blood have to do with the whereabouts of that broken pearl?"
Although she knew Ye Ling wouldn't hurt her for no reason, Ye Ling's mysterious demeanor still made her feel a bit annoyed.
"Just watch."
After speaking, Ye Ling directly enveloped Feng Ke's blood with his spiritual power, analyzing its composition.
As he broke down Feng Ke's blood, Ye Ling discovered that there were indeed components in Feng Ke's blood that did not belong to a human!
However, that special substance was too scarce. If Ye Ling hadn't specifically extracted Feng Ke's blood for examination, he would never have detected the abnormality within Feng Ke!
For a moment, Ye Ling became even more interested in the Heaven-Piercing Primordial Pearl, wondering what role it was playing within Feng Ke now.
Based on the current information, the pearl Feng Ke swallowed was a secret treasure of the Heaven-Piercing Tribe, and the altar was not built by the Eight-Legged Priest itself, but rather constructed by the Heaven-Piercing Tribe. The Eight-Legged Priest had merely repurposed it.
Ye Ling could sense a power slumbering within the altar, requiring a specific force to awaken it.
The Eight-Legged Priest's attempt to revive the Heaven-Piercing Tribe's deity through sacrificial offerings was, in Ye Ling's view, a way to stimulate the power slumbering beneath the altar through some special means.
As long as the altar was activated, the so-called resurrection would naturally proceed.
Ye Ling decided to complete the Eight-Legged Priest's sacrificial ritual himself and said to Feng Ke and Du Yameng, "You two, retreat outside the altar. It might be dangerous here."
Then, Ye Ling took some blood, flesh, and bones from one of the surrounding giants.
Strictly speaking, those giants were improved versions derived from the Heaven-Piercing Primordial Pearl.
Their blood, flesh, and bones also contained the same substances as Feng Ke's blood.
Using Feng Ke's blood in conjunction with the flesh, blood, and bones of those giants, Ye Ling could perform a secret technique to create a person exactly like Feng Ke!
However, what Ye Ling created was only flesh and blood, devoid of thought – a complete puppet.
Of course, it wasn't impossible for Ye Ling to forge a soul, but it was unnecessary in the current situation.
Although Feng Ke and Du Yameng didn't know what Ye Ling was doing, they both retreated outside the altar upon hearing his words, giving Ye Ling ample space.
After descending from the altar, they saw Ye Ling manipulating the blood and bones of the giants on the altar, merging them with Feng Ke's blood. Subsequently, Ye Ling sculpted a puppet identical to Feng Ke!
Seeing herself naked on the altar, Feng Ke's pretty face flushed, and she quickly whispered sternly at Ye Ling, "Pervert!"
Ye Ling ignored Feng Ke's playful scolding. After creating a puppet of Feng Ke, he altered its aura and physical details to be exactly like Feng Ke's, making it indistinguishable from the real person.
Seeing the puppet on the altar that was identical to her, Feng Ke became even more embarrassed!
Regardless of the method Ye Ling used, the fact that he could create a puppet identical to her meant that Ye Ling had already seen through her before.
Ye Ling, however, didn't think much of it. After all, his divine sense swept over everything around him, making everyone appear as if they were unclothed. He was already accustomed to it.
After creating a puppet with an aura and physique identical to Feng Ke's, Ye Ling took more materials from the giants and casually sculpted a group of young women to be used as materials for blood sacrifice.
"Is this... Nuwa creating humans?"
Du Yameng's small mouth parted, her eyes filled with disbelief as she watched Ye Ling on the altar create lifelike puppets one after another.
If she hadn't personally witnessed Ye Ling sculpting those puppets, she might not have believed that those standing on the altar were all puppets!
They looked just like real people!
After completing all this, Ye Ling placed these puppets he had created in the center of the altar and, following the description in the Eight-Legged Priest's memories, killed all the puppets on the altar, allowing their blood to flow into the carved patterns on the altar.
As Ye Ling offered more than ten sacrificial items, the patterns of the entire altar were filled with blood.
The entire altar suddenly lit up with a scarlet glow.
The barrier above the Lost City that blocked the seawater began to fluctuate. The buildings buried outside the barrier also emitted dazzling light, illuminating the pitch-black seabed!
Those beams of light even broke through the sea surface and shot straight into the sky!
The entire Lost City seemed to have come back to life!
Feng Ke and Du Yameng watched the city revive outside the barrier, their eyes filled with shock.
If they hadn't known that reactivating the city required the sacrifice of more than ten people, perhaps the beauty of this place would have become one of their most cherished memories.
On the altar.
The blood of Feng Ke's puppet gradually separated from the blood of the other sacrificial items. Feng Ke's blood flowed upwards in reverse, gradually moving towards the highest point in the center of the altar.
Rumble...
The ground began to shake.
Ye Ling could feel that the entity slumbering beneath the altar had awakened!