Chapter 1236: Treasures Hidden in Pillars (1/2)

The pillars were sealed in a way that wasn’t affected at all by the toxic miasma. In fact, the seals were so strong that Yang Qi didn’t feel like he could actually unravel them.

Chopping out with a knifehand, he used the Seventy-Two Monarchs Energy Art to attack one of the pillars. When the blow hit, fire broke out on the pillar, accompanied by hissing and popping sounds.

However, it was almost as if the magical symbols could sense the incoming attack and instinctively stirred into action, causing blood-colored light to rush out and negate it.

‘I just formed monarch godhood and I'm almost completely invincible, yet I can’t even undo a warding magic?’ Yang Qi was shocked. However, he was more delighted than frustrated. After all, for the warding magic to be this strong meant that whatever was inside was obviously incredible.

And if he couldn’t personally break the seal, he could always resort to the God Legion Seal.

As soon as he drew on the God Legion Seal, soft golden light shot out in all directions, surrounding the pillars and boring into them. This time, the blood didn’t do anything to stop the light, as if it had encountered its ruler.

“Myriad Gods Bowing to the Lord!”

Countless god-spirits appeared around Yang Qi, and at the same time, an aura of the legion of gods rose up from within the columns.

The God Legion Seal had been formed by countless gods prostrating in worship to the boundless Sovereign Lord. The blood warding spells that protected the pillars contained the power of ancient gods, which was why they reacted this way to the God Legion Seal.

The ancient gods always bowed to their lord.

The blood on one of the pillars flowed until it took the shape of a word in god script that then fell onto Yang Qi’s palm. It was the character for ‘warding’. It was made of blood, and contained incredible godpower. If absorbed, it would obviously bolster the energy and blood, and transform the fleshly body. However, Yang Qi didn’t do that. He would keep it to study later, and then decide if he could use it to make medicinal pills to help his subordinates.

With the warding magic gone, the pillar glowed with dazzling light, then cracking sounds rang out as the godpower revealed a small dimension, inside of which was a jade box.

Yang Qi waved his hand and the jade box flew out to him. There was another warding spell on the box itself, and upon inspecting it, Yang Qi realized that its function was to seal time itself. In other words, whatever existed inside the box wouldn’t experience the passage of time.

‘A talisman that stops time?’ Yang Qi was shocked. In the impure lands, his cultivation base was such that he could alter or even reverse the flow of time. He could even create passages that led to primeval times or the future.

But the god world was different. Only Paramount Gods could possibly harness the power of time here. Did that mean that this box had been left behind by some Paramount God?

Yang Qi broke the talisman and opened the box, which caused a fragrant aroma to drift out, like flower petals. A small, hand-sized flower petal was revealed, almost like that of a lotus, yet clearly from some other type of flower. It was very beautiful.

“A flower petal? And a talisman that can actually stop time?” The talisman that had been sealing the box was now in Yang Qi’s hand. Looking down at it, he saw that it wasn’t working anymore. It was as if all the godpower inside of it had vanished as soon as he removed it from the box. Or perhaps it had been sucked into the flower petal.

‘Don’t tell me that there are flower petals like this in all of the pillars?’

He went on to use the God Legion Seal to open up the rest of the eight pillars, finding that all of them contained jade boxes with flower petals in them. And all of them were protected by talismans that stopped time, yet ceased to function after the boxes were opened.

Nine flower petals which, when formed together, created the shape of a flower.

Unfortunately, the combined flower lacked a central stamen.

The flower wasn’t complete.

The nine petals were all different, and were inscribed with glowing magical symbols that almost seemed to be naturally occurring.