"Everyone, I believe you have all seen it, this altar is the treasure trove we have been painstakingly seeking." E Kui took a deep breath and said slowly.

The crowd heard this and all looked towards him.

"Ahem... City Lord E, is this the legendary Grand Ruins treasure trove?" Qin Yuan coughed lightly twice and asked suspiciously.

"You should all have felt how powerful the aura of flesh and blood contained here is, isn't this a great treasure for us Xuan cultivators? Moreover, the skeleton I mentioned earlier is also in the blood pool." E Kui nodded and said.

Upon hearing this, the crowd exclaimed and couldn't help but look down into the sacrificial blood pool again.

Although Chen Yang's gaze was the same as the others, he maintained a hint of vigilance in his eyes.

Han Li tried to look, and with his eyesight, he could only see layers of thick white bones piled up beneath the rolling blood, but he couldn't discern whether the corpse E Kui mentioned was among them.

"City Lord E, the skeleton is in the blood pool, are we going to dive into the blood pool and fish it out?" Fu Jian asked after hesitating for a moment.

"Everyone, don't act rashly. The power of flesh and blood contained in this blood pool is beyond our imagination. If we enter it rashly, let alone whether we can find the skeleton, I'm afraid we will be devoured by the power of flesh and blood and become a member of these vast white bones." E Kui waved his hand and said slowly.

"Then what should we do?" Sun Tu raised an eyebrow and asked.

"This blood pool is built on a blood sacrifice formation. The five statues around are the five formation nodes. I need Fellow Daoist Sun and the other city lords to work with me to activate the formation and suck the skeleton out of the blood pool." E Kui said.

"This... City Lord E, ahem... I have a question that I don't understand. I wonder if the city lord can answer it." Qin Yuan frowned slightly and asked.

"Fellow Daoist Qin, please speak freely." E Kui said with a calm expression.

"Cough... Then forgive me for being presumptuous. No one has ever really entered this Grand Ruins before. How does City Lord E seem to be quite familiar with the situation here? What is going on?" Qin Yuan looked at the people around him and asked.

As soon as he asked this, most people's eyes in the hall focused on E Kui. Obviously, he was not the only one with this doubt.

"To be honest, when I went out to explore the Scale Hollow Realm alone in the past, I obtained an ancient tablet of unknown origin, which recorded the situation inside a secret realm. Although it didn't specify 'Grand Ruins', I have always felt that there was a connection. After truly entering the Grand Ruins, I have seen many things that corroborate the inscriptions, and only then did I confirm that the content on it is true. As for whether you are willing to believe it... we are already here, why not give it a try." E Kui said slowly, and finally his eyes swept over everyone.

Han Li listened and slandered in his heart. There were many loopholes in E Kui's words. Everyone knew that it was likely that he had made it up, but they couldn't refute it, because everything here was unknown to them.

However, E Kui was right in the end. Having gone through all kinds of hardships to get here, who could resist the temptation and not give it a try?

"Haha... Since City Lord E said so, how can we not believe it? No matter what, I, Sun Tu, definitely believe it. It's just that this secret realm has never been visited before. It's better to pool our wisdom and strength. Everyone should carefully check it to confirm that there are no traps or hidden formations before trying. What do you think?" Seeing everyone's silence, Sun Tu suddenly laughed loudly.

When the others heard this, their eyes flashed and they all agreed.

"That's natural. Even if Fellow Daoist Sun didn't mention it, I was just about to say it." E Kui said with a smile.

So everyone began to disperse and check outside the five-cornered blood pool and on the entire altar.

Han Li didn't go to find Chen Yang, but went to the edge of the altar with Shi Chuan Kong, checking along the outer stone railing.

Chen Yang just glanced at the backs of Han Li and Shi Chuan Kong, then turned and walked towards a black stone statue, while Xuan Yuan Xing silently followed behind him.

Basically, the other cities were also led by their city lords to check the statue that served as a formation hub.

Sun Tu, with his sleeves folded, came to the bottom of a statue and looked up at the protruding neck for a while, then raised his hand and touched the statue, secretly transferring a strand of Stellar Power into it.

The statue stood motionless in place, without any change.

Sun Tu frowned slightly, and suddenly opened his sleeves above the blood pool, his sleeves rustling, and a wisp of blood mist suddenly condensed into a blood-colored vortex, rotating and flowing into his sleeves.

After a slight sound, the sleeves returned to their original shape.

After a while, Sun Tu's frowned brows gradually relaxed, and he turned to look at Fang Chan beside him.

He saw that the pig-faced teenager was lying on the stone railing, as if a hooligan in the market had seen a beautiful woman, or a hungry man had seen a table full of wine and meat, grinning with a big mouth, drooling at the corners of his mouth, with a greedy expression on his face.

"Chan'er, you must not go down into this blood pool randomly." Sun Tu said with a stern expression, instructing.

The pig-faced teenager turned his head, with a look of disappointment on his face.

"Okay, after the formation is activated later, you must protect me well. After retrieving the skeleton, I will definitely find a way to get you a section." Sun Tu said with a relieved expression, smiling as he saw this.

The latter heard this and grinned again.

On the other side, Fu Jian was constantly patting the black stone sculpture, while Duan Tong followed behind him, hesitating to speak.

"Speak if you have something to say." Fu Jian stopped his movements and said.

"City Lord, I don't know why, but I always feel that this place is a bit strange. It's better to let me activate the formation for you later. If there is any accident, it will be easier for you to cast a spell to save me than for me to save you." Duan Tong lowered his voice and said.

"It's rare that you have such thoughts in your head..." Fu Jian seemed a little surprised and said after hesitating for a moment.

Duan Tong was about to say something when Fu Jian's voice rang in his sea of consciousness:

"E Kui specifically asked five city lords to enter the formation together, he must have given it some thought, how could he agree to you replacing me to activate the formation? Moreover, this formation must be extraordinary. With your cultivation level, I'm afraid it's not enough."

Hearing this, Duan Tong lowered his head slightly and fell silent.

"Okay, don't worry too much, I didn't come without any preparation, you don't need to worry too much." Fu Jian patted Duan Tong on the shoulder and said via voice transmission.

Hearing this, Duan Tong's eyes narrowed slightly and he nodded.

Qin Yuan had been observing everyone's actions. He glanced at Fu Jian from afar and nodded to each other.

He had also used his methods to check the stone statue and the blood pool, and found nothing unusual. So he walked around the five statues again and carefully checked the ground, but found nothing.

Han Li walked inward along the edge of the altar, stopping in front of each stone pillar, raising his palm and gently stroking it, feeling the patterns on it.

Suddenly, he frowned, stopped stroking, and turned around, only to see that Zhu Ziqing had walked over here for some reason.

"Are you Li Feiyu? My brother said that you humans are not simple, but I can't see it..." Zhu Ziqing bypassed Shi Chuan Kong, who was following Han Li, and stepped forward to say.

"Your brother has misjudged me. I am just a mere human, not worthy of your brother and sister's attention." Han Li said expressionlessly.

"No matter what my brother says, I am quite interested in you. It is indeed not easy for a human to cultivate to this level. In this sense, you are very... special." Zhu Ziqing supported her chin with one hand, nodded to herself, and said.

"What are you doing here messing around? Why don't you come back?" Zhu Ziyuan had been paying attention to the sacrificial blood pool just now. When he found that Zhu Ziqing was no longer by his side, he hurried over.

Although he reprimanded her, his tone was not heavy, obviously he doted on this sister very much.

Zhu Ziqing smiled embarrassedly, made a face at him, pulled his sleeve, and walked over.

Seeing this scene, a trace of a smile appeared in Han Li's eyes.

When he was still in that small mountain village, he was closest to his younger sister among the five siblings. It's just that the path of cultivation is long and ruthless, and his memory of his younger sister has become somewhat blurred.

Zhu Ziyuan nodded to him with a slightly apologetic expression and left with his sister.

On the other side, Chen Yang's expression was as usual, but his eyes flickered back and forth, seeming to be preoccupied.

He circled around the statue next to him and stopped.

"City Lord..." Xuan Yuan Xing frowned and couldn't help but call out.

Chen Yang was slightly stunned, calmed his mind, glanced at Xuan Yuan Xing, but said nothing.

He came to the stone railing, looked at the blood pool below for a moment, and suddenly retracted his palm into his sleeve. When he stretched it out again, there was a short earthen yellow spear in his palm, with lightning patterns engraved on it.

As he waved his palm, a flash of white light appeared on the short spear, pierced through the gap in the stone railing, and shot into the blood pool.

There was a loud "bang"!

The earthen yellow short spear exploded in the blood pool, turning into a white thunderball the size of a zhang, crackling.

Snow-white electric light spread out, and a large area of blood-colored mist was scattered, turning into thin smoke and rising up, but it never left the blood pool.

Everyone was startled by this sound and looked over here, only to see that the blood in the blood pool was obviously moving much faster, and the surrounding stone walls seemed to be splashing with blood waves, arousing bursts of waves.

"Chen Yang, what are you doing?" Qin Yuan rebuked.

"It's nothing, just trying to see if there's anything strange in this blood pool..." Chen Yang said with a calm expression.

E Kui just raised his eyelids and glanced over here, then retracted his gaze and looked at the statue in front of him.

Shao Ying and the other two stood behind him, without saying a word.

After waiting for a while, the blood waves in the blood pool gradually stabilized, and nothing unusual happened.