Chapter 7: The Temple of Five Colours

The situation happened too suddenly, and everything in front of them exceeded people's imagination!

"This..." Everyone couldn't believe it.

But the nine dragon corpses and the copper coffin were right in front of them, ironclad facts that could not be denied!

All of this seriously violated common sense and overturned people's understanding. Everyone's thoughts were strongly impacted.

During the chaos just now, Ye Fan and his group did not run away in panic. They gathered together until Jade Emperor Peak calmed down. Although they all fell to the ground, there were no major casualties, only a few people with bruised arms.

At this moment, their faces were full of shock, and the incredible scene in front of them would be unforgettable for a lifetime!

The nine huge dragon corpses were lying quietly in front of them, and the huge copper coffin was truly shocking to the eyes. It was too shocking and mysterious.

Everyone couldn't speak, their hearts were surging, and their faces were filled with expressions of shock, panic, fear, and so on, making it difficult to calm down.

It wasn't until a long time passed that Lin Jiacai whispered, "Let's hurry down the mountain."

Everyone nodded, feeling that they should leave here immediately. No one wanted to stay for a moment longer. The atmosphere of Jade Emperor Peak at this moment was chilling. Why were there nine dragon corpses carrying a bronze coffin coming here? Why did they land on Mount Tai? Even though the facts were in front of them, it was still difficult to accept, and they were extremely uneasy.

Under the bloody sunset, Jade Emperor Peak was in ruins, especially the bronze ancient coffin, which was severely damaged. There was a huge pit smashed there, and the large cracks that cracked around it were one to two meters wide, spreading like a spider web in all directions.

One of the cracks extended like a winding centipede to Ye Fan and their feet. Fortunately, the end of the crack was less than a palm width, so it did not cause a sinkhole or a crater.

As the group prepared to leave, Li Xiaoman pointed ahead and said, "What's that?"

Half of a jade piece was exposed in the cracked ground, reflecting a glimmer of light in the sunset.

Although the group felt some fear, they still took a few steps forward and saw a circular altar under the one-meter-wide crack, with the broken half of a jade piece displayed on it, resembling a jade book.

"How could this be? Is there something buried underneath?"

The circular altar was not large, ancient and simple, made of five colors of strange soil, filled with the breath of time, and it was not known how many years it had existed.

"Look, there's more ahead!" Wang Ziwen, who was at the front, showed a shocked expression, pointing to the wider crack ahead.

Under the nearly two-meter-wide crack, there was also a five-colored soil altar, which had been shattered by the tremors, revealing a jade tablet inside, engraved with many complex words and symbols that no one could recognize.

At this moment, everyone showed a look of astonishment, instantly associating it with the term "Sealing the Altar," which could very well be an ancient sacrificial altar for worshiping the heavens!

A five-colored circular altar with a sealed jade book inside, similar to what was described in Ban Gu's "White Tiger Commentary" during the Eastern Han period, which recorded: "Some said that the seal was made of golden mud and silver rope, while others said it was made of stone mud and golden rope, which was stamped with the seal."

And Sima Qian's "Records of the Grand Historian: The Book of the Sealing of the Altar" during the Western Han period also mentioned "flying petals and soaring reality, golden mud and stone records."

In just a moment, everyone was surprised to find that under each crack in the surroundings, there were many such five-colored altars, which were not few in number, and amounted to dozens.

Each five-colored soil altar was very ancient, filled with the imprint of time, and it was obvious at a glance that they had existed for endless years. They were either sealed with jade or stone tablets, with ancient inscriptions and symbols that were difficult to identify.

Everyone was deeply amazed, and vaguely felt that there might be some connection to the dragon corpse and bronze coffin.

Ye Fan liked to read ancient books of "oddities" and knew more about Sealing the Altar than others. He was deeply shaken, wondering if the Three Emperors, Five Emperors, and Seventy-two Kings of ancient times really performed the Sealing the Altar ceremony here?

Perhaps the legend was true, otherwise how could there be so many five-colored circular altars? Judging from the inscriptions on them, most of them were oracle bone inscriptions, which seemed to confirm this speculation.

The group should have retreated immediately, but unconsciously they were attracted and had already circled around the bronze coffin, frightened by the nine huge dragon corpses, shocked by the twenty-meter-long bronze coffin, and amazed by the underground five-colored altars.

"It doesn't seem to be dangerous, but these dragon corpses..."

The group had circled around the bronze coffin for a long time, and their fears gradually diminished, but they still felt a bit uneasy and decided to leave the mountain as soon as possible.

"Look, there's a giant altar in the central pit!"

The bronze ancient coffin had smashed a huge deep pit into the ground, and the group had already turned to the other side of the bronze coffin. Looking down, they once again showed a look of shock.

Below the deep pit was a super altar, not built of soil, but completely made up of five-colored giant stones, which stably held the twenty-meter long bronze ancient coffin without any cracks.

This super-sized five-colored stone altar was clearly different from the other soil altars, located in the central position of the Jade Emperor Peak, majestic and far larger than those soil altars.

The impact force of the bronze coffin that fell from the sky was tremendous, but it did not crack or show any damage on the altar, making it hard to imagine what kind of peculiar stones were used to construct it.

On this large five-colored altar, in addition to the bronze ancient coffin, there were also many jade pieces and stone slabs, all with an ancient feeling.

Both the jade pieces and stone slabs were engraved with extremely mysterious ancient characters, more primitive than the oracle bone script seen on those five-colored soil altars, almost like divine symbols drawn in a heavenly book.

A whole row of such jade pieces and stone slabs was neatly arranged on this super-sized five-colored stone altar, and they were not destroyed by the bronze coffin's impact, making people wonder.

"We should leave here quickly," Ye Fan and Zhou Yi said at the same time, urging everyone.

The others nodded one after another, it was not suitable to stay here for too long. Even though there might be endless secrets, they were not something they could explore at the moment. The nine huge dragon corpses next to them made people uneasy, and the bronze giant coffin made them even more anxious.

Just as everyone was about to turn and leave, a female classmate suddenly screamed and a large stone under her feet rolled towards the pit. She lost her balance and fell down.

"Be careful!" A male classmate quickly grabbed her and several other classmates rushed to help pull her up.

The large stone that was stepped on rolled down into the pit with a "thump," and then hit the five-colored altar heavily with a loud bang.

The super-sized stone altar immediately emitted a five-colored haze, and everyone felt a huge force enveloping their bodies, making their legs feel like they were tied down with lead, unable to move.

"Bang!"

The five-colored stone altar continued to shake, causing the Jade Emperor Peak to tremble. The group standing at the edge of the pit suddenly felt dizzy, but they couldn't move even a step and were all shaken down into the pit.

They all fell onto the five-colored altar, and everyone felt a sense of fear!