Xiao Mu was in the midst of a closed-door cultivation, when his Divine Sense suddenly perceived something.

He hurriedly closed his eyes and opened his Divine Eye. In the next instant, he saw, in one of his temples, the leader of the Three Emperors' Tomb, Lv Liangping, standing in front of the altar table where his Sculpted Image was placed.

"Xiao Xiao, long time no see!" Lv Liangping saw Xiao Mu's Sculpted Image open its eyes and immediately showed a smile on his face.

Seeing Lv Liangping's cheerful demeanor, Xiao Mu's heart stirred, "Leader Lv, it's been a long time. To seek me out so suddenly, could there be some good news?"

"Whether it's good news or not, you call it, I don't count."

Lv Liangping's attitude was very modest, "Recently, I sent Elder Yun and Elder Jin to explore an ancient ruin of the Five Elements Sect, and they ultimately discovered an abandoned temple that belonged to the ancestor of the Five Elements."

"Abandoned temple, ancestor of the Five Elements, has the ancestor of the Five Elements died?"

As soon as Xiao Mu heard 'abandoned temple,' he immediately surmised that the ancestor of the Five Elements might have perished, as a temple belonging to a Divine Spirit was unlikely to be abandoned, even less so given the ancestor of the Five Elements was a True God among Divine Spirits.

"Hard to say, Xiao Xiao, take a look at what this is."

Lv Liangping shook his head, while speaking, he took out a cellphone and opened a video, placing it on the altar table in front of Xiao Mu's Sculpted Image.

Xiao Mu noticed Lv Liangping's serious expression, as if the matter were of great importance, and quickly used his Sculpted Image to bow his head and watch the cellphone video.

The video's scene was clearly set within a temple, and the flickering five-color divine light immediately made Xiao Mu associate it with the temple of the Divine Monarch of the Five Elements.

The video's lens quickly focused on a Sculpted Image.

This was an ancient Sculpted Image, cast from some special Mutated Metal that exuded a sanctified majesty, yet it had completely lost its Spirituality.

This implied that either the owner of the Sculpted Image had died or, for some special reason, had severed the connection with their own Sculpted Image.

The Sculpted Image was crafted very vividly, allowing a clear distinction to be made of its owner's features—a thin and long-faced elder, with a lean body, long arms and legs, slightly larger hands, and a face revealing coldness with an undercurrent of ferocity.

"Is this the ancestor of the Five Elements?"

Xiao Mu suddenly looked up at Lv Liangping.

Lv Liangping nodded and said, "Headquarters has records about the appearance of the ancestor of the Five Elements. According to the records, this Sculpted Image is indeed him. Continue watching the later part of the video."

Xiao Mu bowed his head and continued to watch the video. The shot, however, shifted from the front of the Sculpted Image to its back, focusing on the rear side of the Sculpted Image.

At the lower back area of the Sculpted Image, someone had deliberately smashed a hole, and because the interior of the Sculpted Image was hollow, after the hole was made, the hollow abdominal cavity within the Sculpted Image became visible.

Then, an old man's palm reached into the hollow of the Sculpted Image, and the next second, the hand came out holding a clump of withered flesh and blood.

"Feign Death Technique!"

Xiao Mu suddenly exclaimed. He himself was cultivating the Feign Death Technique, so he naturally recognized the purpose of the clump of flesh inside the Sculpted Image at a glance.

Undoubtedly, the owner of the Sculpted Image, the ancestor of the Five Elements, was using his own flesh and blood to perform the Feign Death Technique, trying to use the clump of flesh within the Sculpted Image to achieve Rebirth after death.

"Xiao Xiao, you also know of the Feign Death Technique?"

Lv Liangping looked at Xiao Mu with a surprised expression, as if he had not expected Xiao Mu to also be knowledgeable about the Feign Death Technique.

"It's a Divine Technique of the Life and Death Sect; I've seen some information about it."

Xiao Mu breezed over the subject without revealing to Lv Liangping that he too was practicing the Feign Death Technique.

"So you're aware of the Feign Death Technique. Then there's no need for me to waste words explaining it," Lv Liangping's face showed delight, "You've seen the contents of the video. The purpose of the ancestor of the Five Elements in establishing the temple and sculpting the image was to Revive from Death."

"However, the ancestor of the Five Elements was deceived, as the Feign Death Technique he cultivated was not genuine, leading to the withering of flesh and blood after establishing the temple and sculpting the image."

"Xiao Xiao, have a look at this piece of information."

As he spoke, Lv Liangping placed a stack of paper on the altar table in front of Xiao Mu's Sculpted Image.

Xiao Mu looked down and saw that the papers were printed photos. The photos were of a stone slab with ancient inscriptions.

The slab was damaged and the inscriptions were incomplete, with pieces missing here and there.

The text was so ancient that Xiao Mu did not recognize it, but fortunately, Lv Liangping was very meticulous in his work and had thoughtfully written the translations next to the text with a pen:

Unfortunate, White-Old Ghost actually made a deal with the Chaos Heavenly Monarch and borrowed something from Chaos...

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Yin and Yang have been suppressed, and I fear I am next...

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Reached an agreement with Life and Death, they taught me the Feign Death Technique, started cultivation immediately...

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Caught the Divine Craftsman Niu Hong, the temple and Sculpted Image are successfully established, all flesh and blood placed into the Sculpted Image, haha, now I finally don't have to worry about death anymore, even if I die, I can revive through the Feign Death Technique...

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The stone slab's extensive damage and the incomplete inscriptions still left Xiao Mu with a sense of shock.

The few hundred words not only implicated the ancestor of the Five Elements, the Yin and Yang Divine Sovereign, and even the Undying Divine Sovereign, Lord of Bai's Mansion, and the Chaos Heavenly Monarch.

What truly surprised Xiao Mu, however, was the last mention of the Divine Craftsman Niu Hong.

Could this Niu Hong be the ancestor of the craftsmen Yuan Wei and Yuan Lin? Zhao Yaogu had told him that the craftsmen Yuan Wei and Yuan Lin were descendants of an offshoot of a Divine Craftsman with the surname Niu from the ancient times.

If the Yuan Family's ancestors with the surname Niu were truly the ancient Divine Craftsman Niu Hong as mentioned by the ancestor of the Five Elements, then their lineage truly could not be underestimated, and it was very likely that their bloodline concealed the legacy of the Sculpted Image passed down by Divine Craftsman Niu Hong.

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