Lin Wu scanned the area with his spirit sense and looked for any signs of the temple.

"Ah, there it is." Lin Wu said.

"Yes, that's where I felt it too." The Silver Beak Sky Soar Eagle said.

Lin Wu and the Silver Beak Sky Soar Eagle went to a location about a kilometer away and Lin Wu got to digging. He already felt that the temple was rising up and just sped up its process. This was the first time they caught a temple mid way to moving up and thus he got to see the mechanism.

"Hmm… so it has an earth manipulative formation array that makes it move. Though we don't know how it chooses a specific time to appear." Lin Wu said.

"System, scan and see if you can figure something out. Now that the formations are fully active, you should be able to do it despite the interfering field right?" Lin Wu ordered.

~Ding~

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SCANNER ACTIVATED: Target selected

NEW PARAMETERS DETECTED: Earth manipulation formation array

ANALYZING: Please wait patiently

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"Perfect time to get the next task done…" Lin Wu stated.

He helped the temple ascend fully by unearthing the soil above it. The temple was already quite close to the soil, just a bit more than a hundred meters deep. Thus it took Lin Wu just a few minutes to move all the soil.

~Tremors

~Rumble~

The temple finally ascended to the surface of the ground and was on display for everyone to see. The Silver Beak Sky Soar Eagle also saw it and got closer. The Vermillion colored feathers on her neck slightly.

"Let's go in." Lin Wu said as he opened the trap door.

He easily shrunk his body and entered the temple, but the Silver Beak Sky Soar Eagle got stuck at the door. She was simply too big for it.

"Humph!"

~Boom~

The entrance of the temple exploded as all the debris was launched in the air.

"Uh… well, that's one way to enter…" Lin Wu said awkwardly.

The Silver Beak Sky Soar Eagle simply snorted in irritation and strutted in. Her claws dug into the stony floor with ease, as if it was sand. Lin Wu simply nodded his head and continued onward.

The Silver Beak Sky Soar Eagle though, was looking at all the statues of the vermilion bird with curiosity.

"Is this the first time you are seeing these statues?" Lin Wu asked.

"Yes." The Silver Beak Sky Soar Eagle answered.

"Huh? I thought you said you got the bloodline crystals of the Vermillion bird from the temples before." Lin Wu asked, feeling a bit confused.

"I did… from the followers of the skull god who got them from the temples." The Silver Beak Sky Soar Eagle stated.

"Ah… I see." Lin Wu replied.

'Well, that does seem like the better solution considering her size…' Lin Wu thought to himself.

Soon the two were in front of the doors of the inner hall and Lin Wu pushed them open with a loud noise.

~DENG~

Dust fell from the doors as the interior of the hall was revealed.

~shua~shua~shua~

Surprisingly this place was different from the previous temples Lin Wu had seen. While the torches that were in the form of bird claws were still there, the other pillars were designed differently.

Even the large statue at the last was in a much different pose than the previous ones. The previous temples had the statue of the Vermillion bird in a soaring pose, as if it was about to fly up. But in this one, the vermilion bird seemed to be looking up to something.

And not only that, but it was also facing an awkward angle. It faced diagonally to the right instead of facing toward Lin Wu. This seemed strange to Lin Wu and he couldn't tell why it was like this.

"Well… let's get the bloodline crystal." Lin Wu spoke before looking for it.

He found it very easily in the beak of the statue, as always. He took it out before throwing it to the Silver Beak Sky Soar Eagle, who quickly swallowed it down in less than a second.

~shua~

The Silver Beak Sky Soar Eagle closed her eyes as her aura flared up. The Vermillion feathers on her body started or increase in number again and now her neck was fully covered in them. One could tell that her bloodline had gotten significantly strengthened since she first met Lin Wu.

~Piiii~

The Silver Beak Sky Soar Eagle let out a loud screech that echoed in the temple's halls, making it tremble. But this made Lin Wu realize another thing; there was no Specter Skull hound in this temple either.

Not only that, but the defensive formations of the temple also did not seem to become active.

'Have they become defective? I can understand them not activating on me, but it should have worked for the Silver Beak Sky Soar Eagle, shouldn't it?' Lin Wu wondered.

And just as he thought of this, he heard the notification of the system.

~Ding~

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ANALYSIS COMPLETE: Earth Manipulation formation array (defective) detected.

NOTE: The temple's offensive formations are active, but the supplementary detecting formations have been disabled. The system suspects that the interference field might be the reason behind this too.

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"Huh… so the interference field is not a natural thing. If it was, then the makers of this temple would have made either different formations or made them adapted to this.

Who or whatever it is that is causing the interference field should have some links to these temples too." Lin Wu muttered to himself, much to the confusion of the Silver Beak Sky Soar Eagle.

Then Lin Wu realized another thing; the temples were hidden quite well and even with spirit sense, one would have a hard time finding them. Which meant that the interference field was intentionally placed there by someone.

'If it really is as I'm thinking it is, then this Skull god definitely has a hand in this.'