"As you said, this seal was never intended for those Saints."

The two of them had slightly differing views on this matter. Mo Huitou left without a word and returned shortly with Bai Shan.

This Prefectural Governor who has already fallen.

Even as the one who cast the seal, once the seal is resolved, Bai Shan will completely disappear.

Bai Shan also stated clearly that his sealing was aimed at the blood sacrifice case itself.

As long as the blood sacrifice doesn't happen, the Saints who were sealed in along with it wouldn't be affected.

The few of them fell silent, just waiting.

Logically speaking, the seal at this point should have already reopened.

Yet, it has not automatically reopened.

On the horizon, the Saints, burdened with the giant's final counterforce, have suffered heavy losses and are not far from annihilation.

They waited forcibly for several days, and the bloody glow on the horizon slowly faded.

The huge sacrificial altar of flesh and blood was reduced to nothing but some dry bones.

Of the one thousand three hundred Saints, only a few remain, barely holding onto life, but they carry a Curse of extermination, clearly exhaling more than inhaling.

No one intervened, and after waiting a few more days, the last few Saints succumbed.

Everything around remained unchanged.

The seal did not reopen, nor did the sealed world unravel, marking the end.

It was stuck there.

"No way, this damn seal can actually freeze?"

Yu Ziqing was a bit shocked. What was this?

Mo Huitou was somewhat bewildered, continuously deducing something.

Yu Ziqing thought for a moment, then, with a thought, exited An History Book.

After emerging, the pages shimmered as the bloody glow had faded, but it still hung, unresolved.

"What is this situation?"

An History Book was even more shocked than Yu Ziqing, trembling.

How would it know, it's just an ordinary history book!

"So, is it considered resolved now or not?"

An History Book flickered repeatedly.

"Truth be told, this doesn't seem right. You, An History Book, were meant to inspire the insight of future generations.

Facing catastrophes directly, change internally, reach the essence, change externally.

How could it not be considered resolved?"

An History Book was anxious; it wished nothing more than to resolve all the seals immediately.

Yu Ziqing thought for a moment, then re-entered to have another look.

After Yu Ziqing left, the seal still hadn't reopened, it remained just as before.

Even during Yu Ziqing's absence, Mo Huitou inside had been calculating precisely, not missing a beat.

Yu Ziqing silently emerged again, arriving outside the locust forest to find Half Skull.

The problem surely lay with Half Skull.

The Big Ghost saw Yu Ziqing first and told him about Half Skull's earlier abnormality.

Yu Ziqing found Half Skull, who looked like an ordinary newly transformed hungry ghost, somewhat dazed.

"Have you felt someone worshipping you before?"

"Yes, but it felt painful. I wanted to escape; I didn't want it at all," Half Skull answered honestly.

"How about now?"

"It feels much better now. It's like a layer of mist is blocking, I can't see clearly, but it feels comfortable."

Yu Ziqing pondered, extending a finger to Half Skull's forehead.

Half Skull didn't resist, letting go of all defenses, his mind open, allowing Yu Ziqing to do as he pleased.

Moments later, Yu Ziqing opened his eyes, observing Half Skull with a peculiar look.

Mo Huitou was right; Deities do not die, they only disappear.

As long as they haven't disappeared, that Deity still exists.

However, Half Skull's experience was unusual; he starved, becoming a hungry ghost, yet the rank of Sacrificial God remained.

His time as Sacrificial God was too painful, and after starving to death, it became even more so.

When he died and turned into a starving ghost, he finally truly understood what pain was.

From the bottom of his heart, he completely rejected the rank of Sacrificial God. Now as a hungry ghost, he gained the power of one, using the Hungry Ghost Dao to forcibly suppress the rank.

The rank of Sacrificial God was something he wished to discard, but could not.

Eventually, it resulted in the rank of Sacrificial God persisting, not resolving the seal externally, yet the blood sacrifice failed and the Saints all perished, resolving the seal.

This has become a complete deadlock, freezing the process.

Half Skull, wholeheartedly a hungry ghost, but for some things, he hadn't the final say.

Yu Ziqing thought for a moment, waving his hand to bring Half Skull along.

Returning inside the seal together, there was still no change.

Yu Ziqing thought and executed the ultimate method for dealing with freezes.

He rebooted the entire seal.

Everything reverted to its original state, with Yu Ziqing and Half Skull standing on the city wall, continuing to observe.

After explaining the situation again to Mo Huitou, Yu Ziqing pointed to Half Skull.

"He was once that person."

Mo Huitou's expression was strange, staring at Half Skull for a while, utterly bewildered.

Before long, Bai Shan appeared, equally perplexed.

The bloody glow reappeared on the horizon, but this time Yu Ziqing ignored the blood sacrifice and focused on Half Skull.

Half Skull sat honestly, doing nothing, even shunning a direct view of the distant bloody glow, turning his back on it.

When the blood sacrifice approached its climax, Yu Ziqing looked at Half Skull.

"Did you feel anything?"

"Yes, but this time it wasn't painful, just there were fragments of images emerging, a feeling of... hatred towards them."

Yu Ziqing stood, observing the empty cavity within Half Skull's head, devoid of any blood sacrifice power, covered merely by a thin layer of black oil-like substance.

And this, Yu Ziqing knew too well, was the hungry ghost's power.

This confirmed his hypothesis.

It was due to Half Skull's active, wholehearted cooperation, and being a hungry ghost borrowing the Hungry Ghost Dao's power, along with his own inability to completely abandon the rank, that caused this standstill.

Yu Ziqing was sure that when the Dadui Sealing Skill was conceived, no one could have anticipated such a situation would arise.

The crux of the freeze was the emergence of the hungry ghost.

The hungry ghost appeared due to Yu Ziqing's abilities.

The seal was tampered with.

At this stage, Yu Ziqing was at a loss as to how to deal with it.

His mind shifted, looking towards Mo Huitou and Bai Shan.

"There's no choice, we're stuck now. As long as I don't reboot, this seal won't restart on its own or dissipate.

The downside is, I don't know if this will lead to different changes.

The upside is, you two will continue to exist as long as I don't reboot.

It's like still being alive, everything remaining here will seem alive.

I won't need to explain everything again after each reboot.

Now, I want to test something else.

Whether in your current state, you can still think, continue researching something.

If you can pass on all you've learned.

Leaving a legacy alone can't match your direct teaching.

Are you willing to try?"

At this point, Yu Ziqing could only look on the bright side, perhaps seizing the opportunity to use the seals in An History Book as treasures to excavate.

What treasure could compare to some of the formidable individuals within the seal?