This chapter's epigraph comes from the opening lines of Act IV, Scene 1 of the novel. It's a quote from the novel's opening lines: "It seems like nobody's noticed" . In other words, it doesn't take long for the reader to notice that something's up with the statue. The statue's light runs on top of it are gone, and the runes on the statue are also gone. The light runs are gone. It seems that the hidden mechanism in the statue can be disabled, so long as they remove the trinket from each statue in the hall. If they don't, they'll be able to disable the other hidden mechanism as well. This is a big deal. The narrator explains that the main hall of the shrine is full of 337 tianlings crystals, and only those who have them can enter the shrine. Only those with the crystals can gain entrance to the main shrine. The heavenly dragon treasure is also within the shrine, but it's not as important as the emperor's inheritance. The emperor is the one who took on the five demon lords in the first place, and his inheritance will tempt anyone who wants to use his power. If you want to get the emperor, you've got to go through the ninth heaven, which is the pinnacle of human strength. Who was it? The narrator says that he didn't know who it was, but he did find something that looked like