The Master of Beasts

Chapter 815 264

"Boom"

Blasting apart the monster blocking the path, Meng Ze picks up the larger pearl from its body with some curiosity, saying, "Although its strength is quite formidable, it isn't my match."

"If someone were truly controlling it, they wouldn't use it as cannon fodder. Wouldn't it be better placed elsewhere?"

If that monster had ambushed the tribal warriors or Chen Jiuge, it might have accomplished more, but instead, it was sacrificed to block Meng Ze.

"Buzzing"

As the larger pearl is integrated, Meng Ze's vision suddenly expands.

"Is this Jialouluo? And the so-called Incense Fire God?"

Meng Ze is somewhat shocked.

"Meng Ze, you're just in time, come and help! These wretched things can't be killed!" Jialouluo barks, enduring the attack of a statue, punching a large hole in the chest of a four-armed sculpture.

However, this hole is quickly filled and healed by the surrounding mist after a few breaths.

"Thud"

Kicking a three-headed statue away, Meng Ze frowns slightly and asks, "What exactly is going on?"

"I don't know either. I fought my way through and got blocked by two statues; did you see the broken temple at the back?"

The scene inside the temple imprints itself in Meng Ze's eyes, "Don't tell me all nine statues will come alive?"

"That's right!"

Jialouluo smiles wryly, "At first, there was only one statue. I probed it and found it was not immortal, and its strength was only comparable to Ku Tou, even weaker."

"Just as I was about to deal with it, a second statue came to life, and I've been entangled ever since!"

"No, these statues are not just that strong!" Meng Ze blocks an attack from one statue, frowning.

"Because now three statues have revived, their strength has increased!" Jialouluo says seriously.

Meng Ze's heart sinks, darkly saying, "It seems this is truly a big problem!"

"Yeah, but I suspect these statues actually have no intelligence; there should be some key entity controlling them, but I don't know what it is!"

........

Ji Xing crawls on the ground, continuously searching through the ruins.

"How can it not be here? How can it not be here? This is the Commander's tent!"

"The Heavenly Mandate Seal should be here, how could it disappear?"

Cold sweat continually drips from Ji Xing's forehead. If Chen Jiuge and the others still had a slight chance of sparing him, that hope vanished as soon as they entered the thick fog!

Entering the mist, Ji Xing knew they would be separated, but he didn't say anything.

Because the Secret Storage has a most crucial setting, the twelve statues. Ji Xing did not lie to Chen Jiuge.

There are indeed twelve statues in the storage, and their origins are true, but Ji Xing didn't mention that these statues have no autonomous intelligence and can even be controlled, although they can only operate within the Yellow Springs Tomb, but that's enough.

At least if Ji Xing controlled these twelve statues, he could easily deal with Chen Jiuge's group, then absorb the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Roots in the storage, breaking through his cultivation to Daluo, and then live freely.

Ji Xing's plan was good, but the first step failed because the ancestral information was wrong!

"Only the Commander can wield the Heavenly Mandate Seal. Even with time stripping its power, it couldn't be destroyed!"

"The Commander, who can control the twelve statues, would never give it to others, so the seal must be around here!"

"High-rank Yellow Springs Monsters instinctively fear the seal and won't come near it. Damn it, could it have been picked up by those low-level monsters?"

Thinking of this possibility gives Ji Xing a headache.

"Seems like I'll have to use the last resort!"

According to ancestral legend, Ji Xing is not purely of the True Realm but a descendant of one of the twelve statues. Due to a combination of circumstances, his ancestor found his way to the True Realm after falling in battle.

To preserve the purity of the family's bloodline, Ji Xing's lineage always intermarried, but this major flaw led to a low birth rate, leaving Ji Xing's family with only one heir.

This is why the appearance of a passage in the Golden Desert led Ji Xing, sensing it slightly, to rush inside recklessly.

"Sizzle"

Large gashes open in Ji Xing's palms, with bright red blood continuously dripping down as Ji Xing draws strange runes on the ground.

After a quarter of an hour, a pale-faced Ji Xing stops.

A giant pattern nearly ten meters in diameter appears on the ground.

"Don't disappoint me!"

"Drip"

Ruby-like essence blood falls from Ji Xing's hands. Regardless of cultivation level, a cultivator's body can only contain up to nine drops of essence blood simultaneously.

Each drop lost deals immense damage to a cultivator.

"Buzz"

The red glow disperses the surrounding mist. Monsters near Ji Xing, upon seeing him, flee in terror instead of attacking, as if seeing something terrifying.

"This is the Great Array left by the ancestors. How dare you monsters, slain by ancestors' blades, spy on it!"

The red light slowly converges, eventually forming a red disk, its pointer straight, aiming in one direction.

"That way?"

"Gotta be quick, or if Chen Jiuge and the others find it, I'm doomed!"