Inside Gu Luoli's Double Pupils, golden light flickered intensely!
She clearly saw the life essence and spiritual energy contained within that blood being absorbed by the stone statues!
"Everyone! On guard! Gather around me! Form a formation!"
Gu Luoli's voice suddenly rose, filled with unprecedented severity and urgency!
Although the twenty Disciples of the Jade Pool Immortal Palace didn't understand why...
...seeing Senior Sister Gu's solemn expression, they didn't hesitate for a moment and instantly formed a defensive formation!
By now, the chaotic battle in the center of the hall had reached a fever pitch!
To get closer to the high platform, to touch that "corpse"...
...hundreds of Cultivators had long since lost their reason in the slaughter!
People kept falling, and blood splattered as if it cost nothing!
More and more blood pooled on the floor, flowing continuously into the bases of the stone statues on both sides!
These stone statues were absorbing blood faster and faster!
Within the eye sockets that were originally just rough stone carvings, a speck of crimson light slowly lit up!
At first, it was just one, then two, then three... a scalp-numbing "creak" like the grinding of countless stones...
...began to faintly emanate from within the stone statues!
"Something's wrong! Those statues... the statues are moving?!"
A female Disciple from the Miaoyin Pavilion turned pale and pointed at a humanoid stone statue beside her, screaming!
"What?!"
Several nearby Cultivators looked over and were instantly terrified!
They saw that it wasn't just that one!
On both sides of the hall, all ten stone statues were undergoing the same change!
Heads lifted, arms moved slightly, bodies trembled... those crimson "gazes" all fell in unison upon the center of the hall, the area where the blood qi was most concentrated.
"Roar—!!!"
A low roar, neither human nor beast, erupted from the "mouth" of a beast-shaped stone statue!
Immediately after, like a chain reaction!
"Roar! Roar! Roar!"
Several roars full of tyranny rang out one after another, converging into a terrifying wave of sound that echoed frantically throughout the hall!
Wherever the sound waves passed, space vibrated and spiritual energy dissipated!
The Cultivators who were fighting, regardless of their cultivation level, had their blood and qi churned by these sudden roars.
"The... the stone statues have come to life?!"
"Run! Run quickly!"
After a brief silence, there were even more terrified screams and chaos!
The Cultivators closer to the stone statues no longer cared about any Opportunity or Legacy and turned to flee!
*Boom! Boom! Boom!*
Heavy footsteps, like giant hammers striking the earth, suddenly rang out.
The ten "awakened" stone statues moved!
They took heavy strides; their movements were initially somewhat stiff and slow, but they quickly became fluid!
What was even more despair-inducing was that they didn't attack all living beings indiscriminately.
Instead, any Cultivator stained with blood became their priority target!
A stone statue ten meters tall, shaped like a giant ape, swung a stone fist the size of a millstone.
Carrying a howling, sinister wind, it smashed down hard toward several Cultivators who were locked in combat!
"No—!"
The desperate scream came to an abrupt end!
The ground shook violently, and stone fragments shot out!
Those Cultivators, along with the ground they stood on, were directly smashed into meat paste and a deep pit by this single punch!
On the other side, a humanoid stone statue held a massive stone sword.
The blade swept across, cutting several Cultivators who tried to flee past it in half at the waist!
Blood and organs splattered across the floor, only to be instantly absorbed by the ground and flow toward other stone statues!
"Form a formation! Quickly form a defensive formation!"
Lu Chen's face was pale as he roared hoarsely, trying to organize the Disciples of the Flowing Cloud Sword Sect.
However, under the violent attacks of the stone statues and the frantic trampling of the crowd, his voice was instantly drowned out!
The Disciples of the Lingxu Holy Land and the Heavenly Origin Sacred Land...
...were also filled with horror, desperately commanding their fellow Disciples to resist and retreat.
But the strength of the stone statues was astonishing, and their defense was incredibly tough.
The techniques everyone blasted at them could only leave a faint white mark.
People were constantly being struck by the statues!
In just a few moments, no fewer than a hundred corpses lay on the ground; it was a completely one-sided massacre!
Within the hall, it turned into a shura field in the blink of an eye!
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