Fan Lang nodded and looked in the direction Zui Pingsheng indicated, toward the stone statue seated on the ground. His gaze tightened slightly.
This was Qingyu Superior. He had turned himself into a stone statue for the sake of cultivation and had remained seated for twelve hundred years. Aurora Academy had employed every possible method to revive him. Even the Aurora God Emperor had personally intervened, yet they had never succeeded.
Some said Qingyu Superior was completely dead and had become nothing more than a stone.
Others said Qingyu Superior still had a single breath left. His soul had not reincarnated and remained within the stone statue. If that was the case, there was still hope of saving him.
Even if there was only the slightest hope, Aurora Academy could not abandon Qingyu Superior. That was why they had settled him here and assigned people to guard him in shifts.
Because of the unusual circumstances, preserving Qingyu Superior's integrity was the foremost condition. So many people had tried to save him over the years and used so many methods, but no one had dared damage the stone statue in the slightest.
After all these years, the statue remained perfectly intact, not even missing a corner of its robes.
Zui Pingsheng then brought Fan Lang down. They moved freely through the formation and arrived before the stone statue.
Zui Pingsheng grabbed the Wine Gourd, which had already shrunk down, and took several gulps. Then he wiped his mouth and said, "I'll drink here while you go acknowledge your master. Keep it simple. Don't make it too sappy."
"Understood." Fan Lang answered and looked at the stone statue before him.
Although the statue was seated, it sat atop a stone platform, making it far taller than Fan Lang even while he stood.