The Statue Moved!

They might have belonged to the same sect, practiced martial arts from the same lineage, or had some other connection.

Just then, a buzzing suddenly came from the sky. At first, it was still far away, but in an instant it swept over them. Thousands upon thousands of sounds merged into one terrifying roar.

The sound meant the locusts had arrived.

And there were quite a few of them.

They swept in from the distance, a vast black mass that blotted out the sky and cast shadows over the ground below.

The people of Qingshan County felt fear well up inside them when they saw the scene in the depths of the sky. They rose to their feet and stared into the distance in utter panic.

Yet the burly men carrying the shrine bearing the Locust God shouted loudly.

They cried things like, "The Locust God blesses us," and it actually worked. The swarms of locusts flying toward them suddenly seemed to spot something that frightened them. One after another, they flew off toward the distant sky.

They swept past this place without descending.

The commoners who witnessed the scene with their own eyes fell to their knees again and worshipped without stop, overwhelmed with emotion. The Locust God was real—he was truly real!

Everyone found it unbelievable, and they believed those people even more.

The crowd shouted like mad, wild with excitement.

But Chen Feng saw it clearly. The locusts had not been driven away by those shouts, but by the black-clad man standing behind them.

When the locusts descended, the black-clad man suddenly took out a black bottle and shook it a few times. Something inside began to cry out. It was that sound that made every locust in the sky fly uncontrollably into the distance, as though