Art of Deception, Time's Up-She'd Run into the Real Deal

It had only been a feeling, something he had casually said aloud. Who would have thought that the moment he spoke those words, Qin Yang immediately noticed that the sensation of the statue seeming to watch him had vanished in an instant.

Qin Yang sidestepped, instantly moving a distance away. Cold sweat broke out all over him; he had truly been given a fright.

Looking again, the statue resembled a ferocious beast standing upright, with a tiger's head, a wolf's body, and wings upon its back.

He had seen quite a few such statues back then. They had all been powerful experts who had become Eternal Sleep Sky Lanterns here, their souls turned into lamp oil to ignite Sky-Lantern Soulfire. They were themselves part of the power used for sealing and suppression, and among the more important parts at that.

It was simply that many of the Eternal Sleep Sky Lantern statues here had already lost their power and become nothing more than pure statues. At first glance, they did not look too different from back then. Some places had developed cracks, which cultivators probably could not have caused. Perhaps the island's seal had loosened somewhat and produced earthquakes.

Or perhaps the Sacred Tree's fall had brought about all sorts of changes.

Many places differed from what he had seen back then.

He had been busy fleeing for his life earlier and had not noticed that this tiger-headed, wolf-bodied statue was actually maintaining a downward-looking posture.

After becoming an Eternal Sleep Sky Lantern, even if its power was exhausted and its Sky-Lantern Soulfire extinguished, its original posture would not change.

Qin Yang surveyed the surroundings. The statues fused with the stone walls were either roaring with savage faces, filled with unwillingness, or closing their eyes with indifferent expressions. Yet every