Chapter 1058: Illusion Abyss
"Was it really that simple?"
Ice Storm muttered to herself.
However, since Meng Chao had already made it across, she refused to show weakness.
Ice Storm took a deep breath, condensing a thin layer of frost around herself and reducing her breathing, heartbeat, and footsteps to the absolute limit. Like stepping on snowflakes as thin as cicada wings, she silently entered the arched corridor.
Sure enough, the statues on both sides remained perfectly still, as though they could not sense her existence at all.
Ice Storm desperately wanted to swallow.
But she feared that even the contraction of her throat muscles would trigger a reaction from the statues.
Imitating Meng Chao, she glided deeper into the corridor as gently as possible.
At first, everything went smoothly.
At that point, she had only passed three to five statues, and the starting point was right behind her.
Even if the statues were truly activated, she could retreat in an instant.
That gave her the reassuring sense that she still had a way out.
With her nerves relaxed, her steps naturally became exceptionally smooth.
But as she ventured deeper and deeper into the corridor, the starting point had already been left thirty to fifty steps behind her.
If all the terrifying statues around her were activated now, there would be nowhere left for her to escape.
Realizing this, Ice Storm's nerves felt as though a spiked winch were slowly tightening around them, drawing them tauter and tauter.
The statues around her grew increasingly ferocious, their forms larger and larger, like cliffs leaning toward her and on the verge of collapse, ready to bury her at any moment.
Many of the statues' giant axes and Giant Swords also blocked her path, forcing her to twist her body into bizarre shapes,