Suspected Grotto-Heaven, Bizarre Stone Statue Group (Happy New Year)

From the palace's jade tiles, smooth and new as ever, its exquisite and dazzling mural reliefs, down to every brick and stone scattered about, one could see just how magnificent and resplendent these halls had been in their day.

Zhao Sheng surveyed the abandoned palace complex ahead for a few moments, concealed the fluctuations of his will, and cautiously slipped inside. At the same time, he released his Source Spirit Sense to probe the movements around him.

After walking inward for a short while, Zhao Sheng's brow rose. He lightly leaned back against a broken wall, and his body abruptly melded into it, vanishing from sight.

Thud! Thud!

Two breaths later, a series of dull footsteps came from around the corner. In an abandoned corridor not far away, a white puppet several zhang tall suddenly turned out. The puppet walked slowly forward, seemingly on patrol.

This puppet resembled a one-armed giant alligator. It wore a heavy suit of white armor, more than half of which had already been ruined. Beneath the armor, its body was covered in cracked scales, themselves blanketed in dust. In its hand, it carried a brand-new Alligator Tooth Greatsword, as though time had lost its power before it.

Though the armor had weathered and decayed, its surface still gleamed with a faint spiritual radiance and emitted extremely weak fluctuations of laws.

"A Spirit Treasure War Tool?" Zhao Sheng looked at the puppet's armor and saber, a gleam flashing in his eyes as he recalled certain secret tales about immortal ruins recorded in the materials.

According to ancient records, the ruins of certain powerful immortals' residences often contained High-Level War Puppets with monstrously formidable combat strength.

These Spirit Treasure-Level War Puppets, comparable to Return to Void cultivators and even Body Integration Realm great powers, were not only