Bone-Body Statue—the moment Qin Fengming heard those words, his mind thundered.
The name alone told him that such a statue was carved from assembled bones. A statue like this surely violated the harmony of heaven, but it should also be better suited to the essence soul or spirit body sealed within.
The bones carved into this statue were no ordinary bones. They had undergone special treatment. Perhaps their owners had never fully died before being forcibly refined into part of the statue.
Dao Lord Tang Ming was regarded as an evil cultivator, so it was hardly surprising that he employed such bloody methods.
"Hahaha... You gave this old man quite a fright. I thought I had encountered a fellow Daoist just as I awakened, but it turns out you are merely a spirit body. Hmm, you are Zhang Xingchun of the Grand Clarity Palace! Though I have never met you, I have heard your name. Are these three juniors your disciples?"
The towering statue shifted, and a burst of laughter reverberated through the empty cavern.
"This is my junior brother, and the two girls are disciples of the younger generation. Fellow Daoist, since you dwell here, could it be that you have been sealed within this place?" Zhang Xingchun's spirit body stood before Qin Fengming and the two others, facing the towering figure amid the halls as he probed with his words.
The statue did not leave the area enclosed by the eight halls. That alone seemed strange.
"Indeed. Back then, Mie Yan and Xuan Yun cornered me at the bottom of this lake. I struck a bargain with them and agreed to guard the Borderlands for a hundred epochs, but I had to leave an essence-soul body here. If my true body perished, this essence-soul body would still have