The instant Lin Bai sensed the aura of life within the statue, he immediately turned and retreated. Chu Tinghan was a step too slow and was sent flying by the statue's solid blow.
"Crack, crack..."
The hundred-zhang-tall statue suddenly came alive. The joints cast from earth twisted, producing a strange, ear-piercing sound that made their eardrums ache.
The statue's face remained expressionless. The woman's features were as solemn, cold, and severe as ever, but an unusual gleam shone in her eyes as she stared at Lin Bai with cold disdain.
It was as though she were blaming Lin Bai and Chu Tinghan, these two outsiders, for trespassing here and disturbing her slumber.
"Comparable to the Grand Luo realm!"
From the power of that earlier palm strike, Lin Bai judged that the statue's strength was nearly on par with the Grand Luo Dao Fruit realm.
After sending Lin Bai and Chu Tinghan flying one after another with a single palm, the statue walked down from the altar and advanced toward them with stiff steps.
Every step it took struck the ground with the force of an earth-shaking tremor.
Whoosh... A palm swept through the air, its immense force whipping up an ear-piercing howl. Lin Bai immediately flashed aside again, but Chu Tinghan found it nowhere near as easy to evade.
Chu Tinghan had already been injured, and the statue's earlier palm had worsened her wounds. Now that the statue struck again, she was already powerless to resist.
"What a bother!"
Seeing that Chu Tinghan was about to die beneath the statue's palm, Lin Bai immediately changed direction and cast the Void Evasion Art. His figure appeared before Chu Tinghan like a phantom, and he picked her up again before vanishing away in a strange blur.
The statue's palm slammed into the