The stone guard standing alone at the very front of the first row, shaped like a general, sent fragments of stone flying from its left arm, revealing an arm clad in golden armor.
At that moment, the golden-armored arm slowly began to writhe unconsciously. Its five fingers spread wide, and the large chunks of stone on the arm immediately shot away in all directions like arrows.
The iron fist clenched tight.
Countless tiny stone chips burst away again, revealing dense patterns engraved upon the arm guard.
As this left arm moved, the sound of rushing water suddenly arose from within the stone guard's body.
It was like a river that had run dry for who knew how many years suddenly flowing again, its waters surging.
The sound of flowing water was slow, yet incomparably powerful.
Ye Zhen was first stunned, then abruptly understood.
That was the sound of blood flowing!
This stone guard before him was a person—a living person!
It was the sound of blood beginning to flow through this stone guard's body once more.
As the sound of blood flow rose, the stone guard's deathly aura slowly began to climb. More cracks also split across the stone shell covering its body amid the drumbeats.
Ye Zhen's shock was beyond description.
A living person had actually been sealed inside the stone sculpture behind the Imperial Temple!
It wore armor.
Then it was undoubtedly a military general!
Without needing to think much further, Ye Zhen could basically confirm that the general inside this stone guard should have been one of the generals under Founding Emperor Ji Bang, who had taken possession of Ji Ao.
Now that Founding Emperor Ji Bang had possessed Ji Ao, he was beginning to use some special method to awaken them.
If that was the case,