Wang Xian turned his attention back to the stone statues.
There were exactly one thousand stone statues, corresponding perfectly to the island's name, Thousand Gods Island.
None of the thousand-plus stone statues were alike. Each resembled one of the creatures on the island. Though all humanoid, every single one was grotesquely malformed.
The thousand stone statues stood around Wang Xian without making any movement, and no aura could be sensed from them. They truly seemed like ordinary stone statues.
Yet their bizarre appearances made Wang Xian's skin crawl, especially their eyeballs, all of which were fixed on him.
Even when Wang Xian changed positions, the statues' eyeballs remained pointed toward him.
It was not that the statues moved, nor that their eyeballs turned. Rather, the statues had multiple eyeballs, all growing in strange places.
Wang Xian stayed on guard, his entire body tense. When these statues had suddenly appeared earlier, they had nearly crushed him to death.
Although the statues showed no abnormalities now, the absence of abnormalities was often the greatest abnormality.
Time passed second by second. Wang Xian stood still, while the statues remained motionless like dead objects.
Yet the more this continued, the stronger the unease in Wang Xian's heart became.
Finally, Wang Xian could no longer endure it. He raised his right hand, clenched it into a fist, and punched at an ugly, grotesque stone statue from afar.
The attack landed with unexpected ease. A massive fist imprint struck the statue directly.
Bang!
The statue truly seemed to have been carved from ordinary stone. Wang Xian's fist imprint blasted it into dust that filled the sky.
Wang Xian froze for a moment.
Something was clearly wrong!
Earlier, when the statues had appeared, some of them had scraped against him, leaving ~Scar~s on his skin. At the