Lin Fan stood quietly to one side, his gaze resting on the blood shadow shrouded in azure light, yet another past incident rose unbidden in his mind.
That had been back when he was in the Ten Thousand Dragons Nest.
At the time, he had encountered an eerie creature that had broken free of its seal.
Though that creature had not been as powerful as the blood shadow before him, it had still been extraordinarily vicious. Lin Fan had paid no small price to suppress it, then attempted to use the Soul Searching Technique to obtain vital information from its memories.
Yet the moment he touched the core of that creature's memories, a restriction hidden deep within detonated with a bang. The restriction had been designed with extreme malice. Not only did it instantly destroy all of the creature's memories, it also turned its entire body into a bomb of terrifying power.
Had Lin Fan not reacted swiftly and retreated in time, he would likely have been severely wounded on the spot.
That experience had made Lin Fan keenly realize that the more powerful an Eerie Divine Statue was, the stranger and more formidable the restrictions inscribed within it would be.
These restrictions were often hidden in the deepest recesses of memory. Without sufficient means and cultivation, rashly searching a soul would only trigger them—at best, the information would be lost; at worst, one's own life would be endangered.
Unless he could reach a higher level—a realm he could not yet attain.
Otherwise, trying to obtain crucial information from within an Eerie Divine Statue on his own was almost impossible.
It was precisely for this reason that Lin Fan had not acted personally this time, choosing instead to ask Goddess Statue Qing Shuang for help. Though this senior was cool