Xiao Ran's gaze met the hollow eye socket of the half-buried statue head through the Bronze Mirror!
In an instant, the stone statue's eyes turned savage, and its expression twisted. It let out a strange cry. "You found me! I've been discovered!!"
Its voice boomed like thunder, deafening.
In the blink of an eye, the world turned upside down. The rubble scattered across the ground shot into the air. The torso, limbs, and even the tiniest fragments were swept up by howling winds and pieced back together!
In the next moment, a five-meter-tall giant rose from the ground.
The instant it took shape, the giant raised its enormous fist and slammed it into the ground.
"Boom!!" The ancient ice beneath their feet, which had never melted in a thousand years, suddenly shattered.
Sand and stones blotted out the sky, crashing toward them like a tsunami rising from flat ground.
Seeing this, Xiao Ran raised his hand and set the central palace in motion. With a pinch of his fingers, the Nine Palaces shifted out of alignment, and a wave surged out of nowhere around him, like a river bursting its banks.
"Rumble!!!"
For a moment, mud and water clashed with a deafening roar.
The tremendous commotion startled Golden Toad Son and the others nearby.
"Lu's coming!!"
Lu Da's voice arrived before he did. He raised his monk's staff and swung it, splitting the air as arcs of lightning coiled like serpents. The next instant, he plunged from the sky like a meteor.
They had assumed that, faced with such a thunderous strike, the stone giant would surely raise its fist to block it.
But instead, the giant formed a hand seal and spat out a streak of silver light. It burst open, splitting into countless flying swords that formed a