Tan Nu ignored the horses collapsed in front of the carriage and went straight to its side.
Then he struck, smashing through the carriage's layers of reinforcement with a single punch.
Boom!!!
Amid the crash, the carriage, built of thick wooden planks, shattered like a crisp biscuit, breaking apart in an instant.
As the dust dispersed, it revealed a strange figure seated inside. It had bushy brows and crane-white hair, horns growing from its forehead, and its eyes were tightly shut. The corners of its mouth drooped, giving it an expression that was neither quite smiling nor quite sorrowful. It sat upright and solemn, yet wore an embroidered brocade robe completely ill-fitting for its hunched body.
But upon closer inspection, the figure was not a living person Tan Nu wanted to collect at all. It was a painted clay Divine Statue!
The statue looked so lifelike that its expression and the folds of its robes were rendered with exquisite realism. Unlike ordinary statues, it held a ceremonial tablet in its hands.
At the top of the tablet was a seal, unmistakably identical to the royal jade seal on the carriage's exterior.
This Divine Statue was enshrined by the Court!
Tan Nu's punch had struck it head-on, yet the statue, which looked as though it were made of clay, was completely unharmed.
As if sensing the disturbance outside, it slowly opened its eyes, revealing a pair of deep green pupils. They were like jade-green water, with something slowly writhing within them, as though snakes were slithering through the depths, their light cold and sinister.
A torrent of cold, savage, bloodthirsty, and restless energy erupted!
Like a mountain flood, it surged in every direction.
Boom!!!
In the next instant, Tan Nu was sent flying.
"Bang, bang, bang, bang..." Like a spear hurled