"Brothers, let's begin!"
The towering Wizard God in the lead glanced at the returning members of his tribe, took a deep breath, and spoke in a low voice.
"Right!"
The other Wizard Gods answered in unison.
In the next moment, they formed hand seals together and suddenly turned into streaks of black light, vanishing into the towering statues that stood across the plaza.
Boom! Rumble—
In an instant, the enormous statues began to rumble. Countless flakes of stone broke away, and huge chunks rained down like drops of water.
The statues seemed to come alive. Their enormous eyes, as bright as the sun and moon, suddenly opened, and fierce, domineering, savage, ancient, and desolate auras surged from the twelve statues.
All heaven and earth began to shake violently. Boundless fiendish energy from the world and turbid qi from the earth stirred and gathered in a frenzy, rushing toward the twelve enormous statues before pouring into them in an instant!
The auras radiating from the statues grew more terrifying, more powerful, and utterly domineering. As they surged and churned, even heaven and earth trembled!
Then the twelve statues flickered and instantly appeared in different positions...
Lan Tianzheng and the others stared at the scene in stupefied disbelief. Gazing at the twelve towering statues and their terrifying auras, they felt their mouths go dry and found it hard to breathe.
Just then, an invisible force suddenly settled over them.
Before Lan Tianzheng and the others could react, they vanished from where they stood and appeared at the entrance to the Wizard God Sect's ancestral grounds. Even Lan Caiyi and the others, who had been hurrying toward the shrine, suddenly found themselves back at the entrance.
A voice rang out in their ears: "Leave at once. There is no need to keep guarding