"Xiao Yi, are you all right?"
Xiao Yan asked with some concern. Xiao Yi seemed to have been awakened to some memories from the past.
"Mm." Xiao Yi nodded, and an innocent smile appeared once more on her chubby little face.
Only then did Xiao Yan relax. "Then give it a try. If you can't do it, don't force yourself."
Xiao Yi flew up from Xiao Yan's shoulder and slowly approached the stone statue's heart. Intense Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame rapidly spread around her, transforming under the wave of her tiny hand into a beam of fire that shot toward the statue's heart.
"Bzzzz..."
The flame beam seemed to trigger some sort of mechanism. Strange energy ripples spread across the statue's surface, expanding outward in rings like ripples on water.
Crack!
A creaking crack came from the stone statue as a stone opening slowly split open in its chest.
"It really opened..."
Before anyone could celebrate, a gentle radiance spread from the opening and instantly enveloped the people standing before the statue.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
As the gentle light covered them, they felt as though Mount Tai were pressing down on their heads, their knees as heavy as a thousand jun. Caught completely off guard, they dropped to their knees atop the Sea of Clouds.
"That damned Tou She Ancient God!" Zhu Kun's face flushed red, yet no matter how hard he struggled, he remained unable to move.
Xiao Xuan was rather composed and did not resist. "Heh heh, he is a Dou Di, after all. Kneeling to him is hardly a humiliation."
Zhu Kun understood that, but he had lived for over ten thousand years and belonged to the same era as Tou She Ancient God. He simply could not swallow this indignity.
Yet among those present, one person