Zhang Tie had already spent nearly two days in the temple. To be honest, this was the first time he had seriously examined the statue enshrined within it.
The statue was enormous, over thirty meters tall. Standing before the altar beneath it and looking up, Zhang Tie felt as though he were gazing at an angry-eyed giant spirit, oppressed by an inexplicable pressure.
The statue possessed traits of both humans and the Devil Race. Its upper body was human, while its lower body was serpentine, bearing the features of a reptile. The statue lowered its head from on high, its two eyes tightly shut, while the vertical eye in the middle of its brow looked down directly at a spot on the altar. Its serpentine lower body coiled around a towering furnace of strange design. The statue and furnace were joined together, forming an organic whole.
If this was a statue, then the furnace beneath it was its pedestal. If this was a furnace, then the statue above it became an extravagant and bizarre ornament upon the furnace.
The entire statue was purple, as if cast from purple copper, though that was merely its texture. In truth, there was no way such a statue could have been made from so ordinary a metal as purple copper.
The furnace coiled around by the statue was covered in dense, countless runes, as well as patterns and sculptures of all manner of strange animals, so lifelike they seemed ready to spring to life. Before the furnace stood the altar. Its exact position was directly opposite the opening of the furnace door. The entire altar was connected to the furnace, either a part of the furnace itself or a part of the entire structure beneath the statue.
Many animal reliefs and mysterious runes also