Chapter 223: Lin Shu Was Already a Candle Flickering in the Wind
Crash.
As the white mist dispersed, the two chains released Lin Shu's physical body and slithered of their own accord toward one end of the path.
The pitch-black stone statue sat quietly by the roadside, looking no different from the one in the temple of Yong Province City.
The chains returned to its arms, coiling around them like serpents.
"An Immortal—or rather, an Immortal Throne?"
Lin Shu drifted before the lifelike divine statue, a blaze of heat rising within his heart.
To any living being in this world, immortality and indestructibility were temptations impossible to resist. Naturally, he was no exception.
Though judging from the current situation, only the body was indestructible.
But after expending a colossal amount of Evil Silver, the Luan-Phoenix Heaven-Stealing Art Lin Shu had painstakingly deduced only granted a single chance to cheat death.
Yet this stone statue before him could reshape itself endlessly!
"Hiss."
A searing pain pricked Lin Shu's fingertips.
Only then did he realize that, at some point, he had already reached his hand toward the statue, yet his soul had failed to merge into it.
According to what Yuan Yuan had said earlier, Young Master Qi had dared entertain the notion of possessing his ancestor's Immortal Throne because he had seen news of a certain High Immortal being demoted on the jade disc.
That meant the Immortal Throne could be passed to someone else.
"Why does the statue still look like a wolf?"
Lin Shu frowned faintly, confusion flashing through his eyes.
It was not that he absolutely wanted this Immortal Throne. He simply could not make sense of it.
Now that both Young Master Qi and the Night Patrol God had been devoured by the Moon-Devouring Heavenly Wolf, the