In Jiang Feng's vision, the crowd surged toward the mountain like a tide. Yet as the human tide drew ever closer, people's bodies began, one after another, to turn into stone statues!
The scene was uniquely horrifying!
Jiang Feng shuddered and muttered, "These stone statues... they were all people!"
Their number was beyond measure!
Because Jiang Feng did not dare release his senses to investigate closely.
Coming back to himself, Jiang Feng flew forward. But when he neared the foot of the mountain, an immense force suddenly descended from the sky, forcibly pressing him out of the air and onto the ground.
Faced with that utterly tyrannical force, even Jiang Feng, with his First Void Realm sixth-level cultivation, was unable to resist.
"Looks like once you get close to the mountain, flying is no longer possible." Jiang Feng muttered inwardly, then began carefully examining the stone statues ahead.
As he approached them, Jiang Feng discovered that every one of the stone statues gazed devoutly toward the mountain, as though there were something upon it that filled them with boundless yearning!
Whether they had been trampled beneath the crowd or were kneeling on the ground, their faces bore no pain whatsoever—only the fear of falling behind.
In other words, before turning into stone statues, these people had suffered no pain at all.
On the contrary, they seemed to have willingly become stone statues!
"Too strange!" Jiang Feng threaded his way through statue after statue in the direction the crowd had gone, continuously moving forward toward the foot of the mountain.
The farther forward he went, the more splendid the statues' clothing became. Some of the garments on the statues had not even been damaged.
At this point, Jiang Feng noticed that some of the clothes worn by the statues were clearly