Battle for the Inheritance Begins

The next moment, murmurs rose through the mountains and forests.

Whether they scanned with their eyes or probed with divine sense, the five stone statues emerging from the deep pool appeared utterly unremarkable and ordinary to everyone.

This inevitably filled everyone with doubts.

But the next moment—

As the water columns fell back, the stone statues remained suspended in the air.

Everyone's pupils contracted as they held their breath.

"Hm? There's clearly not the slightest spiritual power or energy fluctuation, yet they can hang above the water pool without falling? How is that possible?"

Faint voices of confusion rose from the crowd.

Everyone immediately realized that these stone statues were far from as plain and ordinary as they appeared.

On the mountain peak where the Duanmu Family stood, Duanmu Liuying was also repeatedly examining the stone statues above the distant deep pool.

Her divine sense swept over them time and again, and she vaguely sensed that beneath their ordinariness lay a trace of extraordinary profundity.

Yet no matter how Duanmu Liuying tested them, the stone statues remained utterly motionless, without the slightest threatening aura.

After confirming this repeatedly, Duanmu Liuying immediately turned to Duanmu Kuanglong beside her.

"Big Brother, the Inheritance Stone Statues have appeared. Now is the perfect opportunity to strike!"

True Yuan quietly surged within him as he nodded lightly.

Immediately afterward, the Golden Core stage experts of the Great Zhao Dynasty, who had long been prepared behind them, rose into the air one after another.

The auras they had been gathering and accumulating erupted in an instant, transforming into monstrous waves that tore through the demonic clouds overhead.

Dozens of figures condensed into a terrifying force, their bodies trailing arcs through the air as they turned into streams of light and shot toward the five stone statues