Hiss! Hiss!
As the statue's head burst apart, black vapor gushed from its severed neck.
"Watch out! It's dangerous!"
Aries Palace and Nameless both sensed how terrifying the black vapor was.
Its nature was already close to the Corruption of Eternal Silence Space. But compared with that chaotic, lawless Corruption, this power was purer and even more harmful to living things.
They darted out of the temple together, then turned to watch what happened inside.
In the blink of an eye, the black vapor filled the entire temple. The temple itself seemed to be a kind of barrier, though, and none of the vapor escaped.
Aries Palace frowned. "Something's wrong."
He had thought smashing the statue might turn things around, or even clear the Forest God's stage outright. Instead, it felt as though they had hit a bug.
"Wait, look over there!" Lucifer said, spotting movement off to their right.
Nameless looked where she pointed and smiled. "I see. I think I know how this Forest God stage works."
A distant mountain peak was shining with green light.
That mountain stood alone amid a field of ruins. Every peak around it had been smashed apart.
And the one who had smashed them was none other than Wang Zong.
Wang Zong had thought Nameless was hiding nearby. In his agitation, he had shattered so many peaks and kicked up dust thicker than the mist that no one had noticed one mountain remained intact.
Now green light shone from its summit. Barring a coincidence, it had to be connected to their smashing the statue's head.
"Come on. Let's take a look," Nameless said with a smile.
This time, no one rode the Qilin. It was only a short walk.
A minute later, Nameless and the others reached the lone mountain and looked