When Chen Miao emerged from inside the statue, he deliberately glanced at the old man and Instructor Wen. Only after seeing that neither harbored any ill will toward him did he relax a little.
It seems those two outside knew nothing about what just happened inside the statue.
In that case, ordinary people can't perceive the statue's secret. It was only triggered because I happened to have a fragment of Divinity inside me.
At the thought of that perilous moment, sweat beaded on Chen Miao's forehead.
He did not know what would happen if the Divinity inside him followed the statue's power back to invade its source, but it certainly would not be anything good.
If he alerted certain people in the Demon-Suppressing Bureau, he could not guarantee that he would be able to keep concealing himself.
"Go on up."
Instructor Wen's voice rang out. Chen Miao bowed to the two of them, then left the bottom of the pit.
What Chen Miao did not know was that, although no one in the Cangzhou Prefecture Demon-Suppressing Bureau had noticed anything, far away in the imperial household of Great Xia, a person guarding a statue suddenly opened their eyes.
Before that person stood something identical in appearance to the statue Chen Miao had seen, except that this one in Great Xia's imperial household was only two meters tall.
The guardian scrutinized it for a long time, then closed their eyes again after finding nothing unusual.
Several breaths passed before the guardian suddenly stood up and went out to report the faint anomaly they had just sensed.
Although the Ghost-God Statue occasionally gave off unusual fluctuations and reporting them would likely come to nothing, failing to report them would be a dereliction of duty.
After waiting for more than ten minutes, the