"Just now! It started just now!"
Su Jiu pressed her lips together, watching the statues with growing wariness.
Could these statues already absorb human negative emotions on their own?
Did that mean the aura surrounding the statues, suppressing them, was about to dissipate completely?
Qi Song's expression was more grave than ever.
"It's about to begin!"
This time, it wasn't just Qi Song. Quite a few people noticed that the statues seemed to be trembling slightly.
A fifth-tier defensive formation flew from Su Jiu's palm and abruptly expanded over an unoccupied patch of ground.
"Get inside the formation first..."
Su Jiu said this because, from the instant the statues began trembling, she had felt waves of oppressive pressure emanating from them.
That pressure expanded in steadily increasing increments. The pressure from all eight statues had now climbed to the nascent soul realm, but it didn't stop there. It continued to rise.
Su Jiu could sense that the power spilling from the stone statues would certainly not stop at the nascent soul realm. That was why she had released the defensive formation, giving the cultivators with a lower Cultivation Level somewhere to shelter.
Several disciples of the Azure Tide Sect were the first to enter the defensive formation.
As they entered, they also carried in the Azure Tide Sect disciples whom Su Jiu had beaten unconscious.
Afterward, the disciples of the other sects and aristocratic clans followed their example. Even the family head of the minor aristocratic clan who looked down on female cultivators refrained from stirring up trouble this time and did as the others did.
As the cultivators entered the defensive formation one after another, the Cultivation Level of the statues outside climbed to the spirit severing stage.
Even then, it continued to rise.
The gazes of Su