With the Flying Daggers' help, the remaining nine Myriad Blood Sect masters were quickly executed.
They had wanted to use a secret art to perish together, but Qi Qingmei's sword was too fast, and the other Four Sects masters were all astonishingly skilled with the sword.
Before they could use their secret art, they were slain.
Chu Zhiyuan let out a breath of relief.
Through the scenes imagined by those two Myriad Blood Sect disciples in the Heavenly Illusion Pavilion, he had seen how terrifyingly powerful this statue was.
But to unleash the statue's power required a special ritual and secret technique.
Now that these guardians had been cleared out, the possibility of the statue displaying its might had been cut off.
Without the guardians' ritual and secret technique, the statue was merely a statue.
Chu Zhiyuan said, "Senior Sister Qi, I'll go over and help."
Qi Qingmei leaped onto the statue's head, taking in every scene within the valley at a glance.
She pointed at a statue not far away. "Junior Brother Chu, go help over there!"
Chu Zhiyuan answered and drifted away, with Lu Xiao Lu following after him.
Qi Qingmei looked toward the remaining seven masters. "Junior Sister Shang, Junior Sister Liu, Junior Sister Huang, go help over there. The rest of you, form a formation and defend yourselves. Hold back whoever comes."
"Yes."
"Yes."
The seven masters all clasped their fists.
Chu Zhiyuan and Lu Xiao Lu drifted onward.
The nine statues were each embedded in the valley's stone walls, occupying different positions.
The largest statue stood at the easternmost end, while they were headed for the southeastern statue.
The two were about three hundred meters apart. Before they arrived, the Flying Daggers got there first.
This time, ten Flying Daggers shot out at once, pursuing