These were not ordinary stone statues at all, but combat puppets refined from deep-sea dark iron and demonic beast bones!
A full thirty-six puppets, each with strength comparable to the early Dongxu stage, lit up with scarlet eyes and locked onto Qin Chen and the others in unison.
"Protect the master!"
Shark King roared. To demonstrate his loyalty, he endured his internal injuries, brandished his re-formed true essence battle-axe, and charged in first. Unwilling to fall behind, Qingyuan Prefect and Jiao Sha revealed their true forms and joined the battle against the puppets.
For a time, roars of impact filled the passage, and waves of air churned.
However, these puppets not only possessed boundless strength but also had incredibly hard bodies and felt no pain whatsoever. Although Shark King and the other two had considerable cultivation, they soon fell into a disadvantage against thirty-six tireless killing machines, suffering numerous wounds.
"Stand down. This is too slow."
Qin Chen yawned, seemingly finding a battle of this level utterly uninteresting.
He took a step forward, and his figure vanished instantly.
The next second, a rapid series of explosions rang through the passage.
"Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!"
Qin Chen flitted through the puppets like a phantom. Every punch, every whipping kick, was accompanied by the thunderous explosion of a hundred-zhang-tall puppet.
Those dark iron bodies, whose defenses even Shark King could barely break, were like paper before Qin Chen's fists, smashed into fragments that filled the air as effortlessly as crushing rotten wood.
In fewer than ten breaths, all thirty-six early Dongxu stage puppets were annihilated. Scattered dark iron components and dim formation cores littered the floor.
Shark King and the other two swallowed, their gazes toward Qin Chen shifting from reverence to blind worship.
*Was he even fucking human? He was practically