And at the very instant Zhou Heng acquired the "Divine Kingdom Heart," when the alluring aura around him reached its greatest intensity...
The statues of enormous winged beings scattered across the lush grassland, some glaring with wide eyes and others howling in sorrow, began to shake violently.
Crack!
Crack, crack!
Fissures appeared across the surfaces of their petrified bodies and spread like cracks in parched earth.
Dazzling golden divine light burst from deep within the cracks, illuminating the surrounding green grass in brilliant radiance.
"Will..."
From deep within the petrified throat of the statue with the largest wings and a broken crown came a low, hoarse, majestic divine voice that seemed to have pierced through endless ages.
"Never yield..."
"Magnificent... starlight..."
"Supreme... above all..."
"Glorious Angels, we can only... fight!!"
At first, the voices were broken and halting, like muttering in a dream, but in an instant, they converged into a perfectly unified, murderous battle cry that shook heaven and earth.
Countless voices erupted in unison from all directions, from the mouths of those statues of winged beings that were cracking and returning to life!
Boom!
With a deep boom like the heartbeat of an ancient beast, the first winged being broke free of its petrified restraints completely.
The rocky shell covering its body exploded, revealing its magnificent true body beneath, translucent as glass and suffused with golden divine radiance.
Its eyes were blood-red, burning with fighting spirit and madness that had accumulated over untold epochs. As it stared fixedly at Zhou Heng, the wings behind it, vast enough to blot out the sky and sun, beat fiercely, whipping up a raging hurricane that tore the surrounding grass out by the roots.
It raised the ancient spear in its hand, which had likewise revived from petrification, its tip gathering a