Wind-Approaching Continent.
To the southwest.
A boundless black marsh.
The light of a Teleportation Array slowly lit up.
A handsome figure in black, looking like a graceful youth, slowly emerged from the Teleportation Array.
It was Lu Yuansheng.
He looked up into the distance.
The Giant Divine Statue towered into the clouds, its twenty-four arms extended.
Yet those twenty-four arms were strangely gathered together before it.
The statue's palms were gently raised.
As though cradling something.
Lu Yuansheng narrowed his eyes slightly, an inexplicable trace of gravity flashing through them.
Then he sprang into the air and landed on one of the arms in the blink of an eye.
His gaze quietly swept over the statue's palms, and his pupils abruptly contracted.
A corpse surging with dense blood Qi floated silently in the statue's hands.
The corpse was powerfully built. Even lying there with its eyes closed, it gave one the uncanny feeling of being looked down upon!
If not for the conspicuous hole between its brows and the dried blood, Lu Yuansheng would have thought the man was still alive.
"Pang Xiao..."
Lu Yuansheng could not help feeling shaken.
But he immediately reined in all his emotions, for Ning Daohuan's somewhat relaxed, cheerful voice sounded behind him:
"You're here? How did it go? Were those people from the Incense Dao easy to deal with?"
Lu Yuansheng hastily turned and bowed respectfully to Ning Daohuan, who was walking slowly down from the statue's head.
No emotion showed on his face.
"Reporting to the Sect Master, their methods were indeed bizarre. Fortunately, thanks to the Blood-Bone Venerable you bestowed upon me, I was lucky enough to kill two of them."
"Unfortunately, my Law Power proved insufficient, and the other four escaped. Instead, they ended up joining forces with the Five Great