Fang Yu stared straight at the statue, while releasing his divine sense to envelop the surroundings.
He had to pay attention to any fluctuation in the atmosphere around him.
After all, he was the one who had his more than a year stolen from him without even realizing it.
“Head of a Serpent Man statue…”
Fang Yu’s eyes narrowed, his brain racing.
He had never thought he would see the Serpent Head statue again in the Plane of Greats.
And, it’s still inside such a strange place of inheritance.
“The string of footprints ahead ended at just a pair, and they even entered this temple. Where did that person go?” Fang Yu narrowed his eyes and looked around.
The temple itself was not large, and apart from the snake-headed human statue before them and the faded inscriptions on the walls, there was nothing else of value inside.
The person who first entered this temple… Perhaps they weren’t human, but a creature from another race. Where did they go?
He is sure to see the statue.
What then?
Dead? <<<
If dead, why die and where to die?
Fang Yu’s brow furrowed as he constantly used his divine sense to search for abnormalities within the temple.
What is particularly noteworthy is that the current location of Fang Yu, right in front of the statue… is covered with a thick layer of yellow sand.
This layer of yellow sand is like snow. When you stand on it, you will leave footprints.
But strangely, the footprints of the person who had entered here before were absent.
“It seems these sands are rather fresh. Where did they come from?” Fang Yu frowned, his heart filled with doubt.
Apart from that, there were no obvious abnormalities.
Time passes by minute by minute.
The snake-head statue before him remained motionless, its eyes still glowing green.
Fang Yu’s divine sense swept across the temple gate, and sure enough, he discovered another place that he had ignored before.
Outside the temple gates, on the faded archway above the entrance, there is a blurry mark.
The exterior is circular, with a single point inside…like an eye-like mark.
This mark, I once saw it in the far north!
The same was also found on the gate of a temple where snake-head man statues were discovered!
This mark gave Fang Yu a sense of déjà vu from the start.
Even now, that feeling remains.
But where does this feeling come from, and how can it be expressed?
“What kind of power does this mark represent?!” Fang Yu’s eyes were cold.
…Tap tap tap…
Just as Fang Yu was still observing the mark on the temple gate, a sudden sound of footsteps rang out from outside.
Fang Yu narrowed his eyes, activating the ability of Hidden Flower, and his figure and aura instantly vanished.
“Click, click, click…”
At this moment, footsteps from outside grew closer.
In a short while, a procession came in through the temple gate and walked along the straight path deep into the temple until they reached the statue of the serpent-headed man.
This squad consists of thirty members, all dressed in black robes.
They resemble humans in appearance, but their faces are quite grotesque, more like those of beasts than human features.
Upon entering the temple, the members of the team dispersed and searched everywhere.
Ultimately, there were no other discoveries, and they arrived together before the colossal serpent-headed statue.
“Venerable Baili, we’ve searched the entire temple, but found no trace of the treasure.”
A subordinate came to the side of the leading monk and whispered a report.
The cultivator who was called the Venerable Baili remained silent, his hands clasped before him as he looked up at the serpent-headed statue ahead.
Many of his subordinates also followed Bai Li’s gaze, all raising their heads to look at the snake-headed human statue ahead.
“Perhaps, that’s the treasure,” Bai Li said softly.
“Venerable, although this statue is large, it does not emit a treasure glow, nor does it have any aura…” A subordinate beside him whispered, “It seems to be just an ancient statue and is not considered a treasure…”
“What do you know?”
Bai Li glanced at his subordinates with a low voice, “We’ve circled this inheritance place for quite a while now. Apart from these strange, half-broken stone pillars, we haven’t found anything else.”
And practically everything on the desert had been sandblasted, either by the passage of time or some other cause… In any case, nothing like this complete preservation had ever been seen before.
“Therefore, this statue must have something special about it. All of you listen up! Immediately transfer this statue into the storage ring!”
Bai Li directly issued the command, and the numerous subordinates behind him did not dare to neglect, immediately heading towards the snake head statue.
Among the six, those at the front exchanged glances. With a simultaneous hand gesture, they channeled their magical energy to divert the statue’s attention.
This statue doesn’t look too heavy, and it wouldn’t take many people to move it.
Therefore, more than twenty of his men stood behind him, not making a move.
“Swoosh!”
Just as the energy released by the six cultivators in front touched the statue, the entire statue suddenly burst into light!
“Boom!”
The statue trembled!
“Click click click…”
The serpent head at the very top of the statue slowly lifted itself at this moment. In its twin eyes that glowed with a faint green light, an aura of extreme coldness emanated.
“Whoosh…”
At this moment, the six cultivators closest to him were instantly turned to sand by his gaze!
Their physical forms crumbled like sandcastles, collapsing instantly into a heap of yellow sand scattered upon the ground!
“This, this…”
When numerous cultivators at the back saw this scene, their faces changed drastically.
Wei Li, who was at the front, also showed a look of horror. He shouted loudly, “Retreat! Retreat immediately!”
However, the moment his roar left his lips, both his body and those of the twenty or so men beside him were bathed in the green glow emitted by the serpentine eyes of the statue ahead.
A large group of cultivators’ movements came to a sudden halt and quickly transformed into a heap of yellow sand, scattering onto the ground.
In just a few short seconds, a team of over thirty members… simply vanished from existence.
They turned into loose sand, perfectly covering the footprints they had stepped in the sand dunes earlier.
The temple was eerily silent.
It was as if no creature had ever been there.
“Click click click…”
After eliminating the squad before him, the serpent-head statue’s head dipped once more.
The green glow in her dual pupils gradually dimmed.
Fang Yu’s figure appeared, looking at the thick layer of yellow sand in front of the statue with a stern gaze.
As it turns out, this layer of yellow sand is the transformation of the creatures who found their way here!
Such a thick layer of yellow sand speaks volumes about the countless lives buried beneath it here!
“Snakehead…”
Fang Yu looked up at the statue in front of him, his eyes narrowed slightly.
Isn’t this so-called ancestral land just a single statue?!
Just now, I heard that Bai Li said there are many half-broken stone pillars on the desert.
What are those?
Fang Yu was observing the statue ahead.
The statue returned to a state of stillness, with no further movement.
“Just destroy it?” Fang Yu hesitated.
“Fang Yu… we meet again.”
Just then, a raspy voice came from the front.
It is the statue that speaks!