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When Su Heng discovered these people, by the bonfire, the dark silhouettes had also noticed Su Heng’s arrival.

They stood up, turning around.

The crimson flames leapt behind them, the shadows flickered, and a thick scent of blood came rushing towards him with the mountain wind.

Stream by stream, like smoke, it enveloped Su Heng within.

Su Heng wasn’t afraid and strutted out from the bushes.

His towering figure, standing at three meters and six, was like a giant bear, his mere presence bringing an astonishing sense of oppression.

Even though these folks seemed irrational, they didn’t dare to make any sudden moves. Growls kept emerging from their throats. With a rustling sound, more people crawled out from the nearby houses, forming a circle, subtly surrounding Su Heng.

Behind Su Heng, Ke Yulan, not knowing where she had found a torch, wore a look of caution while curiously observing the strange scene before her.

"Have you encountered such a situation before?" Su Heng asked.

After pondering for a moment, she added, "This statue is very strange. Initially, the authorities had dispatched a powerhouse from the Heavenly Deceit Realm to destroy it, but it all came to nothing. The statue remains intact, but that Heavenly Deceit... I heard that not long after, it went mad and died."

"So, I only knew there was such a statue here, but this is my first time visiting."

"Is that so?" Su Heng looked up at the sky.

A cold wind blew over, causing the surrounding trees to rustle, and the accumulated miasma in the sky also dispersed.

At some point, the moon hanging in the heavens had turned blood red. Strands of moonlight spilled down, driving away the darkness, illuminating the monstrous silhouettes.

Their bodies were quite robust.

The average height was about two meters five, their muscles developed, exhibiting a dark green color. Their chins and foreheads were elongated, fangs protruded from their mouths, and their eyes held little rationality, only a sadistic impulse.

The leader held a scepter made of skulls, human skin, and animal hair.

At that moment, he was dancing and babbling something.

The man gave Su Heng the impression of a priest.

Su Heng’s gaze landed on this scepter-holding priest, and in the moment their eyes met, Su Heng’s intention invaded the priest’s strange brain. As Su Heng had suspected, these people, originally humans, had fled to these deep mountains to escape due to the demon tide.

The originally frenzied demon tide seemed to sense some danger from these woods and took the initiative to disperse.

And with these people’s intrusion,

By sheer chance, they discovered the ancient statue hidden among them.

"Hiss…"

The memories from beyond were interfered with by some force, becoming blurry.

Moreover, in front of Su Heng, the priest started convulsing violently, fresh blood pouring from his eyes, nose, and mouth. In a bout of convulsions like electrocution, the priest’s knees buckled, he lost his support and fell to the ground. His eyes rolled up, and he died just like that.

As the priest died,

The surrounding distorted people became furiously enraged.

They roared and no longer cared about the intense oppressive aura emanating from Su Heng.

They picked up whatever they had at hand, some holding clubs, others primitive stone axes and spears, and charged directly at Su Heng. Their tactics might have been crude, but the group’s speed and strength were considerable, their movements parting the air as if it were a thick gel, carrying a whistling, piercing sound.

Su Heng withdrew his thoughts.

"I really want to see what sort of origin this statue has after all."

This was his first encounter with such a situation, and together with some previous speculations, his curiosity grew even more.

Bang!

Su Heng spread his fingers wide and clenched them fiercely.

The mere air compression formed a gust that, like a white whip, fiercely lashed these barbarians. They were whipped up into the air, their bodies snapping and bones breaking, and fell to the ground like dumplings, no longer able to move.

For a moment, only the intermittent wails could be heard in the area.

"Come on, let’s go check out the statue," Su Heng stepped forward, striding past the people.

Ke Yulan also felt the environment growing increasingly eerie. Only by staying close to Su Heng did she feel safe as if no danger could touch her. Not daring to linger, she held up the torch and hurriedly jogged to keep up. The two swept by the burning bonfire, causing the flames to flicker.

And in the pot boiling over the bonfire,

The freshly severed head that had been tossed in, was now cooked until the flesh was white and mushy.

He was already dead beyond any shadow of a doubt, yet as if sensing something, he suddenly turned around in the pot. Those horrifyingly pale eyeballs stared straight at Su Heng and Ke Yulan’s retreating silhouettes while the rotting corners of his mouth curled up into a mysterious smile.

…

Because of the earlier retrieval of the priest’s memories,

Su Heng walked on, smoothly cutting through the mountain forest, and soon found the eerie statue in a clearing below the mountains.

After arriving at the Heavenly Deceit, the perception of martial artists became extremely sharp.

Particularly for Su Heng, who cultivated the Scriptures of the Coming Buddha and, coupled with his profound innate spiritual foundation, it was even more so.

He glanced over.

He determined that this statue was at least five or six thousand years old.

Among all sculptures, it was the oldest. Moreover, just as Ke Yulan had said, the master of the sculpture was not human. It was a Four-Armed Giant, with dozens of eyes each the size of a fist embedded in its body—over a hundred in total. At this moment, they were all closed, leaving only a sliver of a gap.

The blood-red moonlight that fell on it strangely twisted as if it was smoke rising upward. A bizarre and dangerous atmosphere radiated outward from this statue.

Su Heng noticed that this piece of mountain forest was clearly lush with vegetation.

Yet there was almost no animal activity, and he couldn’t even hear the sounds of insects.

"What is the exact origin of this sculpture?" Su Heng asked.

"All I know is that it’s from an ancient race, but which specific race it is, I don’t know. There are no records in any scriptures." Ke Yulan shook her head.

"In that case, there’s no choice but to try using the Heavenly Demon Dharma to extract spiritual power and see how it goes." If the owner of this statue was still alive, he would surely react to Su Heng’s actions. Then, they could gather more information.

If its owner had died in the long years within the Heavenly Deceit Realm,

That would also be good, for Su Heng.

This spiritual power was in itself a unique treasure.

Su Heng believed the latter was more likely, as living one or two thousand years in the Heavenly Deceit Realm was already quite amazing. This statue was over five thousand years old, and if its owner was still alive, whatever realm he had reached would be astonishing.

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Having made his decision,

Su Heng did not hesitate, released his perception, and executed the Heavenly Demon Dharma.

Boom!

The moment the two made contact.

A strong life force burst forth like a volcanic eruption, exploding directly.

Roar!

A roar, crossing over the boundless ages.

The surrounding mountains shook back and forth, and large quantities of rocks rolled down the slopes, producing loud noises, while huge clouds of gray-black dust rose and obscured the moonlight. Although Su Heng anticipated some form of anomaly, such violence still surprised him.

Immediately, a sense of crisis struck.

His figure flickered and he disappeared from the spot, once again employing swift movement, retreating over ten meters away.

But among the billowing smoke, a gray beam of light swept across, skimming right over where Su Heng had just been standing. There was no spectacular explosion or thick smoke like flames. It was as if someone had swept a flashlight randomly over the ground.

However, Su Heng’s pupils slightly narrowed.

The ground where the dense vegetation had been was now covered with a thin layer of gray. The texture had also become hard, no longer soft like that of plants.

"This is..." Su Heng was surprised, the beam could petrify living things, which was truly incredible.

Bang!

A loud noise came, and the ground trembled fiercely.

The dust cleared, and the Four-Armed, Hundred-Eyed Giant leapt down from the sculpture’s platform, stirring the air and blowing away the surrounding dust. The fist-sized eyes on his body opened one after another, rotating, and finally, all eyes focused on Su Heng, bringing a subtle pressure.

"Human!?" At the moment he saw Su Heng’s face clearly.

The giant suddenly changed color, his face contorted, revealing tremendous anger and an incredulous sorrow.

"Of course I’m human." Su Heng was puzzled, not understanding why the giant’s emotions were changing so drastically, "Is there anything strange about that?"

"No, it shouldn’t be like this, why are there still humans appearing in front of me!" The giant’s eyes almost burst as he paced back and forth around Su Heng on the ground.

"Why shouldn’t there be?" Su Heng laughed, unfazed by the giant’s fury and the intense threat emanating from him, he said, "In this world, we have lived for thousands of years."

"Thousands of years?"

The giant suddenly stopped walking.

All hundred eyes stared straight at Su Heng and he sneered, "This is our ancestral land, and my ancestors have lived on this land for millions of years."

"That’s impossible! What nonsense are you talking!" Su Heng was startled, instinctively retorting.

But soon his brows furrowed, thinking about his previous doubts. In this world, the history of human civilization seemed unusually short.

"It looks like the last war ended in our defeat after all." The giant’s emotions suddenly calmed down, "Our people were slaughtered, our civilization erased, and our homeland seized. And now, a foreigner stands on our land, treating me as a foreign entity."

"Heh!" The giant scoffed.

"But don’t feel too smug for too long. The echoes of the Heavenly Deceit Realm are deepening, and when the mighty ones return, the blood debt must be repaid with blood."

"Then bring it on." Su Heng undid the black robe on his body, flinging it aside casually.

His muscles, as if cast from steel, were thus exposed under the bright moonlight. With a nonchalant expression on his face, he chuckled, stretched out his finger, and crooked it towards the giant in front of him, signaling him to come at him.

Fortunately, the giant understood this gesture.

"I hate!"

He roared skyward, his muscles bursting with energy, his eyes full of dense blood vessels, in a rage so intense he seemed ready to tear Su Heng to pieces.

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