Chapter 163: Broken Statue

Zhao Min had no other opinions on this.

"Junior brother, be careful. If you find anything wrong, move me and Zi Kun out immediately!"

After the previous incident, Zhao Min felt that he should be more cautious.

Eighteen days later, Li Yan stood on a cliff.

Under his feet, a river like a silk thread was rushing down. This was the end of the river. When the river reached here, it fell into a deep pool under the cliff.

During these days, Li Yan went down the river alone. Although he encountered some monks and monsters on the way, Li Yan paid more attention to hiding his whereabouts.

All the way, he was almost always performing "Stealth at Night" and looking for "Hello Cold Stone" while sneaking.

Although this would consume mana exponentially, it would prevent many unnecessary troubles.

In addition, his spiritual consciousness was strong, and he could always find the other party in advance and avoid others more easily. ??

Li Yan looked at the river under his feet, and sighed after a long time. Treasures are not so easy to find.

After all, clues are just clues. Even though he entered the river section where the "Hello Cold Stone" was suspected to appear several times, he got nothing in the end.

"If I hadn't accidentally obtained the body of the 'Black Cloud Frost Condensation Insect' this time, I would have been disappointed with this trip.

However, people should not be too greedy. The function of that monster is not inferior to the 'Hello Cold Stone'. It is already a great opportunity for the immortal.

Almost twenty days have passed. Sister, under the nourishment of the elixir, her injuries will be basically recovered in three or four days. Then it will be time to go back."

Li Yan thought of this and looked down at the cliff.

There stood a broken statue next to the pool of water, but from his angle, he could only see part of the statue.

There was one of the few things left by the "Soul Prison Clan" mentioned by Su Hong.

This broken statue happened to be at the end of the downstream of the river. This was also what Li Yan and Zhao Min had planned long ago. They searched all the way from the upstream and finally came here.

Such a trip would not waste time going back.

Li Yan planned to explore carefully here for a day or two. If he didn't find any clues, he would get up and return.

By then, it was estimated that he had not left the secret cave yet, and Zhao Min could also come out to accompany him.

Now, with Shuang Qingqing's promise, Li Yan was no longer so nervous about the news about the Desolate Moon Continent.

But he spent so many spirit stones to come here, of course he couldn't just go back.

There was only some gray light in the underground secret cave. If people stayed here for a long time, all kinds of negative emotions would continue to grow.

The pool below looked only more than 30 feet in size.

The water on the cliff kept flowing down and pouring in day after day, but the surface of the pool never filled the smooth black stone edge that had been washed around.

Li Yan guessed that the bottom of the pool might be very deep, and there was an exit at the bottom of the pool that flowed to other places.

The overall space under the cliff was not very large. The pool almost occupied the entire area. Under the damp and cold water, it seemed even darker and colder.

The statue stood at the same level as the mountain wall, with a huge rock protruding above his head.

If someone looked down from above, they could only see the part of the statue below the thigh.

Even the faint light under the cliff had disappeared, and it was pitch black all around. In the darkness, only the sound of water falling from above was heard.

When people were in it, they would feel powerless, claustrophobic and depressed. A timid person would feel fear inexplicably in his heart in an instant.

Li Yan flew down with an expressionless face, and the next moment he stood in front of the statue.

He looked carefully and saw that a lot of green moss had grown on the surface of the statue, and the whole body was dark green. He didn't know what color it was originally. Judging from the clothes, the statue should be wearing armor, but he didn't have a helmet. He was a big man in his forties or fifties.

Over the long years, the statue has basically merged with the surroundings, more like a huge protruding stone wall on the side.

Although the statue was broken, the edge of the pool was right under his feet, and the splashing water and the surrounding moisture made the statue not look too old.

It just gave people a feeling of vicissitudes of life, and I don’t know how long it has stood here.

The statue was only about a head taller than Li Yan, and his posture was very strange, with his eyes looking diagonally upward.

The body leaned back slightly, and one hand was half bent and half stretched in front of the head in the shape of an empty fist, giving you the feeling that you wanted to "aim" at the top of the cliff through the hole formed by the empty fist.

There were many potholes around the statue, as if it had been hit by a heavy object.

Only one eye of the statue was left, and it was the one that was looking at the top of the cliff in the empty fist. The other eye had only a deep pit left, as if it had been taken away by someone.

At the same time, the statue was missing an arm and a leg. Li Yan could only see the only big foot left under the armored cherry robe, with the knees slightly bent and stepping on the smooth black stone.

"This is the attire of a mortal general. If the statue was not deliberately exaggerated when it was built, this person must have been a fierce general in the army.

But the style of the armor he wears is too ordinary. Many mortal dynasties on the Wild Moon Continent have this type of armor."

Li Yan observed carefully. The statue has a kind of aura of maneuvering and maneuvering, and Li Yan is not unfamiliar with this aura. Marshal Hong gave him this feeling.

But what made Li Yan a little unsure was that he couldn't tell from the style of the other party's armor whether the statue came from the Wild Moon Continent.

He even remembered that some people in the Black Demon Clan wore armor similar to this, which only meant that the style of this armor was too ordinary.

A dark light appeared on Li Yan's hand

, and then he gently placed his palm on the statue. The material of the statue was a little cool, but it was still much higher than the surrounding temperature.

This caused a slight mist to rise on the surface of the statue, but the mist and the falling water from above quickly merged together. If you didn't pay close attention, you wouldn't be able to notice this.

Li Yan's palm slightly spit out spiritual power, and the whole statue didn't react at all, not even a tremor.

Li Yan couldn't help but let out a light sigh. Although he didn't use much spiritual power just now, it was enough to kill a foundation-building cultivator in an instant.

Su Hong once said that this statue was very strange and the material was quite hard. After trying it himself, it was true.

Li Yan could not help but increase his spiritual power, until his mana was infused to 60%, the broken statue made a slight buzzing sound. ??

Li Yan immediately withdrew his mana, and when he looked at the pits on the statue again, he couldn't help but sigh in his heart.

Especially the broken arm and leg, which were forcibly removed by someone.

Li Yan estimated that if he wanted to leave a pit on the statue, he could do it, but if he wanted to break the arm and leg, he might not be able to do it even with his physical strength.

"This material is really peculiar, but it's a pity that even if it is integrated into the magic weapon, it can't improve the grade of the magic weapon, let alone transmit spiritual power. At most, it can be given to the foundation-building cultivator to smash people directly."

Thinking of Su Hong's introduction to these statues, Li Yan also felt a pity in his heart, but then he was relieved.

If these materials are really so useful, it's not his turn to see them now anyway.

Then, Li Yan used his spiritual sense to explore the broken statue inch by inch, and after a long while, he slowly withdrew his spiritual sense.

"Apart from the strange material, this thing can't be said to be related to the Desolate Moon Continent. Its body is made of solid material, and it is exactly the same from the inside to the outside. There is no special abnormality at all."

Li Yan carefully examined it for a long time, but he couldn't find any other strange things about the statue.

Li Yan was very confident in his divine sense, and didn't think that he could miss anything with such carefulness.

Just now, he even didn't let go of the pits in the one eye that lost one eye and the concave spots on the body, and he checked them one by one.

However, Li Yan was not disappointed about this.

This statue has stood here for a long time. If it is still easy to find something at this time, it would be strange.

Li Yan began to look around. He felt that he shouldn't focus on the statue. Most people must have done so before.

The river water under his feet filled the river bank and was rippling gently. Looking up from below, it looked like a well. Li Yan felt like he was sitting in a well and looking at the sky.

The surrounding mountain walls were dark and damp. Li Yan began to circle around the pool at a very slow pace.

It took Li Yan two hours to walk through a space of more than thirty feet.

After a circle, he still found nothing.

The next moment, with a black light flashing on his body, Li Yan had stepped into the pool, and then he was completely submerged under the pool.

In his spiritual sense, the water around him was very clear, but since there was no light in the water, there was endless darkness as far as he could see.

Even though Li Yan had a spiritual shield, the cold air in the water continued to seep in at a very slow speed.

This situation happened again and again when he entered the river to look for the "Hello Cold Stone" during this period of time, so Li Yan was not too worried.

He sank all the way down, and when he sank about four hundred feet, his feet shook and he stepped on the hard ground.

The pool was not very deep, which surprised Li Yan a little. The width of the pool from top to bottom remained at about thirty feet, and there was no sign of expansion below.

Like a straight tube, at the bottom of the pool, Li Yan saw the water flowing out along some cracks from the stone wall on one side.

Li Yan's spiritual sense probed along several cracks.

After a long time, Li Yan only saw those cracks running through the mountain in all directions, and then continued to disperse and flow in different directions, and finally flowed deeper into the ground.

"Sure enough, there is no harvest!"

Li Yan did not stop and quickly went up all the way. Soon he stood at the edge of the pool again, and his figure came to the statue again.

This time, he looked up and down at the statue with his naked eyes, and did not use his spiritual sense. He wanted to explore it with different senses.

The only strange thing about everything here is the statue itself. The pool, the river water, and the surrounding stone walls did not let Li Yan find anything worth noting.

In this way, Li Yan stood in front of the statue for half an incense stick of time. At a certain moment, he couldn't help but move his heart, and then he immediately turned to the side of the statue.

Then he stretched his head in front of the statue's head, blocking the statue's sight, and at this time he also used the same gaze as the statue, looking forward.

The most peculiar thing about this statue itself is his posture. His only remaining hand is clenched into an empty fist, like a "telescope" used by mortal soldiers.

At this time, when Li Yan placed his head in front of the statue's head, he half-closed his other eye, and the sight of the open eye passed through the center of the empty fist.

Finally, his sight fell on a place below the cliff above, where a stream of water was constantly falling and flowing.

Li Yan narrowed his eyes, and then his consciousness swept behind the stream.

However, after just a moment, Li Yan reluctantly withdrew his consciousness.

Because there was no so-called "water curtain cave" or other strange places behind the stream as he had guessed, and behind the stream was a normal mountain wall.

Li Yan even went deep into the mountain with his consciousness, but still found nothing unusual.