As soon as the giant stone statue slowly climbed up from the ground, the first mountain monster rushed towards him.

Xie Lian remembered what Hua Cheng said, that he was chased by these three mountains in Tonglu Mountain. Naturally, he did not dare to underestimate it. He subconsciously planned to do a mid-air flip over its head, but after all, he had never tried to control such a tall statue to perform such a complicated movement. It was inevitable that he was in a panic and was knocked down again instead of jumping up.

Boom boom, the earth was shaking. The huge stone statue fell near Wuyong Imperial City, flattening a street. Every time it moved, a "crackling" sound could be heard, which was the sound of those magnificent houses and palaces being crushed by the huge stone statue. In the shaking and bumping, Xie Lian almost fell off again, but Huacheng grabbed his hand tightly and said, "Follow me!"

He took Xie Lian with him and jumped onto the top of the giant stone statue. It turned out that this martial god with a big flower crown used a small jade crown to tie his hair, which was like a small terrace. The two of them jumped onto the jade crown and finally had a place to stand, which was much more stable than standing on the shoulders and palms of the statue. Before they could breathe a sigh of relief, the mountain monster came again, knocking the giant stone statue back a few steps. Fortunately, Xie Lian was prepared this time and was not pushed down, but he accidentally stepped on a string of houses and smashed them. Xie Lian couldn't help but feel heartbroken and thought to himself, what a sin. Controlling the statue to tiptoe around the house and sneak out, Xie Lian wondered: "Why are they chasing me? What did I do?"

Hua Cheng said: "They are not chasing you, brother. They chase and beat everyone, and you look particularly eye-catching right now."

Xie Lian said, “Such a large one is quite eye-catching…”

Before he finished speaking, the three mountain monsters attacked together, surrounding the huge stone statue and continuously exerting pressure in the middle, as if they wanted to crush it. The statue could not move, and Xie Lian could not move either. He pushed it with all his strength, but it did not move at all. He was probably unable to resist!

He was thinking about whether there was another way to get out, and accidentally took a step back and leaned against a chest. Turning back, Hua Cheng held his shoulders and said, "Go ahead and fight! It's okay, they are no match for you. Nothing in this world can stop you!"

His chest seemed to be the most solid backing. Suddenly, Xie Lian became more determined and confident. A stream of clear water filled his body. He made a mighty effort - and finally broke through the encirclement!

Boom boom, the three mountain monsters were pushed nearly a mile away by him, with flying sand and rocks and billowing dust. However, they would attack again if they retreated a little. Xie Lian changed five or six seals with his hands in an instant, saying, “Don’t block my way!”

The huge stone statue rose into the air, stepped on the tops of the two mountain monsters, and at the same time, put his hand on the hilt of the sword at his waist - and drew the sword!

This series of movements was as smooth as flowing water, and the giant stone statue completed them extremely smoothly, with momentum like a long rainbow, without any sluggishness, and was completely indistinguishable from a real person. In one go, Xie Lian shouted, “I will kill… uh, I won’t kill it yet. Wait a minute???”

He was ready to use his sword to split the mountains, but when he drew his sword, he felt something was wrong. He looked up and was embarrassed. The giant stone statue did draw its sword, but... why was there only a hilt in its hand? ? ?

Where's the blade???

Xie Lian was bewildered, while Hua Cheng stood by, with two fingers pressed against his forehead, saying, “…Brother. Sorry, I forgot to tell you that I didn’t carve the blade of the statue together. My mistake.”

“…”

Of course! Huacheng carved the statue on the rock inside the copper furnace. The huge stone statue was covered with layers of clothes, and the sword on the waist was hidden under the sleeves and hem, so only a hilt was carved. After the statue was injected with magic power and moved, because the blade was not specially carved, it was naturally impossible to create a blade out of thin air.

Hua Cheng frowned slightly and said solemnly: "I miscalculated. It's still not detailed enough. Next time I will carve out every detail."

“…” Xie Lian felt that he was serious, and hurriedly said, “No, no, no, it’s already very detailed. Really!”

In short, without a sword, there is no way to split the mountain. So, Xie Lian immediately changed his strategy - he ran away!

He quickly controlled the giant stone statue to jump down from the top of the two mountain monsters, threw the useless stone hilt back, and continued to run. The two stood on the jade crown on the statue's head, the wind whistled in their faces, and their black hair, white clothes and red sleeves fluttered. Even if they were running away, the scene was still beautiful. A silver butterfly flew to Xie Lian's ears, and several voices came out of it. He quickly grabbed it and said, "Is that Feng Xin Muqing over there? And Master Yu and General Pei?"

Sure enough, a familiar voice came from Yindie. Pei Ming said, "I say, Your Highness, there is no need to be so loud when you ask a question."

Xie Lian said, “Ah, sorry, I have too much magic power now, I will control it.”

“…”

Mu Qing's voice was heard: "What? You said you have too much mana? You?"

Xie Lian asked, “You guys have reunited, right? Where are you now?”

Mu Qing said: "We have met up with General Pei, Little General Pei and the others. Now everyone is in the forest near the Wuyong River, preparing to evacuate together."

Feng Xin's voice said, "What happened over there? There seemed to be a strong movement coming from the copper furnace just now! Do you want us to go back and help?"

Xie Lian hurriedly said, “No need! You guys just stay there, we’ll pick you up right away, we’ll talk when we meet! Ah, we’re already here!”

Ahead was the dried-up Wuyong River. The giant stone statue crossed the gully and squatted down beside the dense forest. Coincidentally, Xie Lian saw Feng Xin and Mu Qing also walking out of the forest, looking around, as if looking for someone. But they looked in the wrong direction, and they didn't even think of looking up, so they didn't see Xie Lian and Hua Cheng at all. Feng Xin said to Yin Die, "Your Highness, you haven't come yet? Where are you?"

Xie Lian cupped his hands around his mouth and shouted directly to the people below, “I’m already here, up there, look up there, right above your heads!”

“…”

The two men then realized that they were shrouded in a huge shadow and slowly raised their heads at the same time.

Then, they saw at the same time an extremely huge "Xie Lian" squatting at the edge of the forest, looking down at them, with a very Xie Lian-like smile on his face.

Hua Cheng didn't bother to look at the two people below, and stood aside with his arms folded, looking lazy. Xie Lian waved his hand down and said, "See? Here!"

However, because the visual impact of this giant "Xie Lian" was so great, it was really hard to notice anything else when I first saw it. Mu Qing's entire vision was completely occupied by this face, and he murmured: "...I'm afraid I'm crazy..."

Feng Xin's eyes were full of this face, and he murmured: "...Fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, what the fuck is this???"

Xie Lian: “Uh…”

Hua Cheng raised his eyebrows, and seemed to have to restrain himself from laughing. To be honest, no one had ever seen such a large and lifelike statue. The largest statue before was Jun Wu's, but it was only half the size of this huge stone statue...

Feng Xin and Mu Qing were so shocked that Xie Lian had to shout several times before he noticed where the statue was. Others also walked out of the forest one after another. When they looked up, almost all of them were frightened by the giant statue and almost twisted their necks and ankles. Xie Lian didn't know whether to laugh or cry. He asked the giant statue to put its hand on the ground and spread its palm, saying, "The Tonglu volcano has erupted. I'm afraid the fire will burn here soon. There are also three mountain monsters who may catch up with us at any time. Come up quickly, I'll take you away!"

Everyone followed the hand of the statue and climbed up, finding their own positions. Xie Lian smelled the pungent smell of sulfur in the air from the crown, and when he looked back, he saw the black smoke and flying ash spreading rapidly. He retracted the hand of the giant statue and stood up, continuing to stride forward.

Pei Ming and the others were fine after being startled, but Feng Xin and Mu Qing still couldn't come back to their senses. Perhaps it was because they were too familiar with the face, expression, and figure of the giant stone statue, so the impact was particularly strong after being magnified so many times. Feng Xin was already standing on the shoulder of the statue and still couldn't believe it: "Who did this? Who carved it? How come I have never seen this thing? I've never heard of it?"

Hua Cheng smirked and said, "There are so many things you haven't seen."

Although no one said it explicitly, almost everyone, especially Feng Xin and Mu Qing, agreed on the answer:

This is the person who did it!

Mu Qing said: "I can't believe it... How did you make it move? How much mana does it take? Do you have enough? Don't you have no mana at all?"

This time Hua Cheng didn’t answer. Xie Lian glanced at him, put his fist to his mouth, and said vaguely: “Uh, this…”

Pei Ming said: "I can borrow it if I don't have it. It's such a simple thing."

“Hahahaha, yeah…”

The demons and ghosts along the way saw the lava pouring back and the flames erupting wildly, and realized that something was wrong. Seeing many people climbing up the giant stone statue, they hurriedly said, "Wait for me too!"

"Me, me, me, I'll come too!"

"Take us with you, take us with you!"

Hua Cheng said, "Get out of here." A wave of silver butterflies flew out, flashing cold light, and there were ghosts crying and wolves howling. Yin Yu held the sleeping Gu Zi and said from below, "City Lord! Your Highness the Crown Prince! Just now those empty shells and corpse rats suddenly rioted, moving in groups, as if they were heading out of Tonglu Mountain!"

The Rain Master rode on a black bull, staring at the sky intently, and said, "The things in the black clouds seem to want to fly out as well."

This is true. Those struggling things in the black cloud are all vengeful spirits, they crave fresh living human flesh to possess and become human-faced plague. There are no living people in Tonglu Mountain, they are either demons and ghosts or priests that they cannot invade, so they naturally want to fly out. Thousands of twisted human faces dragged long black smoke tails, circling in the sky like deformed snakes and insects. Xie Lian's hands trembled slightly, but he still said: "Tonglu Mountain has boundaries, those outside can't come in, and those inside can't go out. Those vengeful spirits should not be able to fly out for the time being..."

Unexpectedly, before he finished speaking, Hua Cheng suddenly grabbed his hand. Xie Lian's heart tightened as well, and he hurriedly grabbed him and said, "What's wrong? Did I consume too much? Sorry, sorry, I really should have used it sparingly..."

Hua Cheng covered his right eye with one hand and said, "No. Brother, don't worry about this. It's the boundary of Tonglu Mountain that has been broken."

Xie Lian was stunned: “What? Broken?” He just said there was no need to worry about the boundary, why should he do this???

Hua Cheng said: "It's broken. I'm afraid it was Bai Wuxiang who opened it. Those things are about to fly out."