Chapter 290: The bronze statue of the golden toad, the inverted altar, and Su Mu’s danger!

Above the waterfall is a square platform with a side length of exactly one hundred meters.

There is hard rock under your feet, and the water flowing upstream from the waterfall covers the surface of the rock, forming a layer of water about three centimeters thick.

"This is?"

Su Mu looked towards the center of the platform and found a statue standing there.

When I got closer, I realized that it was a statue of an animal.

It looks very similar to a toad, with all four limbs lying on the ground, its head held high, and a hint of golden light on its surface. This is a bronze statue of a golden toad, ten meters tall, located exactly in the center of the square platform.

There is no water at the location of the golden toad sculpture, and the ground is clean. If you look closely, you can see black runes painted under the bronze statue, which look a bit like a formation.

It is worth noting that in front of the golden toad sculpture, there is a gray incense burner, which is about the same size as an ordinary incense burner. It looks a little small in front of the huge golden toad sculpture.

There was a yellow incense stick on the incense burner, which had burned out, leaving only a bare wooden stick with traces of charring and burning still vaguely visible on it.

Su Mu discovered something was wrong, so he flew into the air, and looked down from a high vantage point.

It can be seen that the water surface on the square platform forms a natural altar with the bronze statue of the golden toad as the center point and the dark runes as the veins.

A layer of water covering the altar continued to flow along the rune veins, as if surrounding the bronze statue of the golden toad in the center.

Combining the incense burner and the layout, this place should be an altar.

However, there is no human habitation within a hundred miles, and no houses can be seen. Who built this altar? Who is it commemorating?

Su Mu landed on the ground and stood in front of the bronze statue of the golden toad. He looked up at the statue and examined it carefully.

When you stretch out your right hand and touch the bronze statue with your palm, you can feel faint fluctuations coming from the statue, like the beating of a human pulse, very weak and very regular.

But the strange thing is that there is no breath of life inside the golden toad bronze statue, so how can this pulse be transmitted? ?

Su Mu turned around and began to observe the incense burner in front of the golden toad bronze statue.

This incense burner looks ordinary and no spiritual fluctuations can be sensed from it.

Su Mu's spiritual sense spread out, directly covering the entire altar. His thoughts were highly concentrated, following every vein of the altar, and he began to slowly sort it out like peeling off silk threads from a cocoon.

Suddenly, Su Mu finally found the most critical point in the formation.

The center of the formation is the incense burner in front of you!

Although Su Mu was not proficient in formations, he had studied them quite a bit. He could analyze that as long as he moved the incense burner, he could trigger the silent formation on the altar.

The key question is, how to influence it?

Su Mu's gaze fell on the burnt incense in the incense burner.

With a wave of his hand, his spiritual power turned into a spiritual fire, which ignited the incense stick of which only a small half was left.

As the incense was lit, a wisp of white smoke rose up and turned into white smoke lines, lingering around the entire golden toad bronze statue.

The next second, the golden toad's tightly closed eyes suddenly opened.

These are a pair of blood-red pupils!

Jin Chan slowly lowered his head and stared at Su Mu under his feet.

The sudden change also startled Su Mu. Just as he was about to jump away, the golden toad statue opened its mouth and swallowed Su Mu.

The formation of the entire altar was activated, and the powerful force of confinement all fell on Su Mu!

Su Mu's body froze for half a second.

And in this half second, the golden toad swallowed Su Mu into its stomach in one gulp.

In an instant, Su Mu felt dizzy and dark all around him, as if he had entered an abyss. Countless powerful suction forces appeared around him, madly absorbing Su Mu's spiritual power and vitality.

Seeing this, Su Mu quickly adjusted his state, meditated on the spot, practiced his skills, and began to resist.

After a stalemate of nearly ten minutes, the powerful suction force had been completely blocked by Su Mu.

Su Mu also got angry.

You dare to suck me?

I’ll suck you dry!

Su Mu was practicing the Heaven-Devouring Demon Art, a technique he got from a woman in white. By adding points, he also cultivated it to the seventh level of perfection.

As the Heaven-Devouring Demonic Art began to operate, it began to madly absorb everything from the golden toad!

At this moment, he could feel that the golden toad had panicked and began to jump back and forth on the altar, twisting it frantically.

He opened his mouth and wanted to spit out Su Mu.

It is easy to invite gods but difficult to send them away.

You swallowed me in, and now you want to spit me out?

Too late!

If I don’t suck you into a toad today, I’m not called Su Mu!

As the technique was put into practice, tremendous energy rushed into Su Mu's body frantically.

Boom——

A sound of shattering came from the Dantian.

The bottleneck was directly broken through, and the aura began to surge!

Su Mu's cultivation directly broke through the barrier and reached the realm of Quasi-Immortal Emperor!

Moreover, his cultivation level is still soaring!

It continued to rise until it was infinitely close to the realm of Immortal Emperor before it slowly subsided.

At this moment, Su Mu felt his whole body was light and indescribably clear. He had a powerful feeling as if he was traveling through the universe and controlling everything.

This was the first time that he truly felt the invincibility that came with a strong cultivation base.

The surroundings became quiet.

Su Mu slowly opened his eyes and found that he had left the golden toad's belly and was sitting cross-legged in the center of the altar.

At this moment, Su Mu's cultivation is infinitely close to the Immortal Emperor. He is only one step away from reaching the level. His cultivation level should be called the "Half-Step Immortal Emperor" level, right?

He took a few deep breaths to calm the raging spiritual energy in his body and calm his excited mood.

He slowly stood up and began to look for the shadow of the golden toad.

After looking around, he found that the golden toad had disappeared, leaving only the incense burner. Cracks appeared on the ground of the altar, like a spider web on it.

The black formation runes have all shattered.

Su Mu stood at the edge of the altar, looked down at the waterfall, and found that the water flow had returned to normal.

At first, the water flowed upwards against the waterfall, but now it flows normally from top to bottom.

It seems that it is because of the influence of this altar that the water flow of the three tributaries below has been reversed, resulting in the "inverted waterfall" phenomenon that violates the laws of nature.

The next second, the system's announcement sounded in my mind:

[Congratulations to the host, the extra causal reward has been triggered, the completion rate is very good, favor points +200000]

After hearing the system's reward, Su Mu was also shocked.

This is two hundred thousand!

He expected that the reward might be quite generous, but he didn't expect that he would be directly rewarded with 200,000 Favor Points!

(End of this chapter)