Golden human-faced bird statue

It seemed to be wearing a golden mask, with the yellowed eyes and slightly bluish-white skin underneath the two eye sockets of the golden mask. As it opened its mouth and roared ferociously, the golden mask was instantly covered with cracks.

"Bang!"

The mask that was shining with golden light completely shattered.

Gold flakes of varying sizes either fell down with a rustling sound, or clung to its face, seemingly having grown into its flesh over the ages and unable to fall off.

His eyes, swollen and bloodshot with tiny pieces of gold foil clinging to them, stared at the girl in front of him with resentment, as if he wanted to tear her to pieces.

The strong wind came like a hungry tiger pouncing on its prey—

She stepped back with her left foot to stop her unstable body, and the girl in white quickly raised her right hand. A cold light flashed in the fluttering white sleeves. In an instant, it was like a short arrow made of ice piercing straight into the strong wind, making a sound of breaking through the air.

The golden human-faced bird statue rushed forward without any pause. It raised its golden wings like a straw raincoat rapidly and punched fiercely at the oncoming ice arrow.

With a "bang", the ice arrow deviated from its original trajectory and hit the white jade ground at an angle, breaking into pieces of ice, and then instantly turned into a pool of cold water and dissipated into a cold mist.

Golden light flowed in the orange-red firelight, and a punch accompanied by a sharp gust of wind swept fiercely towards the head of the girl in white.

Jiang Jingyuan quickly ducked down, and the wind blew a few ounces of her black hair into the air. She raised her plum blossom sleeve arrow and shot it at the face of the human-faced bird statue above.

As if it had no bones, the tall human-faced bird statue's neck bent to the right, and the ice arrow grazed the feathers behind its head and sank into the depths of darkness. At the same time, the golden sheet on its neck quickly cracked, and countless glittering golden powders fell off with a rustling sound.

The huge fist with golden light flowed down and the gray smoke in the dim light quickly rose up.

"Bang!!!"

As a huge crash sounded in the White Jade Pavilion, the thick smoke dissipated, and the huge golden-mottled fist smashed above the head of the white figure, as if blocked by an invisible force, stuck in mid-air and unable to move forward.

The white jade beneath her feet gradually cracked, and with a "crack" sound, it sank rapidly. The girl in white hunched over slightly, frowning, and a few beads of sweat slid down her cheeks and fell on her chin...

dripping.

There seemed to be a flash of golden light deep in the center of the pair of bloodshot eyes of the golden human-faced bird statue.

"call--!"

The invisible barrier in the air seemed to disappear in an instant, and the huge golden fist once again clenched and smashed towards the white figure below!

"Huh?" Jiang Jingyuan's expression was blank, but his hands moved without stopping for a moment as he grabbed the plum blossom sleeve arrow and swung it upwards.

The fierce and majestic sword energy met the ferocious golden fist with an unstoppable momentum, but the golden fist fell at the same speed without any hindrance, while the invisible sword energy continued to rise -

The two seemed to not exist in the same space.

Jiang Jingyuan was startled and had no time to think. He grabbed the plum blossom sleeve arrow and retracted his arm to block above his head.

"boom!!!"

The lantern emitting orange-red flames fell on the white jade ground. In the dim light, white smoke instantly surged up, covering most of the space on this floor.

A hole appeared in the thick smoke, and a figure in white flew out of it, crashing into the white jade wall with a bang.

Then, the gap in the thick smoke suddenly became larger, and a tall golden figure broke through the smoke and rushed straight towards the white figure by the wall!

"Bang!" A punch came down, thick smoke rose again, and the white jade wall was quickly covered with cracks. The cracks expanded little by little, and then collapsed with a loud bang.

Amidst the thick smoke, a somewhat disheveled figure in white quickly emerged, ran back to the stairs, and quickly rushed down the white jade stairs in the darkness.

Without time to pick up the lantern, Jiang Jingyuan released his spiritual consciousness and ran into the depths of darkness, while skillfully taking out a piece of white gauze from his storage bracelet and covering his eyes with it.

She might not be able to escape, but she just wanted to use this opportunity to buy time to think.

"The golden human-faced bird... How could it pass through my spiritual barrier and sword energy?" Jiang Jingyuan wondered, then recalled carefully, "It was initially blocked by the spiritual barrier, but then I don't know what it did to pass through my spiritual barrier unimpeded... And in the end, it was still able to directly injure me...

"Is it some special feature of itself, or is it simply a fold in space that I can't perceive?"

Jiang Jingyuan frowned, thinking, "Then I can't hurt it at all?" Although her goal wasn't to kill the golden bird, having such an obstacle in her way was a real nuisance no matter what she wanted to do. It was in the way, annoying.

Suddenly, she seemed to have thought of something, and her brows relaxed. "Then why did it dodge the Plum Blossom Sleeve Arrow earlier?"

Since the Plum Blossom Sleeve Arrow is the key to entering here, then does the Plum Blossom Sleeve Arrow have no other special features here? For example...

In the dim light, a cold light flashed in the girl's dark eyes, her mouth opened and closed slightly, and she murmured silently:

"It can't penetrate the Plum Blossom Sleeve Arrow?"

Jiang Jingyuan thought quickly in his mind: "This is just a guess, and I can't be completely sure. After all, I haven't tested it just now."

Suddenly, her consciousness seemed to sense something. Jiang Jingyuan stopped abruptly and raised her head to look forward.

The hazy darkness ahead surged rapidly—

Suddenly, a golden face appeared!

The mottled golden man rushed towards her, opened his mouth and let out a huge roar. With a loud bang, the tables and chairs carved from white jade in the darkness collapsed one after another, and the whole attic seemed to tremble violently.

Jiang Jingyuan took a deep look at the golden mask, and just as it was about to bite her flowing black hair, she turned and ran.

"Da da da, da da da..."

In the dark and cold white jade corridor, she was the only one running, but the sound of overlapping footsteps was echoing, as if a ghost was following her closely, clinging to her back.

"Da da da, da da da..."

The girl in white ran faster and faster.

Her dark eyes narrowed, her face showing no panic, but instead a look of deep concentration and contemplation. She murmured silently in her heart, "One more thing..."

A thin layer of cold mist suddenly hit his face, the orange-red firelight shone on his face, his black hair fluttered back and almost merged into the darkness behind. Jiang Jingyuan stood at the stairs, looking coldly at the golden human-faced bird statue rushing out from the darkness in front of him.

Invisible spiritual power instantly gripped the golden bird's neck, hoisting it tightly. Jiang Jingyuan quickly raised his plum blossom sleeve arrow and aimed it at one of the golden bird's eyes, with a thought.

"call out!"

A cold light flashed in the dimness.

The golden human-faced bird statue, with its neck entangled by invisible spiritual power, suddenly struggled violently, growling from its throat, and a golden light flashed deep in the center of its bloodshot and swollen eyes.

Suddenly, the invisible spiritual power seemed to disappear, and the two strong and powerful claws of the golden human-faced bird statue stepped on the ground with a "dong". It subconsciously wanted to hide to the side, but...

A sharp, shrill scream suddenly resounded throughout the attic.

Jiang Jingyuan, who was standing right in front of the golden human-faced bird, twisted his face in pain, paused uncontrollably, and then turned around and ran down the stairs.

At the same time, she was still thinking back to the scene she had just seen, and she began to think hard in her heart:

"Its large size also means it's less agile... but its strength is still astonishing... Also, it needs to consciously employ some means to penetrate spiritual energy... And, since it can already penetrate spiritual energy, yet still can't penetrate the Plum Blossom Sleeve Arrows, it seems my guess was correct. The Plum Blossom Sleeve Arrows are indeed special, and they can indeed injure it...

"And it also knows this. Otherwise, it wouldn't have dodged several times before, and it wouldn't have struggled so frantically when being bound by spiritual power."

After a pause, Jiang Jingyuan gathered his numerous chaotic thoughts and focused on the front, his gaze fixed -

There are two more points she wants to confirm.

"Da da da, da da da..."

A pair of silver-white boots embroidered with cloud patterns ran down the white jade stairs, and the figure in white clothes looked like a midnight ghost in the dim light.

Suddenly, Jiang Jingyuan stopped abruptly, raised his hand and shot an ice arrow into the darkness ahead.

Almost at the same time, in front of her, a golden human face with blood all over its face emerged from the darkness with a ferocious expression, and roared angrily with its mouth wide open.

The next moment, a sharp and shrill howl suddenly pierced the darkness.

The icy arrow hit the other intact eye of the golden human-faced bird statue.

"That's right..." Jiang Jingyuan muttered to himself, without any desire to fight, he turned around and ran up the dim white jade stairs again.

That's right, in this attic - at least in the floor she had already set foot on, among so many golden human-faced bird statues, only this one could move, only this one was alive.

"One last thing..."

In the dim white jade stairwell, the figure in white slowed down his pace, walked up a step and stopped. Jiang Jingyuan stood firm and did not move forward.

She stood quietly in the dim stairwell, motionless, her black hair and white clothes making her look like a ghost.

For a moment, the scene in the stairwell was quiet and eerie.

"Although I don't know how the golden bird statue manages to travel between floors, it seems... it's never appeared in the stairwell." Jiang Jingyuan thought calmly, "The stairwell is a perfect opportunity to attack, isn't it?"

So why didn't it appear in the stairwell?

Is it that the stairs are inaccessible, or is it that they really just didn't expect it?

Thinking in his heart, Jiang Jingyuan slowly raised his head, his eyes looking straight up along the transparent white jade stairs as cold as ice through the thin white gauze.

High up in the orange-red firelight, a golden figure with dazzling white highlights all over its body suddenly rushed into Jiang Jingyuan's field of vision.

Dark red blood dripped down its jaw onto its golden wings or fell to the ground. The golden human-faced bird statue roared angrily, its face covered with bloodstains and a ferocious expression, like the most vicious ghost from hell.

The golden bird-faced statue was furious, and its tall body slammed down the stairs.

However, the next moment, there was a loud "bang", as if blocked by some invisible force, and the huge body of the golden human-faced bird statue crashed into the air at the entrance of the stairs.

"Bang, bang, bang, bang!"

It crashed towards the stairs again and again, making loud crashing noises, but it was never able to enter the white jade stairs.

"Sure enough..." Jiang Jingyuan understood.

But when she looked again, her brows frowned slightly again.