Meng Wanwan walked over, bent down, and picked up the small stone statue.
Meng Xiuyi followed.
He walked behind Meng Wanwan, his gaze involuntarily drifting towards the direction from which the spiritual energy was spreading.
Then I was completely stunned.
This place was originally the upper part of a hillside, and the place where Meng Wanwan found the stone statue was the top of the hillside.
At this moment, Meng Xiuyi walked over, and the terrain that had been blocked by vegetation was now fully revealed.
He stood at the top of the hillside, watching the ground gradually turn to ashes, motionless.
Meng Wanwan picked up the stone statue and examined it carefully. Then she wanted to hand the statue to her father, but found that her father was in a daze.
So she followed Meng Xiuyi's gaze.
"I...go!"
As the dense vegetation was turned to ashes by the spiritual energy, a black map was revealed, with white stone statues dotting the black earth.
Like the stars in the night sky, they are densely and evenly distributed across this land.
Standing atop the hillside, looking down from their vantage point, they seemed to see a scene from hundreds of years ago: someone standing on a high place, surrounded by thousands of people.
"Hey, what's wrong with you two, father and daughter?" Helian Xiao noticed that the two of them were staring straight ahead without moving, so he couldn't help but walk over.
Then……
"Mother..."
Helian Xiao rubbed his eyes, looking at the countless tiny stone statues lined up in front of them: "We...we're surrounded by stone statues?"
Shangguan Liuyue raised an eyebrow and walked over. She was surprised for a moment when she saw this scene, then frowned slightly and said, "This trend, is it the hillside ahead?"
The terrain here is arc-shaped, and the hillside they are on is one side of the arc. The other side of the arc is on the opposite hillside that they can see.
Meng Xiuyi had already come to his senses. He nodded slightly and said, "Let's go take a look before these plants grow up."
Helian Xiao grabbed Shangguan Liuyue and said, "Help me, I... I'm exhausted."
At this moment, the others noticed that Helian Xiao's face was a little pale.
Meng Xiuyi said, "It should be due to excessive use of spiritual power."
Helian Xiao said with a bitter face, "I feel like my spiritual power is being constantly drained."
This is completely outrageous.
Meng Wanwan glanced back and quickly said, "Let's hurry, the vegetation is growing."
Green shoots have already sprouted where Helian Xiao planted the greatsword. If the vegetation grows, this place will become a forest again. Without spiritual power, they will not be able to fly, and it will be even more difficult for them to find their way.
"Hurry up!" Meng Xiuyi said, and she and Shangguan Liuyue carried Helian Xiao and ran forward, with Meng Wanwan following beside them.
Behind them, green vegetation spread rapidly.
After descending the hillside, Meng Xiuyi could clearly see the distribution of the stone statues; there were also many on the side of the hillside in front.
"That hillside is like the moon surrounded by these stone statues."
Meng Wanwan tripped over her foot and realized that the vegetation had spread to her feet.
She immediately mobilized her spiritual power, formed a Hundred Treasures Seal, and struck it at her feet. The vegetation that had just spread over quickly turned to ashes and spread outwards again.
This time, Meng Wanwan deeply felt the surge of spiritual energy within her body. It was as if something was pulling at her, making every inch of her skin feel like it was on fire.
Meng Xiuyi asked her worriedly, "Baby, is everything alright?"
Meng Wanwan shook her head: "Don't worry, Daddy, I'm fine."
She gritted her teeth and called out, "Niannian!"
A flash of light appeared between her brows, and a golden chain shot up from beneath her feet, striking the path they were about to take.
Shangguan Liuyue frowned and said, "The closer you get to that hill, the faster the vegetation grows?"
Meng Xiuyi said calmly, "There are people on the mountain."
After Meng Wanwan's chains turned the vegetation that had sprouted up the slope into ashes, Meng Xiuyi stopped.
Everyone stopped.
Helian Xiao was holding the spirit stones he had brought with him, recovering his spiritual power. Hearing his words, he looked up and could vaguely see a crowd of people.
“It’s someone from the Helian family, I can sense it.”
No sooner had he finished speaking than a head popped out from the other side of the hillside, and someone exclaimed excitedly, "Young Master! Young Master!"
Everyone breathed a sigh of relief.
Keep going up.
We finally reached the top of the slope before the vegetation spread up again.
Two breaths later, the vegetation had grown back to its state before it turned to ashes.
As soon as the four of them stood still, they saw a white stone statue of a woman, about the height of a person, standing at the top of the hillside.
Captain Helian rushed forward and asked, "Young Master, are you injured?"
Helian Xiao took a deep breath and said, "It's nothing, it's nothing. What are you all doing here?"
Captain Helian glanced at the dozen or so people he was with and said, "We were tied together with ropes when we fell. There should be some kind of teleportation array in the middle. When we came to our senses, we were already here."
Helian Xiao asked incredulously, "You landed here and didn't move?"
Captain Helian hurriedly said, "We had just landed and only had time to find this stone statue before we saw the vegetation here suddenly disappear, and then we found the young master."
Helian Xiao immediately understood that these people had arrived much later than them.
He said, how could Han Fei and Han Chao appear behind them silently and launch a sneak attack?
It seems they had just teleported over there, and coincidentally, they teleported right next to Meng Wanwan and her group, so they attacked without saying a word.
Looking at the other side of the hillside, Meng Xiuyi could still see lush vegetation, but he could already imagine the scene of small white stone statues covering the entire hillside.
Helian Xiao was still asking Captain Helian, "What about the other sects? What about the Shangguan family?"
Captain Helian shook his head: "I didn't see it."
Meng Wanwan was studying the large stone statue. This statue was different from the smaller one; its facial features were much clearer.
It looked like a young woman. Meng Wanwan looked closely at the outline of her eyes and face, and for some reason, she felt that she looked very familiar.
She tugged at Meng Xiuyi's sleeve: "Father, doesn't this person look familiar?"
Meng Xiuyi only then began to look at the face of the stone statue properly, but he did not find it familiar.
Helian Xiao, who was recounting his recent encounter, stopped talking and looked at the face of the stone statue.
"This is……"
Meng Wanwan and the others looked at him.
Helian Xiao frowned, staring at the stone statue's eyes. Suddenly, his eyes lit up, and then his face was filled with disbelief.
"That can't be, right?"
Shangguan Liuyue tapped him on the head with her fan: "At such a young age, stop playing riddles and tell me who it is."
Even the usually composed Shangguan Liuyue was getting a little anxious.
Helian Xiao squeezed next to Meng Wanwan, gesturing excitedly, "It's that...the one we saw that night...the one from the Xun family that day..."
Meng Wanwan suddenly realized: "Is it that daughter of the Xun family?"
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