•𝖳𝗁𝖾 𝖬𝖺𝗂𝖽𝖾𝗇 𝗈𝖿 𝖸𝗂𝗅𝗂𝗇𝗀•

六 / Sɪx [✔️]

(Remember MDZS does not belong to me, only Meiyue and Lan Wangqing does.)

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All the commotion that the statue was causing had brought a hoard of other cultivators over.

"Looks like it's alive!"

"Let's go get it!"

Jin Ling growled in frustration and leaped at the statue, and started swinging at it wildly with his sword. The statue staggered back a bit but held its ground. Since Jin Ling's skill in cultivation wasn't strong enough yet, he hardly did any damage.

Wei Meiyue sighed and facepalmed. "This child is exactly like his father," she muttered under her breath.

Meanwhile, Jin Ling had landed behind the statue but jumped a bit farther back due to a stone hand landing roughly where he just was. He was forced back even more when the goddess statue started to move toward him. The stone hands of the statue followed him, leaving a trail of destruction in its wake. Jin Ling weaved between the trees, avoiding being crushed here and there.

"This kid is really causing trouble," Wei Wuxian remarked as he watched Jin Ling evade the statue. Noticing some leaves on a nearby tree, he snagged the off and turned them into two paper people. Bringing them forth, they stuck onto one of the many hands of the goddess statue. The hand trembled but nothing happened.

"I can't restrain it?" he asked in shock as he ducked behind a tree.

The leaves dissipated into black smoke as stony veins began to grow visible on the arm. Black and blue flames engulfed the arm.

"It's that ghoul's arm!" Wei Meiyue whispered. "So it finally decided to resurface!"

Wei Wuxian locked eyes with his sister and they exchanged a knowing glance.

In the meantime, the other cultivators that arrived surrounded the goddess statue. The leader yelled, "Watch this!"

A small bell soared out over the forest and rang a few times before exploding in a blue light as the bell grew in size and dropped down on the goddess statue. A cloud of dust and debris rose up.

"Haha, it's subdued!" The leader called out triumphantly.

Another walked up to the bell with a smile on his face. "We've hunted basic zombies all night, and now we finally caught something big."

But then, the bell started to shudder and shake, like it was being beaten on the inside. Rays of white light spilled out of holes that were forming in the bell. A gnarled hand reached out and grabbed the cultivator by his head, sucking out his soul. His sword dropped to the ground.

Covering his eyes against the bright glow, Wei Wuxian thought, This explains all the corpses on Mt. Dafan. That arm is pure evil; of course it's attracting them.

In an explosion of white light, the bell burst, the goddess statue emerging once more. The forest was now ablaze with red flames, with the state standing right in the middle of the scene. The ghoul's hand attached to the statue was pulsing with black and blue flames.

The fire was now rapidly spreading throughout the area. Wei Wuxian knew it was time for some backup.

"Children! Hurry and send the signal to alert that... uh, Hanguang-Jun!" he called.