Chapter 555 The Giant Flower and the Statue (Two in One)_2
"But with this one added, we now only need seven more."
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After the Flower Sea vanished, the two of them continued walking forward. The thick white fog concealed what lay ahead, and Xiang Beifei didn't seem to care much, but he occasionally glanced at Li Qianluo. From the latter's reaction just now, it was obvious that Li Qianluo was searching for something.
They climbed over a slope, and suddenly a huge shadow loomed before them. It resembled a straight, tall mountain, but because it was shrouded in the dense fog, its height was indiscernible.
Only when they got closer did they realize it was not a mountain at all but a colossal statue!
All they could see from their current position were two feet, similar in shape to those of a human, but each was dozens of meters long. The feet alone were more than ten meters high, and the part above the ankles was further up, hidden in the mist, unclear to the sight.
"Such a large stone carving?"
Xiang Beifei stopped below the two giant feet, equally astonished!
Only the two gigantic feet of the statue were visible at present, but just the height of the feet was over ten meters. A rough estimate suggested that the stone statue could be over a thousand meters tall?
"Who has the leisure to carve such a gigantic statue?" Xiang Beifei couldn't help but say.
Li Qianluo also looked at the huge feet of the statue with great curiosity; she wasn't sure either.
"Let me see if I can blow away this fog. It's so annoying, always blocking the view," she said.
Li Qianluo took a deep breath, puffed out her cheeks until they were round, and then blew upwards abruptly—
Whoosh!
The breath from her mouth turned into a swift tornado, roaring upwards, making a loud whoosing sound. The terrifying force in this breath was that of a Heavenly Connection realm expert, extremely ferocious; it could stir a great storm in the outer wastelands, enough to blow apart a hundred-meter-tall mountain!
However, the white fog above lazily shifted, and it was blown open by only about ten meters or so before it stopped, completely unmoved.
"Don't bother, the fog here is very strange; it seems to be immune to Spiritual Power." Xiang Beifei had noticed this issue already, otherwise he would have dispersed this fog long ago.
"That's really weird," muttered Li Qianluo, hands on her hips, looking somewhat frustrated.
At that moment, Xiang Beifei suddenly sensed something, he made a small gesture towards Li Qianluo, and at the same time, she became aware of it too, and turned her head.
"Who are you two?"
A deep voice came from the white fog and in an instant, it appeared before their eyes.
Xiang Beifei slightly frowned; he recognized the voice—it was Jiao Yingguang, the Heavenly Connection realm expert from the Panjiao Race that they had seen in conflict outside.
But soon Xiang Beifei realized that it wasn't just Jiao Yingguang who had came; there were two other Heavenly Connection realm experts from the Panjiao Race, a total of three Heavenly Connection realm powerhouses, in addition to seven at the Orifice Transforming stage and nine at the God Refining stage.
For this inheritance of the Edge Corner Airspace, the Panjiao Race seemed to have sent quite a number of experts.
"Is it you?" Li Qianluo was a bit surprised.
Jiao Yingguang eyed Li Qianluo and Xiang Beifei, they both looked completely human and, for a moment, he couldn't tell which race they belonged to.
However, Li Qianluo quickly spoke up, "We are from the Transforming Clan."
"The Transforming Clan?"
Jiao Yingguang regarded Li Qianluo and Xiang Beifei with some skepticism.
But Li Qianluo shook her head, and suddenly, a horn grew out of the back of her skull, identical to those of the Panjiao Race.
"Hmph!" Jiao Yingguang coldly said, "Put away your filthy horn!"
For Li Qianluo, mimicking the horns of the Panjiao Race seemed to be a great offense to them.
"Sorry, I just wanted to clarify my identity," Li Qianluo said with a giggle as she retracted her horns.
Jiao Yingguang's gaze swept back and forth between Li Qianluo and Xiang Beifei, and the curved horn growing from the back of his head emitted a faint glow, as if he was using it to detect the true cultivation levels of Li Qianluo and Xiang Beifei and to see if they had any connection with the Heavenly Dao Laws.
Li Qianluo clung tightly to Xiang Beifei, and her voice abruptly rang out in Xiang Beifei's mind, "Hey, newbie, you're green and don't know much, just let me handle this. Don't reveal your identity from the Congji abyss, since you guys from the Congji abyss have a feud with them, just disguise yourself as someone from the Transforming Clan—I'll keep my form, and I'll transform, my impersonation skills are top-notch."
Li Qianluo worried that Xiang Beifei might give them away and specifically reminded him. But actually, there was no need, as Xiang Beifei simply did not care whether the Congji abyss and the Panjiao Race had enmity— it was irrelevant to him.
"Okay, I know," Xiang Beifei responded in his mind.
He was, after all, not someone from the Congji abyss but a genuine member of the Human Race. However, Li Qianluo was clearly adept at handling such matters and quickly fabricated a new identity for Xiang Beifei.
But then again, the girl Li Qianluo was quite strange; she knew a lot and could even disguise herself as other species.
He didn't think too much about it and focused his attention on Jiao Yingguang's golden horn.
In his Perception, the deity Jiao Yingguang communicated with had the head of a ram and the body of a man, and he used the laws of this deity to scan Xiang Beifei.
Just as Jiao Yingguang was using his Heavenly Dao Laws to search for Xiang Beifei, Xiang Beifei suddenly sensed a very peculiar presence, as if it had somehow connected with the ram-headed deity.
"Woof!" Xiaohei exclaimed in surprise.
"You noticed it too, didn't you?" Xiang Beifei also found it quite astonishing.
Xiaohei and Xiang Beifei exchanged glances, both extremely astounded.
Because they discovered... they could seemingly take control of the ram-headed deity!
Of course, it wasn't full control, just a slight interference.
This feeling was similar to the time back in Jiuzhou when they encountered those System Awakeners.
Ordinary humans in Jiuzhou, not using the system like Xiang Beifei did when performing tasks, were helpless against Xiang Beifei's system. But as long as those System Awakeners were performing system tasks and included Xiang Beifei in their tasks, then their systems would become under Xiang Beifei's control!
And now, the situation with Jiao Yingguang was the same!
Even though Jiao Yingguang had no system interface, to Xiang Beifei, the deity that the other party communicated with was essentially an altered version of a system!
That is to say, when Jiao Yingguang used his Heavenly Dao Laws on Xiang Beifei, it was as though he was enveloping Xiang Beifei within his Heavenly Dao Laws, just like including Xiang Beifei in a system task!
"Who would have thought it would actually be like this!"
A realization dawned upon Xiang Beifei, and he had a deeper understanding of being a "Dao Master." So, the so-called Dao embryos worked this way.
It appeared that not only did the Human Race possess Dao embryos, but other Yi Tribes did as well. However, their Dao embryos didn't seem as rich as those of the Human Race because among the humans, everyone awakened to different systems.
Some cultivated the Dao of Leisure, some cultivated the Sword Dao, and some cultivated defensive Daos... of all sorts, each eventually connecting with the Heavenly Dao Laws. But it was different for the Yi Tribes; during their cultivation, they seemed to be able to connect only with a single Heavenly Dao Law.
For example, the three Heavenly Connection Realm masters from the Panjiao Race all communicated with the same deity—a ram-headed figure!
"No wonder the Eternal Night Demon King and the Demon King of the Demon Tentacles want to plunder the Human Race's Dao embryos."
Xiang Beifei finally understood why Hanxia had caught the attention of two Yi Tribe Demon Kings.
Daoist Qingyang was right when he said the Human Race was a species favored by the Heavenly Dao; humans' Dao embryos were diverse and rich, and each person could choose a different Dao to cultivate.
However, everyone in the Yi Tribes could only cultivate a single Dao; for instance, all members of the Panjiao Race could only connect with the ram-headed deity's laws, and by extension, it was likely the same for the Meat-Winged Monster's Moon God Race and the Ghost Mustache of Remnant Visage's Demon Tentacle Race—the Daos they cultivated were all uniform!
"If that's the case, then the Meat-Winged Monster and the Ghost Mustache must also cultivate some deity's laws..."
Xiang Beifei's eyes lit up.