Chapter 1024 – The Stone Sculpture Opens Its Eyes (2/2)

Chen Changsheng and the zither player did not continue their attack, because they felt an ill foreboding.

The Demon Lord had stopped his retreat.

He stood where the tree had once stood, stood in his own darkness. He calmly regarded Chen Changsheng and the blind zither player.

It was like he was viewing two superb works of art, praising their perfection.

The works of art in Xuelao City had always tended toward ostentatious and opulent, but at their core, one would always find the ice-cold aura of death.

The finest work of art was death itself.

In the Demon Lord's eyes, Chen Changsheng and the blind zither player were two lifeless corpses.

……

……

Chen Changsheng and the zither player began to sense more and more danger.

Where was the Demon Lord's confidence coming from? Where was that indistinct sense of danger hiding?

Was it from that misty ball of light in the night sky?

No, the Angel in that ball of light was still incapable of breaking out of the Li Palace's grand array for the time being.

There was still another Angel.

Chen Changsheng had already prepared himself for this.

The string of stone pearls had at some point moved from his wrist into his palm.

He gripped the chilly stone pearls and silently observed the surrounding darkness.

Only by confirming his opponent's position could he launch his strongest attack at this expert from another continent.

He was confident that even if he could not kill or heavily injure the Angel, he could make things incredibly troublesome for it.

Because his sea of consciousness contained the battle experience and wisdom passed down by Senior Bie Yanghong.

Because he had the Heavenly Tome Monoliths.

At that moment, he was confident that the blind zither player would seize the chance and kill the Demon Lord in a flurry of zither notes.

But he now realized that his arrangements were apparently set for failure.

As was said before, his spiritual sense was as serene as water. It could light up the most distant star in the night sky, could disregard the thickest darkness.

But he could not pin down the location of that Angel.

The courtyard in the darkness was still and quiet.

Both the stalemate between the Li Palace array and the other Angel, and the Demon Lord right in front of him, seemed like they were in another world.

Chen Changsheng looked at the Demon Lord, his expression still, but his palms already somewhat sweaty.

The five Heavenly Tome Monoliths became somewhat slippery from the sweat. It was an extremely uncomfortable feeling and only deepened his apprehension.

The situation before him had already become flowing sand, impossible to grasp.

The response from his scattered spiritual sense and the zither notes were all telling him something.

The Angel of the Sacred Light was not in this darkness, was not in this courtyard, and might not even be on this continent.

So why did he still feel that danger, and why was it getting worse and worse?

The Angel that was now contending with the Li Palace array had appeared without warning.

Was the same thing about to happen?

……

……

In truth, only a few moments had passed since the tree had disappeared.

Chen Changsheng and the blind zither player had already scoured the darkness with their sword intents and zither notes several times.

They had failed to notice that to the side of the courtyard's rear gate was a stone sculpture.

Even in the heavy darkness, this stone sculpture was very conspicuous. If they had turned around, they would have undoubtedly seen it.

It was a statue of a naked person, half-crouched, two wings sprouting from its back.

It looked rather similar to the Angel in the ball of light.

In truth, this naked stone sculpture had always been an Angel.

Chen Changsheng and the zither player had failed to sense this stone statue because it really did seem like an actual stone statue.

This stone sculpture had no Qi, did not breathe, had no vitality or heat, and it certainly did not move.

In other words, this stone sculpture was a lifeless object.

No matter how one examined it, whether with spiritual sense, or sword intent, or zither note, one would reach this conclusion.

Suddenly, the stone sculpture opened its eyes.

It came to life.