Killing God - Chapter 225

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Shortly after they reached the shore, they saw the mountain gate-like memorial arch and the stone mound standing in the middle of the road. Look at this position. In the past, if the stone statue of the stone pier was still alive, if one wanted to walk through this archway to the path in the forest, they would have to bypass both sides of the stone pier. It was just that they didn’t know what was on top of the stone pier.

Shen Shi’s gaze swept across the stone pier, and then he landed on the forest road ahead. At this moment, he did not know where he was, and the surroundings were filled with mysterious and strange bloodthirsty forests. The road before him seemed to be the only choice.

Just as he was about to walk forward, he took two steps forward and looked over the stone pier. Suddenly, a corner of his eye lit up and he saw a piece of rubble casually thrown away on the ground behind the stone pier. The crack was old, but there were obvious traces of artificial chiseling. It looked like it was part of a stone sculpture.

Shen Shi’s heart skipped a beat, and his footsteps immediately stopped. After pondering for a moment, he walked over and picked up the remnant stone. Upon closer inspection, he discovered that the remnant stone was about the size of a human head. The stone was rather peculiar in quality, concealing patterns that seemed to be born naturally. There were several fractures where the stone spikes were abrupt, and there seemed to be vaguely traces of the sudden shattering of the remnant stone from back then.

Shen Shi flipped his hand over and over for a while and made a gesture. Then, his gaze landed on the stone pier beside him. Not surprisingly, he discovered that the stone quality of the stone pier seemed to be very similar to this remnant stone.

He thought for a moment and simply took a step closer to fiddle with the remnant stone on the stone pier. He placed it here and waved it around. Not long after, he suddenly felt that the remnant stone in his hand had sunk, but it was quietly inserted about two feet behind the stone pier. The gap was just right, as if it should have been in this position.

Shen Shi took a step back and glanced at the stone pier. There was an additional remnant stone placed on it. It did not seem to change the damaged appearance of this stone pier. However, it seemed to be much more comfortable than before. However, the surroundings were still empty, as if it was a blank left behind by time.

Shen Shi subconsciously glanced at the surrounding ground. However, apart from this remnant stone, there were no more similar stones on the ground. Perhaps the remnant statues had long since disappeared.

Shen Shi shrugged his shoulders and didn’t care. In any case, he was just casually preparing to continue walking forward. However, at this moment, Little Hei suddenly snorted twice from the side.

Shen Shi turned around and saw that Little Hei had run to the side of the road at some unknown time. There was a patch of wild grass, several feet wide, and then the gray trunk of the Blood Devouring Demon Tree. Shen Shi was nervous for a moment and hurriedly shouted, “Little Hei, come over here. Don’t get too close to that tree.”

Little Black didn’t have the intention to come over. Instead, he snorted a few times at the bushes, as if he was pointing at something.

Shen Shi was stunned for a moment. He also walked over. He stood at Xiao Hei’s position and looked into the bushes. He was stunned for a moment. In the green bushes, there were seven or eight broken stones lying in different shapes and sizes. However, looking at the materials, they all looked exactly the same as the stones at the stone pier.

Shen Shi glanced at Xiao Hei at his feet. Xiao Hei also raised his head to look at him.

The man didn’t say anything, the pig didn’t bark.

The atmosphere seemed to have suddenly frozen for a moment, feeling a little strange.

After a while, Shen Shi nodded and said, “Try it.”

Little Hei looked a little happy. He snorted twice and wanted to dive into the bushes. Unexpectedly, Shen Shi grabbed him back and threw him to the side. He glared at him and said, “Stand still.”

Little Hei muttered to himself as if he had rolled his eyes.

Shen Shi raised his head and looked at the Bloodthirsty Devil Tree behind the bushes. He estimated the distance and carefully bent down. He looked at the stones in the bushes and reached out to grab the nearest stone. At the corner of his eyes, he looked at the Devil Tree in front of him. His body tensed up. Once there was any change in the Devil Tree, he was ready to pull out his leg and run.

However, the Bloodthirsty Devil Tree did not move at all. Shen Shi successfully obtained the remnant stone in front of him. This time, he made a gesture and it seemed to be a little bigger than the remnant stone. He walked back to the stone pier and tried to place it again. Not long later, there was indeed a place where it was seamlessly inserted.

Shen Shi was refreshed. He turned around again and used the same method to carefully pick up all the stones in the weeds. From beginning to end, even though he was only three to four feet away from the Bloodthirsty Devil Trees when he was closest, those Devil Trees still seemed to be completely normal. This situation was somewhat different from what he had seen in the miscellaneous books of the past, According to the words in the scrolls, it seemed that the Bloodthirsty Devil Tree would attack any living creature that approached it at a certain distance. Of course, this so-called certain distance was not clearly recorded in the scrolls, so Shen Shi thought that perhaps the Bloodthirsty Devil Tree was only attacking flesh and blood living creatures that were extremely close to them.

After moving all the damaged stones back to the stone pier, Little Hei also followed. He touched the stones around them, smelled them, and occasionally knocked on one of the stones with his hooves, as if he was very interested. On the other hand, Shen Shi looked left and right. He took the stones and compared them one by one in the gaps in the stone pier, trying to put them back on the stone pier one by one.

As he moved, The stones gradually returned to their original positions on the stone pier. The remnants clenched into each other’s bones. staggered with each other, Gradually, An old and broken statue, Gradually, it took shape bit by bit. However, the cracks and peeling holes that could be seen everywhere seemed to tell how many years this unknown stone statue had gone through and how many vicissitudes it had experienced in the mortal world. After countless years, it quietly reunited in this quiet and gloomy sky.

The forest was still very quiet. No sound of living creatures could be heard. It was as quiet as death. As for the cloudy sky above the forest, it was unknown when the clouds gradually thickened, causing the sky to become even darker.

The wind and clouds rolled, but there was a silent and murderous intent. It was invisible and colorless, as if it slowly condensed from all directions in the heavens and earth.

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All the stones returned to their original positions one by one, leaving only the largest one. It was about the size of Xiao Hei’s head. The edges and corners of his head protruded out. He looked at the restored stone statue and saw that half of it was missing from the last part of his head.

This should be it.

Shen Shi picked up the last remnant stone. For some reason, it felt a little strenuous. It seemed that this stone was a bit heavier than the other stones. However, he was still at the Origin Condensation Realm. This weight was not difficult for him. It was just that for a moment, he felt a little strange. Therefore, he did not notice the abnormal gathering of dark clouds around him, including the sky above his head.

When he tried the last few times on the stone pier, he found the right angle and put it down. There seemed to be a faint thud between the cracks, and the stone statue in front of him was finally completely reassembled.

Although at first glance, the stone statue was still damaged, and there were holes and desolate traces of peeling everywhere, but generally speaking, the stone statue was still once again, showing the shape that it once possessed in front of Shen Shi.

Riding on the clouds and stepping on the mist, the snake had dragon horns on its body, and its huge fanged eyes looked down on the world, seemingly unruly and indifferent, with an unfathomable meaning. Shen Shi took two steps back and carefully sized up the broken stone statue. After a moment, he was suddenly stunned, but he found that it looked somewhat familiar.

Little Hei, who was beside him, also walked over. He looked a little curious. He raised his two front legs and placed them on the stone pier. He drew the little pig’s head closer to the stone statue that had been piled up again. He looked left and right.

Shen Shi’s gaze swept across Little Hei’s body, and an inexplicable strange feeling flashed through his heart. After a while, he said,

“So this stone statue is also a Yin Dragon.”

Yes, judging from the appearance and shape of the statue, although there were many parts that were damaged, and even the dragon horns on the head of the statue could not be found, on the whole, after the statue was restored, it was clearly exactly the same as the Yin Dragon statue they had seen in the valley in the mountains.

Little Hei jumped back with a slap and walked to Shen Shi’s side. He turned around and looked at the broken and now barely recovered Yin Dragon Stone Statue. He also fell silent.

Shen Shi silently stared at the Yin Dragon Stone Statue for a moment. He shook his head slightly and let out a breath. He said softly, “Alright, let’s go.”

After he finished speaking, he raised his foot and walked forward. He walked past the broken Yin Dragon Stone Statue and onto the straight but somewhat gloomy forest road.

Little Hei followed behind him, However, as he passed by the statue, he couldn’t help but raise his head to take a look. Perhaps it was due to the light, Little Hei suddenly discovered that under the gradually gloomy sky, there was a faint flash of light on the head of the broken Yin Dragon statue at the location of the two strange dragon eyes.

Little Hei was shocked and his footsteps subconsciously stopped. However, when he looked closely, he discovered that the stone statue still looked the same as before. It was still the same broken and ice-cold appearance, not the slightest bit angry.

In front, Shen Shi cried out from afar. Little Hei was shocked. He hurriedly snorted and agreed. After thinking for a while, he finally stopped paying attention to the stone statue and trotted towards Shen Shi.

The sky was gloomy, and the dark clouds were getting thicker and thicker. At some unknown time, a slight breeze had begun to blow in this strange bloodthirsty forest. The terrifying Bloodthirsty Trees shook their branches and leaves in the breeze, shaking gently as if they were quietly trembling.

In the deepest silence, when Shen Shi and Little Hei Pig’s figures gradually walked away from the forest road, a dense mist suddenly drifted out from the deepest darkness of the Bloodthirsty Forest.

The thick gray-white and icy fog quietly spread out, gently covering the path, and the place where the fog passed seemed to be unharmed. However, apart from the Bloodthirsty Trees, some of the once dark green weeds quickly withered and fell silently, as if all their vitality had been plundered in an instant.

The fog dispersed, becoming denser and denser, and further away. Gradually, even the stone statue became somewhat blurry. Suddenly, a strange sound came from the depths of the fog. Through the glimmer of light, one could see astonishing changes on the stone statue.

The remnants of the stone seemed to be trembling slightly. The cracks that had once shattered were tightly pressed against each other, giving off a soft chuckle. Then, they fused together like water and milk. They actually fused together again like this.

The cracks in the stone slowly disappeared. The cracks that once covered the stone statue’s entire body seemed to be wiped away bit by bit by an invisible but powerful force. In the fog, a brand new stone statue seemed to be slowly reviving. At this moment, a strange light slowly lit up and extinguished from the stone statue. Looking in that direction, it was the location of the Yin Dragon Stone Statue’s dragon eyes.

The wind seemed to be getting stronger and stronger.

The fog seemed to be getting thicker and thicker.

Within the endless and silent Blood Devouring Forest, there was silence. Only countless Devil Trees trembled slightly in the dark corner and in the mist in the wind.