Ji Tianxing circled Lu Wu several times and carefully examined it, but he could not find any clues.
Thus, he climbed onto Lu Wu's body and began to examine it at close range.
Mysterious patterns had been carved into the stone sculpture, but the stone sculpture had been severely weathered and its surface was covered in cracks.
Ji Tianxing vaguely sensed that there was some mystery to this stone sculpture, and it seemed to contain the Qi of a formation.
But this was only his conjecture and could not be verified for the time being.
He climbed onto Lu Wu's head and stood at the highest point to examine his surroundings.
Suddenly, he caught sight of a black figure standing in the desert a dozen or so kilometers away.
He focused his attention and observed for a moment. Then, he saw that the black figure seemed to be an ancient stone statue.
"There's actually more than one stone sculpture here?"
He muttered in a low voice, and a look of anticipation surged in his eyes.
Soon after, Ji Tianxing left Lu Wu's stone sculpture and dashed through the yellow sand for more than ten li before finally arriving at another black stone sculpture.
This black stone sculpture had also been mostly buried by the sand, leaving only the upper half of its fifty-some meters tall body exposed.
The surface of the stone sculpture was mottled with age, covered in cracks and traces of weathering. Even some of the mysterious patterns and symbols were blurry and indistinct.
Furthermore, this stone sculpture was also of an ancient beast. It was a ferocious-looking giant bird that was spreading its wings and soaring in the sky.
Ji Tianxing could vaguely make out that this was a Dragonhawk.
Alas, a large chunk of the stone sculpture was damaged, and the beast was missing a head.
After examining the Dragonhawk for a while, he came to the same conclusion as before.
The stone sculpture was too ancient and heavily weathered. Even if there were formation patterns and symbols on it, they could no longer be recognized.
Ji Tianxing began to speculate. Was there some connection between this Dragonhawk and the Lu Wu sculpture ten-some li away?
His brow furrowed in thought for a few moments, and then he began to examine the surrounding desert.
Soon, he saw another black stone statue in the desert to the southwest, about a dozen kilometers away from him.
"There's actually a third stone sculpture?"
Ji Tianxing was a little surprised. He quickly jumped down from the back of the Dragon Hawk Stone Sculpture and rushed towards the southwest.
A moment later, he arrived in front of the third stone statue.
After close observation for a while, he recognized that this stone sculpture was also an ancient beast. It was the legendary Three-legged Golden Crow.
The situation of the Golden Crow statue was basically the same as the previous two statues. Not only was it mottled with age, it was also damaged.
He stood on the head of the Golden Crow statue and looked around with his hand over his eyes. He quickly saw the figures of two more statues.
One of them was in the northeast while the other was in the southwest. They were both more than ten miles away from him.
After observing them from a distance for a long time, he recognized that the two huge stone statues were carved with ancient beasts.
He continued to observe his surroundings and soon saw several ancient beast statues.
Between each stone sculpture, there was a distance of more than ten miles, and they were all carved with a kind of ancient strange beast.
Besides Lu Wu, the Dragoneagle, and the Three-legged Golden Crow, he also saw Chao Feng, Kui Ox, and Zhuyan.
In the end, he found a total of twelve ancient strange beast statues in a fifty-mile radius of the desert.
These strange beast statues were arranged according to a special pattern and position, forming a circle.
He walked to the center of the desert and stood on a raised sand dune. He could clearly see the twelve stone sculptures of strange beasts around him.
What was strange was that the sand dune under his feet was exactly nineteen miles away from each of the stone sculptures.
Ji Tianxing knew that this was no coincidence!
Those twelve strange beast statues definitely contained the mysteries of some kind of formation!
"These strange beast statues are somewhat strange. They are very likely related to Full Moon Lake. They definitely wouldn't appear here for no reason.
"I have to study them carefully. Perhaps I can find clues about Full Moon Lake and the Heavenly Star Pearl from these strange beast statues."
Ji Tianxing thought for a moment and then walked down the sand dune.
He was prepared to personally climb up each stone sculpture and carefully observe if there were any clues hidden in the stone sculptures.
But at this moment, a few dark clouds suddenly appeared in the originally clear sky.
The tranquil desert suddenly began to shake violently, as if a great earthquake had occurred.
Amidst the muffled rumbling, a wide gully appeared on the ground. The desert within a radius of dozens of miles began to collapse.
The strange thing was that only the area surrounded by the twelve strange beast statues was constantly collapsing and sinking.
Outside of this place, the ground was still calm and the sky was still clear.
Ji Tianxing's expression immediately changed. He tried his best to escape.
He knew very well that such a strange and shocking upheaval must be related to those strange beast statues.
However, just as he rushed down the sand dune, the desert under his feet collapsed with a bang, turning into endless yellow sand and sinking deep into the ground.
A huge black hole appeared under his feet. It was like a bottomless abyss, swallowing the endless yellow sand.
He was also unable to escape. Together with the yellow sand in the sky, he fell into the pitch-black abyss as if he was falling into hell.
After an unknown period of time, he suddenly saw a faint light at the end of the abyss under his feet.
As he fell rapidly and got closer to the light, he realized that it was a layer of pale silver light curtain. It was boundless and abnormally vast.
In the next moment, he mixed with the yellow sand in the sky and charged into the pale silver light curtain.
"Buzz!"
The strong collision caused a loud buzzing sound to explode in his mind.
He was shaken to the point that his consciousness blurred and he fainted.
A moment later, he passed through the pale silver light curtain in his unconscious state and fell into a boundless void.
The void was dark and cold. Only bits of starlight flickered in the distance.
His falling speed kept decreasing until it finally came to a stop.
He lightly landed in the void of space, hovering motionlessly in the air.
There was clearly nothing below him, but it was as if there was a layer of invisible ground supporting him steadily.
He was unconscious. He lay motionless in the void, quietly sleeping. It was as if he had become one with the boundless void.
The void was incomparably quiet. Time passed silently.
After an unknown period of time, perhaps three to five days, or perhaps three to five months, Ji Tianxing finally woke up.
He slowly opened his eyes, rubbed his throbbing forehead, and sat up.
He looked around and found that his surroundings were boundless darkness. There was nothing around him.
In the vast void under his feet, thousands of silver light spots were densely distributed. Each light spot was a star.
The thousands of stars were distributed according to a certain pattern, forming a mysterious and vast star map.
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