What should he do? Waves of despair rose in Ding Ning's heart. At least he had a chance of survival with the mermaid. Now that he was trapped here, there was no way out.
What made him feel the most hopeless was that the faint connection between him and Luoxue had been completely severed.
What did this mean? It meant that he would be trapped here until he died without even a chance to ask for help.
No … no!
Ding Ning's gaze fell on the statue and his furrowed brows suddenly relaxed. As the saying went, heaven never bars one's way. Although he did not know the principle behind that door of light, it was impossible for it to send someone into a place of death without any hope of leaving. This was too unreasonable.
Mechanism, yes, there must be a mechanism. The statue's appearance here could not be without some meaning.
Thinking this through, Ding Ning's spirits rose and he immediately walked toward the statue.
The statue was made of a green stone he had never seen before. The shape of the monster was extremely ferocious. Its eyes were wide open in anger, its mouth bared its fangs, and it held a spiked club in its hand. The carving technique was extremely lifelike and looked so real that Ding Ning could not help but sigh in admiration.
As he came closer and closer to the stone statue, the originally dull and empty eyes of the statue suddenly turned strangely and emitted a green light.
Ding Ning's hair stood on end and a strong feeling of danger rose in his heart. Almost instinctively, he dodged to the right without hesitation.
With a loud bang, Ding Ning saw from the corner of his eye that the spiked club in the statue's hand had smashed into the ground with terrifying power and created a huge hole.
His back was instantly soaked in cold sweat and he felt a lingering fear. If he had not dodged in time and was hit by the spiked club, he would probably have become a pile of mud by now.
But the danger was not over. The stone statue actually came to life and walked like a person. The spiked club in its hand was as fast as a shooting star. As if it had seen an irreconcilable enemy, it launched a relentless attack at Ding Ning.
Ding Ning was greatly shocked. He moved like lightning in the air and constantly dodged the stone statue's lightning-like attacks. He had no time to think about how a stone statue suddenly came to life.
Not only was the stone statue astonishingly powerful, but it was also as fast as lightning. Its huge body, which was thirty feet tall, did not show any signs of sluggishness, as if it were a warrior who had been on the battlefield for a long time. The power of each blow was earth-shattering, and Ding Ning did not dare to touch its edge. He could only rely on his speed, which was slightly faster than the stone statue, to dodge.
Ding Ning, who was 1.8 meters tall, was like a mouse in front of this stone statue. He was chased to the ends of the earth and was in a sorry state.
The stone room was not large to begin with, and the mace in the statue's hand was more than ten feet long. A swing of the mace almost covered half of the space, leaving Ding Ning with little room to dodge.
Boom!
Boom!
Boom!
The stone statue continuously chased after Ding Ning as if it was tearing down a house. Every blow was powerful and heavy. When it hit the ground or the wall, gravel would fly and a large hole would be formed.
Ding Ning was flustered and groaned inwardly. Every time he dodged an attack by a hair's breadth, it was like dancing on a steel wire rope. As long as he was hit, his bones would definitely be broken and he would become a lamb waiting to be slaughtered.
What the hell was this place? How could there be such an abnormal monster? Ding Ning did not dare to face it head-on. He could only rely on his instincts in battle to dodge the attacks in the blink of an eye. He did not have the slightest ability to fight back.
No, he had to quickly think of a way. If this continued, he would die here sooner or later.
Ding Ning kept dodging. As he forced himself to calm down, he carefully observed the stone statue, trying to find a flaw.
But he was soon disappointed. The stone statue attacked wildly as if it did not know fatigue. After fighting for half an hour, its attacks did not slow down at all. Every blow was still powerful and heavy. He would die if he touched it, and he would die if he touched it. This made Ding Ning complain incessantly.
What caused him the most despair was that the walls and ground around him had been smashed open by the statue's attacks. However, after a while, a green light flashed, and the holes were restored to their original state. This caused his original hope of using the statue's power to break into the stone room to fall through.
Boom! With a bang, Ding Ning narrowly avoided another attack and gasped for breath. The True Qi and spiritual force in his body had been greatly consumed in this high-intensity battle. If there was no way to get out of this predicament, he would only have a dead end. He had been forced into a desperate situation.
Ding Ning had never been a person who would easily admit defeat. The stone statue's relentless pursuit had stimulated the ruthlessness in his bones. A ruthless look flashed in his eyes. It would not be so easy to kill him.
When the stone statue once again raised its mace and smashed it down at him, Ding Ning did not retreat. Instead, he advanced. With an angry shout, he fiercely punched the stone statue's calf.
It was not that he did not want to hit the stone statue's head, but the stone statue was too tall. He could not reach it at all.
"Bang!" Perhaps the stone statue's body was too large, or perhaps it did not expect Ding Ning to suddenly stop dodging, but Ding Ning's full force hit its calf.
Ding Ning had a good plan. Even if this punch could not break the stone statue's leg, it could at least make it stagger. Then he would follow up with another attack and knock it to the ground. Its large body was its advantage, but it was also its disadvantage. Even if the stone statue could move on the ground, it would not be a threat.
"Hiss!"
But while dreams were plentiful, reality was cruel. Ding Ning's punch seemed to have hit a steel plate, causing him to take two steps back. His entire right fist seemed to have lost all feeling. His skin was torn and his flesh was torn. It was so painful that he gasped and the muscles on his face twitched. And the stone statue did not even move, let alone stagger.
Just as Ding Ning's scalp was numb, a great sense of danger made him retreat without thinking, but it was already too late.
He only thought that the stone statue was walking on two feet and subconsciously ignored the fact that it was originally in the shape of a monster. Just as Ding Ning sensed the danger, the stone statue suddenly lifted its right knee and revealed a beast claw. It clawed at Ding Ning like lightning.
This attack was unbelievably fast. Ding Ning did not even have time to dodge and was hit by the beast claw. It was as if he had been hit by a speeding train. His entire body flew backward and he crashed heavily into the wall.
His internal organs seemed to have shifted. The pain made his face pale and his forehead covered in cold sweat. He hunched his body and curled up in the corner of the wall.
The stone statue had no intention of letting him go. It expressionlessly raised the mace and smashed it down on his head.
It's over. I didn't think I would die here today. Ding Ning watched as the mace whistled towards him. The blood that he had been suppressing in his mouth could no longer resist spraying out. He closed his eyes and quietly waited for death.
At this moment, his father, his teacher, Luoxue, Ling Yun, Xiao Nuo, Shen Muqing, Xiaoyao, Zhao Xin, Bai Qinglian, the demon, the Bodhisattva in his dreams, the mermaid … the figures of all the people he knew flashed through his mind. A strong unwillingness appeared on his lips.
Why? Why did he have to die like this? He hadn't completed his father's task. He hadn't made the new medicine. He hadn't saved the mermaids. He hadn't taken Luoxue to see real snow. He hadn't seen his sister. He hadn't revitalized traditional Chinese medicine … He hadn't finished his father's task.
He still had too many things that he had not done. He still had too many wishes that he had not fulfilled. He was not willing to die here for no reason. No, he could not die like this, he could not …
The stone man on the chest suddenly flashed with a red light, and a towering flame of anger rose up. A violent aura surged out, and a strong unwillingness and anger caused the two-faced Buddha, which had not moved all this time, to suddenly move. The golden-faced Buddha had been in front all along, but at this moment, the black-faced Buddha had spun to the front.
Ding Ning suddenly opened his eyes and stared coldly at the stone statue. What a pair of eyes! They were ancient, deep, distant … with a coldness and majesty that looked down on the common people!
An ancient and vicissitude aura filled the small stone room. Unfortunately, the stone statue was not a human and did not have the emotions and desires of a human. How could it be frightened? The mace smashed down without stopping.
Ding Ning seemed to have changed into another person. His face was so calm that it made people's hearts palpitate. His pupils suddenly expanded and quickly occupied the white of his eyes. His eyes became pitch-black, and two cyan flower buds began to bloom in his deep eyes. In the blink of an eye, his eyes bloomed like a lotus.
"Eyes of Blue Flower!"
A cold and emotionless voice came from Ding Ning's mouth. The two blue flowers shot out two rays of blue light that enveloped the body of the stone statue. The stone statue's lightning-fast attack was stopped and it froze in mid-air.
"Eyes of Broken Flowers!"
Another emotionless and cold voice sounded. The blue petals suddenly shattered and the stone statue knelt on the ground with a bang. Its huge body suddenly split apart and shattered along with the blue flowers.
The black pupils flashed rapidly with blue light. In the blink of an eye, they returned to normal and slowly closed.
Ding Ning opened his eyes and stared without any focus at the familiar light door formed by the broken pieces of the stone statue on the ground!
Then his heart tightened. What happened just now? Why did the stone statue suddenly shatter and turn into a light door?
He climbed up in a roll and nervously touched his body. I'm fine, I'm actually fine. The stone statue was shattered. Great, I'm not dead, I'm not dead.
Escaping from death almost made him cry tears of joy. However, he had no memory of what had happened just now.
However, an eye technique called "Eyes of Blue Flower" to bind the enemy and another eye technique called "Eyes of Broken Flowers" to kill the enemy had mysteriously appeared in his mind.
Could it be that he had stimulated his potential at the moment of death and comprehended these two eye techniques to defeat the stone statue in the end?
Ding Ning could not figure it out no matter how he thought about it. However, at this moment, he had no time to think too much because the light door was beginning to waver and would disappear at any moment. He had to leave this damned place immediately.
He took a step forward and walked into the light door, disappearing from the stone room where he had almost lost his life.
What he did not know was that after he stepped into the light door, the light door quickly disappeared and the entire stone room was flashing with blue light.
After a moment, the stone room returned to normal. The huge stone statue appeared again and stood there unmoving, as if nothing had happened before.
After another bout of dizziness, Ding Ning looked at the tunnel in front of him in shock and uncertainty. His expression changed unpredictably.
This was because he was horrified to find that after he entered this place, all the True Qi and mental strength in his body had lost their effect. He could not even use superpower.
This meant that he had become an ordinary person here. In the face of unknown danger, he had no ability to resist at all.
This strange situation made him tremble with fear. His heart was in turmoil and he felt insecure. However, just like before, the light door had disappeared and he had no room to retreat. He could only brace himself and continue forward to face the unknown fear.
The tunnel was very wide. On one side were large pieces of white stone, and on the other side were rough and crude murals.
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