219: Stone Guardians, Bloodbath in the Ancient Temple

"Roar—!" The low roar did not come from a living creature's throat, but was a massive hybrid sound produced by stone friction and energy vibration, filled with ancientness and brutality.

In the center of the square, the gray ghost fire in the eyes of those damaged Vicious Beast stone sculptures suddenly flared up. Their stone bodies, which had been silent for countless years, actually began to move, accompanied by a "kacha kacha" sound!

Stone chips rustled down as they broke free from the earth's restraints, revealing their complete forms.

They were three colossal stone sculptures of different appearances: one resembled a lion but wasn't quite a lion, with bone spurs on its back; one was like a python or a Dragon, coiled and raising its head; and one was like a giant ape beating its chest, with exposed tusks.

Their bodies were entirely gray and black, emitting an aura of decay and stillness originating from this desolate place. Their strength had clearly reached the level of a newly entered Dou Zun!

Although they were only low-level Dou Zun, as inanimate objects, they felt no pain or fear. Furthermore, with the enhancement of the Dao charm of stillness in this place, their actual combat threat was far more troublesome than that of human experts of the same rank outside!

The three stone statue guards, with their hollow gray eyes, instantly locked onto the only outsider in the square—Medusa.

Without any warning or hesitation, they moved!

The stone lion stomped its four feet, shaking the ground violently, and transformed into a gray bolt of lightning that lunged forward. Its sharp claws swept out, bringing five streams of gray, dark Qi that tore through space.

The stone python violently lashed its long tail, sweeping across like a gray mountain range. Its power was immense, sealing off Medusa's space to dodge left or right.

The stone ape slammed its fists into the ground, and a massive gray shockwave rolled forward in a fan shape, its might terrifying.

The attacks arrived instantly, cooperating seamlessly, blocking all of Medusa's retreat paths!

Medusa's pupils contracted. She knew there was no retreat; only a fight to the death remained!

The Seven-Colored Dou Qi within her body erupted loudly, no longer focusing on defense but transforming into ultimate offense and speed.

"Seven-Colored Profound Light, Phantom Body!"

Her figure flickered, leaving three solidified Seven-Colored phantoms in her original spot, which moved to meet the three stone beasts, while her true body shot up like a ghost, narrowly avoiding the first combined attack.

Boom, boom, boom! The phantoms instantly dispersed under the stone beasts' attacks, but they bought Medusa a precious moment of time.

"Sky Swallowing Python Shadow!"

While in mid-air, she formed a hand seal, and a massive, Seven-Colored energy python materialized out of thin air. It let out a silent hiss, carrying the momentum of devouring all things, and fiercely charged toward the stone lion that had lunged first.

The energy python and the stone lion collided fiercely, erupting in an earth-shattering roar.

Seven-Colored light and gray, decaying Qi streams wildly eroded and counteracted each other. The stone lion stumbled from the impact, and a small portion of its chest armor cracked, but its movements did not stop, and it pounced again.

Meanwhile, the energy python Medusa unleashed shattered loudly, and the force of the rebound caused her Qi and blood to churn.

"What tough defenses!" Medusa's heart sank.

Her attack was enough to seriously injure or even kill an outsider One-Star Dou Zun, but when it landed on these stone statue guards, the effect was minimal.

At this moment, the stone python's long tail and the stone ape's shockwave attacked once more.

Medusa's eyes were icy cold; she knew she couldn't meet them head-on.

Her figure twisted acutely in the air, executing exquisite footwork, darting through the gaps in the violent energy like a butterfly passing through flowers.

At the same time, her jade hand continuously pointed out, sending forth beams of Seven-Colored light condensed to the extreme. Like venomous snakes striking from a hole, they accurately shot toward the relatively weak connection points of the stone beasts, such as joints and eye sockets.

"Chh! Chh, chh!" The light beams hit, splashing trails of stone dust and gray sparks. They certainly slowed the stone beasts' movements but still failed to cause fatal damage.

The core of these stone statue guards seemed not to be physical structure, but rather the burning gray ghost fire and the Dao patterns of stillness covering their bodies.

The battle fell into a stalemate.

Relying on her superb footwork and combat experience, Medusa barely managed to maneuver under the siege of the three stone beasts, occasionally forcing them back slightly with sharp counterattacks.

However, every attack she launched consumed a huge amount of energy, while the stone beasts seemed tireless, their offensive waves surging higher and higher. Moreover, the aura of stillness emanating from them was constantly eroding her Dou Qi and vitality.

If this continued for long, she would undoubtedly lose!

"I can't drag this out!" Medusa gritted her silver teeth, a hint of ruthlessness flashing in her eyes.

She must achieve a Breakthrough of the blockade and rush into the ancient hall as quickly as possible!

She seized an opportunity, deliberately exposing a flaw to lure the stone ape's massive fist down.

Just as the punch neared her body, she advanced instead of retreating, sliding past the stone ape's arm like a loach. At the same time, a Seven-Colored energy beam, compressed to the extreme like a drill bit, fiercely stabbed toward an energy node under the stone ape's armpit—a spot she had just observed where the flow of Dao patterns was relatively sluggish.

"Pfft!" This time, the attack finally worked! A burst of gray light exploded from that node, and the movement of the stone ape's entire arm instantly froze for a split second, causing its massive body to lose balance.

"Now is the time!" Medusa ignored the need to catch her breath, maximizing her speed and turning into a Seven-Colored stream of light that shot toward the ancient hall's ruined entrance!

However, just as she was about to touch the door—

"Buzz!" The stone python, which had been coiled and motionless as if it were mere decoration, suddenly raised its head and opened its massive stone mouth.

There was no sound, yet an invisible, intangible shockwave of stillness that struck directly at the Soul arrived first, instantly engulfing Medusa!

Medusa only felt as if her Sea of Consciousness was pierced by billions of ice needles, and her Soul seemed about to be frozen, torn apart, and annihilated!

Her charging figure abruptly paused, and her protective Dou Qi fluctuated violently, nearly collapsing.

She let out a muffled groan, her face instantly turning paper-white. With her Soul injured, her consciousness blurred for an instant.

And behind her, the stone lion and the recovered stone ape were already bearing down on her with monstrous vicious might, rushing to kill!

With the ancient hall barrier ahead (possibly containing unknown Restrictions), pursuers behind, and her own Soul injured... Medusa had fallen into an unprecedented crisis!

She suddenly turned her head, looking at the two rapidly enlarging faces of destruction made of cold stone. In her seductive eyes, there was no despair, only the madness and coldness of being pushed to the brink.

Seven-Colored light began to flicker and expand unstably around her body, and an extremely violent aura, intent on destroying everything, started to permeate from within her...

It seemed she was about to use some kind of forbidden secret technique that would wound the enemy a thousand times but harm herself eight hundred times!