I Can Devour Spirits

Chapter 382: Chapter 307: Mountain God Statue (Part 3)

Duan Rong and his group left the Ministry of Justice and immediately took their document to the Divine Cloud Prefecture’s prefecture office to exchange for the Sect Cloud Scroll.

Their detailed information and portraits had already arrived at the Divine Cloud Prefecture, and the Sect Cloud Scrolls had already been prepared in advance. After checking their documents and their appearance, the prefecture office exchanged the Sect Cloud Scroll for them.

However, Xianggu County was remote to begin with, and after being ambushed and interrogated, the main group of registered disciples entering the mountain had already left several days ago.

Duan Rong and his group had no choice but to head to Changling Mountain on their own.

The Changling Mountain Range extends over two hundred miles, with peaks clustered like stars and miasma pervading everywhere. Finding the sect’s mountain gate was not easy.

Luckily, the prefecture office gave them a map, allowing them to follow the path with guidance!

The group had no other option, so they took the map, carried their luggage, and set off.

Who could blame them for arriving late?

The group reached a mountain ridge. Duan Rong held the map and gazed at the mist-covered valley before him, lost in thought.

"This... which way do we go?"

Ximen Kankan approached, saying: "Let me see."

Ximen Kankan took the map and asked: "Where are we now?"

Duan Rong pointed it out to him and said: "Here."

Ximen Kankan furrowed his brows, looked at the map, and then at the mountain path that appeared and disappeared within the dense fog.

Xiao Yu and Shen Mizi stood to the side, wiping the sweat off their foreheads.

Xiao Yu said: "Have you two figured it out?"

Ximen Kankan scratched his head, looked at the eastward mountain path, and said: "I think it’s this way."

Duan Rong raised his brows and said: "Are you sure?" He felt like they shouldn’t go that way.

Ximen Kankan, sensing Duan Rong’s doubt, immediately replied with certainty: "I’m sure, it’s this way. Look at the map, doesn’t this ridge match on this side?"

Duan Rong looked at it, feeling that Ximen Kankan was just guessing, but Xiao Yu and Shen Mizi had already begun heading in the direction Kankan pointed.

With the thick fog in front of them, Duan Rong wasn’t entirely sure, so he quickly followed along.

The group walked along the ridge within the dense fog for a while when suddenly a strong wind sprang up, and within a few breaths, the thick fog was blown away.

The mountain path before them suddenly widened.

Duan Rong saw the path and exclaimed: "See? We went the wrong way. You were so confident that it was this path!"

Xiao Yu and Shen Mizi both glared at Ximen Kankan with reproach.

Ximen Kankan, sweating profusely, suddenly felt awkward.

"All of you didn’t know where to go, yet I showed you a path. With such fog, we had to try. As soon as something goes wrong, you start blaming me. Next time, I won’t bother helping. This is abandoning the bridge after crossing the river!"

Duan Rong said: "What do you mean abandoning the bridge after crossing the river? It’s more like killing the donkey after it’s done its job!"

Ximen Kankan wiped the sweat off his forehead and said: "Aren’t they the same thing?"

Duan Rong kept a straight face and said: "Of course they’re not the same. You’re the donkey, not the bridge."

"You’re the donkey!" Ximen Kankan jumped forward, wanting to hit Duan Rong.

Duan Rong dodged swiftly.

Xiao Yu urged: "Stop fooling around! While there’s no fog, hurry up and go, or we’ll lose our way again."

Ximen Kankan looked at Duan Rong a stone’s throw away and said: "Duan Rong, I’m letting you go this time only because of Xiao Yu."

Duan Rong was about to retort with a laugh, but his smile suddenly froze on his face. Beyond him, as the dense fog cleared from a distant mountain, a massive face appeared.

The face was indeed a gigantic stone sculpture carved out of the entire mountain.

What startled Duan Rong the most was that he had seen this face before.

It was the face of the Divine Statue of the Unmoving Bright King.

That is to say, the distant mountain peak, with its layered ridges, had been sculpted into a colossal Divine Statue using the entire mountain as the base for the Unmoving Bright King.

Duan Rong immediately thought that this Mountain God Statue was constructing a Mandala, just like the one in his drawing.

Only this Mandala was so massive, using a mountain as its depiction!

Such a massive Divine Statue, such a huge Mandala!

While cultivating the Fetal Concealment Scripture and entering the Divine Shadow within the Sea of Consciousness, how overwhelming would its pressure be?

What kind of powerful Divine Soul could withstand such terrifying pressure?

"Duan Rong, why are you daydreaming? Hurry and go..."

Xiao Yu and the others had already turned back the way they came for a bit, but suddenly turned back to see Duan Rong standing there in a daze.

Duan Rong responded, snapped back to senses, and looked up. The gigantic stone face had once again been obscured by dense fog.