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"This is …" Xiao Yu frowned, even he felt a strange aura from within.

"Look there." Mu Xiaoling stared at a stone at the front where a token had been casually thrown. She walked over to pick it up and saw the words "Duke Ling Residence" written on it.

There were only Xu Yi and Xiao Qi who belonged to the Ling family. Regardless of which one it was, Mu Xiaoling was unable to stay out of this matter, even if it seemed to be a trap.

Feng Jiuyang stopped her and shook his head, "This place is too dangerous and too strange."

"I can't ignore it." Mu Xiaoling was silent for a moment before stepping into the stone forest.

With just a single step, it was as if she had stepped through an invisible door. In the blink of an eye, she had vanished, and when she looked back, she could no longer see that piece of scorched earth. There were countless stones all around her, as if she were standing right at the heart of the stone forest.

Xiao Yu and Feng Jiuyang also disappeared without a trace.

This is very strange …

Mu Xiaoling frowned slightly as she gripped the Spirit Abyss tightly. After choosing a direction, she engraved a mark on a nearby stone and continued forward. Every hundred meters, she would leave another mark on the stone and repeat this process.

The patterns of these stones were too strange. Every single one of them were different, but they were all shaped like living things, such as people, or demons or wild beasts. Especially the pair of eyes, it was simply vivid and lively, as if it could move.

Mu Xiaoling's body suddenly shook as her eyes … Can move?

To her right was a statue of a lion, but before she came, the lion's eyes had been turned to the left, and now they followed her movements to the right.

Living?

Mu Xiaoling slowly took two steps forward before she suddenly launched an attack and inserted the Soul Abyss into the stone lion's body.

However, the expected movement didn't happen and the stone lion remained silent, as if everything that had happened was just an illusion of Mu Xiaoling.

Mu Xiaoling couldn't help frowning as she recalled the Spiritual Abyss. Could it be that she was overthinking it?

She pulled out the Spiritual Abyss and only left a hole on the stone lion's body. She turned around suspiciously.

However, at this time, the sound of wind breaking came from behind him.

Mu Xiaoling rolled to the side and dodged the attack. She turned her head to see the stone lion that she stabbed had already stood up with a strange smile. It jumped down from the stone platform and pounced towards her.

When Mu Xiaoling dodged the stone statue once again, she felt that there was something wrong with it.

The stone lion's speed was extremely fast. It could not pounce at all and could only open its mouth to bite.

However, a stone was still a stone. Mu Xiaoling had cut off its mouth full of sharp teeth. However, it seemed that this kind of attack didn't have much effect on it.

Mu Xiaoling had even dug a few holes in the stone lion's body, but it was all useless.

Until her attention was focused on the stone lion's forehead.

That place was completely bare, and there was nothing there. However, whether it was humans or animals, or even mechanical objects, as long as one had true essence, they had to have something similar to the dantian to store it. If one had soul consciousness, then they had to have a Sea of Consciousness, and this stone lion was clearly not a puppet, then there should be a Sea of Consciousness.

Thinking of this, Mu Xiaoling made use of the force of the impact to pierce the stone lion's forehead. The speed of the pierce was so fast that the stone lion was unable to react in time.

The stone lion let out a mournful cry and immediately turned into a pile of rubble. A piece of rock emitting a green light was exceptionally eye-catching amongst the rubble.

"True Martial Stone?" Mu Xiaoling was slightly surprised as she picked up the stone. It seemed that this stone was the core to provide energy to the stone lion.

At this moment, another few gusts of cold wind attacked, and more stone statues came to life.

Mu Xiaoling's eyes became sharp as she rapidly leapt high into the air. Several iron daggers were thrown out and pierced through the foreheads of several stone statues. However, even more stone statues came to life.

All the stone statues seemed to have gone crazy as they snatched the True Martial Stone from the rubble and devoured it. Some of the stone statues even targeted their comrades who were also stone statues.

The scene suddenly turned chaotic. Some of the stone statues chased after Mu Xiaoling with all their might while some of them were trying to kill their own kind to snatch the Genuine Force Stone.

Mu Xiaoling was completely shocked by this scene. This situation was extremely similar to the method used to refine the Gu worm puppet in the trial ground.

What does this have to do with that?

The stone statue was in a mess, without any cover, and Mu Xiaoling was able to find traces of Xiao Yu very quickly. Mu Xiaoling was breaking the head of a stone statue with her bare hands, but her expression was still as casual as before. It wasn't until she saw Mu Xiaoling that she smiled and was about to walk over when the situation suddenly changed.

Mu Xiaoling accidentally guessed at a Genuine Force Stone. A burst of light surrounded her and her vision turned dark. When the light dispersed, she had already arrived at the stone chamber of the eighth stage of the trial.

Purity sat not too far away, looking excitedly at her, or perhaps it would be more accurate to say that it was her body.

Mu Xiaoling frowned in disgust. "It really is you."

"It's me, so what? Do you know how many years I've waited here for a perfect body?" It's me, so what? She was so happy that she could only dance in the air. As her metal body collided with his body, she let out a loud 'bang' sound. "I knew I was waiting for you the first time I saw you. Perfect. Truly perfect."

He looked at Mu Xiaoling in an infatuated manner. "I've never seen a talent better than yours. Even Xiao Yu is inferior to you in terms of talent. To think that he would even give you a reply from the dragon egg. This body is mine from now on."

"Are you dreaming?" Mu Xiaoling laughed coldly. "When did I say I would give you my body?"

"That's not up to you." Xu Yi and Xiao Qi fell to the ground like this. They were firmly bound by the Soul Locking Chain, and their mouths were stuffed with cloth. They could only let out "wuwuwu" sounds.

"Don't you want to save them?" He casually ripped the cloth ball out of Xiao Qi's mouth.

Xiao Qi immediately scolded, "You, a person who is neither human nor ghost, actually dares to plot against your seventh grandfather. Serves you right! "Sob, sob, sob …"

Pure white face went pale for a moment, then he stuffed the cloth back in and said, "They barged into my Stone Nourishing Gu's array by mistake, I tricked them and caught them first, but my initial target was Xiao Yu, not you, I didn't think that they would have a better choice than Xiao Yu, the heavens are helping me!"

Mu Xiaoling wasn't angry, she was still extremely calm. "How did you find out that Xiao Yu had entered the Secret Realm?"

"This secret realm was built by us, and I don't know what that is. Although I don't know how he came in, but the moment he landed, I could feel his demonic aura, so I was absolutely right. So I started to implement this plan, I just wanted to reward him for tricking us into coming in, and then I would seize the opportunity to steal his body until I found you."