As discontent as Zhou Shang was, since an agreement had been reached, he had to respect the new rule he had just established.

He threw a sideways glance at the Pure Heaven Sect disciple who was one step too late.

After letting out a sigh of frustration, that disciple withdrew his soul awareness from the spot between the eyebrows of that stone statue.

Up to now, a total of three stone statues had gone through changes. Two had been caused by disciples from the Pure Heaven Sect, and one had been caused by a member of the Chu Clan.

While the other five stone statues were still pale-gray, these three stone statues had become translucent like jade, and emanated shimmering light, which gave them peculiar looks.

Seeing that five statues were still unchanged, the members of the five major sects and three major clans exerted all their effort to establish connections to them using their soul awarenesses in attempts to seize the precious opportunities within them.

Nie Tian grew bored after observing for quite a while, and thus unleashed a wisp of soul awareness himself.

It flew into a stone statue that looked like a giant lizard,...