The others were all startled and looked at Lin Xiao with bewilderment and confusion.
They had unleashed such powerful attacks yet failed to shatter it, but this youth had smashed the thing’s head with nothing more than a crutch?
Was the crutch itself extraordinary, or were these Buddha figurines simply incapable of withstanding weapon strikes?
Or perhaps, after enduring their repeated blows, the figurine had already been on the verge of collapse?
Even Lin Xiao himself felt a little surprised. He wasn’t sure whether the crutch was exceptionally sturdy or the figurine was just too fragile.
From the look of things, the figurine was probably the fragile one.
“Let’s check its stone quality.”
With a quiet sigh, Lin Xiao activated the Heaven-Sealing Stone Hand right in front of everyone. His right arm visibly turned to stone, then he pressed his palm against the figurine’s body. Power circulated, and streams of stone essence were rapidly absorbed into his Hand Sea.
In mere moments, the entire figurine had been completely absorbed by Lin Xiao.
The stone quality was truly abysmal, barely different from ordinary rock, and it was riddled with impurities. It took him quite a while to expel them all.
Lin Xiao felt rather disappointed. He could not understand why such poor stone had been used to craft a figurine. Or perhaps the material had simply degraded and loosened over countless years.
The onlookers, however, were stunned.
Not only had he smashed the figurine, but his arm could actually petrify, and he had then refined the entire thing?
Or had he received some kind of inheritance the moment he touched it?
Yet they had clearly seen his arm turn to stone first, before he even made contact.
What on earth was going on?
“What opportunity did you obtain?”
Someone immediately fixed Lin Xiao with a predatory stare and demanded an answer.
“I obtained nothing. This is merely my own secret technique. There was absolutely nothing inside the figurine.”
Lin Xiao answered honestly.
“Everyone, I’ll be leaving now.”
With that, he turned and shot away. His speed was astonishing, and he soon vanished into the distance.
The few who had been about to fight him for the prize immediately gave up the moment they saw how fast he moved. They could never catch him.
Moreover, someone who could shatter a Buddha figurine’s head with a single crutch strike and then absorb the whole thing was clearly no ordinary cultivator.
Before long, Lin Xiao arrived at yet another site where the ground had exploded. A fierce fight was already underway, which meant some treasure or valuable object had obviously appeared.
Lin Xiao was just about to charge in and snatch it when a figure darted past him. The moment he glimpsed that person’s face, Lin Xiao instantly halted.
