"Get out... Kill our way out..."
Not long after entering the island, voices rang out. At first there was only one, but they soon merged into tens of millions speaking as one.
"Could the prisoners here be trying to escape?" Xiao Chen asked in astonishment.
"They must be prisoners. Some criminals from the era of the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors were imprisoned here. Who knows how many years have passed? They've probably all gone mad by now," Zhou Tong said.
From ancient times until now, countless hundreds of millions of years had passed. Such an endless imprisonment was enough to drive even a Stone Man King insane.
It was like locking an ordinary person in a dark little room. They would go mad within two or three days. Even if a Stone Man King possessed stronger willpower, hundreds of millions of years was simply far too long.
Of course, the most important reason was that this place was a prison. Here, they could not draw upon external power to cultivate and could only passively exhaust their own strength. Thus, even Stone Man Kings could not endure it. Otherwise, they could have spent those hundreds of millions of years cultivating.
As Zhou Tong advanced, the Three Emperors Mirror shone with brilliant rays of light. The voices seemed fearful of it and quickly fell silent.
Ahead lay a murky, foul body of water spanning five or six li. Several severed limbs and body parts of Stone Man Kings floated upon its surface. Astonishingly, these stone bodies had not sunk. Instead, they bobbed atop the water like foam. Moreover, the bodies of Stone Man Kings, once imperishable through countless tribulations, had been corroded by the lake water beyond recognition.
"Splash!!"
Suddenly, a clam shell emerged from the lake.
The moment it appeared,