Meanwhile, in the eastern region of the Primordial Heaven Realm.
Here lay a vast great lake, spanning tens of thousands of miles in every direction. It could even be called a sea, for it was larger than the oceans of ordinary worlds.
Yet it was indeed a freshwater lake, surrounded by the boundless land of the Primordial Heaven Realm.
From afar, faint Purple Qi curled above the enormous freshwater lake, while the spiritual energy on its surface was incomparably dense.
"Rumble!!"
At that moment, streams of purple Auspicious Qi suddenly surged up from the lake, while the waters spanning tens of thousands of miles began to tremble.
Purple Qi came from the east, and the void began to split apart. An endless mountain range emerged, rising from the surface of the lake.
The colossal mountains were majestic and boundless, entirely purple in color. At the center of the range, atop its main peak, stood a grand purple palace—the Purple Firmament Palace.
As the Purple Firmament Palace appeared, Purple Qi instantly churned through the surrounding waters for tens of thousands of miles. Myriad rays of auspicious light enveloped the entire divine mountain.
The gates of the Purple Firmament Palace burst open. A battered stone man sat cross-legged on the ground, covered from head to toe in dust, as though he had not moved for tens of millions of years.
He was the Purple Firmament Stone King, whom everyone in the Primordial Heaven Realm believed to be dead, and also the most ancient Stone King in the entire Heaven Realm.
"Crack!"
Like two streaks of purple lightning flashing through the void, the Stone Man King finally opened his eyes. An incomparably terrifying Killing Intent surfaced within them.
"My other true body has been suppressed by the Ancestral Dragon. If I don't act