Chu Jiang set up a large number of sealing Formation Patterns within the secret chamber, sealing heaven and locking earth.
He began cutting the stone.
As the stripping went deeper, the dark-red jade-like substance gradually revealed its true form—it was not jade, but a kind of dim, heavy immortal gold, as though it had been steeped in the blood of Gods and Devils for countless ages.
It was covered in dense golden runes as fine as hairs. Every rune contained the mighty power to suppress the heavens; merely a wisp of its aura was enough to shake the eight directions.
"Open!"
A Dao sound rang out like exploding thunder, divine light surging like a dragon.
"Crack—"
"Rumble!!!"
It was as though a colossal pillar supporting heaven and earth had snapped, or as though the gates of Jiuyou Hell had been forcibly blasted open!
An indescribably ancient, tyrannical, and supremely ferocious aura erupted from the Stubborn Demon Stone like a world-destroying torrent that had lain dormant for countless ages!
The dark-red immortal gold was completely revealed at that moment! It was not the embryo of some artifact, but a stele!
A damaged stele!
The main body of the stele had been forged from that dark-red immortal gold, its surface covered in countless ancient golden runes. They flickered erratically, as though resisting some invisible and terrifying existence. The upper portion of the stele seemed to have broken off, leaving behind a savage fracture.
Most chilling of all, the stele's base had been forged from countless twisted, wailing, struggling skeletons of Gods and Devils.
Those skeletons came in every form. Some bore bat wings, some had a single horn growing from their heads, while others had three heads and six arms... Though they had turned to stone, they seemed eternally trapped in the