A Game of Chess with a Beauty

Stone Village possessed the True Dragon Precious Technique. Even some venerables harbored hopes of joining Stone Village.

"After this calamity, I must join Stone Village. Or perhaps the Heaven Mending Sect."

Continuing onward, Ye Feng and the others arrived at an extremely vast area before the central imperial palace of the Shi Country Capital.

"Shi Country, Stone Village, Shi Hao, has arrived."

Shi Hao announced his name. He did not identify himself with Martial Prince's Mansion or as the Desolate Heaven Marquis, but with Stone Village, the Shi Country First Ancestral Land.

"Shi Country, Stone Village, Shi Er Meng."

"Shi Country, Stone Village, Stone Skin Monkey."

"Shi Country, Stone Village, Shi Qingfeng."

Shi Er Meng, Stone Skin Monkey, and Shi Qingfeng slightly raised their gazes toward a palace atop the stairs ahead.

"Shi Hao, Shi Er Meng, Stone Skin Monkey, Shi Qingfeng, and... Ye Feng. Are you here to stop my ascension to the throne as well?" A crisp voice came from within the palace. Judging from the voice, it belonged to one of Shi Country's princes.

As the words fell, the palace gates opened. More than a dozen people emerged, led by a man wearing an Equal to Heaven Crown. He was the Stone Emperor's Nineteenth Prince.

The Nineteenth Prince was born of the legitimate line and possessed Array Formation Realm cultivation. Across Stone Kingdom, he was indeed qualified to inherit the throne.

Present were the chief disciples of many sects, including Immortality Mountain, Golden Gate Sect, Heaven Mending Sect, and Western Heaven Sect. There were also local powers holding the fort, such as the Rain Clan's Rain King, Kun King, Lan King, and other kings who held fiefdoms within Stone Kingdom.

"As well..."

Shi Hao caught the wording in the Nineteenth Prince's statement and said, "So it isn't