The Myriad Heavens, in the east.
Within a landmass known as Spirit Cloud Continent.
The Southeast Region.
There was a vast, unbroken stone forest rarely visited by anyone.
But times had changed.
This ordinarily unremarkable stone forest, which few people visited and which produced no precious resources, had recently become packed with people. Cultivators from all over were fighting fiercely here. There were also merchants who would risk their lives for money, traveling thousands of miles to join forces with other equally money-mad merchants and set up marketplaces of all sizes, selling supplies useful for exploring this place.
That was right.
This seemingly ordinary stone forest was actually far from simple.
Following the exploration by the first group of cultivators drawn here by the eruption of spiritual light half a month ago, the reliable intelligence gathered so far indicated that this was likely a ruin left behind when Ten Thousand Rocks Heavenly Venerate and a Heavenly Sovereign of the Holy Clan named Manifest Saint Heavenly Devil Emperor had perished together in ancient times. The stone forest that most people could see now was actually the outer shell of the ruin.
Like the spines of a sea urchin.
Of course.
Sea urchin spines could move.
This stone forest could not.
However, one only needed to cut off a sea urchin's spines to find its weak point, split it open, and obtain the edible flesh inside.
This stone forest was different.
Because beneath it lay rock layers of unknown thickness.
The deeper one went, the harder they became.
An Earth Supreme had once attacked with all his strength.
Yet apart from leaving behind a pit several thousand meters deep.
He gained nothing else.
Thus, even if they cleared away the stone forest above, they could not break through the rock layers below.