Who Do You Think You Are? Does Your Family Run the Lightning Tribulation?

While all the forces in the Central Continent were being thrown into turmoil by the Artifact Ancestor, Jiang Lin received an old acquaintance at the Mo Mansion.

"The moment I realized someone from the Stone Race had arrived, I knew it was you." In a pavilion of the Mo Mansion, Jiang Lin looked at the Stone Race Dou Zun before him with a wistful expression.

"Three years ago, using some traces left behind by the clan, I returned to the Central Continent. In the Barren Stone Mountain Range, I found the Stone Race people whose bloodlines had declined, the ones the Stone Race had left behind back then." The Stone Race Dou Zun's face bore a weathered look. Over the years, he had traveled to many places, eventually finding the ancestral land spoken of in clan legends deep within the Barren Stone Mountain Range. There, he found a place called Stone Village. Shi Tian and the others had been brought out of Stone Village.

This Stone Race Dou Zun was Shi Lei, who had once shared some connection with Jiang Lin.

"The Stone Race's bloodline decline was especially severe. Thus, Stone Race members who could no longer awaken their clan marks would be sent into the Barren Stone Mountain Range. Those people would inevitably draw the attention of those with ulterior motives, so..." Shi Lei recounted everything he had experienced over the years in full detail. Jiang Lin did not interrupt him, merely listening in silence.

According to Shi Lei, the Stone Race had in fact left behind several contingencies. Stone Village deep in the Barren Stone Mountain Range was one of them. It had originally been a village formed by ordinary Stone Race people who had already lost the Stone Emperor Clan Mark. There were not many of them;