At Martial Dao Mountain Peak, Kou Zhong was still immersed in that earlier collision. Xu Ziling, however, spoke with a shocked expression. "Master, is he dead?"
"What a pity..."
Gu Shaoshang sighed softly, feeling some regret over the Little Stone Emperor's fate.
He stood tall atop the mountain peak. Behind him stood several Stone Man Kings, trembling with fear and scarcely daring to breathe. Even Li Shi Beast, violent by nature, did not dare provoke Gu Shaoshang in the slightest.
Gu Shaoshang paid no attention to the Stone Man Kings behind him, though they would still be of considerable use.
Countless images of the Little Stone Emperor seemed to flash through his eyes as he comprehended the Little Stone Emperor's Dao in its entirety.
The Little Stone Emperor had been an astonishing talent. He cultivated both the Stone Man path and the supreme Ancestral God path, ultimately transcending the confines of both paths. Though he had ultimately failed, the fact that he could withstand a single punch from Gu Shaoshang was enough to prove his strength.
However, Gu Shaoshang's foundation had already been set. Though the Little Stone Emperor's Dao was not bad, it could not compare to his own.
The greatest gain from this battle was that it gave Gu Shaoshang a clearer understanding of the power level of this world's Emperor-class beings.
Though the two had exchanged only one move, the Little Stone Emperor had been at the absolute peak of his life. He struck upward into the past and downward into the future, capable of roaming the River of Time and Space in this world. Even among Emperor-class beings, he could not be considered weak.
And since the Little Stone Emperor's realm was roughly equal to Gu Shaoshang's current realm, the Emperor-class of this world should correspond