At the end of Death World, towering lightning danced wildly, splitting the heavens and stirring the earthfire. Blood-colored bolts streaked across the sky as the eighth Heavenly Stele erupted with an incomparably powerful aura.
A figure was flying around the Heavenly Stele, occasionally attempting to approach it. With his movements, all manner of ancient writing and carvings emerged upon the stele.
Between illusion and reality, a figure stepped out from space-time. It was Yan Kuan, who had just suppressed Emperor Xu. When he saw that figure, a strange expression appeared on his face.
That figure's face had once been famous throughout the Nine Provinces and the Eternal Life Realm. He had been one of the most widely worshipped divine statues of that era.
In the past, the ancient temples and Daoist temples of the Nine Provinces and the Eternal Life Realm had, for a considerable special period, contained no divine seats for the Yan Huang Ancestor Gods and other Nine Provinces Ancestor Gods. Yet this man had once occupied the position of Supreme, elevated above all others, and had absorbed the vastest power of All Beings' faith.
His name was Hongjun, a giant who had stirred up chaos during the False God Great Tribulation. He appeared to be merely the projection of a Stone King from Death World into the Nine Provinces and the Eternal Life Realm, but in truth, he was also the incarnation of Stone King Zixiao from the Primordial Heaven Realm.
Stone King Zixiao possessed the combat power of both his true body and the Stone Person King Hongjun, along with special methods. He could be considered one of the strongest experts below the Sovereigns. If not for the great upheaval of heaven and earth, he might have had a chance to challenge the Sovereign realm.
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