Fang Chen looked up at the Red Stone floating in the void. He had encountered plenty of stone-like treasures since setting out on his path.
There was the Black Stone he had found in the Sacred Land, for instance. It was extraordinarily heavy, and even now, Fang Chen had not figured out what it was.
Then there was the mysterious stone that had fallen in the Buddhist Land. It shed its skin on its own, releasing energy of extraordinary density each time—both Saint Force and Source Power of Emperors.
That mysterious stone devoured energy from its surroundings at unpredictable intervals. Once it had swallowed enough, its stone skin cracked open and vast amounts of Spiritual Power gushed out.
When Fang Chen left the Sacred Land for the Path to Heaven, he had left that stone in the Barbaric Ancient Region.
So many years had passed. Now that Fang Chen had returned to the Barbaric Ancient Region, he had no idea what had become of the mysterious stone.
And now, in the Cycle World, he had come across another stone just as unusual.
"I'd like to see where this stone came from!"
Fang Chen fixed his gaze on the Red Stone and activated the Floating Immortal Battle Body. His body grew to ten thousand zhang tall, and with the Floating Immortal Sword in hand, he walked toward it step by step.
He knew that the first step to understanding the stone was getting close to it.
If he could not even approach the Red Stone, how could he hope to understand it?
When he was still a thousand zhang away, the Red Stone shuddered. Countless Mysterious Runes emerged across its surface, and a terrifying pressure descended directly on Fang Chen.
The pressure was extraordinary. Both Fang Chen's body and his soul