Three or four hundred years remained before the Lord of the Universe's deadline for reaching the Eighth Heaven. Ling Tian and the others arrived at the center of the Seventh Heaven early because reaching the Eighth Heaven required not only obtaining the corresponding Nine-Colored Soul Crystals, but also killing the God-level Stone Person guarding the passage. Based on their past experience, these Stone People were terrifyingly powerful, and killing one would take a long time.
As Ling Tian and the others had guessed, the Stone People guarding the passages had fused seven attributes and possessed one of the four special attributes. Five of their seven attributes were the five elements, while the other two were mutually generating and counteracting attributes, such as life and death or yin and yang. This made the Stone People even more terrifyingly powerful and even harder to kill.
Ling Tian and the others could figure this out, and so could Meng Du, Jiu Jie, and the rest. They had also come hundreds of years early, so the two sides crossed paths once more.
The moment they met, both sides were filled with excitement. Each thought they had tamed powerful God-level Stone People over the years and could wipe out the other side in one fell swoop. But after seeing the other side's situation, they had to put their plans for a full-scale battle on hold and settle into a standoff.
That was right: they each held one side, hoping to profit while the other attacked the Stone Person guarding the passage. They also knew the other side had the same idea and worried that their opponents might seize an opening, so neither side made a move. They continued to face off.
According to Fairy Lei Ying and the others, who were as battle-crazed as they