It was impossible to tell how much time had passed.
"Rumble!"
The final earth-shaking boom faded away, its reverberations dying down.
The ancient body and the new body born in later ages finally fused into one complete whole.
Originally, the body had possessed only half its flesh and blood. Now, seven-tenths of it had been restored, completely transformed into warm, living flesh.
Little Stone Emperor had been reborn.
"Boom!"
An aura terrifying to the extreme erupted from his body in an instant, climbing steadily until it reached a realm that made souls tremble.
Within the seven great tombs, the seven trapped Kings all shut their mouths. They did not dare utter even a single unnecessary word.
Little Stone Emperor was far too terrifying at this moment.
The aura radiating from him was now absolutely qualified to clash head-on with the Holy Ancestor demon shadow beyond the Ninety-Nine-Layer Stone Steps in the Otherworld.
At that very moment, far away across the Celestial Realm.
One terrifying aura after another swept outward like a mountain torrent or a tsunami.
The Kings who had been in secluded death meditation opened their eyes in unison. Shocked, they looked toward Little Stone Emperor's tomb, their expressions changing drastically at the same time.
They remembered many sealed-away events of the past.
For example, how bizarrely Little Stone Emperor had died back then.
Several of the most ancient Stone Kings were even more shaken to their cores.
"Imperial Tier..."
King Pangu stood above the clouds, his gaze complex as he marveled softly inwardly.
"Little Stone Emperor has actually touched the Imperial Tier, and has even gone a step farther than the Ancestral Dragon... He truly is terrifying."
His tone changed, however, and he let out an almost inaudible sigh.
"What a pity. A generation's great ruler, gifted beyond