Soon, the two followed the headless stranger onto the island.
The island was lush and densely forested, but the puppet-like stranger went no farther. This area was presumably a forbidden zone he could not enter.
"Get out... fight our way out..."
Not long after they entered the island, voices reached them. At first there was only one, but it soon became millions of voices merging together.
"Are those prisoners here trying to escape?" Xiao Chen asked in astonishment.
"Prisoners, naturally."
Wang Xuan continued forward. "In the era of the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors, some beings who committed offenses were imprisoned here. Who knows how many years have passed? By now, they've probably all gone mad."
Far more than hundreds of millions of years had passed since ancient times. Such a long imprisonment was enough to drive even a Stone Man King mad.
Besides, this was a prison. They could not draw on power from the outside world to cultivate and could only exhaust their own reserves. Otherwise, a Stone Man King might well have endured these years through cultivation.
Ahead lay a stretch of murky, foul water five or six li across, with several severed limbs and broken bodies of Stone Man Kings floating in it.
Surprisingly, those stone bodies had not sunk. Instead, they floated on the surface like foam. Even the imperishable bodies of Stone Kings had been corroded beyond recognition by the lake water.
Splash!
An enormous clam suddenly surfaced from the water. As it turned, it swept up towering waves and lunged at the two of them.
Amid the rotten flesh inside its shell was a Stone Being's leg that had almost been completely digested.
Whoosh!
Just as the shell was about to close, the Three Emperors Mirror, which had been hovering quietly all