"What exactly are these stone pillars?"
Red Cloud rose to his feet, circled around the pillar, and continued onward. But before long, he saw another stone pillar, identical to the previous one.
Then Red Cloud saw a third, a fourth, a fifth... More and more stone pillars emerged from the dense fog, packed together so thickly that they stretched beyond sight.
Only then did Red Cloud realize that these stone pillars formed a massive array. Without noticing, he had already entered its center.
"Who set up this array?"
Red Cloud stopped, recalling the stone pillars he had encountered. He discovered that their arrangement followed a pattern, so he used the Illustrated Record of Literary Fortune to deduce it.
After the Illustrated Record of Literary Fortune completed its deduction, it produced a strange pattern: a spacetime coordinate.
"Spacetime coordinates... Azure Parasol Ancestor?"
At the sight of those coordinates, Red Cloud thought of Azure Parasol Ancestor, that old monster who had attempted to resurrect himself.
According to the Illustrated Record of Literary Fortune's deduction, these stone pillars did not belong to this era. They came from ancient times—or perhaps from an age even more ancient.
Red Cloud murmured, "Could this be another old monster's method of resurrection?"
Azure Parasol Ancestor had been a figure of the Fierce Beast era. His power had still felt familiar to Red Cloud, but the power within these stone pillars had felt utterly foreign.
That meant the stone pillars predated the Beast Calamity. In Red Cloud's Heavenly Dao Inheritance, the Beast Calamity was called the Eighth Calamity, while he belonged to the Ninth Calamity.
There were no records within the Heavenly Dao of the Seventh Calamity before the Beast Calamity, much less any earlier calamities, because the Heavenly Dao had only revived during the Beast Calamity.
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