The stone tablet in his hand swept down, obliterating every obstacle.
The stone fist ahead shattered, utterly unable to stop him.
In an instant, Lin Dong arrived before a stone pillar. He raised the stone tablet, and overwhelming power rapidly gathered within it.
"No!"
The old man cried out hoarsely, his voice conveying extreme terror.
But the stone tablet in Lin Dong's hand had already come crashing down.
"Boom—"
The strike shook the earth and collapsed the heavens, making the entire Forbidden Zone tremble.
Under that destructive power, the stone pillar exploded. Yet the golden patterns on its surface continued to float in the air.
"What is this?"
Lin Dong looked astonished. The runes interwove like a cage, with a peculiar rune at its center radiating brilliant golden light.
Lin Dong could sense the vast power nurtured within it, as though it were the source of all power.
He raised his hand and reached straight for the floating golden light.
In that instant, Lin Dong felt scorching heat in his palm. The blazing energy flowed into his arm along the way.
Golden patterns began to intertwine across his left hand. Like long snakes, they crawled up Lin Dong's body.
"He actually... absorbed it?"
The old man in the distance found the sight utterly unbelievable.
He knew very well that the seven stone pillars sealed seven Rune Sources. They were the most primordial energies between heaven and earth, and every other rune had evolved from those seven.
Lin Dong only felt a warm current enter his body, leaving him extremely comfortable.
His own energy increased as well. His originally slow evolution rate seemed to have been given a catalyst.
"Good stuff..."
Lin Dong's gaze turned toward the other six stone pillars.
He swung the stone tablet and smashed it forward again.