The Sea Demons around him grew restless. They seemed to sense that Lin Jun had suddenly appeared among them, but they could not find him.
The more powerful Sea Demons also showed signs of waking. Lin Jun had stayed too long. Even the Demon Kingdom's concealment technique, heaven-defying as it was, could not keep him hidden at such close range forever.
He had to hurry.
With that thought, Lin Jun walked up to the Stone Stele and placed his hand on it.
A mournful cry suddenly echoed through the deep sea.
Lin Jun shuddered. Countless scenes flooded into his mind.
He saw hundreds of millions of living beings struggling, wailing, groaning, resisting, dying.
In those few short breaths, Lin Jun witnessed the rise and destruction of tens of thousands of eras.
Birth, growth, stability, permanence—and then annihilation by Heavenly Tribulation.
It seemed that whenever the world's order became fixed, when nothing flowed anymore and everything fell under a new order, Heavenly Tribulation destroyed it. Then the next world began.
Heavenly Tribulation existed to overturn the board, scattering a world set in stone so it could be remade.
Everything perished there.
Lin Jun snatched his hand back. That single instant had poured so much information into him that his head had nearly burst.
"What's wrong with you?"
Seeing Lin Jun like this, Lao Xu hurriedly asked.
Lin Jun did not answer. He stared at the Stone Stele before him.
The Stone Stele bore more than words. It held the final traces left by every era, left behind by living beings before their destruction. The Celestial Fox Clan was among them.
In a sense, the Stone Stele was alive.
Its astonishing strength, surpassing even Unrefinable Stone, came not from some unknown material, but from the last traces of tens of thousands of