I Hope You Succeed

Lin Jun's thinking was simple. He had already guessed that Heaven's Will was not wiping the slate clean but sifting through it. Yet if he could not survive the Heavenly Tribulation, nothing else would matter.

So the urgent task was to deal with the Sea Demons.

The greatest uncertainty was Su Ming. He had never shown himself, yet he had been among the first to become a Sea Demon. Lin Jun had to be careful.

Wulie could not be killed, only drained dry. The same was surely true of Su Ming, who would be no weaker than Wulie.

But draining him would take a decade or more. By then, the Lower Realm and Heaven Beyond Heaven would probably have been destroyed.

Lin Jun could afford a few months at most.

His fight with Wulie had shown him that trying to kill Wulie alone consumed far too little energy. To reach his goal quickly, he had to make the Heavenly Tribulation expend more.

The Stone Stele was the best means he could think of.

It was huge, truly huge, and it could not be destroyed. Not even the Heavenly Tribulation could destroy it. It also carried the last bitter grievances of thirty thousand eras—a power worth putting to good use.

Lin Jun carried the enormous half of the Stone Stele up through the sea's surface. Despite its weight, it did not feel heavy to him. It was merely cumbersome and awkward to hold.

"If only it were smaller."

As soon as Lin Jun spoke, the half stele seemed to obey his command. It kept shrinking until it was shaped like a ruler and fit in his hand.

"Huh? That thing understands speech?"

Lao Xu was astonished. However sturdy the Stone Stele was, even after surviving thirty thousand eras without a scratch,