Beginning the Next Step

Things had gone somewhat beyond expectations.

Naturally, Ling Xi did not show it—at least, in Lin Jun's eyes, she had not made it too obvious.

Lin Jun already knew that Ling Xi had a serious problem, but that problem did not lie with him. It lay with Su Ming.

Lin Jun once again placed his hand before that deathly energy and slowly sensed the power within it.

It was silent as death, utterly devoid of life.

But even if it was energy that could not be absorbed—or rather, energy that was useless even if absorbed—it was still energy.

Moreover, this was not the first time Lin Jun had seen this energy.

Lin Jun took out the two sections of the Stone Stele.

"You... wouldn't, would you?"

The moment Lao Xu saw Lin Jun take out the Stone Stele, he suddenly thought of something, his face filled with disbelief.

Lin Jun smiled.

"I'm guessing even Su Ming never imagined that what he did would happen to help me."

Ling Xi had been completely lost in the fog, but she suddenly widened her eyes and stared fixedly at the Stone Stele.

That was right. Although Ling Xi had been the first in Heaven Beyond Heaven to study the Stone Stele, and the first to discover its peculiarities, she had never actually entered the Stone Stele to understand its interior.

She did not even know about the lingering shadows of those eras within.

Those remnants of consciousness had never acknowledged Ling Xi. Instead, they had seen the possibility of revenge in Lin Jun, so they had handed the Stone Stele over to him without reservation.

"The energy within this Stone Stele is not fundamentally different from this deathly energy."

The energy stored within the Stone Stele had been left behind from various eras.