A tall, slender young man slowly stepped out from behind the Stone Puppet King.
It was Qin Hao!
"Qin Hao!!!"
The moment Qin Hao appeared, the crowd erupted into an uproar.
Tuoba Xin, Yue Zhou, and the others all widened their eyes.
Lei Yifei and Lei Yuanshui shook their heads hard, wondering whether their eyes were playing tricks on them.
"How is this possible? Qin Hao, you're not dead?"
Lei Yifei cried out.
Tuoba Xin, Yue Zhou, Shi Yongbo, and the others were equally stunned.
At that moment, Qin Hao was sensing the faint traces of stone man essence energy in the surrounding space.
After emerging from the rift, Qin Hao had discovered that he could sense the stone man essence energy emitted by Stone Puppet Kings within the Stone Man Secret Realm.
Even now, stone man essence energy remained within the Stone Man Secret Realm.
That meant there was still a Stone Puppet King!
No, that's not right.
After sensing it carefully, Qin Hao inwardly shook his head. Its energy aura is weaker than those of the Tiger-Leopard Stone Puppet King and the Humanoid Puppet King. It should be somewhere between a Stone Puppet and a Stone Puppet King. It hasn't fully completed its transformation yet.
In other words, it was a Quasi-Stone Puppet King.
As for its location, it was in a pile of rubble.
This Quasi-Stone Puppet King should be the one that becomes a Stone Puppet King a hundred years from now.
After considering it, Qin Hao decided not to devour it.
At present, Qin Hao could sense only one Quasi-Stone Puppet King. If he devoured it, no Stone Puppet King would appear a hundred years later, inevitably breaking the succession.
Besides, the Quasi-Stone Puppet King did not have much energy. Even if Qin Hao devoured