Half an hour later, Ye Han and the Immortal-Thief Outsider Race cultivator arrived before an enormous stone gate.
An enormous relief of a book page adorned the gate, along with the words "Sea of Books" in two ancient characters of the Ancient Human Race. A crisscrossing astral formation covered its surface, dotted with starlight and inlaid with numerous small Starry Sky Stones.
Ye Han's attention, however, was not on the gate. Instead, he was looking at a broken stone stele beside it.
The fracture on this stone stele matched the fracture on the Ancient Times Stone Stele he had obtained perfectly.
Now it was abundantly clear: the Ancient Times Stone Stele he had obtained was the one from the Sea of Books. He simply did not know what sort of being had severed it and carried it to that accursed place.
Yet what astonished the two most was neither the stele nor the gate, but the skeleton of a Foreign-Race Cultivator seated cross-legged beside the broken stele. The skeleton was very small, like that of a ten-year-old child, and it seemed to have a tail...
In any case, this fellow certainly had not been a cultivator of the Ancient Human Race.
Looking at the skeleton, the Immortal-Thief Outsider Race cultivator said, "Judging by the size of these bones and this tailbone, this fellow might have belonged to the legendary Earth Immortal Race. Even he died here."
As he spoke, he walked toward the skeleton. "I wonder if there are any treasures left!"
But the moment he approached, the skeleton crumbled into ash and scattered.
Three Starry Sky Stones fell out amid the ashes.
At the sight of the three Starry Sky Stones, the Immortal-Thief Outsider Race cultivator exclaimed, "Fellow Daoist Ye, we're in luck!"
He picked up the three Starry