Shi Yi and the Double Pupils Woman went straight to an ancient ruin.
The place was barren, without a blade of grass. Rubble and broken walls lay everywhere, ruins stretching as far as the eye could see.
Once, this had been the capital of an Ancient Kingdom, majestic, vast, and flourishing.
Sadly, as the years passed, it had declined into the river of time, forever becoming history.
This was the former capital of the Stone Kingdom, but this Stone Kingdom was not the one in the Lower Realm. At its height, its might had far surpassed that of the Stone Kingdom in the Desolate Region, and it had produced many astonishing figures.
Yet someone had targeted the Glory Clan, branded it sinful, and forcibly suppressed the thirty principal races of the Sin Clan. The Shi Clan was among the most important of those thirty.
The mighty Stone Kingdom had vanished like smoke in a single day. Clearly, an irresistible outside force had orchestrated everything.
Shi Yi knew that the hands behind it belonged to the Remnant Immortal and the long-lived families of the Imperial Pass, such as the Feng Clan and the Jin Family.
Now, the glorious Stone Kingdom was gone. Only scattered villages remained around its ruins, populated entirely by the old, weak, sick, and disabled. They could stir up no waves at all.
That was precisely why they had survived until now. Anyone who posed even the slightest threat would be ruthlessly slaughtered by those eyes watching from the unseen.
Shi Yi did not visit those villages, as doing so might bring trouble upon them. As for how to awaken the Glory Race's runes, he already knew.
Under the Double Pupils Woman's gaze, Shi Yi walked up to a huge stone outside the ruins of the Stone Kingdom's