"You... what did you say?"
Kong Qiuji froze. The answer Shi Yi had given was simply too shocking.
Shi Hao, a prodigy who had already died, had now quietly arrived in the Upper Realm under the name "Huang"?
That had to be a lie, right?
That was Kong Qiuji's first thought. The reason was simple: Shi Hao's death in Stone Village in the Lower Realm had already been confirmed by his own parents. There was no possibility of falsehood.
Not only Shi Hao's parents, but many of his friends and relatives had confirmed it too.
A prodigy of his generation, the Innate Supreme-Little Stone-had sacrificed his life for the peace of the Eight Regions of the Lower Realm, personally wiping out the gods of the second Divine Descent into the Lower Realm.
When Kong Qiuji had heard that news, he had been heartbroken and could not help crying his eyes out.
He had thought that, with Severing Heaven and Earth, he could never return to the Lower Realm to visit his old friend's grave, and Little Stone's name would forever gather dust in his memories. Who could have imagined that it would surface again, and from the mouth of Little Stone's sworn enemy, Big Stone, at that?
"Didn't you hear what I said? Huang is Shi Hao. Yes, the very Shi Hao you're thinking of," Shi Yi said impassively.
"How could that be? He didn't die?"
Kong Qiuji's mind raced. Had Shi Hao's burial back then been an act? Had he faked his death to escape?
Impossible!
He had met quite a few old acquaintances from the Lower Realm and learned about it from them. It had not seemed false.
The only possibility was that Shi Hao had clawed his way back from the gates of death.
"That's right. Back