A day after leaving the Primordial Ancient Mine, Lu Chen departed Source City.
As for Duan De, he had long since vanished somewhere to dig up tombs, so the two naturally went their separate ways.
Ten days later, after crossing tens of thousands of miles, Lu Chen found a small oasis with a little village inside. Its houses were all built of stone, and nearby stood a purple stone mountain thousands of meters tall.
He descended from the clouds. As soon as he flew above Stone Village, two youths in the Divine Bridge Realm came up to meet him. They were clearly its guardians. In the chaotic Northern Region, a visiting cultivator was not necessarily good news.
Neither youth was very old, looking only around twenty. One seemed honest and simple, while the other looked bright and quick-witted.
Strangely, both had double pupils. In ancient times on Earth, this had been called the mark of a sage emperor. The legendary Xiang Yu had been a man with double pupils.
In this world's previous era, those with double pupils had also been considered born divine beings. Once they embarked on the path of cultivation, provided they did not perish along the way, their future heights were unimaginable, with the mighty power to split heaven and earth.
Lu Chen still remembered that in the Chaotic Ancient Era, a Double-Pupiled One had shared an extraordinarily complicated history with the legendary Desolate Heavenly Emperor.
That Double-Pupiled One had once declared, "Double pupils are already a path to invincibility. Why borrow another's bones?"
In the end, he had indeed reached the ultimate pinnacle and become a king of the immortal path.
As for the two youths who had emerged from Stone Village, if Lu Chen's guess was right, one should be called Wang Shu and