"A Stone Embryo of the Divine Stone Clan?"
The moment Di Yi saw the little seal, he recognized that it was not truly a stone, but the shed remains of some living being, refined into its present form.
"Yes," the Stone Kingdom's Human Emperor said. "This is the Stone Embryo our Ancestral Sacrificial Spirit shed after becoming a Deity long ago. I imagine you have discerned its origins as well."
Hearing this, Di Yi nodded. Naturally, he had discerned its origins, which went beyond simply belonging to the Divine Stone Clan.
A God-Striking Stone!
The name of the Ten Fiends of the Primordial Era rang like thunder in the ears throughout the Lower Realm's Eight Regions. Both Immortal Mountain and Heaven Mending Pavilion had records concerning them.
Of course, compared with the other Ten Fiends, records of the God-Striking Stone were far scarcer and consisted mostly of legends. Even so, there were still ways to identify one.
"That is right. Our nation's Ancestral Sacrificial Spirit was not merely connected to the God-Striking Stone. It was itself a God-Striking Stone," the Stone Kingdom's Human Emperor said.
"So it was as I thought. Where is that God-Striking Stone now?" Di Yi had long felt that the Stone Kingdom's Sacrificial Spirit could not be ordinary. After all, this was an ancient kingdom founded by the Shi Clan, and the Shi Clan had quite a significant background in the Upper Realm. He simply had not been certain before.
"It has already passed away," the Stone Kingdom's Human Emperor replied.
"Passed away?" Di Yi was surprised. "Wasn't your Ancestral Sacrificial Spirit the God-Striking Stone, one of the Ten Fiends? Did it fall in a Great Calamity, like the Fire Kingdom's Primordial Vermilion Bird?"
"You misunderstand, Deity. Although our Ancestral Sacrificial Spirit was a God-Striking Stone,