The Stone Man's Rebellion

The heavens trembled, the earth cracked, and rivers flowed in reverse. All was chaos in the Otherworld.

The Stone Man's rampage twisted time and space, shaking the entire world.

This world, after all, had been specially refined by many Ancestral Gods to withstand attacks from supreme beings. Yet now it stood on the verge of rupture.

Bang!

The already broken Divine City trembled violently. An ancient wall, as high as the heavens themselves, collapsed. Blazing light shot in all directions, and vast quantities of primal essence leaked away.

Roooar!

The Stone Man, his feet rooted in the center of the Divine City, burned with boundless fury. He longed to tear himself free and engage the terrifying intruder in close combat.

But he dared not truly rise. If he burst forth from the Divine City at this moment, it would be utter self-abandonment, forever forfeiting all hope.

Ten thousand ages of hatred! Eternal regret!

To have come this far, to have endured so many tribulations—no one would lightly give up before the final moment.

The Stone Man at the center of the Divine City thrust his hands into the void. His arms stretched ten thousand zhang, and his stony palms, like two great gates of stone, completely blotted out the sky.

An ancient, primordial aura flooded forth—not only the limit of his divine power but also all manner of mysterious forces accumulated over endless ages.

Chaos sealed the heavens! Misty and obscure, it toppled a whole realm!

The Stone Man within the Divine City unleashed a supreme divine art, seeking to isolate this world from heaven and earth, to stand alone beyond the myriad realms.

He did not want to be destroyed together with the invader who had cast away his own future. He wished to briefly pierce through ancient and modern, reshuffle the world, vanish from this mortal plane, and escape the crisis.

Claaaang!

A terrifying blade sound shattered the great world's shielding, piercing through all the heavens and worlds. Every realm heard this soul-shaking noise.

The stone blade cut across the dome of heaven. Though its colossal body was plain and unadorned, with no dazzling blade-light shooting forth, it was the most fearsome weapon in all the worlds.

Faint, ancient, and desolate ripples spread out. The stone blade split the firmament, pulverized chaos, broke all binding seals, and annihilated every divine art of the Stone Man within the Divine City!

Rumble!

The myriad worlds trembled violently. The Stone Man in the heavens pierced through the void, returning to the origin, forcing the Divine City, which had tried to escape beyond the world, to reappear in the mortal realm.

"Kill him!"

The surrounding Ancestral Gods roared. Forbidden incantations surged across the sky like divine rivers, flowing with overwhelming might. Blazing light split heaven and earth, dimming sun, moon, and stars.

Bang, bang, bang!

Fearsome divine abilities and inscrutable cursed techniques struck the Stone Man in the heavens, shattering him into dozens of pieces. Massive chunks of stone fell from the sky.

His body was on the verge of collapse, riddled with holes that pierced through from front to back. Cracks covered his entire frame.

Though he was incomparably powerful, he had not yet taken that final step. Facing the frenzied assault of the gods, he could only hurtle toward destruction.

The Stone Man's blood stained the sky. He shed far more blood than the Stone Man within the Divine City. Crimson gore was everywhere, a scene of heartbreaking desolation.

"Incarnate as eternity! Exist alongside the ages!"

The blood-soaked Stone Man of the Otherworld let out a choked roar. A great yellow light blazed around him. The flowing blood reversed course and surged back into his body. His shattered frame began to rapidly repair.

Boom!

Three enormous, petrified hands reached through the void, seizing the rebel Stone Man by both thighs and one arm. A nauseating sound of tearing flesh echoed out.

Three giants, hidden in unknown places—not true Stone Men, yet partially petrified—grabbed the rebel Stone Man and tore him apart with sheer force.

Even 'existing alongside the ages' had its limits. The divine power at this level could still destroy such a being.

Crack, crack!

The rebel Stone Man's two legs and left arm were nearly wrenched from his body, held on only by a few threads of bloody mist. He was about to be dismembered!

Boom!

At that moment, the Stone Man within the broken Divine City on the ground made his move, cold and merciless.

His feet remained planted on the earth, but his body swelled up to the heavens.

A petrified great hand reached toward the Stone Man in the sky. Unable to rescue his torn limbs, the rebel could only, with his remaining arm, swing the stone blade down toward the Stone Man in the city.

All four sides' attacks converged upon him. The rebel Stone Man was on the verge of destruction.

In this moment, he clearly threw caution to the wind, caring nothing for being torn apart. With a thunderous roar, he severed his own left arm and both legs. Holding the stone blade in his single arm, he plunged downward, aiming directly for the Stone Man in the Divine City.

With the conviction of mutual annihilation, the rebel Stone Man fell like a comet striking the earth, like a divine rainbow rending the sky. It was a tragic, heroic scene, blood dyeing the heavens.

He was making a suicide attack.

This was a being who could have reached the very pinnacle, yet only to prevent the Otherworld Stone Man from emerging early, he had utterly destroyed his own future.

Bright red Stone Man blood rained from the sky. Blood gushed from his severed limbs like fountains, staining the firmament crimson.

It was a terrifying tableau. The Stone Man's splashing blood turned into enormous, blood-colored waterfalls. The Ancestral Gods showered by it recoiled in agony, retreating madly.

A world-shaking collision!

The rebel Stone Man wanted to pull the Stone Man in the Divine City into death with him.

The Stone Man within the Divine City clashed his stone palms again and again against the stone blade falling from the sky, sending up showers of terrifying sparks, like meteors streaking past.

The Otherworld shook. The intensity of combat between beings of this level was simply beyond measure!

Rain of blood scattered down.

The Stone Man in the Divine City, using his bare stone hands to meet the stone blade, found his palms cracking and splitting. His hands too bled. No matter how powerful, his fleshly palms could not compare to that stone blade wreathed in hazy yellow light.

Both hands were completely shattered, blood streaming down.

The two Stone Men fought drenched in blood. Their blood was so tyrannical that everything it touched was obliterated, and no divine power could block it.

"Destroy him!"

Everyone shouted, wanting to use one final blow to annihilate the Stone Man falling from the sky.

Boom!

At that moment, black light surged into the heavens. An oppressive aura pierced through the great world's shield, descending with lightning speed. The very ground of the Otherworld, which had been reinforced and refined, split open.

Two Dead Cities, one before and one behind, came crashing in. Their vast, terrifying might suppressed the sky and shook the earth.

Heaven and earth cracked apart. The divine abilities and cursed techniques of the nearby Ancestral Gods were crushed instantly. The black light became the only thing in that realm.

Bang!

Three petrified great hands reached out to meet the first Dead City. They were all filled with unimaginable destructive power, trying to tear the colossal city apart.

Boom!

The moment the first Dead City descended, it was seized by the three petrified hands.

This was the Primordial Demon City that Xiao Chen had brought back from the Death World. Not long ago, it had nearly shattered while killing three Ancestral Gods. Now, as the three petrified hands seized it, its ancient walls, each as grand as a mountain range, collapsed instantly.

The Primordial Demon City was torn apart by three great hands, splitting into many pieces. Black light spread across the wilds, and massive chunks of city wall fell from the heavens.

But every piece of the city wall contained unimaginable divine power, shaking all directions!

Yes, the shattered pieces of the city burst into flame, grinding all the surrounding cursed techniques to dust.

At the same time, black light soared from the city's central area. The largest piece of the central city walls pressed straight down, hurtling toward the Divine City below.

Xiao Chen's arrival could not have been more timely. He had pulled the rebel Stone Man back from the edge of destruction.

The central city wall of the Primordial Demon City smashed down onto the Stone Man that had grown out of the ground in the Divine City.

The one-armed Stone Man wielding the stone blade was set free, soaring back into the sky.

Boom!

The central city wall blazed. Black light enshrouded the Otherworld sky, drowning the Divine City.

Though they were all parts of the same city, now the shattered Demon City was burning. All its remaining power was being released in a single explosive burst.

The result was terrifying beyond measure. The Primordial Demon City, condensed with the divine power of millennia, blazed fiercely, dragging the shattered Divine City below into the inferno as well.

Roooar!

The Stone Man rooted in the Divine City raised his head and howled at the sky. But he could not pull his feet free. No matter his supreme divine abilities or overwhelming combat power, he could not bring them to bear. This enraged him utterly.

At that moment, the surrounding Ancestral Gods all cried out as one, trying to stop the Stone Man from emerging.

Infinite divine arts bloomed with dazzling light. At the Ancestral God level, their cursed methods were simply unimaginable. The Divine City was flooded, and the black flames that had been blazing moments before were instantly extinguished.

"Perfect! Use this ruined Demon City to repair the Divine City!"

A supreme Ancestral God roared, reminding the Stone Man in the broken Divine City.

Rumble!

The Stone Man's divine arts reached the heavens. He gathered all the scattered pieces of the Demon City together, fusing them around the Divine City, intending to use them to rebuild its massive frame.

At this moment, Xiao Chen was driving the second Dead City, joining forces with the rebel Stone Man in the sky. They battled the three enormous petrified hands while fending off the Ancestral Gods' cursed attacks.

He made no move to stop the Otherworld Ancestral Gods' actions. He did not try to prevent the Stone Man below from using the Demon City to repair the Divine City. He knew that if the Divine City were truly restored this way, the Stone Man would certainly leap out from the earth on his own.

This shattered Primordial Demon City was not utterly without life. A mysterious being, his body partially petrified, was slumbering within the Demon City's rubble. Once the Divine City absorbed his life force, this flickering, dying being would surely erupt!

Boom!

The three enormous stone hands in the sky seized the second Dead City that Xiao Chen was driving, trying to rend it apart.

This was the Dead City from Ancestral Dragon Village in the Nine Provinces—the same city where the rebel Stone Man had once slumbered. It shook violently, its walls beginning to crack.

The power from the three stone hands, combined with the attacks of the surrounding Ancestral Gods, was too much even for this sturdy Dead City to bear.

The situation was dire. The rebel Stone Man in the sky finally recovered a measure of strength. His stone blade swept across the firmament, striking down.

In that instant, the stone blade transformed into millions of hazy, yellow saber-shadows, bursting into dazzling divine light for the first time, drowning all three stone hands.

Crack!

A sound of snapping rang out. The central hand was severed! It crashed to the ground with a thunderous roar.

The other two hands cracked all over and immediately released the Dead City.

The Dead City escaped destruction, remaining suspended in the heavens.

"Kill!"

At that moment, the batch of Otherworld Ancestral Gods that had followed Xiao Chen arrived. Their murderous intent converged into one, shaking heaven and earth.

The combined divine thoughts of a dozen Ancestral Gods condensed into a brilliant divine rainbow, slashing forth in a killing strike.

Bang!

The rebel Stone Man's chest was pierced through!

Ancestral Gods were the most fearsome of beings. If a Stone Man had not taken that final step, he could not avoid being wounded by them.

Rumble!

The lower half of his stony chest split off and fell from the high sky, hurtling toward the Divine City.

Roooar!

The Stone Man within the Divine City turned his stony face into a mask of madness. He raised his head and bellowed. Boundless black clouds shot into the sky, demonic clouds blotting out the sun.

In that moment, he absorbed the chest of the Stone Man from the sky, intending to make it part of the Divine City. The stone man's legs and left arm, which had fallen earlier, had already solidified into the Divine City's walls, continuously supplying it with divine power.

"I shall be reborn in Nirvana and take that final step! No one can stop me!"

His terrible voice shook the myriad heavens, piercing through every world, making the skies of all realms tremble!

At last—he was about to take that final step! The Otherworld Ancestral Gods were all ecstatic.

At the Eternal Unknown, the three Supreme Ancestral Gods could no longer remain calm. Someone was about to force their way up the Ninety-Nine Stone Steps!

Throughout the ages, they had rarely left this place. Even now, with such momentous events unfolding in their own world—someone approaching that final step, someone else trying to stop him—they did not return.

Bang!

An unexplained attack came from an unknown source. It was a supreme divine power accumulated over countless eons, blended with an understanding of time and space, with reflections on the epoch before the universe was born. It condensed a fearsome, mysterious might.

Thud!

One of the seated Supreme Ancestral Gods shook violently. The stone platform beneath him shattered, then turned to ash. His eyes shot out two terrifying beams of light, pierced through the void, and saw past and future.

But he found no enemy. This was an ominous sign!

Boom!

Another surge of overwhelming power suddenly appeared, descending upon him. Divine radiance flooded around him, completely enveloping him.

Lines of blood appeared on his divine body, like a web of bloody veins spreading across his form. The Ancestral God was enduring a mysterious, terrifying attack.

"Manifest!"

At that moment, the other two seated Supreme Ancestral Gods suddenly opened their eyes, sending forth four brilliant rays of divine light. Their low, sharp voices shattered the sky as they struck toward a region of empty void, trying to force out the terrifying observer.

Bang!

The sky was severed by their voices. In that region, a flash of light appeared, then an enormous phantom rapidly expanded until it was as vast as the heavens themselves, seeming to tear open a world beyond the heavens!

Countless trillions of feet high! His oppressive aura filled every corner!

"Old fossil of the Celestial Race!"

"So it really is you!"

"I knew you hadn't perished!"

The three Supreme Ancestral Gods, normally silent, nearly petrified, now all spat out killing words!

The history of the Celestial Race civilization, the dragon race civilization, and the human race civilization—these were the three known great eras of history. Each had flourished and been destroyed several times over. It was not hard to imagine how ancient and terrifying this old Celestial Race relic must be, having lived into the present age.

"Kill!"

The three Supreme Ancestral Gods, who had always remained as calm as an ancient well, now roared in unison. Three great hands, huge as the sky itself, reached out to envelop the colossal phantom at the edge of the firmament.

Boom!

Their palms shattered the Eternal Unknown. The three Supreme Ancestral Gods destroyed all physical forms there! Their devastating divine power shook the myriad worlds.

But the old Celestial Race relic simply vanished into thin air. It was impossible to tell if he had been wounded. It was as if he had never appeared.

"How dare you!"

At that moment, the three Supreme Ancestral Gods were enraged. For while they had been attacking the old Celestial Race relic, another tall, imposing figure had appeared before the Ninety-Nine Stone Steps.

Bang!

The three Supreme Ancestral Gods, who had sat motionless throughout the ages, now all burst into action. They appeared before the stone steps and struck at that imposing figure.

"So it's you—the Martial Ancestor!"

The three Supreme Ancestral Gods' eyes were icy cold, their voices utterly merciless.

"Even if you've come back to life, we can kill you a second time!"