Humans are shrouded in mist, projecting their image across countless worlds.

Chapter 147 The Strongest in Kyushu Gather

Sensing the immense power of the Stone Man Road expert, capable of overturning the entire world, tearing through the boundaries and crossing across realms, the Nine Provinces experts in Zulong Village were startled and all looked towards the other side of the world rift.

When they saw a celestial stele carrying the power to suppress all the heavens and myriad realms break through from the other side of the world of death, the expressions of the several peerless experts in Zulong Village became solemn.

"It's Brother He Lang!"

Beside the ancestral god Suirenshi and the others, Xiao Chen, dressed in black, saw the Heavenly Stele and the Heavenly Stele Mystic Law within his body automatically activated, making him understand something and causing him to exclaim in surprise.

Kyushu.

Ever since He Lang destroyed the Realm of Immortality a hundred years ago, allowing the regions once eroded by the illusory world to return to the Nine Provinces, the real beings in the Realm of Immortality have begun an era of competition in the Nine Provinces.

After destruction, a golden age always follows. After the destruction of the Immortal Realm, the most outstanding talents among all races embarked on a path of rapid evolution.

Among them, the human race is the most powerful race, simply because several ancestral gods of the human race in the Nine Provinces suppress the Nine Provinces.

The four ancestral gods—Suiren, Long, Wuzu, Shennong, and Xuanyuan Huangdi who later broke through in the Nine Provinces—made the human race in the Nine Provinces as stable as Mount Tai.

Xiao Chen, Zhao Ling'er, Lan Nuo, and other prodigies of the Nine Provinces shone brightly, illuminating the land of the Nine Provinces.

After his trip to Dragon Island, Xiao Chen was sent back to Kyushu by He Lang. With the complete Heavenly Stele Mystic Method, Xiao Chen's cultivation progressed rapidly. In just a hundred years, he had already approached the Ancestral God realm and was a peerless genius at the Battle Ancestor level.

Xiao Chen's rapid advancement in cultivation was also due to his proximity to the source, as several ancestral figures from the Nine Provinces had coincidentally come to Ancestral Dragon Village, stayed there, and built huts to live in.

As a villager of Zulong Village, it was only natural for Xiao Chen to receive guidance from several ancestral gods.

When the Heavenly Stele descended upon Zulong Village, it suddenly shrank to the size of a brick. He Lang's Dao Imprint was projected from the Heavenly Stele, which hovered above his head, and countless laws of order descended, enveloping He Lang's figure.

His invincible aura, which made him the only one worthy of respect and swept across three thousand worlds, was so overwhelming that several ancestral gods felt a sense of pressure on their minds.

Several peerless experts were secretly shocked. They could see that He Lang had suppressed his power to the extreme, yet his mere presence was like the Great Dao of Heaven and Earth.

"Brother He Lang, have you finished your cultivation?"

Xiao Chen was overjoyed and strode forward to exchange pleasantries with He Lang.

Xiao Chen had also entered the World of Death over the years. In that world, he had heard of his good older brother's invincible reputation, which was feared by all spirits. He also knew that He Lang was trying to break through to the realm above the Ancestral God.

A century has passed, and Xiao Chen is no longer the novice in martial arts he once was. He also knows how terrifying the realm above the Ancestral God is. The Ancestral Gods Suirenshi, Shennongshi, and the Martial Ancestor all have great fear of beings in this realm.

"Xiao Chen, seniors, it's been a long time!" He Lang greeted Xiao Chen and the ancestral god Suirenshi.

He Lang then turned his gaze to Xiao Chen. He said, "Xiao Chen, you've made great progress! You've already become a Battle Ancestor. I remember when I saw you in the Death World last time, you were still stuck in the Fish Leap Realm."

"It is all thanks to the guidance of the Ancestral Gods that I have reached my current level."

After exchanging a few pleasantries with Xiao Chen, He Lang finally addressed Xiao Chen's earlier question.

"I'm on the path to breakthrough and now I need the help of people from other worlds. That's why I received your message saying that the Martial Ancestor and the old man of the Heaven-Defying Family are going to venture into other worlds. I'll join you and we'll fight our way into those worlds together."

As he spoke, He Lang's gaze fell upon the Martial Ancestor, a man of imposing stature, with flowing black hair and a majestic bearing. After a century of recuperation, the Martial Ancestor had returned to his peak condition, his bronze skin shimmering with a precious radiance, containing boundless divine power.

Martial Ancestor stared at He Lang's figure, his eyes, which could see through the origins of all heavens, revealing surprise.

"Human Emperor, you have already embarked on the path of the Stone Man. You should not take such risks. Why don't I and that person from the Heaven-Defying Family take action together this time?"

After staring at He Lang for a moment, the Martial Ancestor spoke solemnly.

“The Martial Ancestor is right. You are already close to the perfection of the Stone Man Path. You shouldn’t risk your life.”

An aged voice echoed from the void, followed by a stone figure, its entire body petrified, emerging from the void. Staring at the celestial monument above He Lang's head, it gasped in shock.

This stone figure is the ancestor of the extraordinary family from which the little beast Keke was born. In the ancestor's arms, the snow-white little beast Keke was held in his arms. When she saw He Lang, Keke immediately started to babble, her voice full of surprise. She jumped up from the ancestor's arms and pounced towards He Lang.

"Missing me? I think you miss the spiritual fruits from the Creation Roots that I collected."

He Lang caught the little beast Keke, listened to its babbling, rubbed its little head, and casually tore through the void, stretching his hand into the myriad worlds. A moment later, the creations of various realms piled up in front of Keke, and the little guy happily rolled around in the pile of spirits.

When Ke Zu and Xiao Chen saw this scene, their eyes twitched violently. Just spoil it!
"Ancestor Ke, Ancestor Wu, you don't need to worry about me. I do need the stone man from another world to help me on my path to breakthrough."

He Lang knew that Wu Zu and Ke Zu were afraid that the tragic scene of the battle with the other world would be repeated. In the ancient times, the Nine Provinces and the other world fought a great war, and the Nine Provinces, which had six Stone Kings, was defeated in that great war.

The reason is that when the Nine Provinces attacked the ninety-ninth stone step of the origin of the other world, they encountered a strange force that killed the Nine Provinces' Stone King at the ninety-ninth step.

The naturally born Stone King, nurtured by the Nine Lamps, stayed behind to cover the retreat and died in that battle. The Stone Man was divided into nine parts and was taken over by the ancestral god of the Nine Provinces lineage.

After He Lang finished speaking, he revealed some of his inner strength. The Heavenly Stele above his head became crystal clear, and the Supreme Dao subsided, revealing part of the inner strength within the Heavenly Stele.

"My path to Nirvana requires the path of other stone men, so I plan to enter another world and wreak havoc."

When the ancestral gods such as Wu Zu, Ke Zu, and Suirenshi, along with other powerful figures from the Nine Provinces, saw the nine miniature stone cities in the Heavenly Stele, they understood why He Lang was so confident.

"Nine stone paths that are about to be completed—is this the path you, Human Emperor, will take? To use the stone paths of others as nourishment for your own nirvana—this is terrifying!"

Ke Zu said, looking somewhat dazed.

So many stone paths lead to one person, and the resulting Stone King is powerful enough to defy the heavens!

Wu Zu and the others also understood why He Lang kept killing those powerful Stone Man Path cultivators in the Nirvana Realm in the World of Death.

After learning the truth, the group stopped trying to dissuade them and began discussing how to infiltrate the other world and probe its secrets.

It was quickly decided that Martial Ancestor would openly attempt to break through the ninety-nine stone steps, while He Lang would secretly intervene, thus severely injuring the high-level cultivator from the other world.

He Lang had no objection to this. He didn't take the Stone King of the Otherworld seriously. However, behind the door on the ninety-nine stone steps of the Sacred Artifact of the Heavens, there was the royal power of the Holy Ancestor of the Otherworld. With his current level, he was not able to erase the royal power.

The gap between the Emperor and the Stone King is too great to be bridged by numbers. A single drop of blood from the Emperor can destroy all the heavens and myriad realms, making him extremely powerful.

(End of this chapter)