“What!” Lin Xiao’s heart shuddered. The Stone Clan—the youth statue was from a race recorded only in ancient tomes.
Neither spirit beast nor human, the Stone Clan was a unique lifeform, their stone bodies shaped like humans, possessing intelligence.
Their combat power and defense were terrifying.
Lin Xiao had thought it was just a statue, not a living relic of a primordial race from the ancient wilderness.
Was this space a remnant from that era?
Or had someone placed the Stone Clan here?
These questions were secondary. The pressing issue was escape. The Stone Clan youth’s pressure alone immobilized him.
Fleeing seemed impossible.
But as the Stone Clan’s prime target, he couldn’t sit idly by.
The others were equally terrified. They’d never heard of the Stone Clan, yet this fearsome race existed in the Mysterious Domain Battlefield, its power so overwhelming that its pressure pinned them.
They’d thought Lin Xiao had claimed a grand opportunity, only to realize it was a trap—awakening the Stone Clan after gaining the inheritance.
If the Stone Clan only targeted Lin Xiao, they might survive. But it likely wouldn’t spare them either.
Against such power, survival was near impossible unless the Stone Clan chose to let them go—a slim chance.
*Boom!*
The Stone Clan warrior’s aura surged to its peak, its crushing pressure bearing down on Lin Xiao, threatening to shatter him.
*Boom!*
But at that moment, a terrifying fluctuation erupted in the sky, as if the heavens were collapsing. A pressure equal to or greater than the Stone Clan’s enveloped the warrior.
A white lightning bolt shot from the void, striking the Stone Clan figure.
This lightning was thousands, perhaps millions, of times stronger than Lin Xiao’s summoned thunder, capable of annihilating the void.
“The power of spatial rules?” The Stone Clan warrior frowned, punching skyward. A stone beam, like a colossal pillar, surged upward, as if to pierce the heavens, its force shaking the world.
*Boom!*
The void lightning shattered, the stone fist beam blasting into the sky. A deafening explosion followed, the heavens trembling, cracks appearing in the void.
It was as if the sky was breaking.
Everyone was stunned. How powerful was this Stone Clan warrior, shattering spatial rule lightning and cracking the heavens?
Was it about to break the Mysterious Domain Battlefield?
The crowd was speechless, awestruck beyond their experience.
“Such terrifying power!” Lin Xiao’s heart raced. Mo Yue, Gu Xuanyuan, and the others were equally dumbfounded. This was a peerless titan, shattering the sky.
*Boom!*
The heavens darkened, the earth quaked. Endless white lightning erupted from the void, converging above the Stone Clan warrior like a cascading waterfall, flooding toward it.
*Boom!*
The warrior slapped upward, a massive stone pillar of force surging to meet the lightning cascade.
*Boom!*
An earth-shaking explosion rang out, the void shattering into cracks. The heavens and earth resonated, the ground trembling. The collision seemed to annihilate space, sparking chaotic void currents.
Fortunately, these currents stayed confined to the impact zone, or everyone would have been obliterated.
The crowd watched, hearts pounding. The power was too terrifying. Though it didn’t spread, any disruption in the balance could destroy the entire region.
*Boom!*
Ultimately, the stone force was shattered by the lightning, which then engulfed the Stone Clan warrior.
“Hiss! Hiss!”
The lightning vanished, as if absorbed by the warrior, who stood unscathed in the void.
But its towering aura dissipated, and the sky’s turmoil ceased.
The pressure pinning everyone lifted.
“Damn it, this spatial rule has suppressed my cultivation to the Martial King peak!” the Stone Clan warrior growled, its voice like eternal ice, glaring at the sky. “So what if it temporarily limits my power? This space will soon shatter!”
Its gaze swept downward to the crowd.
As the pressure vanished, Lin Xiao pulled out a hundred Martial King essence pills, feeding them into the Void Phoenix Wings.
The Stone Clan’s power was now capped at Martial King peak, losing its earlier dominance.
With fifty pills, the wings had outsped early Martial Sovereigns. With a hundred, he might escape this warrior.
“Hiss!”
The Void Phoenix Wings glowed brilliantly, golden light enveloping Lin Xiao. A powerful fluctuation surged, and he shot skyward like a beam of light.
“Run!” Everyone else unleashed their own methods, scattering in all directions.
With the Stone Clan at Martial King peak, killing them all was no longer feasible.
“Kill!” The Stone Clan uttered a cold command, and thousands of effigies chased the fleeing crowd.
The youth statue itself didn’t bother to act.
It seemed only Lin Xiao warranted its personal attention, but he’d already fled.
That didn’t mean it wouldn’t pursue him later.
This space was a cage for it—and for everyone else.
