The Purgatory Calamity
Chapter 761 - 723 The Plot of the Stone Eater_1

Chapter 761: Chapter 723 The Plot of the Stone Eater_1

"Heavenly Tribulation Pillar, truly magnificent and beautiful,"

the Stone Eater mused, intoxicated by the sight of the Heavenly Tribulation Pillar on the Fifth Continent as he passed through the spatial rift, "I am also a lucky participant."

As he said these words, greed and longing began to flow from the bead-like eyes of his stone body.

"They should have belonged to me, I paid a lot, they are my stripped-away bodies!"

"Yes, they should be mine!"

Convincing himself, the Stone Eater’s eyes revealed a determined color, and suddenly he made a decision.

And so!

"Boom!"

Deep within the Mysterious Fog, many Fragment Lands trembled and began to shift positions once again.

The pieces of Fragment Land that made up the Stone Eater’s immense body, each of different shapes, were drawn by an immense and vast force, slowly beginning to change their positions.

The true body of the Stone Eater, which lay flat in the void, slowly "stood" up.

All the Fragment Lands moved in response to his posture adjustment, making thunderous noises.

His body, constructed from Fragment Lands, twisted stiffly, and the ointment-like luminous bridges connecting the lands shone with a dazzling and strange brilliance.

Gradually, he became more agile, and his posture more relaxed and comfortable.

"Why has the Stone Eater stood up?"

"He suddenly stands up; does he want to fight someone?"

"Impossible! Unless the Sovereign himself comes, no one in this Misty Sea can truly threaten Him! Even that King of the Netherworld Gods—Long Di, has no power to kill Him outside the Netherworld Prison!"

The gods, who treated the Stone Eater’s Fragment Land body as a paradise, were shocked and looked around in horror.

The position the gods were looking towards was where another smaller Stone Eater and Pang Jian were on the heart-shaped Fragment Land, but unfortunately, it was shrouded in strange light, and the gods from all sides couldn’t see the wonders within.

Before long, the Stone Eater, resembling a Fragment Land Star River, changed his position from lying to standing.

Within the Stone Eater’s another colossal face, two gray-white stone orbs shaped like stars rolled around, and soon two beams of light that seemed capable of piercing through space-time burst forth.

The two beams of light headed straight for the heart-shaped Fragment Land in His chest!

Inside that Fragment Land, Pang Jian’s Primordial Spirit, wrapped in a multicolored halo, was still talking to the smaller version of Himself, still adjusting the angle of the spatial rift.

Caught off guard by the sight of two beams of light like pillars splitting heavens and earth heading his way, Pang Jian immediately sensed danger.

"You!"

Pang Jian’s eyes revealed anger.

In that instant, the entire space of the heart-shaped Fragment Land, Pang Jian’s thoracic mind, was once again filled with colorful stones.

Besides himself, the heavens and the void, everything he thought, felt, and perceived, was piled up with stones, making it difficult for Pang Jian to split his Primordial Spirit Body.

Divine Consciousness needs space to fly out of the mind, and the body turned into myriad colors of ghostly light, all kinds of power within him, they all need space to contain them.

There must first be space to accommodate and accept, before he can divide into millions and then gather again.

But at this moment, in the Void Fragment Land where he was, there was not a single space available for him to split, his colorful shell simply couldn’t divide.

Outside the shell, beyond the Sea of Consciousness, everything is solid stone.

His Primordial Spirit in the Fragment Land suddenly could not see those two gray-white beams of light anymore, nor detect anything unusual.

All of a sudden, he and the true body from Purgatory lost contact for a brief moment.

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Fifth Realm of Purgatory.

The true body of Pang Jian suddenly discovered that the open spatial rift was again filled with countless broken stones.

Surprised, he merely thought the Stone Eater was too close to that spatial rift, and had blocked his vision with a stone body, making everything he saw the Stone Eater.

Then he no longer felt the thoughts of the Primordial Spirit, and immediately knew something was wrong.

The very next moment.

"Boom! Boom!"

Two thick beams of gray-white light, traveling through the spatial rift opened by the Realm God Card, went straight from the heart-shaped Fragment Land within the Mysterious Fog to the Fifth Realm of Purgatory!

Pang Jian was furious, realizing that the Stone Eater had made a move and was planning to do something in Purgatory.

"Pang Jian, the pillars of those seven Heavenly Tribulation Pillars in Purgatory, my trunk is the key main material!"

"For the sake of your mother, I voluntarily severed part of my trunk to become part of the Heavenly Tribulation Pillar! For your mother, I was willing to give everything!"

"But now that your mother has passed away, I have no obligation to protect this realm for the Human Race of Purgatory with my body!"

"I just want to take back what is rightfully mine!"

The two immensely thick beams of gray-white light, like long dragons or javelins, thrust directly towards the Fifth Continent.

The air of devouring everything, smashing all seals and obstructions, turned Pang Jian and the Human True Gods below him pale.

No one expected such an unexpected turn of events!

"Different Kinds are always Different Kinds!"

Jiang Fan, once the mightiest emperor of mankind, ascended soaringly with a white jade seal floating beneath him, wrapped in a map of the mountains and rivers.

His sleeves billowed with the prestigious aura of yellow, and he shouted, "Pang Jian, you have invited the wolf into your home!"

Li Wang, Pu Zhaotian, and others also rushed towards the sky one after another.

After a period of recovery and recuperation, everyone’s strength had recovered seven or eight tenths, and they all had the power to fight another battle.

Just as they saw two terrifying beams of light suddenly shoot out from the depths of Mysterious Fog from a strange place, and then noticed Pang Jian’s troubled complexion, they immediately guessed that the Stone Eater harbored ill intentions.

The crowd immediately soared into the sky to join the battle.

"Pfft! Pfft!"

The two gray-white beams of light, which emerged through the cracks in space, pierced through the cyan-hued light curtain formed by the Heavenly Tribulation Pillar and suddenly appeared in the mid-air of the Fifth Continent!

At that moment, the two gray-white beams of light even paused slightly, and then headed towards the Heavenly Tribulation Pillar standing erect in the cold wilderness!

"Eh!"

Jiang Fan paused mid-way.

The anomaly in the spatial rift and the Stone Eater’s strange moves led him to mistakenly believe that the Stone Eater intended to kill Pang Jian first before turning to deal with them.

Pang Jian was their bridge to the outside world, the key to their ability to receive supplies later on, and also the guide leading them to the Seventh Realm.

Of course, nothing could be allowed to happen to Pang Jian.

So seeing that something was amiss, Jiang Fan immediately rushed to the high sky to ensure that Pang Jian was safe.

Little did they know, the Stone Eater’s target wasn’t the nearby Pang Jian at all, but rather the cyan-hued light curtain that they had attacked for a long time without being able to break through.

"This dog-eat-dog situation is none of our business; there’s no need for us to interfere!"

Jiang Fan quickly regained his composure and signaled to Li Wang, Pu Zhaotian, and the others not to be hasty but to observe the situation first.

In Jiang Fan’s eyes, whether it was the Stone Eater, Luo Hongyan who secretly descended from beyond the heavens, or that Black Phoenix, they were all outsiders of Different Kinds.

The struggles and disputes between these outsiders, he didn’t feel the need to get involved.

Li Wang also abruptly stopped mid-way, not continuing to rush toward the high sky, not going toward the spatial rift where Pang Jian was.

Only Pu Zhaotian, swift as a sword rainbow, vanished in a flash from their midst and appeared in the blink of an eye beside Pang Jian.

He reproached, "You’re not even sure whether the other party is friend or foe, yet you’re leading people around. Aren’t you afraid they could kill you?"

Pang Jian was at that moment preoccupied with following the two gray-white beams of light released by the Stone Eater, not responding to him.

At this time.

Atop the Heavenly Tribulation Pillar, above Bagua City, a fluctuating ethereal phantom suddenly appeared.

It was the figure of a slender woman with a hazy face.

With her hands pressed together, her palms emitted a radiance so intense that no one dared to look directly at it!

The brilliance stretched rapidly, becoming a longsword that seemed to sever the laws of heaven and earth, sending out chills and silence as it met the two gray-white beams from the Stone Eater.

"Hiss, hiss!"

Pang Jian deeply felt, with his true body, the laws within the Fifth Continent that were invisible to others continuously breaking and being reconnected by the power of the Heavenly Tribulation Pillar.

He had truly witnessed the oddity of the Heavenly Tribulation Pillar that stabilized the land.

Without this Heavenly Tribulation Pillar standing strong, the laws within the continent would unlikely reconnect quickly after shattering.

In that case, the splitting and disintegration of the Fifth Continent would have been inevitable.

The force released by the Stone Eater was clearly destroying the core laws of the Fifth Continent, intending to shatter the entire land and "pluck" out that Heavenly Tribulation Pillar.

"Boom!"

The Fifth Continent, its surface undulating uncertainly like a lifted carpet, with mountains occasionally breaking and collapsing amidst the tremors.

The blindingly bright sword light clashed with the two gray-white beams from the Stone Eater in the void, creating various wonders of the world above.

Countless small stones, as if they were a shower of light splashing out from the collision of forces, suddenly expanded and grew in the void.

In the blink of an eye, those small stones turned into mountains, lands, stars, becoming strange creatures imprinted with the law of the Stone Eater’s Dao Marks!

Mountains and lands manifested in the air of the Fifth Continent, along with innumerable Stonemen whose souls were ignited and awakened.

But, in the next moment, a cold light containing the Death Force flashed through those mountains, lands, and stars.

Thus mountains turned to ash, lands to bubbles, stars to dust, and living beings to nothingness!

The cold light containing the Death Force carried the true essence of death, Cold Ice, and Brightness, endowed with the ultimate killing intent by the Sovereign, snuffing out everything!

In the sky, stones fell, and showers of light dispersed without truly landing on the Fifth Continent before they vanished into nothingness.

In unseen corners, the profundities that the Stone Eater had imbued continued to clash with the power of the Sovereign, still striving to infiltrate that Heavenly Tribulation Pillar.

Until parts of the continent started being torn apart, mountains collapsing.

There was a ruinous city on the Fifth Continent called Golden Feather City, which had been the place where the Demon Emperor Jin Yu had achieved his Divine Enthronement. This part of the continent was especially solid and cold, with a heart full of rare veins of gold and iron ores.

Such a continent, under the secret confrontation of two powerful beings, had suffered such terrible wounds.

If the other six continents were to be touched by such levels of power, wouldn’t they disintegrate rapidly?

"Stone Eater, I will come to find you in Mysterious Fog not long from now,"

A lofty and echoing divine voice came from the vague phantom.

Its eyes penetrated the cyan radiance, crossed the torn spatial rift, and seemed to freeze upon the face of the Stone Eater in the Mysterious Fog.

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