Chapter 1252: Stone Heart

In Ye Yuan's hand, he held a small, pale gray crystal.

The crystal was very small, inconspicuous among a pile of rubble.

Mixed in with those broken stones, it was impossible to tell any difference.

If one didn't look carefully, it couldn't be seen at all.

Seeing this, Shi Yong and the others were terrified and dared not advance any further.

"Heh, why not come forward? Weren't you quite fierce just now?"

Ye Yuan looked at Shi Yong with a full smile, then suddenly changed to a surprised expression and said, "Eh, why hasn't he revived this time?"

Shi Yong and the others fell silent. They were all stone men, their faces lacking much expression.

But clearly, an extremely oppressive emotion spread among these stone men.

"No one talking? I wonder what would happen if I crushed it? It seems someone said earlier that they couldn't be killed."

With that, Yuan power fluctuated around Ye Yuan, and he was about to crush the crystal.

Shi Yong was greatly alarmed and quickly said, "Don't! I... we concede!"

By saying this, he essentially admitted that this crystal was their weakness.

In fact, whether Shi Yong admitted it or not no longer mattered.

Ye Yuan smiled and said, "Hey, that's more like it! If I'm not mistaken, this is your fatal weakness, right? Claiming you can't be killed—you don't even prepare your lies."

Others couldn't find the stone men's flaw because they lacked the strength.

To repeatedly shatter these stone men into pieces and then find their weakness from that—this was not something an ordinary person could accomplish.

Each of these stone men was comparable to a top ten divine king.

Shi Yong's strength was even among the top of the top ten divine kings.

How easy was it to achieve this step?

During the previous battle, Ye Yuan had taken in every detail of the scene.

Though his movements seemed erratic, he was actually locking onto the shattered stone men at all times.

In the end, he discovered that no matter how he killed them, the stone fragments would always reassemble around this pale gray crystal.

Thus, this crystal was clearly the key to their revival.

If this crystal were shattered, they probably could never revive again.

"You... how did you figure it out? I'm certain that in the Divine Realm now, no one knows the weakness of our stone race!" Shi Yong said gloomily.

The stone race had vanished from the Divine Realm; it should be impossible for anyone to know their weakness.

But... this human before him had actually found it!

This made him extremely frustrated and utterly confused.

"Heh, you all have life. Since you have life, you have weaknesses. As long as you search carefully, you can always find them. Now, it's time for you to answer my question. What is this crystal? I feel something unusual about it."

Holding this small crystal in his hand, Ye Yuan sensed a strange fluctuation emanating from within.

This fluctuation was like a human heart, beating incessantly.

This was probably the root of the stone men's ability to continuously revive.

"This..."

Hearing Ye Yuan's question, Shi Yong hesitated.

"It seems you don't care about your clansmen's lives. In that case..."

"Wait! I'll talk! I'll talk! This... this is the Stone Heart, also the energy source of our stone race. With it, we have an endless supply of energy," Shi Yong said.

"Hmm... Stone Heart, huh? Quite fitting. But... it should be more than that, right?" Ye Yuan said with a half-smile.

Although these stone men were powerful, they were clearly very straightforward and had little cunning.

Shi Yong was more experienced, but only to a limited extent.

Compared to humans, they were too simple.

Though he couldn't read their expressions, he could detect many things from their fluctuations.

Shi Yong was unwilling to reveal the Stone Heart, obviously because he had other concerns.

It was precisely because of this that Ye Yuan didn't kill them.

He felt that these stone men seemed to harbor great resentment toward humans, which was why they attacked him.

Otherwise, given Ye Yuan's temperament, he would have crushed the Stone Heart long ago, without wasting so many words with Shi Yong.

"L... little brother, Shi Yong was wrong! Shi Yong shouldn't have made an enemy of you! Please... please let Shi Gan go, we... we'll escort you out!"

Shi Yong completely backed down. He didn't want to reveal the secret of the Stone Heart, yet he couldn't lie, so he begged Ye Yuan in this way.

But Ye Yuan said with a faint smile, "Hey, do you think I'm easy to deal with? Don't bargain with me; you have no choice! Speak, or not?"

Ye Yuan raised his hand high, and Yuan power fluctuated around him again.

Shi Yong's eyes darted around, clearly torn.

But in the end, he made up his mind and said fiercely, "Shi Gan, I'm sorry! The secret of the Stone Heart should be buried in history! Otherwise, none of us will survive!"

With that, Shi Yong raised his fist and struck, aiming directly at the Stone Heart of Shi Gan in Ye Yuan's hand!

Ye Yuan was extremely surprised. He could sense that Shi Yong cared deeply about Shi Gan's life.

Yet when he pressed for the secret of the Stone Heart, Shi Yong made such a decision.

It seemed this Stone Heart was no ordinary thing!

Ye Yuan moved his body and deftly dodged Shi Yong's punch.

"Hey, as the leader, you're going to kill your own clansman in front of everyone!" Ye Yuan deliberately taunted.

"Hmph! You humans are all so despicable! Brother Shi Yong did this because you forced him!"

"Brothers, let's fight him to the death! Today, either he dies or we do!"

"Kill this human, avenge Shi Gan!"

To Ye Yuan's surprise, these stone men showed no resentment toward Shi Yong; instead, they were even more united in their hatred.

"Hey, I never thought the big guy would play the villain today. But these stone men are really too straightforward," Bai Guang said helplessly.

"There seems to have been a very unpleasant history between these stone men and humans," Li'er said.

The remaining nine stone men surrounded Ye Yuan, but after his great increase in strength, they were no match for him.

On the contrary, Ye Yuan killed several more stone men and took their Stone Hearts into his palm.

"Ah... damn human, I'll fight you to the death!"

Suddenly, Shi Yong went berserk, and a dazzling light emitted from his brow.

Seeing this, the other stone men cried out in alarm.

"Brother Shi Yong, don't!"

But Shi Yong did not stop.

Ye Yuan knew that the place at the brow was where the Stone Heart was located.

A terrifying fluctuation came, and Ye Yuan actually felt as if he were facing death!

"Not good, that big guy is going to self-destruct! Such terrifying energy fluctuation, big brother is in danger!" Bai Guang's face changed as he said.