Lord: Sequence Overlord

Chapter 326 The Towering Stone Pillar and the Ancient God's Chisel

Chapter 325

The Floating Empire is the most unique empire under the World Government.

Because this empire is neither on the earth nor in the sky, but in the deep sea not far from the Old World, there is a towering stone pillar rooted in the seabed, tens of thousands of miles in diameter and hundreds of thousands of miles high. The Suspended Empire was built inside this stone pillar.

Logically speaking, a stone pillar of such astonishing height should have its top extending into the astral plane where the gods reside.

According to calculations, the sea level in the main world is only 30,000 miles from the star boundary.

The entire main world is a super-flat dimensional world. The thickness of the earth's crust is at most a few hundred thousand miles, the distance from the sea level to the astral plane is only thirty thousand miles, and the thickness of the astral plane is only a few hundred thousand miles. The thickness of the main world will not exceed one million miles.

However, the diameter of the main universe is conservatively estimated to be one light-year.

If the universe outside the main world is the legendary universe, then the main world would look like a thin sheet of paper.

Therefore, the towering stone pillars, reaching hundreds of thousands of miles in height, could theoretically directly touch the world barrier at the highest point of the astral plane.

However, the towering stone pillars did not actually enter the astral plane. Instead, they suddenly disappeared from the main world when they were 30,000 miles from the ground and then appeared in the boundless dark void. No one knows what is in this dark void.
The World Government hollowed out parts of the Tower of Babel, excavating living spaces inside.

The resources consumed by the Floating Empire account for one-fifth of the World Government's budget.

Therefore, in the eyes of the World Government, the importance of the Floating Empire is second only to the Eternal Continent created in the Spirit Realm.

The Floating Empire must be of great value to warrant such a huge investment from the World Government.

The surface of the towering stone pillar is indestructible; even the most powerful god could not cause it any damage.

Even a great true god probably couldn't destroy much of the towering stone pillar.

The World Government was able to hollow it out from the inside because, for some unknown reason, the central part of the Tower of Babel, with an area roughly a thousand miles in diameter, became extremely fragile, allowing Sequence 9 miners to easily excavate and destroy it.

Simply block the bottom of the Heavenly Stone Pillar, and the inside of the Heavenly Stone Pillar will be absolutely safe.

If the World Government were to collapse one day, the Tower of Babel would be the last resort.

Besides serving as a fallback, the interior of the Towering Pillar itself also possesses significant value.

Crushed stone powder, when processed into soil, naturally possesses extremely high nutrient content.

There is even the possibility of excavating some filled caves, as if countless ages ago, someone once dug a large number of caves inside the towering stone pillar and lived there. Many unknown civilization relics were once unearthed in these caves.

One of the caves contained countless mysterious murals.

This cave is hailed as the origin of the painters' lineage.

These murals depict spiritual realms, and the most impressive skill of the painters lies in creating such paintings.

Unfortunately, the spiritual realm within the murals existed for too long and was destroyed during one excavation.

However, Rosen discovered a secret through the Hidden Brass Book: not all mural spirit realms were destroyed during the excavation; one mural spirit realm still exists today, but it possesses a mysterious power that allows it to hide itself.

Rosen hadn't originally planned to come here to advance his career as a painter; the Painting World was already the best environment for advancement.

However, after his noble sequence advanced to sequence 1, the ancient tree of painting laws suddenly pointed to the mysterious cave in the Floating Empire, which is known as the origin of the painter sequence. It could actively attract painting laws, so perhaps there is a special opportunity for the painter sequence here.

As Rosen approached the Tower of Babel, he saw a lighthouse built on its edge.

It looks like a lighthouse, but it's actually an elevator that leads directly to the base of the towering stone pillar.

Only by taking this elevator to the base of the Sky Pillar can one enter the interior of the pillar, which is buried deep underground. This is also the only external freight platform of the Sky Empire, responsible for transporting external supplies to the Sky Empire.

The Floating Empire didn't refuse to use the teleportation array; rather, the area within a radius of ten thousand miles around the towering stone pillar completely isolated all means of teleportation.

A suspended elevator with a vertical height of over 100,000 kilometers takes a full three months to travel one way up and down.

Legend has it that this elevator itself is a divine, extraordinary artifact.

Because over the past 20,000 years, there have been attempts by alien races to destroy the suspended elevator, and without exception, all of them have failed.

The interior of the suspended elevator has been expanded. It doesn't look big from the outside, but inside it's like a small city. So it can accommodate hundreds of thousands of people entering and leaving the Suspended Empire at a time. After waiting for half a month, Rosen finally saw the suspended elevator return.

After taking the elevator, Lawson looked for a hotel in the elevator city and checked in.

Three months later, the suspended elevator arrived at the base of the towering stone pillar.

This location is already deep underground, below the sea. After a few days on the underground train, the train began to spiral upwards, and through the vertical shaft dug out at the center of the base of the towering stone pillar, we truly entered the Suspended Empire.

At the very center of the towering stone pillar is a vertical shaft that has been hollowed out over a radius of about a thousand miles.

Then, countless caves were dug spirally upwards around the shaft, forming cities of all sizes. The higher up the shaft, the more prosperous the cities became, because the lower parts that could be dug out had basically been hollowed out.

Teleportation is impossible outside the towering stone pillar, but it is not affected at all inside.

Measured from the base of the towering stone pillar, the vertical distance is a thousand miles, encompassing one city and one hundred towns, with all cities named using numbers.

Rosen quickly arrived at Floating City No. 63 through the portal in Floating City No. 1 at the bottom level.

The canvas of the soul reflects the memories of an old man by the roadside, from which the map of the Floating City No. 63 has been selected.

The caves containing murals are located at the deepest part of the Floating City No. 63.

After passing through an unusually complex cavern, Rosen came across a cave that had been abandoned for many years.

There is another layer of energy barrier seal outside, but it can only block ordinary people at most. Even a Sequence 9 extraordinary life form may not be able to stop it. Judging from the situation, the seal has not been maintained for at least a thousand years. In another two hundred years, ordinary people will be able to enter and exit at will.

Rosen passed through the sealing barrier and released a Void Shadow Fiend to block the barrier with darkness.

Then an angel was released, summoning some holy orbs to illuminate the cave that had been unvisited for at least a thousand years.

The entire cave is several hundred meters in diameter and is hemispherical in shape. It is covered with murals. Even though the spiritual realm inside the murals has collapsed over the years, the murals themselves have not been completely destroyed and it is still possible to vaguely make out what they depict.

In the most ancient times, before the invention of writing, intelligent life used murals to record events.

This is the oldest painting technique, and it has absolutely nothing to do with the artist's three skills.

Rosen had already seen copies of these murals, which depicted how some humans who once lived on the continent hid inside a towering stone pillar that fell from the sky after a cataclysmic disaster.

Historians speculate that these murals were painted during the apocalypse of the previous ancient god era.

Therefore, those who left behind the murals were likely descendants of the previous ancient god era.

As for what happened next, why the cave was abandoned, and where the survivors of the last ancient god era went, these murals do not record it. However, the murals show that the towering stone pillars were not as solid as they are now at that time.

Because when those survivors discovered the towering stone pillar, they didn't dig it in from the bottom, but from the side.

However, the World Government did not find any openings on the side. According to the murals, the center of the Babel Pillar had been hollowed out by the survivors. But when the World Government found the Babel Pillar, the hollowed-out interior had become solid again.

The strangest thing is that the Tower of Babel has stood here for countless millennia, but the World Government discovered that the Tower of Babel is only 20,000 years old.

So many dominant civilizations that occupied the Old World in the past failed to discover the towering stone pillars that were not far away.

Rosen took out his secret compass but found no hidden space.

He also used his miracle pocket, but found no treasure.

He then arrived at the edge of the cave and found a woodblock print that had been directly carved. The woodblock print was right there, but even with the Ancient God's True Eye, it was invisible. I really don't know how the historian who discovered the woodblock print found it back then.
Rosen summoned the Hidden Brass Book, and upon opening it, the previously unseen engravings immediately came into view.

The painting depicts two beings, barely recognizable as human, fighting. One is wielding a stick, while the other is unarmed. The unarmed one's outstretched finger is colliding with one end of the stick.

Historians who discovered this engraved mural suspect that the stick is the Stone Pillar that reaches to heaven.

The outer surface of the Tongtian Stone Pillar was indestructible, but its core could be easily dug out. It was very likely that it was shattered by the person who fought it bare-handed with a single finger, the force of which directly pierced through the Tongtian Stone Pillar. Both of the people who fought were beings who surpassed the Great True God.

Rosen's divine perception extended to the engraved mural, and he could clearly sense a spiritual world within it. However, this spiritual world was completely sealed off, and even the historians who discovered it back then never entered.

Rosen tried to touch the woodblock mural with the laws of painting. This place could actively attract the laws of painting. Perhaps only by mastering the laws of painting could one enter. Sure enough, the moment the laws of painting covered the woodblock mural, a terrifying spatial suction force pulled him into the mural.

The spiritual realm is less than ten miles in radius, and there are no spatial barriers at the edge of the space.

There was only endless darkness, and in the center of the space stood a stone-carved tombstone.

The surface of the tombstone is engraved with countless unknown characters.

Relying on his professional expertise as an ancient scholar, Rosen is able to access all the texts and information of lost history.

As he deciphered the unknown script, Rosen quickly learned the origins of the tombstone's owner.

The tombstone belongs to Shi Yan, the most talented stonemason of the Rock Tribe.

He should have smoothly become the tribal chief, but Shi Yan unexpectedly discovered the cave outside.

Through the murals inside the cave, Shi Yan learned about the origins of the ancestors of the Rock Tribe.

From then on, Shi Yan began to yearn for the world outside the Tongtian Stone Pillar. He began to dig outwards continuously, and finally, relying on his innate ability to control rocks, Shi Yan successfully dug through the outer shell of the Tongtian Stone Pillar and left the Tongtian Stone Pillar.

The outside world is not as wonderful as imagined; the whole world is full of ruins on the verge of destruction.

However, one day, Shi Yan, who wanted to go home, witnessed a terrifying scene.

A giant uprooted a towering stone pillar deep beneath the sea and engaged in a devastating battle with another unarmed giant. In the end, the defeated giant abandoned the towering stone pillar and planted it back in its original spot, leaving behind a world on the verge of complete destruction that vanished without a trace.

Shi Yan, who had miraculously survived, returned to the interior of the Heavenly Stone Pillar via the path he had come out of.

However, by this time, hundreds of thousands of the Rock Tribe had already perished in the battle between the two giants.

The only survivor, Shi Yan, lived a lonely and desperate life inside the cave.

Later, Shi Yan gradually discovered that the Tongtian Stone Pillar was actually repairing itself. The caves that had been dug out to lead to the outside world were growing and healing, and the empty parts in the center of the stone pillar that had been dug out by the tribesmen were also being filled back in little by little.

The entire towering stone pillar seemed like a wounded living thing, slowly healing its injuries.

At this point, Shi Yan had lost the will to live, so he buried himself in the world inside the woodblock mural.

Through the life of Shi Yan, Rosen discovers that this rock tribe is terrifying.

If the mural is true, and the Tongtian Stone Pillar was indeed shattered in the middle by another giant with a single finger, then the Rock Tribe had existed for many years before that. How could the Rock Tribe have so easily excavated the Tongtian Stone Pillar during its heyday?

And how did Shi Yan manage to survive witnessing the battle between the two giants?
Rosen walked behind the tombstone and tried to dig into Shi Yan's grave.

Soon the entire tomb was dug out; it was a stone sphere without any gaps.

A full-force blow landed on it, but not even a scratch was created.

The stone that makes up this tomb should be the same material as the outer layer of the Tongtian Stone Pillar.

There are two possibilities: either the rock itself is an extremely terrifying supernatural life form, or the rock tribe possesses a special talent specifically designed for the towering stone pillar, or both of these possibilities coexist.

The stone sphere itself was a tomb, so the inside of the stone sphere was likely hollow.

Rosen cannot destroy the stone sphere, but he can open the door to the mysterious study on its surface.

Entering the mysterious study and arriving at the Window of the World, I indeed saw a figure with his knees drawn up to his chest through the window.

Send a Shadow Fiend through the Window of the World and carefully examine whether the figure is still alive.

If Shi Yan was truly as powerful as the inscription on his tombstone suggests, he might not have truly died after countless years.

Having confirmed that Shi Yan was completely dead, Rosen began to manipulate the Shadow Fiend to study Shi Yan's corpse.

It wasn't as scary as I imagined; when Shi Yan was alive, he was at most a demigod.

The corpse itself had no special value; it has only been preserved to this day because it has turned into stone.

Shi Yan's eyes are somewhat special, possessing the talent to manipulate rocks and petrify himself.

The shape of the pupils in these eyes is extremely similar to the Petrified Eye, a miraculous artifact that Rosen obtained on Mount Pantheon.

He even suspected that the Petrified Eye was a miraculous treasure formed from the eyes of Shi Yan's kin after their deaths.

Clearly, a pair of eyes alone is not enough to penetrate the towering stone pillar.

Rosen continued searching the body and soon discovered the cause of Shi Yan's death.

His heart was pierced by a chisel that looked like an ordinary stone chisel, but it was pulled out of Shi Yan's heart without any obstruction, and there were no scratches on the surface of the chisel.

You have to understand that a stonemason's chisel, when used to carve stone, will inevitably leave no scratches.

If it wasn't never used, then the chisel itself is too hard.

After confirming that there was no danger, Rosen opened the window and took the chisel into the mysterious study.

As divine perception permeated the inside and outside of the chisel, he learned its properties.

[Ancient Divine Stone Chisel: A Miraculous Treasure]

[Level: Unknown]

[Miracle Attribute: Able to destroy everything created by the ancient gods at will]

[Miracle Trait: Stonemasonry]

Rosen left the mysterious study with the ancient stone chisel in his hand, then gently struck the hollow stone sphere that Shi Yan had used as a tomb for.

The stone that was previously impossible to break was easily shoveled off like tofu.

Judging from its name, this thing is very likely to belong to the ancient gods, so it naturally contains underlying rules that transcend the laws of nature. It looks ordinary, but just like the description of the miracle attribute, it can destroy everything created by the ancient gods at will.

Rosen studied the properties of the miracle and found that this creation stonemason was extremely terrifying.

If the Miracle attribute is the destruction of all things, then the Miracle ability, Stonemasonry, is the creation of all things.

Rosen casually sculpted a rabbit from the ancient divine stone, and the rabbit actually came to life. Moreover, it was an extraordinary life form that could control rocks from birth, and it controlled not ordinary rocks, but special rocks that made up hollow rocks.

The interior of the Tongtian Stone Pillar contains many relics of civilization, and the cave containing the murals is the oldest one.

The remaining civilization ruins were destroyed many years later. If the inscription on the stone rock's tombstone is true, after the destruction of the Rock Tribe, there were no living people left inside the Tower of Heaven except for the stone rock. Therefore, the remaining civilization ruins may be the remains left by the life carved by the stone rock.

With Shi Yan's mere demigod strength, it was impossible for him to hide the engraved murals outside.

Therefore, it should be that Shi Yan, with the help of the ancient divine stone chisel, used the miraculous properties to create the life carved by the stone craftsman, which ultimately hid the mural world where Shi Yan's tomb was located. Later, these life forms continued to multiply and thrive inside the Tongtian Stone Pillar.

Rosen discovered that he could completely manipulate the rabbit he had just sculpted using the ancient god's chisel.

However, he did not find that the ancient stone chisels had anything to do with the rules of painting.

However, if there is no connection, why would the woodblock prints actively attract the laws of painting to bring them here?

Rosen didn't believe in free lunches, so his first reaction was to be skeptical.

He suspected that someone was manipulating his fate, and that directors, novelists, and other sequences could do similar things.

However, despite using various methods, no trace of human manipulation was found.

After a moment of contemplation, Rosen decided to leave the Tongtian Stone Pillar with the Ancient God Stone Chisel. However, at that moment, he remembered the record left on Shi Yan's tombstone. It seemed that it was Shi Yan who left the Tongtian Stone Pillar with the Ancient God Stone Chisel, and then everything that followed happened.

So is it possible that someone wanted to use him to take the ancient stone out?
(End of this chapter)