Among the three, two were Xiao Qian and her brother from Yuan Fang City in Dark Abyss City.

Xiao Qian, originally pure and lovely, with a tall figure and dressed in a water-green dress, now wore a bitter expression, seemingly struggling to decipher the text and patterns on the ‘stone tablet’.

Her brother, the ordinary-looking Foundation Establishment Stage man who ran the market stall, had an anxious and slightly fearful expression, staring intently at his sister, with sweat even beading on his forehead.

Beside the two of them, an Early Golden Core Stage Cultivator dressed as a middle-aged scholar was staring gloomily at Xiao Qian, even subtly urging her on.

This middle-aged scholar was none other than Su Ziming of the Su Family, who had fortunately escaped death that day.

Yang Che had never expected to find Su Ziming here.

Yang Che noticed that standing beside Su Ziming was a grim-faced, indifferent old man with a long face and extremely dangerous glints in his eyes.

This old man had a mustache and continuously scanned all the Cultivators in the Stone Forest.

Upon seeing Yang Che and Sha Rou arrive, these Cultivators merely glanced at them before continuing to study the ‘stone tablet’.

However, the long-faced old man frowned and paused on the two for a moment, a thoughtful expression appearing in his eyes.

“You go find a stone pillar, I’ll go look at the stone monument,” Sha Rou whispered to Yang Che.

Along the way, Sha Rou had somewhat guessed Yang Che’s thoughts, knowing he disliked drawing attention to himself.

Thus, she proactively suggested that she go observe the stone monument while Yang Che found a stone pillar.

Yang Che was naturally pleased with this arrangement and quickly found an incredibly thick stone pillar further out in the Stone Forest, flying up to it and sitting cross-legged on top.

After a good while, Sha Rou left the stone monument, flew to Yang Che’s side, and sat down cross-legged.

Since the top of the stone pillar was not very spacious, and Sha Rou was tall, she almost touched Yang Che after sitting down.

Yang Che smelled the faint feminine fragrance emanating from Sha Rou, and after a slight frown, he took out the stone tablet Sha Rou had given him.

Sha Rou also took out two stone tablets.

“Fellow Daoist Sha, have you found anything?” Yang Che asked softly, while also glancing at Xiao Qian and her brother from the corner of his eye.

Sha Rou said nothing, merely glanced casually at Xiao Qian and her brother as if sensing something, then gently withdrew her gaze.

Then she softly said, “There seems to be a hint on the stone monument, but I haven’t figured it out yet. Let’s quickly study it, referencing the stone monument, and see what we can discover.”

Yang Che nodded.

So, the two of them, like the other Cultivators, occasionally looked at the intact patterns on the stone monument and began to study the ‘stone tablets’ in their hands.

However, after a long time, Yang Che sighed inwardly.

He felt like a blind man exploring a path, completely unable to find his way.

He glanced at Sha Rou beside him and was surprised to see her looking quite interested.

He then turned his gaze to the other Cultivators.

Most Cultivators had bewildered expressions, but a very few were calm and composed, appearing to be confident.

Suddenly, Yang Che noticed that the long-faced old man standing beside Su Ziming occasionally cast covert glances at the base of the gray stone monument.

Since almost all Cultivators were completely focused on the stone tablets in their hands and the stone monument, no one noticed the long-faced old man’s gaze.

However, because Yang Che had been continuously observing Xiao Qian, her brother, and Su Ziming, he occasionally focused his attention on the stone pillar where the long-faced old man was located.

This was how he fortunately discovered the long-faced old man’s gaze.

Yang Che immediately informed Sha Rou of this discovery via sound transmission.

Sha Rou was slightly startled and turned her gaze to the base of the gray stone monument.

Unfortunately, she looked for a long time but still found nothing.

Yang Che also stared at the base of the monument.

Gradually, he was astonished to discover that the base of this gray stone monument seemed to be the location of an Array Eye?

A hidden, formidable Formation was actually laid out here!

And the Formation was extremely profound.

Having studied Formations with Tianxie Ziyin for so many years, he originally thought his Dao of Formations had reached a certain level of attainment, but now it seemed he was still far from it.

However, Yang Che did not feel discouraged.

He knew that because of Tianxie Ziyin’s personal instruction, he had directly bypassed detours and walked a straight Dao.

All he lacked was the accumulation of time.

Having understood this point, Yang Che immediately began to deduce in his mind, attempting to decipher it.

But it was truly too difficult.

This was an Ancient Formation, even older than the Ancient Era when Zi Yin existed.

However, Yang Che was not entirely without a clue.

After all, whether it was the Ancient Era or the current Dao of Formations, they all still inherited from the Ancient.

Although he couldn’t decipher it, he could vaguely deduce that the location of the monument’s base should be a place similar to a ‘portal’.

Without any better discoveries, Yang Che immersed himself in it, continuing to deduce.

Sha Rou looked at Yang Che, and seeing his extremely focused and serious demeanor, a hint of unknown brilliance suddenly flashed in her eyes.

Thus, several days passed.

Another dozen or so Cultivators arrived here with their broken stone tablets.

After that, gradually, no more Cultivators came to this place.

On this day.

From the long-silent entrance to the center of the Remnant, a plump middle-aged noblewoman with a few freckles on her face suddenly drifted in.

Although she displayed a Core Formation Great Perfection cultivation, with her arrival, almost all Cultivators felt an invisible, powerful oppressive force.

Yang Che’s eyes narrowed even further, and his heart sank sharply.

Despite being mentally prepared, seeing this middle-aged noblewoman personally arrive at this Ancient Remnant, Yang Che still inwardly thought, ‘This is bad.’

This middle-aged noblewoman was none other than the venomous middle-aged woman who had manifested from the strange black smoke that had emerged from the beautiful woman’s Storage Pouch.

After this plump woman arrived, Yang Che saw the long-faced old man with the mustache immediately rush to her, respectfully saying, “Wan Chen greets Sixteenth Mistress.”

Sixteenth Mistress’s face was covered in frost, and she merely asked coldly, “Wan Chen, has anyone deciphered the text on this stone monument and stone tablets?”

Wan Chen shook his head and said, “It seems no one can break it.”

Upon hearing this, Sixteenth Mistress snorted coldly, then suddenly looked at several Cultivators on some of the stone pillars, her expression unkind, saying, “You old things also want to covet my Wan Family’s belongings. If you don’t want to die, stay here, and it’s best not to follow us inside.”

After Sixteenth Mistress finished speaking, she suddenly took out a long, pointed cone-shaped Magic Treasure.

Yang Che looked at it and found that its appearance somewhat resembled his ‘Qian Yuan Thorn’.

However, Yang Che quickly recognized that it was merely a high-grade ‘Array Pestle’.

Sixteenth Mistress held the Array Pestle and suddenly carved a few times at the base of the gray stone monument.

Several black and red lights instantly bloomed.

With a ‘buzz’, the gray stone monument emitted a burst of gray light, instantly transforming into a gray light portal.

At the same time, all the ‘stone tablets’ in the Cultivators’ hands also emitted gray light.

Yang Che immediately found that after the gray light enveloped him, he was directly sucked into the gray light portal and disappeared.