These stone statues possessed a natural suppressive effect on Evolvers. Within their area of influence, all abilities of the Evolvers would be weakened, and even moving their feet would consume more strength than usual.

If it was truly necessary to deal with a very difficult Evolver to kill, then Li Tianran's method was very feasible.

These stone statues, when gathered together, could form a field of "suppression space" against Evolvers. If their number reached a certain point, they could even completely deprive the Evolvers of their ability to resist!

"Are you talking about... the formations in those cultivation novels?" Lu Chi laughed.

The corners of Li Tianran's mouth slightly turned up as he continued to move forward, lifting these heavy stone statues one by one from the mud.

"This stone statue is very different... The characters on it are somewhat similar to the one currently stored in the warehouse. No, not similar, they overlap! They are identical!" Li Tianran discovered a stone statue. Among the numerous characters on its base, three characters overlapped with those on the "guard" that had triggered Hanhan's mysterious dreams.

Li Tianran raised his head to look at the stone statue in front of him. Its appearance was also humanoid.

"What exactly do these characters mean? Is it a name? Or a surname? Or a symbol of a certain race?" Li Tianran's gaze was fixed on those three characters.

These three characters were located at the very front of the numerous characters on the base.

Just like in many biographical records, the "nationality, ethnicity, surname, and dates of birth and death" of the person are always introduced at the very beginning...

Li Tianran felt that these three characters probably meant that!

"Could it be that these ancient creatures also had nationalities and races?" Li Tianran narrowed his eyes, thinking of a more reliable idea.

If these creatures were truly divided into races and nationalities, then this Fourth Age of Destruction might not be as terrifying as he had imagined!

Because for any creature or civilization, the level of threat posed by a scattered, unorganized group would naturally decrease sharply.

Just like the sea beast族群 (zuqun, race/group) that were once twisted into a rope, if the degree of threat they posed to humans was 10, then the degree of threat posed by the now divided sea beast族群 (zuqun, race/group) would only be 5 or even lower!

If the ancient creatures did not belong to the same族群 (zuqun, race/group), then after their revival, they would most likely regard each other as the strongest enemies and opponents, just like Godzilla and Ghidorah in *Godzilla: King of the Monsters*. After these ancient giant beasts awakened from their slumber of many years, they still only regarded each other as their enemies, ignoring humans, because only equals could threaten each other.

As for humans, they didn't care about them at all, because humans simply didn't have the ability to destroy them, and they didn't care whether humans survived or were destroyed.

This idea cheered Li Tianran up.

"Crack!"

Li Tianran took a photo of the characters on the stone statue with a smile on his face.

"Roar!"

The roar of the sea beasts came again from the distant sea.

A large number of corpses floated towards the island with the waves.

"It would be fun if these sea beasts slaughtered each other to the point of wiping out their own族群 (zuqun, race/group)..." one of the pioneers said with a smile.

"Without the Emperor, it seems that these Beast Kings are not much stronger than humans. They are also fighting for territory and benefits."

"In the end, they are just a group of bloodthirsty animals."

The pioneers talked in low voices.

In the distance, the number of fiercely fighting beast groups on the sea had gradually increased from six or seven to more than a dozen.

With the rolling of the waves, their positions seemed to be slowly approaching this deserted island.

...

Li Tianran carefully put the photo into his pocket, and then suddenly seemed to remember something, beckoned to Lu Chi, and whispered a few words in his ear.

Lu Chi frowned, and then nodded.

"Go get the helicopter and bring this stone statue back!" Lu Chi pointed to the stone statue with the same characters and said to several pioneers.

Several pioneers left. At this time, there were only less than forty pioneers, Li Tianran, and Lu Chi left on the beach.

"After we go back, we'll find some paleographers..." Li Tianran said softly to Lu Chi.

But at this moment, an ear-piercing scream suddenly came from their walkie-talkie!

"Enemy attack! Enemy attack!"

The shrill scream instantly filled the entire deserted island. Li Tianran stood up abruptly. The voice inside was one of the people who had just left the main group to drive the helicopter.

At this moment, the pioneers instantly entered a state of combat. They quickly moved towards the direction where the helicopter was parked.

In the next second, a violent explosion sounded, followed by soaring flames!

"Our helicopter was destroyed... It's the Beast King!" The voice in the walkie-talkie stopped abruptly.

"Dare to sneak attack?" Lu Chi's eyebrows shot up, and a surge of immense killing intent burned. In recent times, the Beast Kings had rarely dared to actively attack humans.

"No, it's not a sneak attack." Li Tianran suddenly reached out and held him back, and then said with extreme solemnity: "This seems to be an ambush, a premeditated ambush!"

Li Tianran pointed his finger at the distant sea.

Lu Chi's pupils shrank instantly.

A scene that made him feel somewhat恍惚 (huanghu, dazed) occurred.

When the explosion sounded, the large number of beast tides that were originally fighting fiercely on the sea, wishing they could tear each other into pieces, suddenly became quiet in an instant!

A giant Beast King had the severed tail of an enemy in its mouth, and there were many wounds on its body, with blood constantly flowing down from its body.

And its enemy, a giant lizard Beast King, was extremely miserable, with a severed tail and arm.

They should have been mortal enemies.

But at this time, they showed a strange peace, and all turned their heads to look at the deserted island.

At this moment, the anger and violence in the eyes of the large number of beast tides on the sea, the large number of monsters that were originally fighting, disappeared. Their dark green pupils stared intently at the deserted island in the distance, staring at Li Tianran and Lu Chi, staring so hard that people felt uneasy!

"This group of畜生 (chusheng, beasts)..." Lu Chi's brow twitched wildly.

At some point, in the continuous battle of the beast tides, they had surrounded the entire deserted island, and the distance from the beach was less than five kilometers!

"Aoo aoo aoo!"

In the next second, the Beast Kings roared madly, leading the sea beasts behind them, and rushed towards the deserted island with the same goal!

At this moment, Lu Chi finally understood.

This was根本 (genben, fundamentally) a trap, and the infighting among the Beast King族群 (zuqun, race/group) was also a false front!

These stone statues were probably originally collected from various places by the Beast Kings and then piled up on this beach, all to lure Li Tianran over and kill him!

Li Tianran had carried out a decapitation strike against the Sea Demons once!

And at this time, it was the sea beast族群 (zuqun, race/group) carrying out a "decapitation strike" against Li Tianran!

"The Sea Demon... is still alive after all!" Li Tianran looked at the sea beasts pouncing towards the deserted island and slowly clenched his fists.