Chapter 127: The White Jade Skull
At this moment, Ye Feng was on the verge of snapping, for the terrifying aura surrounding him grew ever more intense.
What a dreadful power this was—though it had been extinct for ten thousand years, even the mere exposure of a single finger bone summoned such a dreadful cosmic anomaly and oppressive force.
Crack...
Slowly, a skull as white and pure as jade emerged.
The instant that jade-like skull appeared, the entire world seemed to dim. Crimson sea waters erupted into towering waves dozens of feet high, endless tides surging violently against the blood-red shoreline.
“Move!”
Finally, the path before Ye Feng cleared. He dared not hesitate and immediately urged everyone to step onto the narrow trail.
Pop...
The moment he stepped onto the path, Ye Feng felt as if he had crossed an invisible barrier, completely cut off from the outside world.
Boom... Woo...
Gradually, the jade-white skeleton extended its other hand.
In an instant, the whole realm seemed to pause, an indescribable aura rapidly enveloping the entire coast.
The moment that aura descended upon them, thousands upon thousands of skeletons appeared to be injected with newfound vigor. Their eyes blazed with eerie green light, their movements quickening as they launched attacks on the Heavenly King Alliance members who had yet to enter the path.
“Ah... my arm...!”
Outside the path, a young man on the edge cried out in pain. One of his arms was gone—severed cleanly at the root.
Ye Feng witnessed it all.
As the skeleton approached, the young man swung his blade fiercely, attempting to repel it. But the skeleton seemed utterly unfazed by the attack, continuing forward as if oblivious, swiftly slashing with a rusted long knife...
Whoosh...
Without hesitation, Ye Feng spun around, gathering his spiritual energy swiftly in his left hand. He unleashed a barrage of Dragon-Grasp strikes, each blow crashing down as if free of cost, aiming to halt the skeleton.
But to his shock, the Dragon-Grasp, which would have easily sent the skeleton flying, now only pushed it back a few steps.
“Ye Feng, retreat!” After a few breaths, everyone was finally inside the path. Xiao Ye shouted loudly.
Seeing this, Ye Feng quickly withdrew, flying back into the path.
Just as Ye Feng expected, the crowd was tightly packed at the path’s entrance, only a few steps from the skeletons. Yet the skeletons ignored them and instead turned, wandering aimlessly.
Crack...
At that moment, the jade-white skeleton finally climbed out, mechanically rising to its feet with awkward movements, twisting its arms and legs.
Even these simple motions unleashed a cataclysmic oppressive force outside, like the arrival of the apocalypse, surging forth like a tidal wave.
Even those on the path—members of the Heavenly King Alliance—felt the suffocating aura, pressed almost to the point of breathlessness.
Under this overwhelming pressure, Ye Feng was the first to stagger back several steps, his face pale with horror.
Crack...
Seemingly dazed, the jade-bone skeleton took a step forward.
With this movement, all phenomena shifted. Suddenly, the void above coalesced into a skeletal shape. The skeletal cloud in the sky opened its massive maw, as if ready to swallow the entire land, grotesque and terrifying.
Hoo... hoo...
The chilling wind howled as countless grains of sand and stone whipped into the air. Even some skeletons were involuntarily swept into the void.
The jade-bone skeleton took another step.
Boom...
The sand, weapons, and skeletons caught in the void shattered into countless particles, swirling away on the wind.
Puff...
Everyone on the path spat blood and was thrown backward. Such force left them pale with shock. They knew they stood within a protective barrier on this mountain trail, and yet the jade-bone skeleton’s oppressive aura—most of which was resisted by the barrier—still remained so terrifying. Had they been on the blood-red beach, who knew what might have happened.
One single step by the jade-white skeleton brought down such a formidable pressure. Its true strength was beyond imagination.
“Is this an ancient supreme being? How powerful must he have been in life? Who could possibly kill such a master? It’s terrifying!” Xiao Chong murmured as he gazed at the jade-white skeleton.
Crack, crack...
The jade-white skull twisted its neck, gazing around blankly. Deep in its eye sockets flickered two faint ghostly flames.
A low, resonant dragon’s roar echoed through the heavens as it looked toward the island faintly visible in the depths of the blood sea.
Evil spirits perish. Skeletons fall. Dark clouds disperse. Blood tides calm.
At this roar, the eerie coast returned to tranquility, as if the previous chaos had been but an illusion.
Hoo...
In the next moment, from that island came an indescribable oppressive aura, pressing down on the jade-white skeleton.
Crack... crack...
Under the weight of this pressure, the skeleton’s bones creaked as if bearing a mountain’s weight, its body slowly stooping under the oppressive force.
The jade-white skeleton struggled under the weight, one hand bone slowly extending...
Whoosh...
From beneath the sand, a black object resembling a wheel shot out like an arrow, flying toward the jade-white skeleton.
“Dragon...”
The skeleton reached out and caught the wheel, murmuring the word “Dragon” as if in a dream.
Crack...
Grasping the dark weapon, the skeleton’s aura suddenly shifted. Under the island’s pressure, it slowly straightened its body.
“I died in battle... why do I awaken again...?”
Twisting its skull, the skeleton looked around in confusion, finally fixing its gaze on the island in the blood sea’s depths.
Step by step, the jade-white skeleton trudged through the layers of void, heading toward the island deep within the blood sea...
Boom...
From the distant sea depths, a dazzling light burst forth. When the skeleton came within dozens of miles of the island, it seemed to trigger a certain barrier, instantly rebounding thousands of meters outward.
The skeleton stood suspended in the void, still seemingly half-asleep, staring blankly at the island. It did not understand why it had been rejected so abruptly.
Crack, crack...
The skeleton bowed its head with difficulty, looking at the dark wheel weapon in its hand.
“Heh heh...”
The skeleton laughed, revealing a row of sharp white teeth. Even from a thousand miles away, Ye Feng and the others shuddered in unison. This was truly eerie beyond words.
Whoosh...
In the next instant, everyone understood the skeleton’s laughter.
The skeleton casually tossed the dark wheel, which dragged a nearly hundred-meter-long black tail, shooting swiftly toward the island.
Wherever the strange wheel passed, it seemed to absorb even the air itself, tearing subtle fissures in reality.
Boom...
A thunderous roar shook the heavens and earth, and for a moment, the entire sky was engulfed in endless darkness.
Yet after just a breath, brilliant golden light replaced the darkness, and the world brimmed with a tidal wave of spiritual energy.
After the dazzling golden light faded, Ye Feng and the others struggled to their feet. Looking at the shore before them, the scattered skeletal limbs lay strewn across the beach.
The jade-white skeleton’s figure had vanished into the vastness of the world.