In the Grand Yi Spirit Realm, in the southeast of the Tianxiang Continent, a bottomless rift split the Tiancong Mountain Range, which stretched for millions of miles, cleanly in two.
The great rift was bottomless, and the valley was shrouded year-round in toxic Killing Intent. Almost all living beings had vanished from it.
The valley floor lay in darkness all year, never seeing the light of day. Clusters of ghostly green will-o'-wisps drifted in every direction, illuminating the pale bones piled on the ground like mountains.
Not long after, in this dead-silent, secluded, and perilous valley bottom, a glimmer of starlight suddenly appeared.
The starlight tore through the darkness and slowly spread. Countless will-o'-wisps were snuffed out one after another, and the bone-strewn valley floor seemed to transform into a vast sea of starlight.
At that moment, an elderly human wearing a crown emerged from the starlight.
The man's face was fair, his long beard wild and unrestrained, giving him quite a free-spirited air. The long robe he wore was incomparably magnificent, as though countless dazzling galaxies were spread across it, radiating brilliant starlight.
The elderly human looked around, his gaze growing ever deeper. Then he suddenly spoke. "Juexie Poluo, This Old Man has come as promised. Why have you not awakened?"
His voice was neither loud nor soft, yet it spread like mercury spilling across the ground, covering the surrounding several hundred miles.
The next instant, the bones covering the ground abruptly began to tremble and rustle. Then one hill of white bones after another collapsed in succession, and from within them shot out bones as crystalline as jade, one after another.
Countless jade bones soared into the air and gathered together.
Click, click, click...
After a dense series of collisions, a skeleton monster as vast as a mountain