Xu Yang had never thought of himself as "small." On the contrary, he had always considered his build quite imposing.
But ever since leaving the Lightning Strike Mountain Range, he had encountered one enormous demon beast after another. Now, there were two ancient remains three hundred meters long lying before him... Xu Yang's mentality was starting to crack.
"So all this time, I'd been looking at myself from my previous life's perspective. Seven or eight stories tall, as long as several high-speed train cars—I thought I was pretty majestic..." Xu Yang bared his fangs, feeling somewhat frustrated. "Is it related to my bloodline? When I first broke through to Level One as a Silver Wolf, I didn't grow much. But after reaching Star Level and becoming a Howling Moon Demon Wolf, I grew much faster."
After giving it some thought, Xu Yang felt that his guess was probably correct.
"They're far too old. Even the bones are covered in cracks." Xu Yang circled the two skeletons, constantly sniffing and listening, but unfortunately, he could not sense any aura of a powerful being from them, nor could he determine whether these two remains had been Star Level or Universe Level before death.
According to the Original Work Xu Yang had read, only immortal remains could endure long years without decaying, perhaps even retaining some lingering might after death. Anything below the immortal level—even World Masters—would still decay after long years.
As expected, when Xu Yang tried to gently wipe away the dust on the remains before him, the instant he brandished his claw, before exerting any force at all, the skeletons shattered across the ground with a series of crackles.
"No matter how valiant you were in life, beneath the passage of time, all become dust."
Unable to stop himself from