Fang Chen swept Lin Xiao and the myna bird along with him. Like a gray lightning bolt tearing through Chaos, he slipped by a hair's breadth through a gap in the Time Dragon Skeleton's breath and plunged into the ruins of the central Palace, shrouded in rippling waves of Flowing Time.
The moment he entered, the skeleton's roars and the chaotic fluctuations of time outside faded. In their place came a viscous, icy stillness.
Pale golden motes of Flowing Time lit the decaying carved beams and painted rafters, casting long, twisted shadows.
Within those shadows, Soul Flames of every color flickered to life, dense as a host of waking ghostly eyes.
"So many undead!"
The myna bird's feathers stood on end.
Even that damned Heart Devouring Insect's gaze sharpened.
Lin Xiao's face went deathly pale. "Careful! These are the lingering, resentful remnants of those who fell in Ancient times. Chaotic time turned them into undead, and they're extremely sensitive to the presence of the living!"
Before he had finished speaking, a skeleton clad in battered golden armor rose soundlessly from the shadow of a nearby side hall. It held a broken halberd, and dark red Soul Flame danced in its skull. The chilling Death Aura of a Seven-Turn Immortal King surged toward them.
Behind it, more shadows writhed. Misty wraiths floated among the monstrous beasts' skeletons, their bones bristling with Bone Spikes. At a distant hall entrance, two figures in decaying finery slowly turned their heads. Their auras were deep and obscure, and the strength of their Soul Flames had reached the peak of the Nine-Revolution Immortal King realm, even faintly touching the threshold of Immortal Emperor.
The Undead Forbidden Domain was fraught with danger on every side.
Ordinarily, they should have looked for an opening to break through and