"Heaven and earth were like a chessboard, and all living beings were its pieces..."
In that instant, Mo Hua gained a deeper understanding of those words.
And just as Mo Hua's heart was stirred, a familiar Evil Thought suddenly spread out. From beneath the earth came a strange aura of deathly stillness, as though something had come back to life.
Mo Hua froze, then his pupils trembled. He immediately shouted, "Lugu, be careful!"
Those words were utterly abrupt, shattering the mood at hand.
Lugu, immersed in sorrow, did not understand.
The next moment, the soil beneath his feet exploded. A huge, blood-soaked hand thrust out from underground and clamped tightly around Lugu's right leg. Lugu's expression changed.
The others were equally shocked.
They knew that hand well.
Just moments ago, that very hand had crushed the heads of many barbarian soldiers and torn dozens of bodies apart with brute force.
Mo Hua immediately said, "Fall back!"
Suppressing the terror in their hearts, everyone hurriedly retreated.
Yuangu's heavy troops noticed the anomaly and quickly closed ranks, shielding Mo Hua.
But Lugu's right leg was held fast, and he could not break free at all.
At that moment, the stone stele Lugu had personally erected shattered completely. Amid flying dirt, a massive figure as vicious as a Fierce God crawled out from beneath the ground.
As though a dead evil ghost had returned to the mortal world.
Everyone's faces filled with horror.
"Bone-Slayer!"
"He's not dead?!"
The first thing Bone-Slayer did after crawling out of the ground was attack Lugu.
His bloodied, mud-caked arm gripped Lugu's right leg tightly.
His fingertips pierced into Lugu's flesh, leaving Lugu unable to escape.
Bone-Slayer's enormous, monstrous body had been huge in life, but now it had become strangely soft. Like a mass of boneless flesh,