"What... what kind of monster is this?"
Li Yan was already stunned, and Sha LiFei was even more dumbfounded.
There was no other reason—the skeleton was simply too sinister.
It had no head, yet bone tumors had grown all over its body, each shaped like a skull. Just looking at them made one's hair stand on end.
But soon, Li Yan noticed something wrong.
He cautiously stepped forward, drew the Severing Dust Blade, and poked one of the skull-like tumors. The thing popped off at once.
Only then did everyone see clearly that it was a skull, with a small copper talisman embedded inside, already covered in verdigris.
The disciple of True Martial Palace who possessed Yin Yang Eyes had the Daoist name Yang Chengzi.
His brows drew together and his expression turned grave. He said, "I more or less know what this evil thing is."
"Back then, in Ezhou, the Great Song Ghost Sect mainly worshiped the 'Leng Zheng God.' The stranger and more ferocious its appearance, the greater the evil god's power."
"The Collected Essentials of the Song Government recorded that the customs beyond the lake involved sacrificing people to ghosts. They would gouge out the eyes of young children and women while they were alive, cut off their ears and noses, bury them in pits, pour boiling soup over them, and rot their flesh—nothing was considered too cruel."
"Judging from this method, they clearly took the skulls of unborn infants and embedded them into adult skeletons. Their resentment was so dense that they were first sacrificed and transformed into evil ghosts, then molded with clay into divine statues."
"Moreover, this person was no ordinary man. He was likely a mystic cultivator as well. His head was chopped off for the sacrifice, turning him into material for this