"What the hell is that?!"
A huge gash had been torn open in the sky of the Four Symbols Secret Realm, the remnant of Shen Yi blasting Bei Huai out of the alternate dimension.
And now, nearly all the Vermilion Bird Vein trial-takers could see a massive bone pillar descending from that enormous hole in the sky, white shot through with gold.
The bone pillar hung down from the heavens. Its end extended outward and split into five prongs, every knuckle distinct.
It looked like...
"A human hand?"
"A giant's hand?!"
The trial-takers clutched their heads, their hearts and eyes full of disbelief.
Just the wrist and palm reaching into the Four Symbols Secret Realm were vast enough to overturn heaven and earth.
It was hard to imagine how terrifying the true body of the owner of that golden-jade skeletal hand must be.
"Why do these freakish things keep appearing in this year's trial..."
"It would've been one thing for a giant Master Shou to pop out of the Vermilion Bird Vein, but then came the even bigger Saint Emperor Qilin, followed by Shen Yi of the Ten Seat Holders and Bei Huai, and now..."
"And now there's this skeletal giant hand! Is this really something human strength can contend with? Even a Demi-Saint would probably be slapped into pulp!"
"I just wanted to enter the Holy Palace..."
Everyone who saw it began to speculate about the identity of the skeletal hand's owner.
But no matter how they thought it over, apart from Ghost Beasts and Shen Yi, it seemed there were no other living beings in this vast world capable of manifesting something so "huge."
"Master Shou?"
Someone recalled Xu Xiaoshou's golden giant from before.
Yet even that golden giant, before this skeletal hand, was no more than a