There was no doubt that these chains were trying to bind Lu Xiaotian here, just as they had bound the various exotic beasts that had long since died.
Under the attacks of the several iron chains, Lu Xiaotian's figure flickered at an astonishing speed. At times, his True Dragon battle arts moved with the freedom of an eagle striking the open sky; at others, they displayed the agility of a snake gliding through the grass. He unleashed the techniques to their fullest, sending a Ninefold Dragon Seal crashing down from time to time. The chains lashing toward Lu Xiaotian or spreading toward him clattered loudly as they were repeatedly forced back.
By then, some of the exotic beasts that had originally been bound by the chains seemed to be beginning to awaken. The surroundings filled with an aura of corpse energy that was both terrifying and exceedingly strange.
That corpse energy gave Lu Xiaotian an inexplicable sense of familiarity, as though he had encountered it somewhere before.
"Ying Gou's bones?" While engaging the chains attacking him from all around, Lu Xiaotian searched through his memories. At last, he recalled the origin of the terrifying corpse energy that appeared and vanished before him. Back when his cultivation had still been low, he had entered the Tiansang Wasteland and become trapped inside Venerable Mingku Can's painting scroll. The aura of the Ying Gou bone Jiang Chen had sought had been exactly the same as this. Only, Jiang Chen had been looking for merely a fragment of bone at the time.
And now, this aura was more than several times denser than that fragment had been.
Hiss! One of the exotic beasts, with an elephant's head and a fish's body, suddenly broke free of the chains and attacked. Its thick trunk lashed toward