The enormous sinkhole was enough to make anyone's heart pound. Ancient patterns of light covered the jagged rocks along its rim, flickering with a faint, desolate glow.
Inside, the sinkhole was black as ink, its depths all but invisible. Even light that entered it was silently swallowed. It looked like a Black Hole inhabited by an ancient demon, or a gate to hell leading into the depths of Nine Nether. A single glance made the scalp prickle and sent a chill racing up the spine.
But what truly shook Lin Ming and Zi Yan was not the dark sinkhole itself. It was the two colossal objects suspended above it.
Both were bone-white, threaded with wisps of dark gold.
Those dark-gold lines resembled the remnants of an ancient seal, winding across the pale bone. Each flicker released a faint but savage aura that seemed capable of changing the color of heaven and earth.
It was a ferocity that endless ages had failed to erase. The mere trace left in the bones was countless times more terrifying than the Dragon Demon Lizard King they had slain.
And the source of that ferocity was a gigantic dragon head and phoenix head!
Each head was larger than a mountain. Beside them, the Dragon Demon Lizard King Lin Ming had killed would have been a sparrow facing an eagle.
Every scale on the dragon head was several yards wide. Countless millennia of erosion had stripped away its flesh, leaving only pale bone, yet ancient dark-gold patterns still flowed slowly across its surface. With every flicker, Dragon Might that seemed to look down upon all creation spread from it.
The phoenix head was just as astonishingly vast. Its sharp beak resembled an inverted mountain peak, its tip keen enough to pierce the heavens with a single