The figure did not react at all to Lu Yuan's arrival. It remained bowed, as though trapped in eternal slumber.
Just as Lu Yuan was studying it, an exceedingly faint sound suddenly rose beside his ears.
It was the mingling of drumbeats and shrieking flute notes, endlessly circling the enormous shadow.
"Comes with its own background music? Definitely not something I can mess with."
Lu Yuan's sanity was visibly slipping.
He immediately stopped looking upward and forced his gaze lower.
But judging from the situation, this was most likely not its true body. The pressure it gave him was not especially strong; only when he tried to see what it truly looked like did his sanity keep getting stripped away.
Beneath the giant shadow, just as Lu Yuan was wondering what to do, a figure slowly emerged.
That figure was countless times smaller than the giant shadow, roughly the size of a normal person, though Lu Yuan could not make out his face.
His outline was extremely blurry, but his build and gait made it clear that he was a man. He walked with steady composure.
He walked toward Lu Yuan and stopped several meters away from him.
He seemed unable to see Lu Yuan, because his gaze passed straight through Lu Yuan's body and landed in the distant void.
Clearly, this was a recording—a message its owner had intended to leave for those who came after.
Then he spoke. His voice was steady and unhurried, every word pronounced clearly.
"Forbidden Scholar of a later generation, the moment you fuse the Golden Order, it means that the Flesh beneath Bronze City has once again gone out of control."
He paused and looked up at the slumbering giant shadow behind him.
"That Flesh from the Starry Sky possesses immensely powerful Taboo