A cold voice came from atop the White Bone Throne.
Mu Qing looked up, and his pupils contracted slightly.
The man before him had a chaotic aura, yet even the faint trace of it leaking out made Mu Qing's heart palpitate. He was likely a Ruler-level powerhouse far beyond Mu Qing!
The man's upper body was bare, his black hair hanging to his waist. His skin was pale, and his frame gaunt and withered.
Yet the most hair-raising thing was that his upper body was split by gashes, hollow and unfathomably deep, like gaping, ferocious mouths that were swallowing and spitting something out.
"Those are... lifespans?"
Mu Qing's eyes turned into golden serpent pupils once more, catching several traces.
The mouth-like fissures across the strange man's upper body were devouring the lifespans flowing in from the surroundings.
Having once cultivated the Eternal Life Scripture, Mu Qing could clearly see that dense, abundant vitality.
And that lifespan vitality came precisely from the living beings outside who had turned into ice sculptures!
"You're transforming into another kind of living being..." Mu Qing said gravely.
He had discerned some of the changes in this fellow. This man's aura clearly belonged to an undead creature, yet he was secretly transforming, becoming a living being like a human.
From death to life!
He was breaking free from the shackles of being an undead creature, allowing himself to evolve into a normal living being!
"That's right." The man on the White Bone Throne was briefly taken aback, not expecting Mu Qing to see through things so thoroughly. A meaningful smile appeared on his face.
"After this king failed to break through to the Great Ruler realm, I perished here. Who knows how many years later, my consciousness recovered, and I began using the power I possessed