Ancient Burden Bearer. Rumble—!!
Deep within the Gallbladder, the Jade Mountains, stretching millions of miles, let out an agonized groan from their roots.
The translucent crystal shell covering the mountains shattered inch by inch, exposing the dark-gold flesh beneath, still faintly pulsing. Hundreds of millions of thick crystalline roots were wedged deep into its neural pathways. As the tower, over a hundred million kilometers tall, slowly rose, they dragged this section of divine tissue outward!
At the instant the world seemed to split apart, a towering bone claw that blotted out the sky thrust into the base of the mountains from the Void!
Its mountain-sized, curved talons pierced the decayed fault line with precision and held up the divine tissue before it could be torn free. At the same time, rows of supporting limbs reached beneath the ruptured tissue like pillars holding up the heavens, bracing the living flesh around it.
The rising Jade Mountains lurched to a halt, held steady in midair by the bone claw!
Shattered crystal rained from the clouds like meteors. In the depths of that endless storm, an ancient symbiotic life-form slowly raised its head.
One of the Ancient People—the Burden Bearer!
The images previously sent to the players had shown only a section of one supporting limb.
Now it finally unfolded its body from the tissue folds where it had crouched. Its head alone was the size of a star, while its vast body extended beyond sight. Twelve layers of heavy Bone Shields spread out along the giant beast's neck, one after another, like overlapping walls of heaven, deflecting falling crystal and rock. Rows of specialized supporting limbs lined its underside. The shorter, thicker ones spread layers of bone plates at their tips to hold up the living tissue below the wound; the longer,