As the battle outside the Dragon Tomb drew to a close, some unseen events were unfolding within it as well.
Within the silent and ancient Dragon Tomb, the scent of the ages permeated everywhere, and among them were countless colorful dragon skeletons and corpses suspended mid-air in the void of the tomb. Evidently, these were powerful figures of the Dragon Clan who had fallen and been buried here.
Even the weakest among them had reached the Samsara stage during their lifetimes, and such a massive number truly matched the transcendent position held by the Dragon Clan as the Overlord of Heaven and Earth within the Great Thousand World.
Countless dragon bones were placed in a disorderly manner throughout the Dragon Tomb, yet their skulls and bodies uniformly faced a hazy region within the tomb with utmost reverence.
That was an open area suspended in the sky of the Dragon Tomb, the core of the tomb: the Dragon God Square.
The Dragon God Square was extremely vast, roughly a thousand meters in size, yet there were not many furnishings upon the square, save for a minimalist lotus stone platform, upon which sat an ancient stone statue of unknown age.
The statue's body was indistinguishable from an ordinary human's, even appearing much more slender than a normal person's. The entire form did not possess overly striking features, save for the presence of inexplicably powerful golden veins flowing across the statue's entire body.
Within the golden veins, it felt as though some transcendent power existed, and one could even peer through the veins to faintly see objects resembling flawless jade stones shifting slightly within the statue... Yet those seemed as illusory as a mirage, hazy and unreal.
Before the statue stood an unremarkable golden stone stele, erected in front of the statue like