Lin Chuan moved at an unhurried pace, with the others following closely behind him. After walking for roughly a hundred meters, they finally saw clearly the skeleton bound by countless chains deep within the grand hall.
White Zetsu's clone had already been waiting ahead. Upon seeing Lin Chuan arrive, it told him what it had discovered, then turned and merged back into the Black Tortoise Turtle's body.
"That skeleton!!!"
Everyone stared in shock at the black, crystal-like skeleton. Azure flames slowly burned in its two sunken eye sockets like a pair of eyes, watching them as they approached.
"The aura of the Great Perfection stage of the Integration Phase!"
Although the skeleton had not moved at all, everyone could clearly sense the terrifying pressure emanating from it. Before it, they were like small boats tossed about by wind and rain upon the sea, liable to capsize at any moment.
"No, it isn't merely at the Great Perfection stage of the Integration Phase. Its cultivation should be far higher than that!" Lin An said, his eyes flickering.
An ordinary Great Perfection Integration cultivator could never possess such overwhelming pressure. This could no longer be explained by cultivation alone; there was also an air of one who ruled over all beneath heaven.
"His cultivation has been suppressed. His true cultivation is at least at the Mahayana Phase or above!" Mu Li added.
He was exceptionally sensitive to auras, so he felt it more deeply than anyone else while standing before this skeleton.
"It's because of Crown Prince Hai. The limit of the cultivation he can control is the Great Perfection stage of the Integration Phase. Any higher, and he can no longer control it," Lin Chuan said softly.
Ever since they had entered the first layer of the Immortal Bone Realm, the