Thump!
An exceedingly faint, muffled sound came from deep within the massive skeletal body's chest.
The sound was very soft.
Yet every Kuafu clansman around the sacrificial altar held their breath at once.
"A heartbeat?"
"It's the ancestor's heartbeat!"
Some clansmen cried out in shock.
But as soon as the words fell, the space above the sacrificial altar returned to silence.
As one, everyone turned their gaze toward Pan Cangheng.
Pan Cangheng's eyes remained shut, his divine sense still carefully probing the skeletal body.
After a long while.
He slowly opened his eyes.
"The core soul body has already returned to its place."
"It is only that the ancestor's Soul Power is far too weak, and this skeletal body has been incomplete for far too many years."
"If he is to truly awaken, I fear it will still take a long time."
As his voice rang out.
The joy on the faces of the Kuafu clansmen around the sacrificial altar dimmed somewhat, yet not one of them showed disappointment.
For the Kuafu Clan.
The fact that their ancestor's core soul body could return and that the skeletal body could once again have a heartbeat was already an outcome they had not dared dream of for countless ages.
Pan Yue was about to leave the skeletal body.
But at that very moment.
The index finger bone of the enormous skeletal body's right hand, hanging beside the sacrificial altar, suddenly twitched slightly.
The movement was extremely subtle.
Yet it could not escape the notice of anyone present.
Pan Cangheng's body trembled faintly, and an excitement he could no longer suppress finally appeared on his aged face.
"The ancestor... has truly returned!"
Around the sacrificial altar.
More and more Kuafu clansmen knelt upon the ground.
Every pair of eyes burned with fervor.
That