"Let your glory bloom... Heavenbone!"
The jade-clear bones flashed with black-gold light, then soared into the sky as though possessed of a spirit. Their radiance was as dazzling as a blazing sun hanging overhead, except this sun was an eerie black and gold.
Then, centered on that black-gold sun, an exceedingly faint ripple, barely visible to the naked eye, spread in every direction like sunlight illuminating the world.
Crack, crack, crack...
Moments later, a dense, unbroken crackling of bones, like beans popping in a pan, resounded through heaven and earth. The sound was tremendous, yet so uncanny that it made their hair stand on end.
"What's happening?"
The earlier phenomenon had unleashed the "undead cataclysm," and now came this eerie crackling of bones. Looking worried, Chengshalina glanced at the black-gold sun suspended overhead, then raised her head and looked around in bewilderment.
"Look..."
Greedy Wolf King Jiang Yao's expression suddenly changed, and he cried out in alarm, drawing everyone's puzzled attention. Then he added, his voice urgent and incredulous, "Look at those skeletons!"
"What?!"
Only then did everyone, including Jian Shang and Di Wushuang, notice the skeletons-the most numerous and yet most overlooked creatures. Their mouths fell open in unison, certain they were hallucinating.
The countless skeletons packed across the landscape like heaps of sludge were all undergoing tremendous changes visible to the naked eye.
Their once-hunched, rotten, filthy frames gradually straightened. Grime fell away, and faint gleams flickered across their decaying bones, like a flowing metallic sheen.
"Is this... evolution?"
Di Wushuang, who would not have changed expression even if Mount Tai collapsed before her, involuntarily rubbed her eyes, then stared wide-eyed at the countless skeletons in disbelief.
Given her background and standing, Di Wushuang possessed a wealth of knowledge and experience that far surpassed even Huan Emperor Jian