Behind the white bone chair on which the blood-colored skeleton sat, three blood-colored bone pillars stood perfectly straight. A ball of blood-colored flame flickered atop each pillar, burning silently and making the already dark chamber look even more sinister and eerie.
At that moment, two baleful beams of blood-red light, several inches long, shot from the skeleton's eyes as he studied a yellow jade slip in his hand.
"Heh heh, excellent. This Heavenly Corpse True Scripture truly is exquisitely profound, especially its methods for cultivating earthly fiend corpse kings and heavenly fiend corpse kings. They offer considerable inspiration for refining my body..." The blood-colored skeleton nodded slightly, a dry, grating cackle issuing from his mouth.
"Reporting to the ancestor! Quite a few Human Race cultivators have entered the Black Abyss Mystery Cavern. They are very powerful. The Yin Beasts in the outer cavern have fought them several times and been routed each time." A black shadow shot in from outside and landed before the blood-colored skeleton. It was a half-human, half-bat Yin Beast, which prostrated itself on the ground and spoke in some alarm.
"Every time the Nine Netherworld Yin Wind weakens, those Human Race cultivators come in to throw their lives away. There is no need to make a fuss. Tell me, which sects have come this time?" the blood-colored skeleton asked without looking up.
"Judging by their fighting styles, they are cultivators from the Yellow Sand Sect, Thick Earth Sect, Divine Tortoise Sect, and Beast Taming Sect." Seeing how composed the blood-colored skeleton was, the Half-Bat Yin Beast calmed down considerably.
"Those four sects? With their paltry, three-legged-cat Daoist arts, they dare come here seeking death? Lure them into the depths of the Maze Cave and pick them off one by one," the blood-colored skeleton ordered coldly, raising