Chaos qi coiled and drifted.
Empty, silent, cold...
A pale golden skeleton drifted soundlessly, its bones wreathed in deathly qi so dense it had reached the utmost extreme.
Even a single wisp of it leaking out would be enough to destroy an entire Great World.
Crack, crack—!
A Chaos Being discovered the skeleton. After pondering for a moment, it decisively moved forward and bit down on the skeletal frame!
Its sharp teeth collided with bone, producing crisp, grating sounds without end.
It sounded extraordinarily difficult to gnaw through.
Yet that seemed to pique its interest even further.
It dragged the skeleton along, intending to haul it back to its nest and turn it into a reusable tooth-grinding tool.
By instinct, it felt this was surely a fine treasure and wanted to claim it.
However, as it dragged it away...
A cluster of faint soul-flames suddenly rose from the two empty eye sockets!
The dense deathly qi around its entire body abruptly drew inward!
It sank into the skeletal frame, and vitality suddenly overflowed!
Flesh grew, and meridians reformed.
A hand that had yet to fully grow, still somewhat bloody and mangled, seized the Chaos Being's head, and then... Pop—!
The next moment, malicious intent from the chaos swept toward him!
Yet it made no move for a long while!
Pfft—Pfft—!
Perhaps because too much time had passed, the newly formed body of flesh had a bloody hole in it, sending golden blood spraying out in a spectacular display.
Fortunately, a hand pressed over it and restored it.
"Eras rise and perish; chaos endures forever."
"This is the seventh transformation. The path of breaking through from King to Emperor... is almost complete."
Clad in ancient robes, once his flesh had regrown, the skeleton's true appearance proved exceptionally handsome.
His long black