Mist Shrouds the Burial Land and Devours Emperor Bones, True Chaos Blood Lures the Demons!

"Aah!!"

An utterly piercing scream abruptly tore through the deathly still gray mist.

Several hundred yards away, a prodigy of the Imperial House, clad in purple-gold battle armor and bearing a single horn, was fleeing for his life.

He was the Young Master of the Purple Lightning Rhinoceros Clan. His mastery of the Thunder Arts was profound, and he was normally a figure who held sway over an entire region.

Yet now, terror filled his face, as though some indescribable horror were pursuing him.

"Get away! Get away from me!"

Roaring, he turned and summoned a purple lightning shield. Myriad bolts blazed from it as he tried to block the shadow behind him.

But then.

"Shhk!"

A gray afterimage flashed through the mist and vanished. It was the sound of an exceedingly sharp limb slicing through the void.

"Crack!"

The lightning shield, strong enough to withstand a strike at true god peak, proved as fragile as thin paper before that afterimage. It was instantly sliced in half.

Without losing any momentum, the afterimage swept straight across the Purple Lightning Young Master's neck.

His scream abruptly ceased.

An enormous head flew into the sky, terror still lingering in its eyes.

Purple divine blood spurted from the headless body, but it never reached the ground.

Instead, a long, barbed tongue extended from the mist, instantly coiled around it, and dragged it into the depths of darkness.

"Crunch, crunch..."

Hair-raising chewing sounds rang out, accompanied by the sharp cracking of bones.

"Wh... what kind of monster is that?!"

Nearby, several Royal Clan prodigies traveling together heard the sounds. Their legs trembled with fear, and their divine souls nearly split apart.

"I can't see it... I can't see it at all!"

"There’s a Great Demon in this mist! A Great Demon from the Burial