Amid the endless black sand, a figure in blue slowly made his way toward the strange dune.
After walking for roughly the time it took to drink half a cup of tea, Xu Yan stopped. From here, his divine sense could already envelop the entire black dune.
The dune before him did not have the usual pointed shape. Instead, it rose and fell in rolling ridges. As the black sandstorm swept over it, grains of black sand tumbled down its surface like surging, roaring waves.
Everything along his journey had been flat and empty, so the sudden appearance of this black dune naturally stirred his curiosity.
Puzzlement flickered in Xu Yan's eyes as he released his divine sense and slowly extended it toward the enormous black dune.
"This..."
The instant his divine sense enveloped the entire dune, Xu Yan could not help murmuring, disbelief spreading across his face.
Light flashed beneath his feet, and within a breath, he darted to the foot of the black dune.
Xu Yan was deeply excited now, for his divine sense had discovered an incomparably huge skeleton buried beneath the dune.
"Go!"
With a sharp command, Xu Yan sent several streams of magic power into the black dune before him.
Boom!
The powerful magic struck, blowing away all the black sand.
When the black dune vanished, the colossal skeleton's true form lay exposed.
At his first glimpse of the skeleton, Xu Yan's expression changed.
The colossal skeleton before him resembled a human, its right knee planted on the ground in a half-kneeling posture.
Its bones were black as ink, with a strange, jade-like luster. Though there was no telling how long its owner had been dead, a faint oppressive aura still emanated from it. Up close, it even made breathing difficult.
Despite being only half-kneeling,