Xu Taiping forcibly suppressed the fear in his heart and that indescribable sense of dread, carefully examining the inauspicious object.
The left half of the inauspicious object's face was a silvery-white skull covered in fine cracks. A golden eyeball floated in its hollow socket. Its translucent hair even gave off a faint glow of immortal grace.
Its appearance closely resembled the skeletons of the Heavenly Soldiers and Divine Generals he had encountered in the Southern Heavenly Gate Ruins.
But the right half of the inauspicious object's head...
Was nothing like the Heavenly Soldier Skeletons he had seen back then.
The right half of its head was a constantly pulsing, dark red tumor, its surface covered in bulging veins and blood vessels.
Its eyeball looked even more like a blood-colored Spirit Crystal.
And when its blood-colored, Spirit Crystal-like pupil contracted, crimson smoke flowed out of it.
The lower jaw of its mouth had been completely shattered, replaced by a mass of black fog giving off an eerie glow.
Hundreds of sharp teeth were faintly visible within that black fog.
At this sight, Xu Taiping murmured:
"Why does the right half of this inauspicious object's head look so much like that evil demon from beyond the domain I saw on Vulture Peak?"
As he puzzled over this, his gaze fell on the monster's torso.
The monster's torso...
Was almost identical to the Heavenly Soldier Skeletons he had seen in the Southern Heavenly Gate Ruins back then. The only differences were its charred-black ribs and a crimson Demon Eye a full three feet in diameter floating in its chest cavity.
On closer inspection, there were actually nine blood-colored vortices within the Demon Eye's pupil.
Blood-colored mist constantly streamed out of those nine vortices, gradually enveloping the inauspicious object's torso.
Clearly, this was the