"Boom!"
Just as Xu Taiping sat down on the ground, preparing to open the Divine Soul Mark left by the Lotus Eye in his mind, a thunderous crash suddenly came from above the Daoist temple.
In an instant, the already dim temple plunged into utter darkness.
All three looked up at once.
They saw a Blightbone with a skeleton over a hundred zhang long gliding slowly over the temple, its spread wings blotting out the sky and sun.
At the sight, Mo Qingzhu murmured in astonishment:
"Could this be a Blightbone formed from the remains of a powerful Demonic Beast?"
Neither Xu Taiping nor the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage could confirm whether this Blightbone had formed from a Demonic Beast's remains. They could only confirm that the aura of the Blightbone overhead was no weaker than that of the Red-Eyed Blightbone.
"Buzzz..."
Just then, the enormous stone pillar inside the ruined temple actually began to tremble with a faint hum.
Immediately afterward, ancient, tadpole-like patterns of blue-green runes began emerging across the stone pillar.
In an instant.
Rings of blue-green spiritual power slowly spread from the base of the stone pillar like ripples on water.
"Boom!"
At that very moment, the Blightbone with its enormous pair of skeletal wings suddenly swooped down from the sky, viciously raking at the temple with claws studded with jade-green Spirit Crystal spikes.
Everyone's heart tightened at the sight.
Mo Qingzhu even stammered in a trembling voice:
"It... it... it found us?!"
But no sooner had he spoken than a bang rang out, and the enormous Blightbone's claws were forcibly hurled back by the blue-green radiance emanating from the stone pillar.
Then the skeleton, which resembled an enormous Spirit Bird, let out a piercing cry, beat its wings fiercely, and soared Sky-Piercing into the sky.
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