Crack! Just as Xiao Yan was about to turn and leave, the entire cave suddenly began to shake violently. A huge fissure split open in the ground where the stone forging platform had stood. Then two points of eerie red light rose from within and drifted straight toward him.
"What bizarre flames!" Xiao Yan's pupils contracted slightly. He opened his palm, swiftly condensed a Five-Colored Fire Lotus, and hurled it toward the two glowing points. Just then, a stark white skeletal claw appeared, seized the Five-Colored Fire Lotus, and crushed it in its grip.
"What tremendous strength!" Xiao Yan was startled to see the Fire Lotus he had condensed crushed outright. A moment later, a dragon-shaped skeleton slowly emerged. It looked very similar to the Dragon Bone Guard he had seen before, only considerably larger. The two eerie red lights were the ghostly flames burning in its eye sockets.
"This is a Dragon Bone Guard too? How can it be so powerful?" Xiao Yan's expression grew exceedingly grave. The Dragon Bone Guards he had encountered before had only possessed the strength of Lower-Rank Earth Supremes, but this one likely had at least the power of a Great Perfection Earth Supreme. How could such a terrifying puppet exist in this world?
"Living flesh... blood..." A hoarse voice issued from the dragon skeleton's mouth. It stared fixedly at Xiao Yan, letting out excited growls like a hunter who had spotted its coveted prey.
Xiao Yan drew a deep breath and activated his Clan Mark without hesitation, causing his aura to surge once more. Not only that, he also invoked the Great Desolation Scripture he had obtained from the Great Desolation Tablet, frantically drawing power from the surrounding ground. Against an enemy of this level, only going all out would give him even