When Profound Yellow Qi descended from the heavens, the stars blazed across the sky, and the sound of the Yellow Bell Great Tripod echoed around the battlefield.
Before the inner fort.
Beside the collapsed prison cells.
Giant Zero Three had revealed its true form only moments ago.
It was a giant skeleton, more majestic than the true forms of every Archwizard present and even larger than the Many-armed Giant Kotos. Simply standing there, it resembled a precipitous mountain peak, giving people the sense that it would burst Black Prison Castle apart.
Its smooth skull was like an enormous parade ground, coated in silvery-white moonlight. A curved, sharp horn rose from each shoulder, whole and savage, both radiating a deep, somber hue.
Its hollow chest cavity was covered in vines. Its spine resembled a towering pine tree, while its massive ribs spread out on either side like two orderly rows of spruces. Dense golden and silver Runes were carved across those ribs, like columns of ants crawling along the narrow bone patterns, stirring layer upon layer of radiance and filling the giant skeleton's empty frame like flesh and blood.
Its hands hung beside its knees. Its right hand was slightly curled around a carving knife no larger than one of its fingers, while its left hand held a scroll of bamboo slips. Every slip was thicker than the largest bamboo Zheng Qing had ever seen. Heavy leather cords linked the slips together. Because the scroll had not been opened, its writing could not be seen, but through the gaps between the cords, strands of golden light shot out clearly like sharp arrows—or the edge of that carving knife—keen and piercing.
The bone relic formed after Rat Immortal's skeleton had burned away was like a grayish-white pebble embedded in the giant skeleton's