After a long silence, Wang Hu's puzzled voice came from the other side of the bone mirror.
But before the Skeleton Emperor could react, the divine sense descending from above casually delivered a crisp slap to his skull.
"CLANG-!"
A sharp, heavy crash reverberated through the bone hall.
The Skeleton Emperor's gleaming, polished skull, painstakingly maintained for countless tens of thousands of years, snapped sharply to one side. The tremendous force sent his entire skeleton flying sideways off his bone throne.
His skeletal power scattered. The Skeleton Emperor spun two and a half times through the air before slamming into the hard bone wall with a boom.
"Clatter..."
Countless bone fragments rained down with the dust, burying him beneath them.
The Skeleton Emperor: "..."
Wait.
He hadn't offended this walking ancestor lately, had he? He'd been obediently holed up in the Ghost Realm all this time!
The illustrious Seventh Great Lord of Return to Ruins-the Skeleton Emperor whose might shook the Netherworld-had become a punching bag for an Immortal Emperor who couldn't find a gift.
"Have you seen an ancient beast cub bearing Chaos Aura?"
Yun Huang's cold, imperious voice rang out from above the dark clouds.
"This exalted one... ahem, this lowly one has been here for thirty thousand years, and I've n-never seen such a divine creature. Please see the truth, Your Majesty!"
The Skeleton Emperor scrambled out of the broken bones, clutching his cracked skull. He dropped to both knees with practiced ease, his entire skeleton trembling faintly.
"Useless."
Yun Huang spat out the word coldly and casually gave him another resounding slap.
"CLANG!"
The Skeleton Emperor was slapped flat against the floor again.
"Hahahahaha!"
Wang Hu's unabashedly gleeful laughter came through the two-way bone mirror.
The Skeleton Emperor felt utterly wronged, but dared not utter a