"Ordinary... people..."
As the black flesh inside the bud stitched itself together bit by bit, the enormous skeleton let out a piercing sound, like metal scraping against metal, that it could barely suppress.
The black tide between heaven and earth abruptly fell still. The arm of the ink-jade skeleton slowly lifted, and as flesh writhed, the boundless black tide instantly formed a vast, terrifying vortex that swallowed the Dao Arts the two had unleashed.
Faced with the sudden upheaval,
the two Spirit Transformation elders, who had yet to recover from the bizarre and terrifying scene before them, abruptly sobered.
The combat experience they had accumulated over ten thousand years of brutal slaughter among Rogue Cultivators left them no hesitation. Both immediately manifested their Dao Bodies, revealing their Great Daos.
A bamboo forest that blotted out the sky surged wildly from the black tide. As the Bamboo Dao elder pressed down with one hand,
endless green bamboo covered his Dao Body, transforming into armor of bamboo slats. He crushed the void with one palm, and the radiance of jade bamboo burst forth, smashing the black-tide vortex.
"You mere monstrosity, how dare you!"
Seeing his fellow Daoist shatter the bizarre skeleton's evil art with a single strike, the other Spirit Transformation elder gave a low shout.
Within the vast ocean-like vision of his Dao Body, a fifth-tier low-grade treasure-vessel Magical Artifact, its entire body crystalline and deep indigo, rode the waves. The bottle tipped over, and surging blue waves, like three thousand leagues of Weak Water, dissolved the black tide.
The waves formed a water dragon that roared as it swallowed the ink-jade skeleton.
"Hmph. A demon with the aura of a Nascent Soul dares to act insolently before us?"
The Azure Water elder looked down at the ink-jade skeleton swallowed by