What should I do?
A primal thought flashed through Yang Yong's mind...
Turn around and run.
He silently took a step back.
Just then, a voice suddenly sounded beside his ear.
"You need my power."
The voice was hoarse and deep.
Yang Yong whipped around toward the voice.
Then he saw a white-bone finger floating silently in the air.
The finger had no flesh or skin, only white bone so smooth it was almost lustrous.
Its joints were clearly defined, and there was nothing where the nail should have been, yet it hovered there in midair.
The sight reminded Yang Yong of that finger in the Small World inside the Whale Lord's Body...
The finger that could conjure an entire Sea Demon Population out of thin air.
But clearly, this was not the same finger.
That one had been fully covered in flesh, while this one was nothing but white bone.
Almost immediately, Yang Yong thought of the White-Bone Giant besieged by countless Abyss demons in the illusion.
Clearly, this was another being on the level of a Source of Eerie.
Yang Yong rapidly weighed things up...
If that tree outside, that boss-level Eerie, had not been keeping this Finger Bone in check and preventing it from quietly growing stronger, this place would probably have become a hell of white bones long ago.
Run or stay?
The white-bone finger seemed to see through his thoughts.
The hoarse voice sounded again, cutting off his escape with a single sentence. "Don't even think about running."
"While the Netherworld Ancient Tree is awake, you cannot escape."
Netherworld Ancient Tree.
Was that the strange tree's name?
Yang Yong scoured every scrap of information in his mind, but could not find the slightest clue related to that name.
But that no longer mattered.
What mattered