Deep within the white mist, the Breathing White Bones slowly raised its arms.
Its reverse-growing joints emitted a chilling grinding sound, the wind in the entire Desert of Forgetting suddenly stopped, and even the sand grains floating in the air were suspended in mid-air, as if forcibly frozen by some ancient will. The next moment, the translucent lung in the center of its chest cavity suddenly expanded violently, and a dull, heart-pounding sound exploded out.
That wasn't a sound; it was more like the "Origin of Oblivion" of the entire Desert of Forgetting breathing. Then, its ribs began to slowly turn outwards, cracking... cracking... Each pale rib was like a blooming petal of death, and the tips of the ribs glowed with a grayish-white light. At this moment, the entire white mist began to swirl, and countless grayish-white streams of air converged towards the center of its chest cavity.
And that lung began to turn over, and countless tiny holes appeared on the surface of the lung lobes. In each hole floated some kind of translucent spore. Those spores were like dandelion seeds, or like fragments of memory that had been peeled away. The Breathing White Bones slowly raised its head, and the gray-white flame in the empty eye sockets flickered gently. For the first time, it truly made a sound.
"Memory..." "Skeleton..." "Funeral..." Boom!!! Countless gray-white spores instantly erupted, and the entire world seemed to be covered in a "snow of oblivion". The spores had no speed; they seemed to have always been floating near the Fate Soul structure of everyone. In the next instant, the pupils of dozens of disciples on the outer edge of the Chi Lineage's formation contracted simultaneously as several spores disappeared into their brows.
"What... what was I just doing?" A disciple suddenly looked down blankly, his hand holding the sword trembling. Then a second disciple's eyes were empty. "What... is my name..." The third person suddenly stopped circulating his energy. He stood there blankly, as if he had suddenly forgotten how to control his Fate Soul.
Chi Jun's expression completely changed. "Hold on!!!" he roared. Boom!!! He slammed his right hand into his chest, and a silver-white ancient mirror suddenly flew out. Countless Fate Soul patterns appeared on the surface of the mirror, and a constantly rotating galaxy of memories flowed in the center of the mirror. "Consciousness-Suppressing Ancient Mirror —Open!!!" Boom!!!
A burst of silvery-white light erupted from the mirror, and countless ancient Fate Soul characters transformed into chains, instantly binding the three disciples who had begun to "forget". The chains frantically stabilized their crumbling Fate Soul structure. The three bodies trembled violently, and the cracks in their Fate Soul continued to spread, but they were eventually suppressed for the time being. Veins bulged on Chi Jun's forehead.
Blood was already seeping from the corner of his mouth. He stared intently at the distant, Breathing White Bones, a genuine fear appearing in his eyes for the first time. "Everyone!!" "Stabilize the formation with all your might!! Anyone who dares to relax even a little will cause the entire Myriad Evolutions Return to the Ruins Formation to collapse!!!" The entire Chi Lineage team frantically circulated the Limitless Evolving True Flow within their bodies.
The Return to the Ruins Wheel in the sky began to spin violently. At this moment, Chi Jun suddenly turned his head and looked at Shen Qingchen, Su Qingyuan, and another Mystic Void Realm · Supreme Disciple, Chi Linyuan. "You three--" "Concentrate your Mystic Void Origin at one point!!!" Shen Qingchen took a deep breath and slowly lifted the Blank Dao Scroll with both hands. The Blank Dao Scroll began to unfold on its own.
Large swaths of blank Fate Soul characters floated out from the scroll. Su Qingyuan slowly raised her Sheathless Blade. She gently gripped the hilt with her five fingers, but did not draw the sword. However, numerous fine cracks began to appear in the entire space. Chi Linyuan took a step forward, his pupils turning silver-white, and a mysterious talisman appeared in the center Mystic Void his brow.
The three of them shouted in unison, "Mystic Void Origin - Gather!!!" Boom!!! Three completely different Mystic Void Origins instantly soared into the sky. One transformed into a blank river, one into an invisible sword intent, and one into Mystic Void boundary pattern. They converged towards the center of the formation at the same time, and Chi Jun suddenly formed a hand seal. In the next instant, the entire Myriad Evolutions Return to the Ruins Formation began to truly awaken.
Rumble--!!! The earth suddenly cracked open, and thousands of ancient array patterns suddenly emerged from beneath the sea of sand. The patterns transcended ordinary flowing light and form, and formed an existence structure that reached the very origin of the rules of the realm. Countless silver-white Fate Soul chains rose from the depths of the sea of sand, and the entire sky suddenly darkened, all under the shocked gazes of everyone.
At the center of the Myriad Evolutions Return to the Ruins Formation Void Formation, a colossal ancient array wheel slowly rose. The wheel, thousands of feet in diameter, displayed countless ancient Chi Lineage Fate Soul imprints on its surface. These imprints continuously recombined, eventually forming a nine-layered Return to the Ruins structure. The outermost layer was the "Wanyan," the middle layer the "Return to the Ruins," and the very core was a pitch-black void.
Chi Jun slammed his hands down on the array's core, his roar shaking the heavens and earth. "Myriad Evolutions Return to the Ruins Formation— " "Core Formation!!" "Nine Evolutions Void Annihilation Domain!!!" Boom!!!!! The entire Desert of Forgetting suddenly sank, the sky completely covered by a silver-white Fate Soul structure, billions of Fate Soul patterns spinning wildly, a silver-white boundary barrier spanning tens of thousands of feet—
With a deafening roar, within the barrier, all causal structures began to reverse. All the forgotten spores that had just approached were forcibly shredded by a large number of Fate Soul chains. And the Breathing White Bones —for the first time, stopped breathing. It slowly raised its head, and the gray-white flames in its empty eye sockets began to burn fiercely.
Chi Jun pressed his hands firmly against the array's core. His entire Fate Soul structure had been burned to its Ultimate, and large areas of silver-white Fate Soul patterns spread wildly along his arms. Even the Returning Ruin Wheel began to appear deep within his pupils. The surrounding air continuously emitted the rumbling sound of space being crushed, and the entire Myriad Evolutions Return to the Ruins Formation was fully operational.
Rumble!!! The Ninefold Return to the Ruins Heavenly Wheels rotated in reverse at the same time, as if the sky was being torn apart by an invisible giant hand. Hundreds of millions of silver-white Fate Soul chains descended from the sky, and the boundary rules of the entire Desert of Forgetting began to twist wildly. The gray-white Forgotten Spores that were originally floating between heaven and earth were forcibly frozen in mid-air.
Chi Jun suddenly looked up, veins bulging on his forehead, blood flowing continuously from the corner of his mouth. He stared intently at the Breathing White Bones in the white mist, his voice almost roaring from the depths of his Fate Soul. "Chi Lineage's Domain-Suppressing Divine Power--" "Wanyan Return to the Ruins - Nine Realms Void Annihilation Kill!!!" Boom!!!! The pitch-black "void" in the center of the formation suddenly exploded. The next moment, heaven and earth fell silent.
A colossal, silver-white "Return to the Ruins Divine Spear," spanning thousands of feet, slowly materialized from the depths of the void. This spear was not a physical entity, but rather a materialized "boundary rule." Countless ancient Chi Lineage Fate Soul characters flowed along its shaft, each representing a "Ultimate Annihilation-Construct Logic." And at the very tip of the spear...
What met the eye was Ultimate darkness, the absolute Space Silence left behind after all existence Return to the Ruins. The entire Desert of Forgetting began to tremble violently, the sky cracked, the ground sank, and hundreds of thousands of miles of sand sea simultaneously unleashed a monstrous storm. The Blue Flame Demon Wolf that had been lying in the distance all howled in terror, and large numbers of the wolf packs even began to retreat frantically, as they instinctively sensed death.
As the Breathing White Bones truly ceased its movements for the first time, the transparent lung in the center of its chest began to contract wildly, and the gray-white flames in its eye sockets flickered violently. The next instant, Chi Jun pressed down with both hands. "Kill--!!!" Boom!!!! The Return to the Ruins Divine Spear instantly pierced through heaven and earth, as if the entire world had been torn in two by silver-white lightning.
The moment the divine spear slashed through the void, all the white mist along its path was annihilated. A large number of forgotten spores did not even have time to dissipate before being forcibly Return to the Ruins to nothingness and dust. Space began to crack layer by layer, and a void rift valley tens of thousands of feet long was blasted out by the divine spear. The Breathing White Bones suddenly opened its ribs, and the transparent lung in the center of its chest cavity suddenly expanded.
A vast expanse of grayish-white fog of oblivion gathered frantically, but it was too late. Boom!!!! The Return to the Ruins Divine Spear struck the Breathing White Bones head-on. In an instant, the entire world seemed to be completely swallowed by the silvery-white light, large fragments of bones exploded on the spot, and half of the Breathing White Bones's body was directly blasted apart.
Its translucent lung in the center of its chest cavity was even pierced through, and a large amount of grayish-white, forgotten energy surged out wildly, like countless dead memories wailing in the sky. Its entire body was blasted away violently. Boom!!! Boom!!! Boom!!!
Dozens of sand dunes along the way collapsed instantly, and massive spatial cracks spread wildly. Finally Breathing White Bones crashed into the distant Forgotten Sands, causing the entire land to collapse and form a crater thousands of feet deep. The disciples of the Chi Lineage were instantly jubilant. "It hit!!!" "The steward succeeded!!" "That divine beast supreme being is severely injured!!" But the next moment, Chi Jun's expression suddenly changed, "No—"
Rumbling... From within the deep pit, a deeper, more resonant breathing sound slowly rose. The sound no longer seemed like that of a living being, but rather like some ancient taboo awakening. The entire Desert of Forgetting suddenly began to tremble violently, countless grains of sand began to rise against the current, and the Blue Flame Demon Wolf that were lying prostrate on the ground in the distance suddenly trembled. Then, as if they had gone mad, they all fled into the distance at the same time.
Even the white mist began to retreat, and a pale white skeletal hand slowly emerged from the center of the pit. Crack... crack crack... the teeth-grinding sound of bones breaking rang out continuously. The next instant, all the Chi Lineage disciples' pupils contracted simultaneously, because they saw the half of the shattered body of the Breathing White Bones regenerating.
No, countless gray-white grains of sand suddenly stirred and churned, surging relentlessly, all rushing towards its body. From within those grains of sand emerged countless blurry human faces. Some were crying. Some were laughing. Some were frantically murmuring their names, while the Breathing White Bones body was absorbing those "Forgotten Ones."
Boom!!! Its chest cavity suddenly exploded. The transparent lung lobe began to split in two, and a second lung slowly emerged. At the same time, its previously empty back suddenly sprouted a large number of pale white bone spurs. These bone spurs extended wildly and eventually formed six huge bone limbs. Its entire body began to slowly expand, and its skeleton continued to grow taller. Ten zhang... thirty zhang... one hundred zhang!!! In just a few breaths.
The Breathing White Bones had transformed into a terrifying skeleton hundreds of feet tall. Its original human-shaped head began to crack open, and a new "face" slowly emerged from within the bones. It was a face without features, only a huge crack. Inside the crack floated countless "memories"—figures, mountains and rivers, death, and a forgotten world.
And its two transparent lungs in the center of its chest began to breathe simultaneously. Hiss, whoosh—in that instant, all the storms in the entire Desert of Forgetting ceased. Chi Jun's face turned deathly pale; he stared intently at the hundred-foot-tall bone shadow, his lips trembling. "Second form..." "This damn thing—" "Everyone, be careful...!"