Boom!! A large burst of dark red malevolent energy suddenly erupted from the palm, forcefully dispersing the wisp of gray-white ancient charm.
But in this brief exchange, more scarlet raindrops fell one after another, the black and gold bone armor on the surface of the six bone wings kept emitting a faint corroding sound, and the dark red smoke that originally flowed between the wing bones began to show large patches of gray and white marks.
It finally stopped its slaughter. The pale, skeletal face slowly rose, its dark golden eyes fixed on the giant umbrella in the sky. The gray-gold vertical pupil in the center of its chest also opened completely, and countless broken lock patterns deep within the pupil spun rapidly. An ancient and ferocious power, even more terrifying than before, slowly rose from its body.
"This thing..." it said in a low voice, a distinct seriousness appearing for the first time, "It can actually corrode my original bone armor..." Six crimson bone wings suddenly unfolded to the sides.
Rumble--! The entire Blue-Gray Mountain Plain suddenly trembled, and dark red smoke churned wildly around the unknown creature. The twelve spines on its back lit up with deep red light one after another, and the gray-gold vertical pupil in the center of its chest slowly rotated. The ancient lock patterns that were originally broken deep in the pupil began to extend on their own, turning into streaks of red and black lines that spread rapidly along its chest, shoulders, back, and six bone wings.
It slowly raised its arms. Six slender fingers spread open simultaneously, and two gray-gold bone pupils in its palms suddenly opened. "Ancient Prison Blood Evolution - Ten Thousand Remains Rend the Firmament!" A deep and rough voice spread across the heavens and earth.
Boom! The twelve spines on the back simultaneously erupted with blinding blood-red light. The dark red patterns on the surface of the spines rapidly extended outward, forming twelve enormous crimson- Black Bone. Each bone chain was composed of countless fine joints, with thick, blood-red essence flowing between them. Blurred, ancient faces appeared on the surface of the chains, their eyebrows and eyes twisted, constantly emitting silent roars. The bone chains extended wildly along the void, instantly spanning tens of thousands of feet across the sky.
Immediately afterward, the unknown creature suddenly raised its head. "Roar--!" A terrifying roar suddenly shook the heavens and the earth.
A beam of crimson light suddenly shot out from the gray-gold vertical pupil in the center of its chest, shooting straight into the sky. Countless primordial raindrops along the way were scattered to both sides by the violent and ferocious force. The six crimson bone wings closed forward at the same time, and the dark red smoke between the wing bones quickly condensed, transforming into an enormous blood-red bone shadow.
The skeletal figure had twelve horns on its head, six wings on its back, a huge gray-gold vertical pupil embedded in its chest, countless intersecting bone blades on its arms, and was wrapped in dense crimson-black chains. Its massive body slowly rose from behind the unknown creature, reaching the ground beneath the gray-white giant umbrella.
"Tear me apart!!" The unknown creature suddenly swung its arms down.
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh--! Twelve crimson- Black Bone shot into the sky simultaneously, their sharp bone blades tearing through layers of space, piercing fiercely towards the gray-white giant umbrella with intense bloodlust. Immediately following behind, a massive crimson bone shadow raised its arms, tens of thousands of bone blades frantically condensing along its palms, then transforming into a crimson-black blade tide that swept across the heavens and earth, crashing down towards the center of the giant umbrella.
Boom! The twelve crimson Black Bone were the first to strike the umbrella surface.
A terrifying primal shock spread wildly outwards along the gray-white umbrella fabric, and the entire sky suddenly lit up with a blinding blood-red light. Tens of thousands of crimson and black lines spread wildly along the umbrella surface, and the front end of the bone chain kept rotating, trying to tear open the primordial patterns deep within the umbrella fabric.
Immediately afterwards, the enormous blood-red bone shadow also swung down its arms, and thousands of bone blades converged into a vast sea of blades, slashing fiercely at the intersection of the twelve umbrella bones. Boom!! A roar even heavier than before resounded throughout the mountain plain.
Finally, a very subtle ripple appeared on the surface of the giant gray-white umbrella. The primordial patterns between the twelve umbrella ribs trembled slightly, and the raindrops that were originally falling slowly were scattered and splashed by the violent blood-red ferocity. The gray-white light screen in the center of the umbrella surface also rose slightly upward, as if a huge force was forcibly lifting it from below.
Upon seeing this, the remaining thousands of Shangguan Lineage disciples' eyes lit up with surprise. "It moved!" "The giant umbrella moved!" "It actually managed to shake the giant umbrella!"
Shangguan Wan'er suddenly looked up, a hint of shock flashing across her pale face. Just as everyone thought the giant gray umbrella was about to be torn open, the primordial patterns on the surface of the twelve umbrella ribs suddenly lit up at the same time.
A deep, ancient aura slowly rose from the depths of the umbrella.
The ancient ox-shaped pattern, reflected by the second star spot on the spine of the Gongpiluo Huang, gradually became clear in the center of the gray-white umbrella. The enormous ox-shaped beast slowly lowered its head, and between its two horns emerged a boundless primordial mountain range. Then, the profound Daoist aura of those mountains rapidly spread along the twelve umbrella ribs, and the entire gray-white umbrella surface became even heavier in an instant.
Crack! The first crimson- Black Bone suddenly cracked. Immediately afterwards, the second and third bone chains also began to tremble.
The unknown creature suddenly widened its eyes, and the gray-gold vertical pupil in the center of its chest spun rapidly, trying to activate more of its origin. However, the front ends of those bone chains were firmly pressed down by the gray-white primordial aura, and the originally incomparably sharp bone blades could not penetrate any further. The thousands of blade lights wielded by the blood-red bone shadow also dimmed one after another below the umbrella.
"Roar!!" The unknown creature let out a violent roar, its six bone wings suddenly unfurling outwards, and its dark red essence surged wildly once more. But just then—Boom!! All twelve umbrella ribs trembled slightly at the same time.
The gray-white umbrella, which had been supported by the bone chains, slowly returned to its original state. An irresistible, heavy, ancient aura pressed down along the bone chains, causing the crimson- Black Bone chains to shatter one after another. Large pieces of bone fragments exploded into countless pieces in the sky. The arms of the blood-red bone shadow also developed dense cracks under that ancient aura, and finally collapsed with a muffled bang.
Bang!! The enormous body of the unknown creature was suddenly thrown backward.
Six crimson bone wings trembled in succession, the gray-gold vertical pupil in the center of its chest suddenly contracted, large fine cracks appeared on the surface of its bone armor, dark red essence flowed continuously along the wounds, and the area previously eroded by the Primordial Raindrops felt a burning pain, causing obvious shock and anger to appear on its pale bone surface for the first time.
"Damn it..." it roared in a low voice, its dark golden eyes fixed on the giant umbrella high in the sky.
The giant gray-white umbrella still hovered in the sky. Its twelve ribs slowly rotated. There were no real cracks on the umbrella surface. Only the area that had been forcibly propped up by the blood-red bone chains still had a trace of primordial ripples that had not yet completely subsided.
Meanwhile, the Shangguan Lineage's grand formation below had been impacted once again in this round of terrifying collisions. The several layers of light screens that had been barely maintained began to shake violently, and hundreds of disciples were knocked to the ground. Several stewards rushed forward to help them up, and the radiance of the formation's core dimmed even further.
The Elder White Brow gazed at the still-roaring unknown creature high in the sky, a complex expression appearing on his aged face. Events from millions of years ago resurfaced vividly before his eyes.
That year, before he had reached his current Eternal Silence Realm cultivation level, he and Shangguan Lingxiao, the equally young Shangguan Lineage, entered an ancient ruin that had long been forgotten by time.
The ruins were located in a remote and shattered void deep within the Eternal Nonexistence Limitless Domain, surrounded by countless broken continents and ancient star remains. The entrance to the ruins was a pitch-black stone gate spanning tens of thousands of miles, its surface covered with dense, gray-gold lock patterns.
Countless enormous skeletons lay scattered before the gate. Some skeletons carried mountains on their backs, some had ancient horns on their heads, and some had long since lost their complete form, yet still retained an extremely terrifying aura of True Annihilation.
Elder White Brow still remembers that when he and Clan Chief Shangguan Lingxiao ventured deep into the ruins, they witnessed an ancient battlefield Blood Immersion. That battlefield spanned hundreds of thousands of miles, its mountains and rivers destroyed, the earth cracked, and thousands of enormous ancient beast carcasses lay scattered across the rifts, some of their skeletons even surpassing the True Annihilation Realm.
Still torn apart by some terrifying force, the ancient remnants of Fate Soul floated in the void, lingering for a long time. In the center of the battlefield, a terrifying creature covered in black and gold bone armor and with six crimson bone wings on its back sat quietly on a huge bone seat made of countless ancient beast skulls.
That was the unknown creature before them. Back then, it was already severely injured, with most of its twelve spinal spines broken, its six bone wings tattered, and its gray-gold vertical pupil in the center of its chest pierced by an ancient seal. Even so, the ferocious aura emanating from it still made Elder White Brow and Shangguan Lingxiao tremble with fear.
What shocked them even more was that no other living creature remained on that ancient battlefield. Thousands of ancient divine beasts and exotic species that had once dominated the area had all perished there, while that creature was still alive.
Back then, the clan leader Shangguan Lingxiao had deciphered several extremely ancient texts from the ruins and broken steles. Among them, it mentioned a type of alien creature born deep within the Primordial Ancient Prison, which was born to devour shattered Fate Souls and remnants of Dao foundations. Its physical body and bone armor could withstand extremely violent ancient ferocity.
When its six wings unfold, it can transform a vast expanse of heaven and earth into a blood-red ancient prison, and its twelve spines can evolve into a chain of countless bones powerful enough to tear apart mountains and rivers. On the broken monument, there is still a vague ancient name left - Ancient Prison Remnant Descendants.
As for which branch of the Ancient Prison Remnant Descendants this being belonged to, where it was truly born, and why it was trapped in that ancient ruin, the two of them were never able to find out back then.
All they knew was that the being was extremely dangerous, because just as they were trying to leave the ruins, the being that had been sitting quietly on the bone seat suddenly opened its eyes. With just a roar, it caused the void within thousands of miles around to shatter.
Then, dragging its broken body, it charged forward suddenly, its six crimson bone wings stirring up a sky-covering blood mist, and its twelve bone thorns transforming into terrifying bone chains, completely sealing off all escape routes for the two.
In that battle, Elder White Brow was almost torn to pieces by it, and Shangguan Lingxiao was also severely injured. The two of them joined forces to activate several Source Dao weapons, but they still could not suppress it. It was not until Shangguan Lingxiao discovered the crimson alien Dao weapon deep in the ruins that he was finally able to use the ancient seal remaining inside the Dao weapon to set up layers of Fate Soul seals with Elder White Brow.
At that time, the creature was already severely injured and suppressed by the ancient seal remaining in the ruins. The two barely managed to seal it deep within the Dao weapon. The moment the seal was completed, it let out an extremely terrifying roar, "Once I am freed, I will tear your Fate Souls to shreds!!"
The Elder White Brow still vividly remembers that voice. For countless years afterward, he kept that Dao weapon sealed within him, never truly breaking the seal. Meanwhile, the resentment of that unknown being accumulated over the long period of imprisonment, reaching a point where it could no longer be resolved.
Now, he has personally broken the seal, and the ancient creature before him has regained its freedom. What weighs even heavier on Elder White Brow's heart is that the terrifying ferocity that the creature displayed millions of years ago has not diminished in the slightest. In fact, it has become even more violent due to the long years of imprisonment.
Even so, its "Ancient Prison Blood Evolution - Ten Thousand Remains Rend the Firmament" technique still couldn't truly tear open the gray-white giant umbrella.
Elder White Brow slowly closed his eyes for a moment, his chest heaving violently, then reopened them, a deep helplessness appearing in his aged eyes. "Clan Chief Lingxiao Xiao..." he murmured softly, his voice almost drowned out by the sound of the pouring rain.
"Back then, we both exerted all our strength to seal this thing away, but now I'm releasing it myself to see if it can withstand Gongpiluo Huang. At least we can take this opportunity to escape this predicament..." Shangguan Wan'er stood beside him, her brow furrowing slightly upon hearing this. "Senior brother..."