Elder White Brow slowly shook his head, his gaze fixed on the unknown being high in the sky, which was re-forming its dark red essence. His voice was hoarse and heavy. "I know it hates me, and I know it will never obey anyone's orders. But now, thousands of our clansmen are trapped under this giant umbrella, and Gongpiluo Huang is guarding it in the distance. If we don't release it and take a gamble, we won't even have a last chance!"
As he spoke, he slowly tightened his grip on the bronze staff, a bitter expression appearing on his aged face. "It just slaughtered more than ten of its people; I saw it with my own eyes... But right now, we no longer have the power to reseal it!"
Shangguan Wan'er remained silent for a moment, her gaze slowly sweeping across the surroundings. She saw thousands of surviving disciples still desperately trying to maintain the broken formation. Raindrops of primordial chaos continued to seep in along the cracks, and the original radiance of the formation's core had dimmed to the point of almost being extinguished. Several deacons, their faces covered in blood, still held their positions firmly.
She took a slow breath, a deep weariness flashing in her eyes. "Senior brother, things have come to this point; we can only see if it's willing to deal with Gongpiluo Huang first..."
Elder White Brow did not answer. Because at that very moment, at the end of the distant beast tide, the small gray-white beast that had been quietly hovering there finally underwent a new change.
Gongpiluo Huang's slightly upturned lips slowly returned to calm. For the first time, his eyes, which had been open, truly shifted their gaze from the Shangguan Lineage's defensive array. He slowly raised his head, his left eye deep within...
The Beginningless Ancient Rhyme, Endless Abyss slowly rose and fell. Among the twelve star spots, the rat-shaped star spot and the second ox-shaped star spot still emitted a faint glow. Its ears twitched slightly, and then it turned its gaze to the unknown creature in the sky, whose entire body was covered with black and gold bone armor and had six crimson bone wings on its back.
Gongpiluo Huang's eyes showed neither anger nor any obvious hostility; it simply gazed silently. From the four curved black-gold horns atop the creature's head, to the dark gold pupils beneath the pale bone surface, and then to the constantly rotating gray-gold vertical pupil in the center of its chest.
Finally, it slowly swept along the twelve spines and six crimson bone wings. It observed them extremely carefully. The slender gray-white tail also stopped swaying at this moment, and the end no longer extended outward, leaving only a very faint gray-white outline in the void.
High above, the Ancient Prison Remnant Descendants seemed to have sensed something as well. Its dark golden eyes, which had been fixed on the gray-white giant umbrella, suddenly turned slowly toward the distance. The two gazes finally met across the boundless beast tide and the boundless primordial rain on the gray-blue mountain plain.
On one side is an unknown malevolent spirit born from the depths of the Primordial Ancient Prison, which has left behind countless terrifying battles. On the other side is the Primordial Beast Luminary — Gongpiluo Huang —manifested by the twelve Seal of End and Beginning the Source of Wuji.
The giant gray-white umbrella still covered the entire mountain plain, and the primordial rain continued to fall. Thousands of surviving members of the Shangguan Lineage held on to the collapsing defensive array. Elder White Brow and Shangguan Wan'er stood side by side in front of the main array, their eyes fixed on the two ancient beings in the sky.
In the distance, Gongpiluo Huang remained motionless, his eyes, Beginningless and Endless, scrutinizing inch by inch the colossal body of the Ancient Prison Remnant Descendants.
The vast, greyish-white umbrella still covered the entire sky, with twelve ancient umbrella ribs spanning the heavens and earth. Countless primordial patterns, not yet fully formed, flowed deep within the greyish-white umbrella fabric. Dense raindrops fell continuously along the umbrella surface, passing through layers of void and sprinkling down on the already dilapidated Shangguan Lineage defensive formation below.
Thousands of surviving Shangguan Lineage disciples are still struggling to hold on. The vast river of light, originally formed by thousands of primordial divine weapons, has been almost completely depleted. The core of the formation is flickering, and large areas of the formation patterns in the southeast direction are collapsing one after another. Several deacons are covered in blood, but they are still desperately maintaining the last few formation eyes. The entire formation is constantly emitting fine cracking sounds under the erosion of the Primordial Rain.
Looking up, amidst layers of gray-white rain, the colossal being with six crimson bone wings on its back slowly stretched out its body. Twelve ferocious bone thorns along its shoulders and back lit up with a dark red glow in turn. The gray-gold vertical pupil in the center of its chest stared intently at the giant umbrella in the sky. The thick red mist that originally permeated the surface of the bone armor had gradually gathered and merged into the bone wings and the vertical pupil in its chest.
The Eternal Prison Skeleton Ancient Scion slowly raised its head, its dark golden eyes beneath its pale bone surface flashing with a violent light. Although the previous "Ancient Prison Blood Evolution - Ten Thousand Remains Rend the Firmament" attack had shaken the grey-white umbrella's surface, it ultimately failed to tear it apart.
Instead, it caused a considerable backlash to its twelve bone thorns. Several bone armors still bore the grayish-white marks of being eroded by the Primordial Rain, and a slight burning pain continuously traveled along the bone seams into the depths of its origin.
It slowly lowered its head, gazing at the unhealed scars on its shoulder. Its six slender fingers gently clenched, producing a dull creaking sound between the knuckles. Then, a ferocious arc slowly cracked open on its pale bone surface, and the murderous light in its dark golden eyes suddenly intensified.
"A mere broken umbrella dares to trap me!" A deep, hoarse voice spread across the entire mountain plain, and the Eternal Prison Skeleton Ancient Scion suddenly unfurled six crimson bone wings.
Rumble--! The dark red smoke that had been gathering suddenly erupted in all directions, and the twelve spinal spines simultaneously emitted a piercing bone sound. The ancient red and black patterns at the base of the spines quickly lit up and spread wildly along the shoulders, back, chest and arms.
Dozens of broken gray-gold chains trembled violently within the raging source, and the ancient seals remaining on the surface of the chains shattered one after another, turning into fragments of dark gold light that scattered into the void.
Its gray-gold vertical pupil in the center of its chest slowly rotated, and the broken lock patterns deep within the pupil began to disintegrate one by one. With each broken lock pattern, an even more ancient and ferocious source surged out from the depths of the vertical pupil, causing large red-black cracks to appear in the surrounding space.
Shangguan Wan'er stood in the center of the broken array, looking up at the enormous being whose aura was constantly rising. Her pale face showed obvious shock. She could feel that the original power released by the Eternal Prison Skeleton Ancient Scion at this moment far exceeded the previous Ten Thousand Remains Rend the Firmament Power. Even the True Annihilation Dao Rhyme that remained in the entire Blue-Gray Mountain Plain was successively dissipated under this ancient and fierce power.
Elder White Brow stood beside her, his aged eyes also filled with shock. He had joined forces with Shangguan Lingxiao to seal this being millions of years ago, so he knew that the being possessed extremely terrifying power back then. But now, seeing with his own eyes the ancient patterns constantly unraveling beneath the twelve bone thorns, he suddenly realized that in that fierce battle back then, this being may never have had the chance to truly unleash its deepest ancient prison essence.
The Eternal Prison Skeleton Ancient Scion slowly raised his arms, and his six bone wings stretched backward at the same time. The crimson smoke that was originally flowing between the wing bones quickly condensed into ferocious bone patterns, and the twelve spines on his back began to bend towards the center, with the tips of the spines coming together to form an enormous crimson- Black Bone ring.
At the center of the bone ring, there was no dazzling light, only a deep, crimson darkness that was constantly collapsing inward. From the depths of this darkness, countless ancient skeletons vaguely emerged. These skeletons were of various shapes and sizes, including ancient divine beasts with ten thousand horns on their heads and colossal alien creatures carrying mountains on their backs.
There were also unknown creatures whose complete outlines had long been lost, each skeleton wrapped with broken Fate Souls and fractured foundations. As the bone rings slowly rotated, tens of thousands of skeletons began to intertwine, gradually coalescing into an ancient blood prison that stretched across the heavens and earth.
Boom! A heavy roar suddenly came from the depths of the Blood Prison, and the entire Blue-Gray Mountain Plain trembled violently. The numerous divine beast and supreme corpses that had been lying on the battlefield were pulled by an invisible force, and the huge bones slowly rose from between the broken rock layers. The remaining True Annihilation Daoist rhyme surged along the bone seams, and then transformed into dark red torrents that rushed towards the bone ring in the sky.
Before everyone's eyes, the corpses of thousands of divine beasts and supreme beings rapidly lost their forms, and the remaining bone essence and shattered Fate Souls contained within were all drawn out and merged into the ever-expanding blood prison.
Even the skeletons left behind by the numerous divine beast supreme beings that Shangguan Wan'er had previously annihilated shattered one after another under this power, turning into dense, crimson- Black Bone patterns that spun wildly along the edge of the Blood Prison.
The ancient body of the Eternal Prison Skeleton Ancient Scion slowly rose, its six crimson bone wings extending outwards for hundreds of thousands of feet. The gray-gold vertical pupil in the center of its chest suddenly burst forth with deep blood light, and the ancient blood prison between its arms abruptly stopped rotating. The twelve spines on its back simultaneously pointed towards the gray-white giant umbrella in the sky.
It raised its head, and the four black and gold horns on its pale bone surface lit up with dark red patterns one after another, and a roar that shook the heavens and the earth came from deep in its throat.
"Eternal Prison of Remains, the Twelve Remains Prisons' Return to Burial!"
Rumble! The twelve spinal spines suddenly shattered into countless crimson and Black Bone patterns, which then reformed in the sky, transforming into twelve enormous Ancient Prison Skeleton Aspect. Each skeleton had a different form; some had twelve horns on their heads, with arms hanging down like endless mountains; others had six wings on their backs, and hundreds of gray-gold bone pupils embedded in their chests.
Some had a thousand arms, each arm holding an ancient bone weapon formed from shattered Fate Souls; others were distorted in form, their bodies composed of layers of beast bones, with dark red essence constantly flowing between their chests and abdomens. The twelve skeletal figures rose one after another along the bottom of the giant umbrella, their enormous bodies almost completely obscuring the entire gray-white sky.