Thousands of surviving Shangguan Lineage had been teleported to extremely remote mountain ranges, and the remaining spatial Dao patterns slowly dissipated around them. Several elders immediately activated their Primordial Dao Supreme Treasures to protect the injured disciples in the center. Shangguan Wan'er and Elder White Brow were also swept away by the last wisp of dark golden bell curtain and landed heavily. Both of them spat out blood at the same time, and their Fate Soul auras fluctuated violently, indicating that they had suffered extremely serious injuries.
Shangguan Wan'er knelt on one knee, her right hand pressed tightly against her chest. Her usually cold face was deathly pale. She looked up in the direction she had come from, her eyes filled with grief and pain. Elder White Brow, leaning on his cracked bronze staff, struggled to his feet. The wrinkles on his aged face were taut, his chest heaving violently. His gaze slowly moved along the distant sky, still covered by the ancient red, black, and gray hues.
They finally escaped the heart of that mountainous battlefield, but for this evacuation, dozens of Shangguan Lineage stewards and elders were left there forever.
Above the distant, bluish-gray mountain plains, the Eternal Prison Skeleton Ancient Scion gazed at the completely collapsed spatial passage, his dark golden eyes burning with even greater fury, the muscles on his pale, skeletal face taut with tension.
The six tattered bone wings suddenly vibrated, and the crimson-black essence within the gray-gold vertical pupils on its chest surged wildly. The already severely damaged Ancient Prison Will erupted once more with an extremely violent and ferocious aura. It suddenly clenched its white bone teeth, and its six slender fingers clenched tightly, making a piercing sound of bones grinding between its knuckles.
"Damn it!!" it roared to the sky, its voice filled with barely suppressed hatred, "Once I annihilate Gongpiluo Huang, none of you will escape!!"
However, just as the Eternal Prison Skeleton Ancient Scion were seething with rage and their gazes remained fixed on the direction in which the Shangguan Lineage members had fled, the eyes of Gongpiluo Huang, which held a Beginningless and Endless depth, suddenly narrowed slowly.
It gazed silently at the Eternal Prison Skeleton Ancient Scion, the faint crimson-black scar on its forehead still clearly visible, and extremely subtle primordial patterns flowing between its gray-white fur. Among the twelve star spots, the rat-shaped star spot slowly dimmed, and the second ox-shaped star spot also fell silent. The twelve beastly auras that originally surrounded its body gradually dissipated, and the primordial aura of the entire world quietly returned to silence at this moment.
Gongpiluo Huang slowly closed its eyes. Its expression was extremely calm. Its slender tail stopped wagging. Four colorless ancient teeth slowly appeared in its slightly open mouth, two of which were small and gently touching each other.
Click.
No sound was truly uttered. No light was emitted. No primordial torrent spread outward. The entire Blue-Gray Mountain Plain remained in its previous broken state. The ancient beast remains lying silently among the distant mountains. The crimson-black cracks deep in the void did not continue to expand. Even the ancient prison primordial energy surging around the Eternal Prison Skeleton Ancient Scion Descendant did not show any abnormality in the initial moment.
However, just after the two Teeth of Beginningless gently touched, an extremely tiny tooth mark suddenly appeared in the void before the Eternal Prison Skeleton Ancient Scion. The tooth mark was only the size of a grain of rice, with jagged edges, resembling a corner of an ancient book being gently gnawed away by some tiny creature. There was no reddish-black or grayish-white glow in the center of the tooth mark, only an extremely fine blank space.
Gongpiluo Huang slowly opened his left eye, the deep, Beginningless Abyss rising and falling silently. Then, in an extremely calm voice, he gently uttered four words.
"Initial Cause Severance." Buzz—the tiny tooth mark slowly extended outwards.
There was no violent impact, no earth-shattering roar, and not even the ancient Dao patterns of the surrounding world showed any obvious tremor. Yet, the gray-gold vertical pupil in the center of the Eternal Prison Skeleton Ancient Scion's chest suddenly contracted at this moment.
It suddenly discovered that some of the ancient prison skeleton patterns that were originally clearly visible on its body had lost their original origin. The ancient patterns remaining in the twelve spines of its back began to show subtle gaps, and the true name of the ancient prison that was originally engraved deep in its bone armor also lost its original meaning in an instant.
The tooth mark slowly spread along the causal lines all over its body. First, it touched the ancient blood prison deep within the gray-gold vertical pupils of its chest, and then extended deeper along the true names of hundreds of millions of skeletons within the blood prison.
The ancient skeletal figure, which had been sitting cross-legged in the center of the sea of corpses, suddenly stopped moving. The ancient charm of the twelve dark red crescent moons above its head gradually dimmed. The two crimson-black ancient seals that the skeletal figure had been holding in its palms suddenly became blank. The ancient characters on the seals that once represented the inheritance of the ancient prison were gradually losing their original origin.
The Eternal Prison Skeleton Ancient Scion's dark gold eyes widened suddenly. "What?!"
It hurriedly activated its own ancient prison origin, attempting to re-condense those disappearing skeletal patterns, but when it tried to trace the original location where those patterns were born, it found that there was no starting point to follow.
The once clearly defined true name of the Ancient Prison has lost all traces of its original naming. The once complete inheritance of skeletal patterns has lost its original origin. Even the ancient memories that have lasted for millions of years deep within its own Fate Soul have begun to show extremely subtle gaps. Some ancient battlefields that were once crystal clear, some powerful beings that it had long since devoured, and some true names of the Ancient Prison that were engraved deep in its origin are gradually losing their original connection at the place where the tooth marks spread.
The Eternal Prison Skeleton Ancient Scion clenched its teeth, its gray-gold vertical pupils spinning wildly as it tried to forcefully block the strange power with its own ancient prison origin. But the tooth mark did not collide head-on with its ancient prison origin; it simply spread slowly deeper along the original source of all existence.
Snap! An ancient name suddenly lost its written form. Immediately afterward, the second and third names also began to go blank.
Deep within the gray-gold vertical pupils, in that ancient blood prison, the billions of skeletons that had once lay scattered across the ground suddenly showed large gaps. Some skeletons still floated in the depths of the crimson-black depths, while others had even lost the traces of their initial birth. The once complete sea of skeletons now had gaps that could not be filled.
At the same time, the entire landscape of the Blue-Gray Mountain Plain began to change. The ancient inscriptions that remained in the distance suddenly lost their original characters. The causal patterns that had not yet completely disappeared in the broken mountains and rivers began to have blank spaces at their originally clear starting points.
In the originally scarlet eyes of tens of thousands of divine beasts, a brief moment of confusion appeared simultaneously. They still remembered their own existence, but in this instant, they could not trace where they originally came from.
Even those ancient marks of time lost their original starting point where the teeth marks spread, and the many causes and effects that could originally be traced along the river of time broke apart one after another at this moment.
Among the Twelve Zodiac Star Positions, the rat-shaped star spot slowly dimmed. Subsequently, the ox-shaped star spot also showed an extremely subtle misalignment. The remaining ten constellation outlines, which had not yet truly manifested, successively experienced brief disorder in the depths of the Beginningless Ancient Rhyme. At this moment, all traces in the entire world that could be called "original" were subjected to extremely strange erosion.
The colossal, ten-thousand-foot-tall body of the Eternal Prison Skeleton Ancient Scion suddenly trembled violently, the ferocity in its dark golden eyes finally replaced by deep horror. It could sense that the ancient prison's essence it bore was still vast and powerful.
The six tattered bone wings still remained, and the gray-gold vertical pupils on its chest had not yet completely collapsed, but the very origins of its birth were being gnawed away bit by bit by some irresistible ancient force. It suddenly raised its head, staring intently at the distant Gongpiluo Huang, the muscles on its pale bone surface taut, and a low, furious roar came from deep in its throat.
"You...! How is this possible????..."
Gongpiluo Huang gazed at it silently. Its left eye, the Beginningless Abyss, slowly rose and fell. Its right eye, the Endless Ancient Rhyme, remained profound. The extremely tiny tooth mark continued to slowly spread along the ancient name and primordial cause and effect of the Eternal Prison Skeleton Ancient Scion. Gongpiluo Huang simply closed its two teeth gently, its gray-white tail slowly drooping behind it, not yet drawing any complete circle.
The entire Blue-Gray Mountain Plain fell into an eerily silent stillness. The towering body of the Eternal Prison Skeleton Ancient Scion still hovered beneath the shattered sky, its gray-gold vertical pupils spinning wildly, and its six broken bone wings vibrating incessantly.
It tried to forcibly solidify its existence with the origin of the ancient prison, but the tiny tooth mark continued to penetrate deeper and deeper into its original source. And it finally realized clearly that what Gongpiluo Huang was biting was the very origin that made it worthy of being called the Eternal Prison Skeleton Ancient Scion.