The last few wisps of primordial radiance in the world were slowly fading. Hundreds of thousands of miles of mountains and rivers had already been completely destroyed in the repeated battles. Abysses crisscrossed the earth, and the huge corpses of ancient divine beasts were scattered among the broken rock layers. Broken beast horns pierced the mountain ridges, and the lingering True Annihilation Daoist charm flowed slowly along the rift valley.
In the distance, tens of thousands of divine beasts prostrated themselves deep within the ruins, their crimson eyes still bearing the divine intent previously exerted by Gongpiluo Huang, yet they dared not utter a single roar.
Only the colossal being bearing six tattered bone wings remained in the sky above the entire mountain plain, along with a small, greyish-white beast silently hovering in the distance. The previously surging crimson-black ancient prison essence between the two had gradually subsided, and an extremely tiny tooth mark hovered in front of the chest of the Eternal Prison Skeleton Ancient Scion.
The teeth marks had jagged edges and Emptiness in the center. They slowly spread along the cause and effect of the Fate Soul around it. Wherever they passed, the ancient bone patterns lost their origin one after another, and the billions of bones deep in the gray-gold vertical pupils disappeared. The true name of the ancient prison, which was originally engraved inside the bone armor, also gradually went blank in silence.
The Eternal Prison Skeleton Ancient Scion finally sensed the real danger. It suddenly raised its arms, and its six slender fingers covered with black and gold bone armor pressed hard against the gray-gold vertical pupil in the center of its chest, attempting to forcibly expel the tooth mark with its own ancient prison origin.
However, the moment it activated its Fate Soul's will, large gaps appeared in the crimson-black blood prison that had been dormant deep within the vertical pupil. Those gaps did not leave any trace of collapse. The ancient skeletons, incomplete true names, and twelve layers of skeletal patterns that should have been suspended in them had even disappeared from their original origins.
It could clearly sense the vast origin still hidden deep within its chest, but when it tried to trace back to the original source of that origin, all that remained in the depths of its Fate Soul was a chilling emptiness.
Damn it!
The Eternal Prison Skeleton Ancient Scion clenched its white bone teeth, a hint of unprecedented shock and anger flashing in its dark golden eyes. Its six crimson bone wings vibrated wildly, and the remaining eight spinal spines simultaneously glowed with dazzling blood light. The Ancient Prison Undying Body was already covered in cracks, forcibly condensed again, and tens of thousands of crimson and black bone patterns spread rapidly along its chest and abdomen, attempting to fix the disappearing origins.
However, the tooth marks continued to extend deep into the skeleton pattern. Every time a skeleton pattern condensed, a deeper beginning was quietly gnawed away. The originally complete ancient prison inheritance began to show irreparable breaks, and even some of the ancient years it had experienced gradually lost their original connection in the memory of the Fate Soul.
It suddenly remembered the dilapidated ancient ruins from millions of years ago, the fierce battle when it was sealed by Shangguan Lingxiao and Elder White Brow Mei, and the pain of twelve seals falling one after another along its chest and gray-gold vertical pupils.
But when it tried to trace back to even more distant past events, a blank space appeared in the depths of its memory that had never existed before. The Primordial Ancient Prison, countless ancient battlefields, and the powerful beings it had once devoured were losing their original origins one after another.
The Eternal Prison Skeleton Ancient Scion suddenly widened its eyes. It finally understood that Gongpiluo Huang's "Initial Cause Severance the Beginningless - Severing the First Cause" technique was completely severing the connection between it and its first cause. Once that tooth mark truly reached the original root, even the fact that it was once born in the Primordial Ancient Prison would lose its basis for existence.
"Roar--!" The Eternal Prison Skeleton Ancient Scion suddenly roared to the sky, his enormous body, tens of thousands of feet tall, trembled violently in the air. Six tattered bone wings simultaneously unfurled outwards, and a large amount of crimson-black primal energy suddenly burst forth from his gray-gold vertical pupils on his chest.
The twelve spines that were already broken apart suddenly collapsed at this moment, turning into countless fine bone patterns that frantically converged along the depths of its Fate Soul. The ancient blood prison inside the gray-gold vertical pupil also trembled violently. The billions of remaining bones raised their heads at the same time, and the ancient seal between their brows lit up one after another. All the true names of the ancient prison that had not yet been eroded by the tooth marks began to converge towards the center, eventually condensing into a Black Bone core without any words.
The Eternal Prison Skeleton Ancient Scion suddenly pressed his palms against his chest, his dark golden eyes flashing with a frenzied and resolute glint.
"Ancient Prison Divine Power - Myriad Skeletons Self-Existence!" Rumble--!
The Black Bone core suddenly shattered, and hundreds of millions of ancient bones simultaneously transformed into a crimson torrent, surging wildly around the Eternal Prison Skeleton Ancient Scion Descendant. Countless fragmented skeletons emerged beneath the six crimson bone wings.
Those skeletal figures lacked complete Fate Soul names and traceable bloodline origins. Even their place of origin had been forcibly discarded by the ancient prison's source. The Eternal Prison Skeleton Ancient Scion attempted to completely dismantle their own Fate Soul consciousness and merge it into billions of Nameless skeletal thoughts, making each skeletal thought an independent remnant of its own existence, thus preventing Gongpiluo Huang from tracing its origins along a single complete first cause.
A crimson-black torrent swirled wildly in the sky, countless Nameless skeletal thoughts coalescing into form. The entire firmament was completely obscured by a dense mass of Black Bone shadows. Each bone shadow continuously absorbed and exhaled the essence of the ancient prison, with no clear causal connection between them.
Without a complete Fate Soul to inherit it, the ancient prison origin that was originally concentrated deep within the gray-gold vertical pupils in the chest quickly dispersed, transforming into hundreds of millions of independent skeletal thoughts, which spread wildly in all directions along the shattered world.
The Eternal Prison Skeleton Ancient Scion suddenly raised his head, the muscles on his pale bone surface taut, his dark golden eyes fixed on the tiny, ever-spreading tooth mark. "I have relinquished the true name of the Ancient Prison, severed my own destiny, and countless fragments of my soul exist in different worlds. How can you possibly trace back to my first cause!"
However, before it could finish speaking, the gray-gold vertical pupil in the center of its chest trembled violently. The ancient prison origin, which had been dispersed among billions of thoughts, suddenly appeared in an extremely strange blank space at the same moment.
Although those skeletal thoughts do not have complete true names or clear bloodline causes, they still originate from the Fate Soul thoughts of the Eternal Prison Skeleton Ancient Scion, and still carry the original traces of their existence.
The Teeth of Beginningless of Gongpiluo Huang did not chase after those scattered skeletal thoughts. Instead, it slowly delved into the root of the Eternal Prison Skeleton Ancient Scion. When a corner of that root was gnawed away, the billions of skeletal thoughts simultaneously lost their connection to their own existence.
Swoosh—The first Nameless skeletal thought suddenly went blank. Immediately afterward, the second, third, and fourth skeletal thoughts also disappeared one after another.
Hundreds of millions of Black Bone shadows simultaneously appeared in large gaps in the sky. The originally vast and boundless crimson-black torrent began to disintegrate rapidly from its deepest part. The ancient prison's original essence, which had been forcibly dispersed, lost its original support, and even the possibility of regrouping was constantly fading.
A huge wound suddenly appeared in the center of the gray-gold vertical pupil on the chest of the Eternal Prison Skeleton Ancient Scion. Thick, crimson-black primordial blood gushed wildly along the crack, and six crimson bone wings shattered one after another. The Ancient Prison Undying Body, which had barely been formed, peeled off in large pieces once again.
"This...?!"
The Eternal Prison Skeleton Ancient Scion suddenly lowered its head, staring at the ever-expanding emptiness deep within its chest. True horror finally surfaced in its dark golden eyes. It frantically urged its sourceless skeletal consciousness, attempting to re-condense the remaining ancient prison's essence, but each newly formed skeletal consciousness lost its origin before it could fully manifest.
The Ancient Prison Undying Body, which could originally reassemble from billions of bones, could no longer recover. The black-gold bone armor between its chest and abdomen shattered one after another, and large amounts of dark red primordial blood fell continuously along the sky. Before it even touched the earth, it lost all traces of its original birth in the Beginningless Ancient Rhyme.
In the distance, Gongpiluo Huang still hovered silently beneath the shattered sky, its greyish-white fur adorned with extremely subtle primordial patterns. The crimson-black scar left on its forehead by Unthought Source Burial was still clearly visible, yet its expression had returned to calm.
The Beginningless Abyss slowly rose and fell in the depths of the left eye, while the Endless Ancient Rhyme flowed gently in the right eye. Between the four colorless ancient teeth, the two Teeth of Beginningless that had once gently touched slowly closed again.
Click.
Still, no real sound emanated. The tiny tooth mark that had been hovering in front of the Eternal Prison Skeleton Ancient Scion continued to spread deeper. The true name of the ancient prison, which had already lost some of its characters, began to completely disappear, one character after another.
Within the depths of the gray-gold vertical pupils, large, unfillable gaps appeared in the ancient blood prison. The traces of the twelve dark red crescent moons that once existed vanished one after another. At this moment, the ancient bone figure that had been sitting cross-legged in the center of the sea of bones slowly lowered its head, and an extremely fine blank appeared between its chest and abdomen, which then rapidly spread along the entire bone body.
Deep within the Fate Soul of the Eternal Prison Skeleton Ancient Scion, more and more ancient memories are losing their origin. It remembers fighting against a powerful being, but can no longer trace where that battle first took place;
It remembered devouring countless Fate Souls, yet could no longer recognize the original names those Fate Souls bore; it remembered a vast, ancient, blood-red palace once existed deep within the Primordial Ancient Prison, but when it tried to recall the palace's original form...
However, deep within the Fate Soul, only a chilling blank space remained. Those memories were neither torn apart nor forcibly burned by external forces; they had lost their origins.