The Void Clan elder's true form was revealed before everyone. Dark red scales covered its twisted muscles, bone spurs protruded from the joints of its limbs, and its tail lashed like a steel whip, cracking the air with explosive blasts.
The rune on its forehead pulsed like a beating heart, continuously drawing in the surrounding life force and converting it into a suffocating, deathly pressure.
Its aura was far stronger than that of the Void Race Leader who had presided over the ritual in the Abyss of Oblivion. It had already reached the mid-stage Supreme level!
"That is the Void Clan's Elder Bone-Eater!" someone knowledgeable cried out in terror. "Why is he here?!"
Old Man Xuan Ji's expression turned incomparably grave. He struck his wooden staff against the ground, and a layer of gentle clear light spread outward from him, barely resisting the all-devouring Nirvana pressure.
It shielded most of the convention attendees, but he was clearly under immense strain as well. He said in a deep voice, "Bone-Eater, this place is neutral ground. Does your Void Clan intend to break the rules too?"
"Rules?" Elder Bone-Eater let out a piercing, cold laugh, his scarlet vertical pupils fixed firmly on Ming Xin. "You stole a fragment of my clan's sacred relic, the Heart of Nirvana.
You destroyed the abyssal grand ritual. This is an irreconcilable blood feud! Hand over the Nirvana Origin, or today, not a single living thing here will be spared!"
It did not care about any neutral-ground rules. The Void Clan had always acted with tyranny and cruelty!
Before its words had faded, Elder Bone-Eater attacked! It used no artifact, merely raising one scaled claw and grabbing at Ming Xin from afar!
"Nirvana... Void-Returning Claw!"
Five pitch-black claw marks appeared out of thin air, as though they