The black mist rising from the cracks twisted like a living creature, staining the Four Symbols Formation inside the palace a haunting, purplish black. The Cyan Jade Pendant in Su Yao's hand suddenly grew searing hot, its surface spiderwebbed with fine cracks, as if terrified of the entity about to emerge. "Careful! This aura..." Before Yun Shang could finish, a dark shadow erupted from the ground, surging toward them like a gale of blood and rot.
Lin Yu reacted instantly, slashing his short sword horizontally, but the dark blue sword light was swallowed by the shadow as if it had vanished into an abyss. As the shadow dissipated, it revealed a giant clad in bone armor, two clusters of ghostly green fire flickering in its hollow eye sockets. It gripped a massive axe fashioned from countless white bones; where the toxin dripping from its blade hit the ground, the floor hissed and corroded into deep pits.
"That is... an Ancient Bone Demon!" Zhao Ya’s face turned deathly pale as a defensive light shield shimmered around her golden sword. The Bone Demon let out a deafening roar, its massive axe sweeping through the air and tearing a black rift into space. Su Yao was thrown back by the blast, slamming hard into the wall, the taste of blood rising in her throat. Struggling to her feet, she noticed wisps of cyan light leaking from the cracks in the Cyan Jade Pendant, snaking through her meridians and actually mending her damaged Spiritual Power.
Chapter 234