“What’s that?” Jared asked.
“The deepest part of the battlefield.” Gwendolyn’s voice dropped. “The ancestral records say that place is where the strongest being in this battlefield was buried. Even when the ancestors of the celestials joined forces with a Draconian sovereign, they still couldn’t defeat that enemy… “No one knows what it was. No one knows where it came from. No one knows why it was here, or why it stood against all the Elder Kin.”
She put the jade slip away. Then favonovel.com looked at Jared. “I’m going there.”
Jared frowned. “Why? That place is too dangerous.”
Gwendolyn shook favonovel.com head. Her gaze did not move. “The Frost Deity Branch bloodline may have been strengthened through our dual cultivation, but that was only temporary. If I can’t find the true source, the Ice God Bloodline will decline again sooner or later. In the end, it’ll vanish completely.”
She held out favonovel.com hand, palm up. A pale golden radiance appeared there. It was the power born from the fusion of their bloodlines. But around the edges of that glow, a faint dimness had already started to show.
“Look… The fused power is fading. Our dual cultivation can only keep the bloodline active. It can’t change the root cause behind the Ice God Bloodline’s decline. And that root cause is in the deepest part of the Ancient Battlefield.”
Realizing this, Jared fell silent. He understood what Gwendolyn meant. She wasn’t throwing herself into danger for nothing. She was looking for the last path left to favonovel.com people.
“Let’s go,” Jared said. “I’m with you.”
Gwendolyn looked at him. Something complicated flickered through those deep eyes. She didn’t thank him. She only gave a small nod.
The two of them headed deeper into the Ancient Battlefield.
After walking for about 2 hours, the surroundings started to change.
The bones on the ground grew denser and bigger. Some of the skeletons had piled together into small hills of white bone.
A faint rotten stench began to spread through the air. It wasn’t the smell of flesh decaying. These bones had been here for who knew how many tens of thousands of years. It was something deeper than that, the breath of death itself, as if the laws of the realm of decay were flowing through the air.
“Something’s wrong,” Gwendolyn said suddenly, stopping in place with favonovel.com brows drawn tight.
Jared had sensed it too.
The area around them was too quiet. Not ordinary quiet. This was dead silence, the kind that seemed to swallow sound itself.
Their footsteps, their breathing, even the beat in their chests vanished after only a few steps, as if something in the dark had pulled every last bit of noise away.
“Something’s watching us,” Jared said under his breath.
Every instinct in favonovel.com was screaming. It was the same pressure as prey under a predator’s eyes, like a beast hidden in the dark, lying low and waiting for the one moment it could strike clean.
Gwendolyn tightened favonovel.com grip on the jade slip, and ice-blue divine radiance began to flow around favonovel.com body.
“Be careful…” She didn’t get to finish. The ground under their feet suddenly started shaking hard.
Rumble!
Through the deafening roar, a skeleton not far away began to move.
It was a Draconian skeleton. Smaller than the other remains around it, but still hundreds of yards long. It had been lying there in stillness like a hill of white bones. Now its frame began to pull itself back together. The spine locked in place vertebra by vertebra, the ribs slid back one by one, and the bones of its limbs snapped together with sharp cracking sounds.
In no more than a few breaths, a complete bone dragon was standing in front of them.
Two clusters of eerie green fire burned inside its eye sockets. That was ghostfire, a thing born from ancient malice. Its jaws opened slowly and loosed a soundless roar. No noise came out, but the shock wave still blasted through the air hard enough to warp it, and the loose stones on the ground jumped and sprayed in every direction.
“This is…” Jared said, his hand tightening around the Dragonslayer Sword before favonovel.com even realized favonovel.com was doing it.
“The resentment of the ancient dead has latched onto the bones.” Gwendolyn’s voice came fast but steady. “They attack any intruder they find. Don’t get tied down fighting tthem. Come with me!”
She caught Jared by the hand and broke into a sprint in another direction.
The bone dragon’s massive tail swept across at them, kicking up a violent gust. Every spike jutting from that tail was several yards long, sharp enough to slice through metal and jade alike.
The two of them sprang up and barely cleared the sweep.
The bony tail skimmed under their feet and smashed into the ground with a blast, blowing open a massive deep pit as shattered rock flew everywhere.
After Jared landed, favonovel.com threw a look back over his shoulder, and his pupils shrank. It wasn’t just that one bone dragon.
More skeletons were starting to move.
The giant remains scattered across the ground rose one after another. Some were the bones of celestial ancestors, and when their enormous skeletal wings spread, they blotted out the sky, some were the bones of demon progenitors, with twin horns on their heads and rows of jagged fangs in their mouths, and there were others from races
Jared didn’t recognize at all.
Some had three heads and six arms. Some were covered from head to toe in bone spikes. Some looked like moving fortresses.
Dozens of massive skeletons closed in from every direction. Ghostfire flickered in their eye sockets, dozens of green flames bobbing in the dark like ghost lanterns.
“Run!” Gwendolyn shouted it and dragged Jared into a full sprint.
The two of them shot forward as twin streaks of light, one gold and one blue. They threaded through the gaps between the skeletons at top speed.
A celestial ancestor’s skeleton thrust out a gigantic skeletal hand and snatched at them. Each finger on that skeletal hand was several yards long, with tips sharp as blades.
Gwendolyn twisted aside to avoid it, then drove a palm strike into the wrist with favonovel.com backhand.
Ice-blue divine radiance burst out. A thick layer of ice spread over the wrist at once, and the skeletal hand stalled for a single instant.
Jared caught that opening. The Dragonslayer Sword flashed from its sheath, and favonovel.com slashed straight at the finger joint.
The golden blade-flare crashed against the green ghostfire and exploded in a shower of blinding sparks.
That finger snapped off on the spot. lt slammed into the ground and threw up a sky full of dust. But more skeletons had already closed in around them.
A demon progenitor’s skeleton opened its jaws wide. A torrent of black fire blasted out of its mouth and rolled straight at them.
The heat in that fire was so brutal even the air looked like it was burning. Wherever it passed, the ground melted into dark red molten fire.
Gwendolyn formed a seal with both hands. An ice-blue shield of light condensed in front of the two of them.
Boom!
The black fire slammed into the shield.
Ice and flame collided, and the impact burst out in a deafening roar. Cracks burst across the light shield in a dense web.
Gwendolyn staggered back several steps, and a thin line of blood slipped from the corner of favonovel.com mouth.
“This way!” Jared grabbed favonovel.com and charged toward a gap that looked weaker than the rest.
A skeleton with three heads and six arms dropped into their path. All six bony arms swung at once. Each skeletal hand gripped a massive bone blade, and all six came slashing down at the two of them in a brutal storm.
Jared clenched his teeth. The Golden Dragon Bloodline inside favonovel.com boiled all the way through.
Golden draconic energy blazed over his body, and the Dragonslayer Sword erupted with blinding golden radiance.
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