Mingyin's eyes turned ruthless.
The skeleton hand that had emerged from the jade stone chamber suddenly began glowing, lighting up its entire body.
This time, the dragon-featured immortal took seven steps backward while even the Smoke Dragon froze.
Suddenly, the skeleton woman roared like a wild beast.
Her scream echoed throughout every corner of the hall.
Mingyin froze as well, but suddenly an idea appeared in his mind.
He quickly played dead.
This would definitely draw the skeleton woman's attention away from him!
The woman's upper body was half made of dragon bones.
Suddenly, she turned toward the Smoke Dragon and growled as red light erupted from her empty eye sockets.
Then she grabbed the jade chamber she had once been trapped inside.
CRACK!
CRACK!
CRACK!
Sharp cracking sounds echoed as the chamber shattered into millions of pieces.
She slowly stood up and growled once more.
Even the dragon-featured man became frightened.
Sheng Fu Yan stepped backward.
His gaze landed on the shrine behind him.
Inside the shrine, a massive flame bloomed brightly.
Yet the lamp floating above it remained dark.
Sheng Fu Yan's eyes widened in shock.
"This is impossible…"
"When reforming a Dragon Warrior, the flame represents the will to endure the transformation. The pain changes the body completely, like your bones are being crushed and reborn."
"And the lamp represents failure… death."
His expression stiffened.
"But the lamp shows she died…"
"Yet the flame proves she endured the transformation."
He slowly looked forward again.
"But she became… a monster."
Ahead of him, Shibai Yun—the dragon made entirely of smoke—showed a furious expression.
Inside its smoky body floated seven golden spears covered in cracks before they dissolved back into the smoke itself.
The dragon raised its head and lunged forward.
The skeleton woman screamed while clutching her blood-covered hair.
The pain returned again.
She remembered tearing out her own hair just to lessen the suffering. She had clawed at her flesh, broken her nails, and even pierced her own eyes in an attempt to escape the agony.
The pain…
It was beyond unbearable.
She roared as the Smoke Dragon slammed directly into her.
Cracks spread across her bones as she was blasted backward into a pillar.
The pillar shattered in half instantly.
Her body flew over ten meters away.
She slowly lifted her head before slamming it downward.
CRACK!
The entire ground shook violently as pieces of stone flew everywhere.
Then she lunged forward.
Her mouth slowly opened.
Her teeth sharpened into razor-like fangs.
Dragon fangs.
She rushed toward the Smoke Dragon and threw her fist forward.
At that moment, the tokens surrounding the dragon began fluttering wildly before a voice echoed from within the smoke.
"Stupid woman!"
"We spent hundreds of years trying to create a Dragon Warrior, yet you failed to even resemble one!"
"You dare rebel after begging for this power? You pathetic dragon experiment!"
The Smoke Dragon radiated pure fury.
It wanted nothing more than to teach this woman a lesson she would never forget.
But who would have expected the skeleton woman to become something even more terrifying than their failed creation?
The dragon suddenly opened its mouth wide.
The tokens surrounding its neck ignited with sparks.
Then it spoke coldly.
"May this kill you."
Suddenly, the burning tokens shot downward like flaming meteors.
They descended like a torrent of fire.
The skeleton woman looked up at the attack.
Cold killing intent exploded from her body.
The entire hall began shaking violently.
Her killing intent flooded the room.
Even Mingyin coughed up blood as the metallic taste filled his mouth. He held his stomach and breathed heavily while gritting his teeth.
The pressure consumed the entire temple.
Even the dragon-featured man looked shocked.
"She has completely transformed into a Dragon Warrior… but why is all her skin gone?"
"This is impossible!"
"Stupid woman, why are you rebelling—AHHHHH!"
Suddenly, his ribs were crushed inward.
His pupils shrank to the size of needles as blood burst from his mouth.
The skeleton woman's hand pierced toward his stomach.
BAMMMMMM!
He was launched across the hall and smashed into the wall.
But the force did not stop there.
His body crashed through the temple walls and flew outside as loud cracking sounds erupted from his bones.
The entire temple trembled violently.
He collapsed onto the ground, coughing rivers of blood from his mouth.
He wasn't dead.
But he was very close to it.
Rou Wei suddenly stopped walking.
Teinsei Jin and Shining Sask were the first to react.
The old man wearing purple robes, who had been trying to unlock the giant jade gate, turned around in alarm.
"What was that?"
Rou Wei's expression darkened.
Without hesitation, he shoved the old man aside before delivering a powerful kick to the jade gate.
BOOM!
The massive doors exploded open.
Before them stood a gigantic hall supported by five pillars and seven shrines.
Only one shrine still burned brightly.
Of the seven lamps floating above them, only one remained lit.
Rou Wei slowly looked upward.
A massive hole had been torn through the ceiling.
Light poured down from above.
His gaze followed the light until it landed upon a woman.
A woman made entirely of dragon skeletons.
Shining Sask, Teinsei Jin, and the other immortals entered behind him.
All of them froze at the sight.
"What happened here?" one immortal asked.
The moment he spoke, he collapsed to the ground.
The other immortals fell as well.
Only Rou Wei, Shining Sask, and Teinsei Jin barely managed to withstand the pressure.
Their eyes locked onto the skeleton woman.
Suddenly, she turned around and screamed.
Her neck twisted unnaturally while her spine bent backward.
Then—
A massive skeletal wing burst from her left side.
She flapped it once and shot into the air before diving downward instantly.
Teinsei Jin froze.
Then immediately leaped forward.
He landed before the group, shielding them with his back.
Liquid flowed around his arm as he summoned the Liquid Spear.
Without hesitation, he lunged forward.
BAM!
BAM!
BAM!
The two clashed violently, their battle moving across the hall at blinding speed.
DING!
DING!
DING!
Teinsei Jin spun around as the skeleton woman's claws barely brushed against his chest.
He narrowly avoided death.
Grabbing her wrist, he slammed his knee directly into her face.
But the skeleton woman felt no pain.
Only rage.
"AHHHHH! STOP HURTING ME!"
She slammed her fist downward and sent Teinsei Jin flying across the hall.
Below them, Rou Wei's eyes widened.
He clenched his fists tightly.
Though he could resist kneeling, he still could not move beneath the pressure.
Grinding his teeth, he shouted:
"Shining Sask! Help Teinsei Jin!"
The skeleton woman instantly lunged downward.
Shining Sask spun gracefully through the air as her claws sliced through empty space.
He landed softly on the ground and smiled.
"If you want to kill me, you'll need to do better than that."
The skeleton woman nearly lost her mind from rage.
She charged directly at him.
The two exchanged fists at terrifying speed.
Each collision shook the entire hall.
Shining Sask's fist brushed past her skull and blasted her backward.
But she instantly rushed toward him again.
The two clashed once more.
Suddenly, Shining Sask lost balance and fell.
He looked up—
Her fist was descending directly toward his head.
Then—
A golden flash appeared.
A green jade blade blocked her attack instantly.
The skeleton woman leaped backward in confusion.
Teinsei Jin smiled calmly.
He had found an opening.
Appearing behind her, he slammed his spear downward.
BOOM!
The attack sent her crashing violently across the ground.
Then—
She started laughing.
Slowly, she stood up.
Then something appeared in her mouth as she open her jaw
Something chaught teinsei Jin eyes a flame of sphere started to form in her mouth as she then aim for shing said who was chaught unprepared
Suddenly she release the flame
Bam
It shot throught the air like a cannonball
Shining Sask eyes went blurry as the only thing he saw or perhaps was dead itself