351: Chapter 351 The World of Skeletons

Lu Chen made a decisive decision. With a thought, the thousands of Star Marrow Rushing Thunder Beasts that were maintaining the Lightning Light barrier suddenly transformed into streaks of flowing light and rapidly entered the spirit beast pouch at his waist.

Although the beast horde could provide powerful combat strength and protection,

in an environment with complex terrain, strange and potentially endless enemies, being too large of a target would easily lead to a passive situation.

It was better to put them away and rely on his and Qing Yi's flexible responses.

The Lightning Light barrier suddenly dissipated, and the countless black “filthy death roots” and white bone vines lurking on the periphery immediately surged forward like sharks smelling blood!

“Go!”

Lu Chen low-roared, transforming into two phantoms with Qing Yi simultaneously, heading towards the chosen direction.

They shot towards the giant peak in the mist!

He pushed the You secret technique to its limit, his figure rapidly switching between reality and illusion.

He tried to minimize his presence and life aura, attempting to avoid the perception of the “filthy death roots.”

Qing Yi, as a soul body, was naturally between the real and the ethereal.

At this moment, she condensed her Soul Power to the extreme, following Lu Chen like a true phantom.

The two moved extremely fast, rushing dozens of feet in an instant, leaving most of the pouncing death roots behind.

However, this area covered by “filthy death roots” seemed to possess some kind of collective consciousness.

As soon as they moved, more black roots immediately broke through the seemingly calm, withered plant clumps ahead to intercept them, weaving into sparse but troublesome large nets.

Lu Chen's eyes were cold. With the you ting sword in hand, Sword Light flashed, and Strands of condensed dark golden sword energy crisscrossed, severing the obstructing “death roots.”

Qing Yi also assisted from the side, her Soul Power transforming into invisible sharp cones, specifically attacking the weak nodes of resentment within the roots, causing their movements to freeze.

The two cooperated seamlessly, carving out a path through the heavy interception.

Just as they broke through an exceptionally dense thicket with unusually thick roots, their vision ahead slightly opened up, seemingly on the verge of escaping the core area covered by these strange plants—

An anomaly suddenly occurred!

Lu Chen's left foot, which was rushing forward, stepped onto a patch of withered grass that looked no different from its surroundings, only slightly darker in color.

The moment his foot landed, the sensation was not solid earth.

But a strange “emptiness”!

“Not good!”

A frantic warning blared in Lu Chen's heart, but it was already too late to retreat!

“Boom—!”

The ground within several feet beneath his feet collapsed entirely without warning!

It wasn't that the soil loosened, but rather as if something supporting it from below was instantly sucked away or shattered!

The speed of the collapse was unbelievably fast, even exceeding Lu Chen's reaction limit!

Even more terrifying, the black hole formed by the collapse was not empty below, but instead erupted with an indescribable, irresistible, terrifying suction force!

This suction force was not directed at the physical body, but more like a strange pull targeting life essence, soul Origin,

and even directly affecting the spatial dimension!

Lu Chen felt his entire body tighten. His protective Lightning Light automatically activated, but upon contact with the suction force, it melted like ice and snow, unable to block even a sliver!

His proud Core Formation Stage cultivation seemed so pale and powerless before this suction force!

Qing Yi let out a short shriek. Her soul body was light and agile, making her resistance to this suction even weaker, and she was instantly pulled off balance.

Neither of them had time to struggle before they were violently dragged into the bottomless darkness below by that irresistible, terrifying suction force, like two insignificant insects!

The light instantly vanished from their eyes, leaving only the whistling wind and the sensation of weightlessness from their rapid descent.

Lu Chen tried to mobilize his magic power to stabilize himself, but found that the spiritual energy in his body circulated sluggishly.

It was like being stuck in a quagmire, making it difficult to even maintain the You secret technique.

The descent seemed incredibly long, yet also felt like just an instant.

Surrounded by boundless darkness and cold, only that suction force persisted, pulling them down, down...

“Plop!”

“Plop!”

Two dull splashing sounds rang out almost simultaneously.

The expected hard impact did not come.

Instead, there was a feeling of being enveloped by a viscous, cold liquid permeated with a strong scent of decay and Death Qi.

Lu Chen grunted, his powerful physique allowing him to quickly recover from the dizziness of the impact.

He immediately held his breath and simultaneously circulated Thunder Essence, forming a thin, protective Lightning Light membrane on his body to isolate external elements.

The sensation told him that he was not in water.

But a highly viscous, gray-black “silt” that was somewhere between liquid and colloid.

It was mixed with countless tiny bone fragments and other unidentifiable objects, emitting a nauseating, pungent odor.

He struggled to stand up, or more accurately, to pull himself out of the viscous silt.

The Lightning Light around him dispelled a little darkness, illuminating a limited area around them.

Qing Yi's soul body appeared not far from him, her pale green halo somewhat dim.

Clearly, the suction and fall had a significant impact on her, but she quickly stabilized her form, vigilantly sensing her surroundings.

Where the Lightning Light shone, Lu Chen's pupils suddenly contracted.

Here...

It was an unimaginably vast underground space.

High above, the “hole” they had fallen through was faintly visible.

From this perspective, it was just an insignificant small black dot, embedded in a seemingly endless “dome” constructed from countless gigantic, interlocking bones.

Yes, the dome, the four walls, and even the “ground” they stood on.

As far as the eye could see, there were boundless, layered, dense piles of skeletons!

These were not the scattered bones buried in the earth on the plains before.

Here, the skeletons had been arranged and stacked by some invisible force, forming the building materials that supported this enormous underground space.

Giant ribs served as arches, thick leg bones as pillars, grotesque skulls as decorations, and various shapes of bone fragments, vertebrae, pelvises...

They were tightly joined and compressed together in a chaotic yet seemingly regular manner, forming this chilling world made entirely of white bones!

The vastness of the space was beyond imagination; the Lightning Light couldn't even reach its edges, only endless white bones extending into the deep darkness.

The air was filled with an incredibly dense Death Qi, resentment, and a strange, pungent smell of aged bone marrow mixed with some kind of viscous liquid.

The Yin Qi here was far heavier than on the surface; even the Lightning Light membrane on Lu Chen's body emitted faint “sizzling” sounds as it was slowly eroded.

What made Lu Chen and Qing Yi even more tense was that on the ground of this white bone world.

That is, the floor where they currently stood, made of more tiny bone fragments and viscous gray-black silt.

Things were moving.

They were monsters difficult to describe accurately with words.

Their bodies were forcefully strung together and pieced together from bone fragments of various sizes and unknown species by black, living-like, writhing and twisting threads.

These threads looked somewhat similar to the filthy death roots on the ground, but they were more solid, thicker, and seemed to possess independent will.

Like nerves or blood vessels, they shuttled and connected between the bone fragments, emitting strong waves of evil Yin and resentment.

These Bone Beasts varied in form.

Some resembled four-legged beasts barely pieced together, some looked like multi-legged crawling insects, while others were simply irregular lumps of randomly piled bones and black threads.

But they all had one thing in common: at the core where the black threads converged, two or more eerie green eyes, filled with hunger and savagery, would light up.