357: Chapter 357 Pluck the Blood Bodhi! The Golden Skull on the Throne!

Su Yang's right leg carried the force of ten thousand catties, like a battle-axe, ruthlessly cleaving into the Red-Armored Giant's demon mask.

Crack!

The hard bronze mask was instantly covered in spiderweb-like cracks.

Immediately after, the mask exploded with a bang, turning into countless copper shards that flew in all directions.

Behind the mask was a rotting, blackened face.

The facial features had long since become indistinguishable, leaving only two pitch-black eye sockets emitting eerie green ghost fires.

Foul-smelling liquid continuously dripped down the monster's cheeks.

"Argh—!"

The Red-Armored Giant let out a shrill, miserable scream.

Its massive body lost balance and crashed heavily into the boiling blood water.

Blood water splashed everywhere, landing on the surrounding rocks and making a sizzling corrosive sound.

"Didn't you claim to be immortal? Today, I won't even leave a scrap of you behind."

Su Yang's eyes were cold as he clenched both fists.

Golden Pure Yang True Fire leaped wildly on his knuckles, even causing the surrounding air to warp and distort from the heat.

Su Yang's body fell like a cannonball, landing directly astride the Red-Armored Giant's chest.

His twin fists fell like a violent storm, crazily smashing against the monster's head.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

Muffled thuds echoed through the underground space, shaking the stalactites on the ceiling until they fell one after another.

Every punch that landed carried a high temperature capable of incinerating all things.

The red armor the giant took pride in quickly melted into a pool of molten iron under the searing heat of the Pure Yang True Fire.

The molten iron flowed into the giant's wounds, causing it to struggle frantically in pain; its massive hands kept slapping the water surface in an attempt to throw Su Yang off.

Su Yang's legs were like nails driven into the monster's body, remaining completely motionless.

Instead, the power in his fists grew greater and greater.

The blood water was evaporated completely by the high temperature.

The Red-Armored Giant rolled violently in the golden sea of fire, its screams growing weaker and weaker.

Its massive body shriveled up at a speed visible to the naked eye.

In less than a minute.

The ten-meter-tall behemoth was completely burned into a pile of white ash that drifted away with the wind.

Su Yang turned and walked toward the giant black tree in the center of the dried-up blood lake.

This tree was a hundred meters tall, its trunk covered with hanging mummies; whenever a breeze blew, the mummies collided, making the sound of bones grinding.

At the top of the tree grew a blood bodhi the size of a watermelon.

Su Yang tapped his toes on the dry lake bed and his body soared into the air like a bolt of golden lightning, instantly reaching the treetop.

He reached out his right hand, grabbed the blood bodhi, and pulled hard.

"Crack!"

The blood bodhi was plucked out by its roots. The fruit felt warm in his hand, emitting a refreshing and exotic fragrance.

Rich vitality circulated on the surface of the fruit, making it seem like a beating heart.

The moment the blood bodhi left the branch.

The entire giant black tree seemed to lose all its vitality, making a dry, rasping sound.

The thick trunk snapped inch by inch, and the mummies hanging on the tree also turned into powder.

Rumble.

The hundred-meter-tall giant tree collapsed with a crash, turning into a ground full of black wood chips.

The raised dust filled the entire lake bed.

Su Yang landed steadily on the ground and handed the blood bodhi to Bai Li.

"Plant this in the Inner World. This thing contains a massive amount of life Origin; it will be of great use in the future.

Perhaps it can help Da Hei evolve again."

Bai Li's purple eyes shimmered as she smilingly took the blood bodhi.

Nine snow-white fox tails swayed gently behind her, exuding a noble temperament.

"Don't worry, Hubby, I will definitely take good care of it. The Spiritual Qi in the Inner World is abundant, so it will surely grow even better."

With a wave of Bai Li's jade-like hand, the blood bodhi turned into a streak of light and entered the space between Su Yang's eyebrows.

As the giant tree collapsed, a violent tremor suddenly occurred at the bottom of the dried blood lake.

Black sludge rolled to both sides, revealing a huge hidden mechanism below.

A massive bronze disc slowly rose from underground, emitting a heavy sound of metal grinding.

The surface of the disc was carved with complex Yin and Yang Eight Trigrams patterns.

In the very center of the Eight Trigrams was a bottomless square passage.

A bone-chilling Yin wind blew out of the passage, mixed with a thick aura of slaughter.

"It seems this is the true path leading to the core of the Yin Emperor's tomb. Everything outside was just an appetizer."

Su Yang had his hands in his pockets, his tone indifferent, showing no fear whatsoever.

"Boss, it feels very dangerous down there. The Yin Qi is ten times heavier than here. I'm afraid there are even more powerful vicious creatures hidden inside."

Chu Ling looked at the passage, her brow slightly furrowed, as a defensive chill automatically radiated from her body.

"The more dangerous the place, the more treasures there are. Let's go down and take a look."

Su Yang led the way onto the bronze disc and stepped directly into the black passage.

The four women followed closely behind. The passage was pitch black; one couldn't even see their own hand in front of their face.

A ball of golden flame ignited at Su Yang's fingertip, illuminating the surroundings.

The stone steps were very steep, extending all the way down.

The walls were covered in a thick layer of black frost.

With every step, a muffled echo could be heard.

They walked down the stone steps for about half an hour.

The view ahead suddenly opened up.

The group stepped out of the passage and arrived at an incredibly vast underground plaza.

The plaza was expansive, and the ground was entirely paved with ghastly white skulls.

Stepping on them produced a scalp-numbing cracking sound.

Countless amounts of resentment drifted in the air, forming a thin layer of black mist.

On both sides of the plaza stood dozens of hundred-meter-tall black stone pillars.

Bound to the stone pillars were the massive skeletal remains of Yao Beasts.

Although the remains had been dead for a long time, they still radiated a powerful pressure.

At the end of the plaza stood a magnificent black palace.

The palace gates were wide open.

In front of the gates was a high nine-layered stone platform.

At the top of the stone platform sat a wide dragon chair crafted from gold.

Nine black dragons were carved onto the surface of the dragon chair, looking fierce and ready to strike.

Seated upon the dragon chair was a Golden Skeleton wearing ancient imperial robes.

The skeleton's bones were a brilliant dark gold, emitting a terrifying pressure that seemed to suppress heaven and earth.

It wore a crown inlaid with twelve black gemstones on its head and held a rusted bronze greatsword in its hand.

Even though it was only a withered skeleton, the aura it emitted had steadily reached the Late Stage of the Soul Transformation Stage!

On either side of the Golden Skeleton lay two Bone Giant Beasts the size of mountains.

The behemoths had the heads of lions, the bodies of tigers, and a pair of tattered bone wings on their backs.

Their massive bones shimmered with a metallic luster.

The moment Su Yang and the four others stepped into the bone plaza.

The two Bone Giant Beasts snapped their eyes open.

Eerie blue ghost fires ignited in their eye sockets.

They stood up and let out earth-shaking roars.

The sound waves swept across the entire plaza, blowing white bones into the air.

The surrounding black mist was forcibly dispersed.

The Golden Skeleton also slowly raised its head.

Two clusters of strange red light flickered within its hollow eye sockets.

"Mortals. To dare intrude upon We's resting place. Your crime is unforgivable."

The Golden Skeleton's jaw opened and closed, emitting a majestic and ethereal voice.

The voice seemed to come from all directions simultaneously, making one's eardrums ache.

Qin Xueji covered her ears with both hands, her face pale.

If not for Su Yang's True Qi protection, she would have been knocked unconscious by the sound long ago.

Mary flapped her bat wings, hovering in mid-air with her hands on her hips, completely unimpressed.

"A skeletal frame so dead it doesn't even have flesh left dares to call itself an emperor? Truly shameless. Watch as this Young Miss dismantles you into pieces to use as firewood!"

Upon hearing Mary's words, the red light in the Golden Skeleton's eyes surged violently, like two burning bonfires.

"Kill them all."

The Golden Skeleton raised the bronze greatsword in its hand and pointed it at Su Yang's group.

Receiving the order, the two Bone Giant Beasts immediately exerted force with their limbs.

Their massive bodies were like two moving mountains of bone, bringing a gale that tore through the air as they lunged directly toward Su Yang to kill him.

The behemoths opened their bloody maws and spat out two black death storms.

The storms were mixed with countless sharp bone spikes.

"Leave it to me!"

Chu Ling gave a delicate shout. Her ice-blue dress fluttered in the wind.

Her figure turned into a streak of light as she charged toward the Bone Giant Beast on the left.

The chill of the ten thousand year profound ice marrow erupted, instantly condensing into a dozens-of-meters-long ethereal blue ice sword in mid-air.

"Slash!"

Chu Ling gripped the sword with both hands and ruthlessly cleaved toward the behemoth's head.

Mary was not to be outdone.

She turned into a bolt of black lightning and rushed toward the Bone Giant Beast on the right.

Sharp blood-colored blades grew from her ten fingers, carving out over a dozen red streaks in the darkness.

"Broken bones, watch as this Young Miss tears you to shreds!"

Mary's hands flailed wildly, and the sky-filling red claw shadows completely enveloped the behemoth.

The two women and the two ancient Vicious Beasts engaged in a fierce battle on the bone plaza.

Su Yang kept his hands in his pockets, ignoring the battle beside him.

His deep eyes looked directly at the Golden Skeleton on the high platform.

A smile full of Battle Intent played at the corners of his mouth.

"Your subordinates have already made their move. You, the puppet emperor, shouldn't you also come down and loosen your bones?"

Su Yang took a step forward, and the white bones beneath his feet instantly turned to powder.

He became like a golden meteor soaring into the sky, heading straight for the Golden Skeleton at the top of the nine-layered stone platform.