426: Bone Claw

"Urghhh—!"

A suppressed, beast-like roar of someone near death erupted from the depths of Su Han's chest, accompanied by bloody foam.

This was no longer a howl of despair, but the roar of flesh pushed to its limit, with a will that forced the engine to detonate!

The cold dust on the ground, mixed with bone powder, collapsed inward under the pressure of his hands.

His knees, already covered in wounds, slammed hard against the hard, rocky ground!

Ignoring the tearing, excruciating pain threatening to burst his back, and ignoring the overwhelming pressure that threatened to shatter his torso.

There was only one goal!

The edge of the pool bottom!

That desperate glimmer of light within the cracks of the bones!

That was the last thing Bi Yao's Soul could grasp!

Every remaining ounce of strength in his body, as if every cell on the verge of shattering was instantly squeezed, ignited, and squeezed again, coalescing into a brief, inhuman torrent!

Through the gaps in that immense pressure, his body shot out like an arrow released from a fully drawn bow, filled with a resolute ferocity!

His body was kept extremely low, sprinting almost flush against the cold ground covered in jagged bone fragments, yet his speed was as fast as a ghost gliding across the floor!

His target was pointed straight at the corner of the pool bottom closest to that pool of dark red.

His movements were fast, but the ancient will possessing Bi Yao had long since engraved its fear and hostility toward that dark red liquid into the core of its existence.

Even at this moment, when the Soul was nearly frozen solid by the crimson mirror image, an invisible command filled with destructive panic was transmitted at the speed of thought from the direction of the fake "Bi Yao"!

Pfft! Pfft! Pfft! Pfft!

Right on the sides of Su Han's sprinting path, from deep within the mountains of piled, originally dead-silent bones, a dense, teeth-grinding sound of explosion suddenly erupted!

Pale or withered yellow giant ribs, arm bones, and even shattered skull fragments, like plague insects responding to an invisible command, suddenly tore apart their original piled forms under the insane compulsion of something that defied the laws of matter!

Countless broken bones, huge metacarpals, and twisted phalanges broke free from every corner of the bone pile, carrying the slippery, viscous flesh and decayed nerve fascia attached to them, completing a terrifying aggregation within a ten-thousandth of a second.

Crack! Boom!

Five huge, hideous arm bones, far exceeding the length of a human arm and belonging to some unknown terrifying creature, twisted and merged in mid-air in front of Su Han at an unbelievable speed, like a Bone Sinister Claw reaching out from the abyss of the Netherworld!

The friction of the bones emitted a hair-raising scraping sound; shattered bone shards were forcibly squeezed and underwent Fusion, while more tiny bone fragments adhered tightly like bone-marrow cancer to act as adhesive, instantly forming a twisted, suffocating bone-hand cage!

The structure of this cage was like some kind of vicious carnivorous plant trap, with the ghastly bone claws curving and closing inward, their tips bearing a pitch-black, decayed hue and a dangerous curve like venomous snake fangs!

Rumble!

Su Han's sprinting figure crashed into the suddenly erected, thick iron wall like a speeding train!

The muffled sound of the collision resounded through the cavern; the immense force acted directly upon Su Han's body, feeling more like a blow to the hearts of all onlookers in sheer terror.

At that moment, time seemed to be drawn out again, the scene shattering like torn silk.

The remaining momentum in Su Han's body was forcibly terminated and shattered before that absolute, inanimate obstacle!

The shadow covering half his body seemed to be smashed to pieces in an instant!

Blood sprayed out wildly like a bursting water bag from his mouth and nose, the huge wounds that had burst open on his back, and the countless fine wounds that had been forcibly ruptured by the shock!

The excruciating pain was like a ten-thousand-ton iron hammer shattering every bone and joint, and his vision was instantly covered by a crimson blur and dancing, hideous stars.

He felt as if he hadn't crashed into bones, but into a heavy, immense mountain range that had just been pulled up from a deep abyss of blood and mud.

(End of Chapter)