336: Chapter 336 As long as it's a divine bone, it'll do?

"Soul and body, utterly destroyed."

Taishang Laojun's hoarse voice echoed above the dark golden blood pool.

It was like a hundred-million-ton heavy hammer, slamming fiercely into the hearts of the three hundred thousand Red Wolf Army members present!

All the players who had just been immersed in soaring stats and fanatical cheers...

At this moment, all froze in place.

They stared blankly at their own bodies, which were glowing with a golden, invincible radiance.

Then they raised their heads to look at Nuwa's illusory projection in mid-air, which was now nearly transparent and weakened to the extreme.

"Drip."

Someone's tears fell into the scalding blood water.

"F*ck..."

Zhao Meng's eye sockets instantly turned completely red, and his copper-bell-like bovine eyes were covered in terrifying bloodshot veins.

He stared at the ten pieces of divine bone that had just fused into his thighs and chest.

A deep wave of guilt and self-blame gnawed at his heart like a poisonous snake!

"What the hell have I done?!"

Zhao Meng dealt himself a loud, vicious slap across the face, blood spilling from the corner of his mouth.

"Just for a few times more damage, I was actually digging up our ancestor's very lifeline?!"

"Pfft!"

Without hesitation, Zhao Meng pulled out a dagger and aimed it at his own thigh!

"Empress!"

"I'll dig the bones right out and return them to you!"

"Can these divine bones be pulled out?! If the price of this power is your life..."

"I'd rather not have this lousy stat boost!!!"

"Right! Dig them out!"

"I don't want this damn multiplier either!"

"Empress, take back the divine power!"

"At worst, the three hundred thousand of us will go all out against those monsters!"

The hundreds of thousands of players on the scene who had fused with divine bones had all gone crazy!

With reddened eyes, everyone pulled out their weapons and uniformly aimed them at their own bodies.

Making a motion to carve the divine bones out!

They were the fourth calamity; they could throw away their lives for power.

But what flowed in their bones was the blood of Yanhuang!

They absolutely would not allow themselves to grow stronger by stepping on the corpses of Huaxia's ancestors!

"Stop!"

Just as this tragic and bloody scene was about to happen—

In mid-air,

Nuwa suddenly waved her sleeve.

A gentle yet irresistible divine power descended, instantly stripping the weapons from everyone's hands.

Nuwa looked at the children below with reddened eyes who were ready to self-mutilate for her sake.

Two lines of clear tears slid down her weak, breathtakingly beautiful face.

But the corners of her mouth curled into an extremely gratified and gentle smile.

"Silly children..."

"Once the divine bone enters the body, it is already bound to your souls."

"If you forcibly peel it off, your souls and bodies will be utterly destroyed on the spot."

Forcing herself to maintain the very last shred of her divinity, Nuwa slowly drifted down.

Her translucent jade hand gently stroked Zhao Meng's head.

Then she looked ahead at Lu Yuan, Xia Li, and the three hundred thousand Red Wolf Army members.

"My children, there is no need to feel guilty for me, nor do you need to worry about me."

Nuwa's voice exuded a compassion and relief that transcended life and death.

"You are the hope of our Huaxia."

"No..."

Nuwa raised her head to look at the torn vault of heaven, her voice becoming exceptionally firm:

"You should be the final hope of all humanity."

"My incomplete soul has lingered on in this ruin for tens of millions of years..."

"Waiting for this very day!"

"Only when you become strong enough and possess this immortal divine flesh and bone will you be qualified to fight against 'that thing'!"

"For this..."

Nuwa closed her eyes, her face filled with a resolute radiance.

"Even if my soul and body are utterly destroyed, I shall not regret it through nine deaths!"

Hearing these words,

Taishang Laojun covered his face in mid-air and sighed, tears streaming down his old face.

The three hundred thousand Red Wolf Army members burst into tears, the atmosphere tragic and heroic to the extreme.

Even Lu Yuan clenched his fists so tightly that his nails sank into his flesh.

Amidst this tragic and heroic atmosphere of parting in life and death,

Nuwa turned her head.

She glanced at the broken bone mountain in the center of the blood pool, which had been dug out until only a tiny heap remained.

She then looked back at the hundreds of thousands of players who had not yet had their turn to fuse with the divine bones.

Nuwa let out a long sigh.

A deep expression of regret and helplessness emerged on her gentle face.

"What a pity..."

Nuwa shook her head weakly, her eyes filled with regret, "After all, the number of my divine bones is limited..."

"Even if I exhaust the very last thread of my soul, I cannot reshape the physical bodies for all three hundred thousand of you..."

"The remaining children will just have to make do..."

"Wait! Your Majesty, wait a moment!"

Just as Nuwa was about to deliver her final regretful last words,

An abrupt, mood-destroying voice rang out from the crowd.

Lin Zihao had wiped away his tears at some point.

Standing in the blood water, he craned his neck to look at Nuwa in mid-air.

That pair of shifty eyes was rolling around in his sockets, flashing with a cunning gleam.

"Um..."

Lin Zihao rubbed his hands together and asked tentatively,

"Empress... what you meant just now is that you must use [Divine Bone] to reshape the physical body, right?"

Nuwa was slightly stunned and nodded, "That's right."

"Mortal flesh is too fragile; we must use the bones of gods as a bridge to withstand it..."

"That's fantastic! Doesn't that mean we already have them!"

Lin Zihao slapped his thigh fiercely, interrupting Nuwa's words.

He grinned, revealing an excited smile resembling a bandit entering a village.

"Empress, as long as it's a divine bone, it works, right?"

"Then please trouble yourself to take a look..."

As he spoke, Lin Zihao opened his spatial inventory.

"Clatter—"

Accompanied by a harsh sound of bones colliding,

"Bang!"

A huge set of divine bones radiating violent divine power was casually tossed by Lin Zihao into the blood pool!

This wasn't over yet!

"Bang!"

Another piece of divine bone, broken into two halves and emitting a dazzling seven-colored divine light!

"Bang! Crack! Snap!"

In a mere three seconds,

Lin Zihao poured out a small mountain piled high with corpses from his spatial inventory!

"Empress, keep your own bones, stop pulling them out!"

"Take a look..."

"Are these imported foreign bones in my hand okay?!"