Chapter 1160 - 528: Gui Xu Devil Runes

Chapter 528

When the first wisp of "Demonic Origin" refined and purified by the furnace fed back into his body, Xu Ran’s entire skeletal form trembled violently.

It was a kind of Power completely different from "Bone Origin", yet just as pure and vast. It represented neither "life" nor "death", but a pure aggregation of "destruction" and "Power".

This Power poured into Xu Ran’s bones, and did not directly strengthen their toughness. Instead, like the sharpest carving knife, it began to etch on every inch of his bones fine Dao patterns overflowing with the aura of destruction!

The "Primordial Dao Bone Scripture" operated on its own, slowly absorbing and transforming this Power.

"Warning: Heterogeneous High Tier Energy detected, initiating analysis... Analysis complete."

"Designation: Gui Xu Demon Pattern."

"Gui Xu Demon Pattern: Using the Power of Ruins as the guide, smelting ten thousand Demonic Energies, and engraving them upon Dao Bones. With each additional demon pattern, resistance to and refining efficiency of ’demonic’ attribute Power rises, and the might of the Dao of ’Gui Xu’ gains minor Amplification."

"Current number of demon patterns: 1."

Soul Light surged explosively in Xu Ran’s eye sockets.

Success!

He had gambled right! For him, this Abyss of Bone Demons was indeed not a deathtrap, but an inexhaustible, boundless supreme Treasure Vault!

"Again!"

Suppressing the excitement in his heart, he pushed the Great Dao Furnace to its limit. Like a ravenous giant beast, it began madly devouring and Refining the filthy demonic Energy seeping out from that stretch of land.

Time flowed by slowly amid this monotonous yet perilous Refining.

...

Half a year later.

The Dragon Elephant Domain had completely changed its visage.

Once desolate in Deathly Silence, with nothing but white bones and gray powder upon the ground, now it brimmed with vigorous vitality—a kind of "vitality" unique to skeletal lifeforms.

Centered on the Dragon Elephant leg bone that stood like a sky-supporting pillar, within a radius of a hundred miles, the land was no longer that despair-inducing dark red, but instead displayed a faint jade-white hue. The air no longer reeked of withering and ill omen, but was saturated with a pure Bone Origin Spiritual Qi so refined that it left all skeletons intoxicated.

This region was revered by the beings of the Dragon Elephant Domain as the "Sanctuary".

And the source of it all was that figure who had been seated cross-legged beneath the colossal bone, unmoving for half a year.

Xu Ran’s right hand was still pressed deep into the ground. But now, beneath his palm, the earth had turned into a black vortex over a thousand zhang in diameter, bottomless and abyssal. It was an "Energy Interface" forcibly opened up by the Great Dao Furnace, ceaselessly drawing out the Power of the Abyss of Bone Demons.

After half a year of Refining, Xu Ran’s "Primordial Dao Bone Scripture" had long since broken through.

""Primordial Dao Bone Scripture": Bone Forging Realm, Great Success (32%)."

"Bone Origin: 29,740 units."

"Gui Xu Demon Patterns: 99."

His bones had already transformed from their initial black-stone hue into a deep, ink-jade color, as if containing the starry sky. Ninety-nine demon patterns brimming with destructive aura flowed slowly across the surface of his bones like living things, rendering his entire presence increasingly unfathomable.

He was merely at Bone Forging Realm Great Success, yet he was confident that if he were to face the former Skeleton King again, he wouldn’t even need to invoke the "Heaven-Splitting" Fist Intent. With just this ink-jade Dao Bone and the Gui Xu Demon Patterns, he could grind that king to death!

And behind him, the entire Dragon Elephant Domain was undergoing earth-shaking transformation.

Zhen Shan did not fail his expectations. This powerhouse forcibly nurtured to the Burning Fire Realm displayed astonishing Commanding Power and execution. Under his iron-fisted rule, one gigantic mine pit after another was excavated, and vast amounts of "Nethercold Iron" and "Stellar Demonstone" were continuously transported to the surroundings of the Sanctuary.

Craftsman-type skeletons, guided by the Array Maps Xu Ran provided, forged these materials into massive, intricate array bases, embedding them into the earth at specific positions.

Viewed from high above, with the Dragon Elephant leg bone as the center, circle after circle of colossal array patterns rippled outward like waves, covering nearly ten thousand miles of territory. The super Grand Array known as the "Gui Xu Reincarnation Great Millstone" had already taken shape!

The entire Dragon Elephant Domain was like a finely tuned war machine, every gear spinning at high speed for that shared, mad objective. In the Soul Fire of each skeletal lifeform burned unprecedented hope and fervor.

For they could clearly feel that as the Grand Array grew more complete, the Bone Origin Spiritual Qi spilling from the Sanctuary was becoming ever more concentrated. Many skeletons who had been stuck at bottlenecks for years broke through under the nourishment of this Qi.

And this was only the beginning! All beings were waiting, waiting for the true advent of that "Taotie Feast" their Lord had spoken of!

At the same time, the mission of the Bone-Worship Crow had achieved astonishing results.

"Skeleton Domain No. Geng-73, new king ’Master of Dragon Elephant’, seeks to emulate the Ancient Gods and Demons, Refining the Abyss of Bone Demons, turning calamity into opportunity, broadly inviting the world’s desperadoes to join in an Immortal feast!"

This message, like it had grown wings, spread across a dozen nearby Skeleton Domains via the countless flying skeletons under the command of the Bone-Worship Crow.

At first, the beings who heard this news responded with nothing but scorn.

Refining the Abyss of Bone Demons? What an absurd joke! The Lord of every Skeleton Domain spoke of that taboo existence only in whispers and kept as far away from it as possible. This newly risen "Master of Dragon Elephant" was either a lunatic or a fraud.

But soon, scouts who had gone to investigate with skeptical hearts brought back intelligence that shook souls.