The sand slowly slid down between Li Mu's fingers like flowing blood.
The wind was howling.
The whole desert was like a surging ocean.
Li Mu looked up at the sun in the sky.
It was strange.
Why did the sun only shine on this desert area?
It was nine thousand miles away, so it should be able to shine on the main hall of the Southern Heaven Gate.
The boat moved forward.
Everyone hoped to find something in the desert.
"What's that?"
Suddenly, the Broadsword King pointed ahead.
In the scarlet desert in the distance, sand waves were rolling, and something was exposed under the sand.
"Is that … a skeleton?"
Li Mu frowned.
In the distant desert, a gale swept up the sand grains. Sand dunes were uprooted one after another, revealing a huge skull buried underneath. There were at least a few hundred of them, and they were tumbling in the wind.
Li Mu didn't know if it was an illusion.
The wind blew over the skulls, forming echoes in the skulls, as if ghosts from ancient times were crying, roaring, and questioning something.
"Be careful, avoid them."
Li Mu said.
The War Ancestor steered the white boat and floated in the air, avoiding the hundreds of giant skulls with a diameter of ten meters.
"It seems to be the legendary Giant Spirit Clan."
Yama King said thoughtfully.
It was said that in the immortal world, there used to be a clan famous for fighting violence. When they entered a state of rage, they would show their Dharma-laksana body and turn into a giant thousands of meters high, possessing terrifying close combat ability. It used to be a very powerful clan in the immortal world.
"There are more ahead."
The Sword King said.
Under the sand dunes rolled up by the wind, giant skeletons that seemed to be made of gold appeared.
They were half-buried in the blood-colored desert, like soldiers in a deep sleep underground.
The white boat that Li Mu and the others were driving entered the scarlet desert. All of a sudden, it seemed that some subtle static balance in the originally peaceful desert had been disrupted. The gale in the desert was getting fiercer and fiercer.
"Something's wrong."
Li Mu said, "Everyone, be careful."
Before his voice died away —
Rumble!
In front, a giant golden skeleton palm suddenly stretched out from under the desert.
Each finger of the palm was more than five hundred meters tall. When it rose up from the sand, it looked like five golden pillars protruding from the ground.
It broke through the ground.
The white boat was caught off guard and almost crashed into it.
Xiu!
The boat rose higher and higher.
Boom boom boom!
A series of booming sounds rang out.
Another skeletal hand reached out from the desert.
Then, a thousand-meter-tall golden skull broke out of the ground.
On his head, there was still the gray phoenix wing armor that had lost its spirituality.
"Alive?"
Li Mu and the others were all taken aback.
The small boat quickly rose up and retreated a distance.
Then, the blood-colored sand flew, and a huge, complete skeleton giant slowly emerged from the sand. Then, it stood up and stood on the boundless desert.
The sand flowed down from the skeleton's body like water.
From its eye sockets, nostrils, mouth, chest, ribs, and pelvic cavity, bright red sand constantly slid down, as if blood was flowing out of its body. It looked terrifying and strange.
Its body was covered in broken armor, and in its right hand, it held a broken blade that was covered in cracks and had a sawtooth-like edge … It looked like a general commanding an army.
As it stood up, a kind of bleak and solemn aura suddenly filled the entire desert.
Its head twisted blankly, as if it was a person who had just woken up and was looking around at the strange environment.
"It seems to be alive. What's going on?"
Li Mu was full of surprise.
When he was on the Ghost Star, he had seen people come back from the dead.
But ghost cultivators and this skeleton were two different things.
This golden skeleton did not have the gloomy and gloomy aura of death of ordinary undead creatures. Instead, it had a solemn aura of iron and blood, as if it were a sacred creature, but it did not have the slightest aura of life.
"Hold on …"
The skeleton general opened its mouth. An incomparably tough willpower turned into sound waves and swept out in all directions.
"Oh no!"
The Zhan Ancestor was shocked.
His original primordial spirit instinctively trembled.
The willpower emitted by this skeleton was too terrifying. It was actually comparable to that of an expert at the Immortal Emperor Realm.
"You retreat!"
Li Mu shouted.
His figure broke through the air and formed a barrier in mid-air, blocking the terrifying mental strength.
"Boom!"
Li Mu was sent flying 10 meters away.
That was …
Only then did the skeleton sense the existence of Li Mu and the others.
"Crack, crack, crack!"
It was the sound of the neck bones twisting.
The skeleton turned its head to look at Li Mu.
His pitch-black eye sockets were empty.
But it seemed to be revealing countless emotional fluctuations.
"You … are … still … alive …"
Its spiritual will fluctuated violently.
Li Mu was very vigilant.
The spiritual will fluctuation of this giant golden skeleton was comparable to that of an Immortal Emperor. How powerful it must have been when it was alive.
It was unclear whether it was a friend or a foe.
Before Li Mu could answer, the skeleton sent out another wave of willpower. "Have you held the Milky Way Defense Line?"
Li Mu still could not answer.
"Who are you?"
Li Mu asked.
"I am Qin Han, the general in charge of Tiange Pass. Please tell the five Heaven Emperors that I failed in my duty. The Southern Heaven Gate was attacked, and the Giant Spirit Army failed to hold Tiange Pass. In order to buy time for the Milky Way Defense Line, the 100,000 Giant Spirit Army fought to the death …"
The spiritual power of the skeleton was full of grief and indignation.
Li Mu did not quite understand.
He roughly understood that this skeleton should be an immortal of the Upper Three Heavens in the past. His status was not low. He led the army to guard Tiange Pass, but they were attacked by a strong enemy. The Southern Heaven Gate was lost, and Tiange Pass was also broken. In order to delay the enemy, he and his men fought to the death.
The final result was that the whole army had been wiped out.
The golden skeletons buried under the desert that he saw before were the so-called soldiers of the Giant Spirit Army.
They had all died in battle.
This general named Qin Han had a strong cultivation when he was alive, and his obsession was not dispersed. After so many years after his death, there was still a spiritual power attached to his bones.
Could it be that because of the arrival of Li Mu and the others, the aura of the living suddenly aroused some kind of reaction, which awakened Qin Han's spiritual power that had been dormant?
"Where are the five Heaven Emperors?"
Li Mu asked.
"You … Aren't you from the Heavenly Court? Don't you know where the five Heaven Emperors are … "
The voice of the skeleton Qin Han was full of doubts.
Immediately, he seemed to realize something and asked, "What era is it now?"
Li Mu said, "I don't know what era the Upper Three Heavens was, either. But the five Heaven Emperors you mentioned and the Milky Way Defense Line should no longer exist."
"What?"
The skeleton Qin Han roared angrily, "This is impossible … The Heavenly Court can't lose …"
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