Chapter 334: Terrifying Skeleton

Instant light turned to instant darkness, Lin Yifan couldn't help closing his eyes, and after a while he slowly opened them.

The cave was pitch black, but fortunately he had prepared many flashlights to cope with the coming eternal night.

He quickly took out a flashlight and turned it on, instantly lighting the cave.

The air inside was filled with heavenly and earthly Qi several times denser and purer than outside, which is essentially magical energy.

However, Lin Yifan now prefers to call it Qi; the thick Qi, like warm spring water, instantly enveloped his nearly exhausted body.

It revitalized his spirit, and even his heavy injuries improved considerably.

Yet the comfort from this dense spiritual energy lasted only a moment before a violent reaction from the Bloodsucking Vine bracelet on his wrist interrupted it!

Buzz! Buzz! Buzz!

The vine bracelet trembled wildly.

The dark‑gold patterns resembled activated lava, emitting a scorching and resistant aura.

A wave of intense, almost violent aversion, rejection, even a hint of… fear, like a cold steel needle, drove deep into Lin Yifan's mind!

"Sss…" Lin Yifan muttered a low growl, his head splitting. He could clearly feel the Bloodsucking Vine's pain and resistance.

The cave was suffused with pure, bright, life‑filled spiritual crystal energy!

It clashed utterly with the cold, destructive, dark energy he had just absorbed from the dark‑gold giant cocoon, like water and fire!

The evolved Bloodsucking Vine's core power had already taken on a deep dark attribute.

The cave‑full of crystal radiance and pure Qi was, to it, like being in a furnace of lethal poison!

The dark‑gold patterns flickered, the bracelet's temperature surged as if it could ignite at any moment or unleash destructive dark power to counter the "light" intrusion!

"Suppress it! Quiet!" Lin Yifan roared in his mind, his remaining spirit power like chains, tightly binding the restless dark force at the Bloodsucking Vine's core.

He could feel the vines frantically siphoning his remaining primal energy to resist the crystal energy's "Purify", worsening his already exhausted state.

But now he couldn't worry about that!

He endured the dual agony of soul and body, cradling Lingling as he staggered deeper into the cave.

The suddenly bright scene before him made him instantly forget the pain, his pupils dilating in shock!

The interior of the cave was larger than he had imagined!

The walls were not ordinary rock but had a jade‑like smoothness, naturally embedded with countless crystals of varying sizes!

The small ones were like grains of rice, the large ones as big as a fist!

The crystals emitted a soft, pure glow—white, milky, pale teal, light blue…—a colorful yet harmonious palette that turned the whole cavern into a dreamlike fairyland!

The air was thick with spiritual energy, almost solidifying into a thin mist; a single breath felt wholly soothing.

This is a spiritual crystal! And a vein with astonishing reserves!

But what caught Lin Yifan's eye wasn't these priceless crystals, but the center of the cavern!

There, a massive skeleton lay curled quietly!

The skeleton's whole body shone with a gentle, moon‑lit silver hue, still emitting a faint, holy halo despite countless years.

The skeleton's form was elegant and slender; even as just bones, one could clearly see the streamlined skull, robust limbs, and the unusually massive tail composed of many vertebrae—a fox's shape!

A fox of a size far beyond imagination!

"Is this a fox? Such a huge fox?" Lin Yifan murmured, his heart shaking.

The blood‑line aura emanating from the skeleton shared its source with Lingling, yet was countless times purer, stronger, and older.

Lin Yifan had only sensed such a similar aura on two things!

One was the "Dawnbreak" Sword, and the other, a small fragment of a Dark Night Divine Pattern.

Both items bore a mysterious, ancient aura, strikingly similar to that of the skeleton.

However, the aura on this fox was relatively weaker compared to those divine items.

Yet it was undeniably linked to the Divine Being!

Though the true strength of a Divine Being is unknown, this skeleton, when alive, was certainly an unimaginably powerful being!

At that moment, Lingling, cradled in Lin Yifan's arms, suddenly leapt down, straightening its upper body, and respectfully bowed three times.

It then rose, jumped back into Lin Yifan's arms, and weakly said:

"When my mother led me here, she told me this skeleton is an ancestor of our Reflecting Moon Fox clan, an immensely powerful being, almost a half‑step Divine Being."

"Unfortunately Luck was poor; even when its lifespan ended, it never became a true Divine Being, so it finally fell here. That was millennia ago; otherwise we could never approach this cave."

Do not think that a strong one, once dead, vanishes without a trace or poses no threat.

In fact, even a dead true strong one leaves a trace of its former pressure and a unique aura on its corpse.

These auras may not block a strong one's approach, but rookies like Lin Yifan can never hope to get close.

Now, perhaps because of the ages, the dangerous energy on the bones has gradually faded, allowing them to approach.

What Lingling said was actually close to Lin Yifan's own speculation.

He just didn't expect that such a powerful skeleton master only reached half‑step Divine Being, never becoming a true Divine Being.

Even so, that alone warrants respect from later generations!

Thus Lin Yifan respectfully bowed deeply to the skeleton before examining it closely.

It was a half‑step Divine Being just one step shy of true divinity; he wanted to see its peculiarity.

The skeleton was remarkably intact, showing no signs of battle damage.

It lay in a tranquil posture, its massive head slightly bowed, the jaw gently resting on the largest rhombus crystal in the cavern's center, which emitted a soft moon‑white halo.

The crystal resembled a miniature bright moon, carefully guarded by the skeleton.

What made Lin Yifan's breath catch was that between the slightly curled front paw phalanges of this massive moon‑shadow fox skeleton, there was not emptiness!

There, quietly lay a… egg?

Or perhaps, a strangely shaped "cocoon"?

It stands about half a human's height, its whole body a deep, star‑light‑absorbing indigo.