Chapter 334: You… Who Exactly Are You?!

When that brilliant, towering golden lightning—seeming to have existed since the very beginning of Open Heaven and Split Earth, embodying the supreme law and utmost majesty—appeared in such a sudden yet inevitable manner before the world‑ending Bone Hand, it instantly erased it in silence.

Ye Wuque's constantly tense mind suddenly relaxed, and an indescribable sense of calm and trust welled up.

Great! It's Senior Chu!

The golden lightning man has acted!

Everyone… is saved!

Regarding this mysterious, unfathomable, bottomless supreme being, Ye Wuque has absolute confidence.

Even though the golden lightning before them is merely a power imprint left by Chu on his own body, far from the true form, even less than an Avatar, the displayed might is already enough to sweep away all enemies before them and reverse this seemingly hopeless death‑bound situation!

All the other surviving beings, whether the young Heavenly Pride, the five scarred Guardians, or Huangfu Bo, who was burning Primordial and ready to stake his life, now stood frozen, their gazes fixed on the dazzling golden lightning that made even their souls ache, and on the faint, seated, majestic male silhouette at its center, perched within endless radiance.

In their eyes were boundless awe, gratitude, shock, and a hint of bewilderment.

Saved… they really were saved!

Under the world‑ending strike of that terrifying, boundless Ominous Emperor, they had already sunk into absolute despair, but the emergence of the golden lightning was like a tear in the dark sky, casting a dawn that could save everything!

"M‑... many thanks, senior… for the life‑saving grace!!"

A Guardian was the first to react, suppressing his excitement and injuries, bowing deeply toward the golden lightning, his voice trembling with reverence.

"Junior… bow in thanks for the senior's great kindness!!"

The other Guardians and Huangfu Bo also hurriedly paid their respects, their hearts a mix of lingering fear and relief.

They were stunned by the unfathomable power of the golden lightning man!

They didn't even see how he acted; the world‑ending Bone Hand that could have doomed the entire temporal battlefield had already vanished into smoke!

Such tactics already exceed their realm of comprehension!

This is undoubtedly a supreme being they cannot imagine or fathom!

With such a being intervening, today's calamity may truly have a turning point!

"Thank you, senior!!"

"Senior's life‑saving grace is unforgettable!!"

The young Heavenly Pride below, having recovered from extreme terror, knelt and saluted toward the golden lightning, their voices filled with the excitement of surviving the calamity and heartfelt reverence.

In stark contrast to the awe and gratitude from Zhutian Wanjie, the Ominous White Bone Emperor, standing proudly in the opposite Void and previously indifferent to all beings like insects, now showed, for the first time, intense emotional turbulence on his skeletal face… shock, unease, and a trace of… uncontrollable dread!

In its hollow eye sockets, two dark soul‑flames throbed wildly!

This golden lightning, and the seated male silhouette within it, gave it an endless unease and Great Terror rooted in its bloodline Primordial and deep soul.

As if it had encountered a natural enemy, a nightmare that exists only in the oldest, most forbidden legends of its clan!

It forced down the inexplicable fear swelling inside, its white‑bone jaw opening and closing, producing a dry, harsh clack as it tried to regain the scene with words, dispelling the unease:

"Hmph! Never thought… this tiny 'pond'… still hid a master like you!"

"But! The higher the master… the more they deserve death!"

"I don't care who you are! Dare to block this emperor, and you are destined to… Body and Spirit Annihilation!"

Its voice remained cold, yet on careful listening one could detect a barely perceptible hint of inner tremor.

Facing the Ominous Emperor's threatening, hostile shouts, Chu, seated at the center of the golden lightning, did not even meet its gaze.

A voice, magnetic and plain yet seemingly imbued with ages of change and supreme authority, rose slowly, resonating clearly in the deepest hearts of every being, bearing a detached view that surveyed eternity and understood all:

"You… from the Eerie Ten Vessels, the Withered Bone Vessels… a mere 'emperor'…"

"You have no right… to speak this before me."

"A mere peak of Dao Ancestor Realm, not even truly stepping over the threshold of Supreme level… yet you dare such arrogance…"

"Heh heh heh… indeed, that useless 'Bone Ancestor' of your clan… truly a character…"

"What a pity… all destined… not to live long."

Chu's words, like a stone cast upon a calm lake, raised towering waves in the Ominous Emperor's heart‑lake!

"You… who exactly are you?!"

The Ominous Emperor's soul‑flame suddenly burst, emitting a mind‑scream full of terror!

This mysterious man instantly saw through the clan it belonged to.

It is one of the infamous Eerie Ten Vessels of the Ominous Myriad Tribes, the Withered Bone Vessels!

It also bluntly revealed its precise cultivation realm—Dao Ancestor Realm peak!

It even mentioned that this line's supreme progenitor, the Bone Ancestor, had long fallen before the endless ages!

A terrifying legend, sealed in the clan's deepest memory, struck its consciousness like lightning!

According to the oldest forbidden records, the Withered Bone Vessels' progenitor "Bone Ancestor", who had contributed to creation and was almost Undying Immortal, was, during an ultimate war in an unrecorded era, instantly annihilated—Body and Spirit Annihilation—by a gold lightning casually wielded by an indescribable, incomprehensible supreme being, leaving no room for resistance and erasing it from history!

Could it be… could this golden lightning, this seated man… be the supreme being that annihilated the Bone Ancestor back then?! Or somehow related?!

That thought instantly seized the Ominous Emperor's entire mind! Boundless fear, like icy tide, completely drowned it!

"You… could it be… that… that one from back then…!!!"

It let out a sharp scream brimming with extreme terror and disbelief, caring no longer for imperial dignity or any mission!

Now it has only one thought—escape! At any cost, flee this place immediately! The farther from the golden lightning, the better!

"Woooo—!!!"

Its white bones erupted with a ghastly glow, instantly igniting Primordial, about to tear the Void and slip into the still‑partially open temporal gate!

Its speed was too great; almost the moment the thought arose, its massive bone body turned into a vague pale streak of light, instantly crossing an unimaginable distance, half its form already thrust into the warped darkness of the temporal gate!

Success?! A flash of post‑calamity exhilaration crossed its mind!

Yet the next instant, that exhilaration solidified, turning into deeper despair and cold!

It realized it… could not move!