Chapter 451

Chapter 451: The Dangerous Bone Flower
“Who are you?” Jin Yuan did not believe this young woman had just happened to appear here. She must have been watching them for a while. She might even know her and Tu Xiao.

Maybe her target had been Tu Xiao from the very beginning.

Of course Yu Zhao did not answer Jin Yuan’s question. She tightened her grip on Tu Xiao’s bracelet, waves of joy churning in her eyes.

Tu Xiao was the young heir of the Tu Clan and was skilled in formation array arts. His storage space would surely be full of items related to formations.

Yu Zhao had coveted Tu Xiao’s storage treasures for a long time, but she knew it would be very hard to get them, so she had never dared to show it.

She had not expected that here in Godsfall Land, she would get them without even lifting a finger.

She really had to thank Jin Yuan for that.

Seeing that Yu Zhao did not answer and only looked at her with that deep, unreadable gaze, Jin Yuan felt a strange, rising impatience. For some reason, she wanted to tear this woman into pieces.

“Who are you, really?” Her voice grew even colder as a cold blade once again slid out from her fingertip.

Yu Zhao smiled: “Take a guess.”

As soon as she finished speaking, Yu Zhao and Jin Yuan moved at the same time. One retreated, the other advanced. Murderous intent and wariness flashed across Jin Yuan’s face.

This person had seen her kill Tu Xiao, so she could not be allowed to live. [She has to die.]

But as Jin Yuan charged toward Yu Zhao, several streaks of spiritual light shot at her from different directions.

Terrifying forces crashed together with a roar, kicking up waves of energy.

Jin Yuan’s figure flickered as she narrowly dodged the attacks coming at her.

She glared at the cultivators who had attacked her, only to find that their eyes were already bloodshot. They were attacking everyone without caring who it was, not targeting her on purpose.

When she looked forward again, the young woman’s figure had already disappeared in the sea of people.

“Despicable!” Jin Yuan was furious, hate burning in her heart.

By that time, Yu Zhao had already changed her face and was hiding in another part of the crowd.

She guarded herself against sneak attacks from the cultivators around her while keeping an eye on Ancestor’s movements.

Ancestor had already slipped into the spot closest to the Bone Flower. But nearby, there were still several cultivators whose cultivation level was about the same as his.

Blood also rimmed their eyes, but they had not completely lost their minds. In their fighting, they were still holding back instead of using their full strength.

Ancestor tried to break through and move forward, but the others blocked him together. Several of them even joined forces to attack him, and for a moment he became the target of everyone there.

Yu Zhao watched and grew more and more anxious inside.

As more and more cultivators died, the center of the Bone Flower clearly began to change.

If it kept evolving, it might give birth to something truly terrifying.

Just as Yu Zhao was thinking about how to help Ancestor shake off the siege, an old woman pretended to attack but actually took the chance, when everyone was off guard, to flash in front of the Bone Flower.

Ancestor saw it clearly and could not help widening his eyes and shouting.

When the others looked over, they saw the old woman reach out and pluck the Bone Flower. Then she lifted it and swallowed it whole, stem and all.

Her lips moved, and a strange sound came from her mouth, like bones grinding together.

Ancestor slapped his thigh in fury and shouted: “It is over! We are all dead now!”

An Integration stage cultivator could not accept that someone else had taken the Bone Flower. He flew forward, a sickly green light shining in the center of his palm.

A strange green tint also appeared in his pupils.

But before he could get close to the old woman, a vast, world-destroying power exploded out of her body and flung him away in an instant.

No one cared where he landed. All eyes were on the old woman, wide with shock.

The old woman’s white, messy hair turned black and glossy. Her wrinkled skin filled out and became white and smooth again. Her cloudy old eyes turned clear and bright like a baby’s.

In the blink of an eye, she looked as if she had become several decades younger and returned to her youth.

Her hands trembling, the old woman touched her now smooth face. A misty shine appeared in her eyes as she murmured: “My lifespan has been extended again…”

At her words, jealousy showed on every face.

Even though Ancestor felt that the Bone Flower was extremely strange, his heart still swayed at its power.

[If I could become young again, then would that not mean…]

Just as these unrealistic dreams flashed through his mind, a sharp, miserable scream pulled him back to reality.

The old woman who seconds ago had been glowing with youth now had her skin melting like burning candle wax, dripping down and quickly revealing bright red flesh and cold white bone.

Ancestor stumbled back several steps in fear, the rolls of fat at his waist trembling.

The old woman’s screams grew even more shrill.

At that moment, a white light shone out from beneath the bones.

The white light wrapped around her nascent soul, which was trying to flee the body.

But her body seemed to be wrapped in an invisible barrier formation. No matter how the white light slammed against it, it could not get out.

In the end, the old woman’s nascent soul melted away along with all her flesh. Where the pile of bones fell, another Bone Flower swayed gently.

The cultivators who had almost lost their minds finally calmed down completely.

The Bone Flower was not a treasure that could help them cultivate. It was a deadly ghostly thing.

Ancestor’s eyes rolled. He snorted and said: “Is that all it takes to scare you? If you all do not dare to take it, I will.”

After speaking, he strode forward, walking quickly toward the Bone Flower.

The others’ eyes flickered as they hesitated to move. Their gazes locked tightly onto Ancestor.

Ancestor walked up to the pile of bones and looked at the Bone Flower above it, feeling a chill crawl over him.

He could not help turning to look back, then gave a small surprised sound: “Where is Yu Zhao? Where is my good junior, Yu Zhao?”

He searched the crowd several times before finally spotting someone baring her teeth at him. Then he realized that, for some reason, Yu Zhao had changed her face again.

The moment he recognized Yu Zhao, a strange calm settled over his heart. He even felt a surge of boldness, as if he would protect this junior even if it cost him his life.

“What are you dawdling for? If you are going to pick it, then pick it already!” A nearby cultivator grew impatient with the wait and yelled out, breaking the mood Ancestor had just managed to build up.

Ancestor shot him a fierce glare, then turned back around. Under everyone’s gaze, he slowly reached out his hand.

The Bone Flower was crystal clear, and up close it had a strange, unique beauty.

Ancestor’s eyes went a little unfocused, and his reaching hand grew gentler, as if he was afraid that a single careless move would harm this fragile, beautiful flower.

Just as his fingertips were about to touch the flower’s stem, his face suddenly changed. His five fingers clenched into a fist, and he punched at the Bone Flower.

“Ha ha ha! You ghostly thing, did you think you could confuse me? I, Ancestor, am not that shallow! Die!”

Ancestor had put all of his strength into this punch.

A sharp sonic boom rang through the sky.

The terrifying sound woke even the half-crazed cultivators from their daze, their ears buzzing. As for the Bone Flower that faced the punch head-on, it stood no chance.

Before the fist even landed, the roaring fist wind had already smashed it apart. The white bones shattered, and countless streams of black gas swept out in an instant.