Transmigrating Into a Fantasy World: Signing in During Pregnancy, Reaching the Summit with My Childhood Sweetheart

58: Chapter 58: The Shadow of the Demonic Dragon and a Glimmer of HopeThe Skeleton Puppet staggered ahead. Its speed wasn’t fast, even somewhat lopsided, but each step landed on the most solid bone piles or rock slabs, skillfully avoiding hidden soft sinkholes and corrosive mires. Its familiarity with this area far exceeded expectations.

Su Muxue followed closely behind. Her ice-blue Domain wasn’t maintained continuously but erupted with precise, intermittent bursts, instantly freezing and clearing the scattered Demon Spiders pouncing from the front and flanks, conserving her strength to the utmost. Lin Mo’s chaos light cluster floated beside her shoulder, his Perception fully expanded. On one hand, he remained vigilant against threats from behind and above; on the other, he meticulously analyzed the extremely faint energy fluctuations emanating from the Skeleton Puppet, attempting to piece together its origins.

This Puppet’s combat instincts and that remnant Sword Intent were anything but ordinary. The words ”guard,” ”sword,” ”Seal,” and ”Star Valley” echoed incessantly in Lin Mo’s consciousness.

”East... fissure...” The Puppet’s broken will transmitted again, carrying a trace of barely perceptible urgency. It pointed in a direction—a denser, more massive area of piled beast bones, resembling a graveyard of corpses from an ancient battlefield. The aura of deathly stillness was so thick it was almost tangible; even the Demon Spiders were reluctant to approach.

Could the way out be there?

Just as the trio (if the Puppet counted) were about to charge into that area of towering giant beast bones—

BOOOOOOM!!!

The entire Burial Ancient Abyss shook violently and without warning!

It wasn’t the tremor from an energy impact like before, but rather as if some colossal entity was awakening and turning over deep underground! A terrifying pressure, like a tangible tsunami, crushed down from all directions, instantly shattering the profound ice Domain Su Muxue was barely maintaining. She let out a muffled groan, her face deathly pale!

Lin Mo’s chaos light cluster also flickered violently, his Perception brutally compressed back to just a few feet around him by this sudden pressure!

Even the Skeleton Puppet abruptly halted, the bones composing its body emitting frightened ”clattering” sounds. Its dark red Soul Power fire flickered madly, conveying an unprecedented fear and despair from the depths of its Soul!

Sssskreee—!

The surrounding tide of Demon Spiders, which had been relentlessly pursuing them, now emitted extremely panicked shrieks. No longer caring about their prey, they fled frantically in all directions like a receding tide, even trampling over each other, as if they had encountered their natural predator!

What was happening?!

An indescribable, vast, ancient, savage, terrifying will, filled with the most primitive desire to devour, slowly spread from the deepest layer of the abyss, enveloping the surroundings!

Before this will, the previous Lava Earth Ghoul, Bone-Corroding Demon Spiders, and even that ancient tree of Star Lake seemed insignificant!

Was this the true, eternal ”master” of the Burial Ancient Abyss?!

”No... impossible... it... how could... at this time...” The Skeleton Puppet’s will was intermittent, filled with incomprehensible horror. ”Clearly... it’s not yet... time to awaken...”

Its fear wasn’t for its own safety; it seemed more like... the despair of a guardian mission about to be utterly destroyed!

BOOM!!!

At the center of the massive beast bone graveyard ahead, the ground suddenly bulged upward and split open! Countless giant bones were tossed aside like dry grass!

Immediately after, a head of unimaginable size slowly emerged from the cracked earth fissure!

It wasn’t made of flesh and blood, but a Dragon-shaped skull entirely of pitch-black, metal-gleaming bone, a hundred times larger than any skeleton seen before! In its eye sockets burned two dark crimson vortexes like the depths of Hell, slowly rotating, emitting a deathly stillness that devoured all light and heat!

Merely the portion of the skull that had emerged was already massive enough to block the entire view ahead! The pressure it emitted instantly suffocated Su Muxue and Lin Mo, nearly freezing their very thoughts!

This was an existence they simply could not oppose! Its level of power far exceeded their comprehension!

”Burial Ancient... Dragon Skeleton...” The Skeleton Puppet emitted a soundless lament, its Soul Power fire dimming as if it had lost all will to fight. ”It’s over...”

The colossal Dragon Skeleton skull didn’t seem to pay particular attention to these ”ants.” Its gaze (if it could be called that) seemed directed further away, as if disturbed by some greater commotion outside the abyss. It slowly opened its gigantic maw—not to devour, but to—

An invisible, space-distorting suction force violently erupted!

This wasn’t physical suction, but a terrifying extraction targeting energy, Soul, and even space itself!

CRACK! CRACK!

The surrounding giant beast bones were the first to succumb, shattering one after another, transforming into streams of the purest deathly energy that flowed like rivers to the sea into the Dragon Skeleton’ maw!

The fleeing Demon Spiders were even more wretched; unable to even scream, their bodies instantly withered and turned to dust, their Soul Power fire and energy forcibly extracted, merging into the torrent of energy!

Su Muxue and Lin Mo also felt an irresistible force acting upon them. The spiritual power, Soul Power, and even life force within their bodies began to stir restlessly, threatening to be forcibly drawn out! Su Muxue desperately urged her Profound Yin Power to suppress herself, and Lin Mo also exerted all his strength to retract his chaos dao seed, but their efforts were as futile as a mantis trying to stop a chariot!

At this rate, within ten breaths, they would be completely drained, becoming nourishment for these Dragon Skeleton!

At this moment of absolute despair—

The Skeleton Puppet, which had already given up resistance, suddenly looked with its empty eye sockets at a specific spot below the Dragon Skeleton’ skull, within the earth fissure! Its Soul Power fire burned intensely, conveying an extremely faint yet exceptionally sharp will—not directed at Su Muxue and them, but... as if provoking the Dragon Skeleton?

”ROAR!!!”

The Dragon Skeleton seemed thoroughly enraged by this ant-like provocation (or perhaps it finally noticed). The all-devouring suction force abruptly stalled, and a more concentrated torrent of energy carrying a will of destruction, like divine punishment, violently blasted toward the Skeleton Puppet!

However, at the very instant this destructive torrent was about to engulf the Puppet—

The Skeleton Puppet performed an action that Su Muxue and Lin Mo never expected! Instead of dodging, it mustered its last strength and violently detonated that remnant, feeble strand of Sword Intent within it, transforming it into a minuscule yet incredibly bright stream of light. It didn’t shoot toward the Dragon Skeleton, but toward a specific point below the Dragon Skeleton’ skull, within the earth fissure!

BOOM!!!

The destructive torrent swallowed the Puppet. Its body instantly turned to dust. Only that speck of dark red Soul Power fire, before extinguishing completely, transmitted one last strand of will carrying relief and urgency:

”Now... go... into the fissure...”

Almost simultaneously, at the ”point” struck by the Puppet’s Sword Intent—the spot within the earth fissure below the Dragon Skeleton—the spatial structure seemed to undergo an extremely subtle, unstable distortion! As if an incredibly hidden weak point, suppressed and concealed by the Dragon Skeleton’ power, had existed there all along!

And the Dragon Skeleton, having had most of its attention drawn by the Puppet and being incompletely awakened itself, reacted half a beat too slow to this minute change!

A chance! The only chance!

Su Muxue and Lin Mo instantly understood the fleeting opportunity the Puppet had created for them with its life!

Without any hesitation!

Su Muxue burned her Innate Profound Yin Source, transforming into a stream of extreme cold light! Lin Mo also drained the last of his Dao Seed’s power, wrapping himself in Chaos Qi!

Like moths to a flame, the two of them charged recklessly toward the point of spatial distortion below the Dragon Skeleton, which was rapidly stabilizing!

Behind them was the Dragon Skeleton’ reactive, even moreA raging, destructive roar and devouring power.!

Before them was that faint, distorted, yet life-representing fissure!

Would they make it in time?!