On the high platform.

Due to the distance between them.

The skeleton's words did not reach Si Boyun's ears, and naturally, Si Boyun had no mind to listen to them.

At this moment, he was looking up at the high sky with a face full of sorrow, watching Ye Tuhong being devoured.

His fists were clenched, and his eyes were about to burst.

He and Ye Tuhong had known each other since the Qi Cultivation Stage. Initially, they were the direct heirs of their respective families, introduced by their elders.

Later, they found that they were very compatible and supported each other on the path of cultivation, eventually forming a Nascent Soul successively.

In local terms, theirs was a friendship traded with their lives.

This could be seen from their behavior of searching for relics together.

For other Nascent Soul Great Cultivators with ordinary relationships, they might not even dare to venture out together to find ruins.

After all, although there was some binding method imposed by the Yaocave beforehand, to a certain extent ensuring that companions wouldn't backstab each other.

But for cultivators who have reached the Nascent Soul Realm, who doesn't have some special trump card?

Who knows if the other party might have some heaven-defying technique to stab you, kill you, snatch treasures, and scatter your ashes?

Then they could blame it on the dangers of the ruins, which would be a death with no rest in peace.

Only with a friendship like Si Boyun and Ye Tuhong, which is closer than real brothers, can there be a trust foundation for exploring together.

Therefore, seeing Ye Tuhong falling in such a manner, it was impossible for Si Boyun not to be sorrowful and angry.

But at this moment.

He still had a thread of sanity, knowing that the tragedy could no longer be reversed.

So, although he was full of grief and anger, Si Boyun restrained the urge to cast talismans at that human face.

Faced with this situation, which clearly exceeded existing knowledge, Si Boyun had a vague premonition in his heart:

It might soon be his turn.

Sure enough.

After the human face fully digested Ye Tuhong, it returned to its original carved state.

But as the human face fell silent, the lower half of the mantis abdomen on the carved plank began to change.

At about a third of the way down the abdomen, four strange eggs began to slide downward.

One by one, they dropped from the tail end.

It was another manifestation of the engravings on the plank.

As if the side of the stone slab in contact with the air represented the boundary between two-dimensional and three-dimensional.

The manifested eggs looked like cashews magnified many times, nearly two meters in length.

They wriggled continuously, as if filled with liquid inside.

Moments later.

Sssssss—

The leftmost gigantic egg was torn open from the inside,

A humanoid creature with three eyes emerged from the slime within.

This creature was about two meters tall, precisely as recorded on the stone slab.

Their three eyes formed a triangular distribution, each eye about the size of a snooker ball.

Without whites, only a profound blackness.

Moreover, they had a slit mouth on their abdomen, which looked extremely terrifying.

Then came the second egg, and out came another three-eyed humanoid beast.

After about half a minute.

The third egg broke open.

However, unlike the first two.

A creature resembling a local squirrel emerged from this egg.

Palm-sized, but with extremely sharp teeth.

Then came the fourth and last egg.

Roar—

With a low growl, a black panther leaped out.

Upon landing, it shook itself vigorously, splattering slime onto the three-eyed creatures, yet they didn't react.

In terms of appearance alone, the black panther seemed the most normal among them.

These two 'people' and two beasts, hatched from the giant eggs, exchanged glances.

Without verbal communication, they lined up and advanced towards Si Boyun.

Watching the four monsters gradually approaching, a visible fury flashed in Si Boyun's eyes.

It was obvious.

The flesh and blood of his closest friend had become the nourishment for the birth of these four monsters.

However, alongside the anger, a thread of confusion sprung up in Si Boyun's heart.

The reason was none other.

Because these four beasts were just too weak.

Indeed.

Too weak.

Judging by the aura around them, their realm at most fluctuated around the mid-second tier.

Which corresponds to the local Foundation Establishment Realm.

Ye Tuhong, although fallen and lamentable, was a Third-Layer Nascent Soul cultivator; by no means should such weak creatures be 'hatched' from him.

Besides.

Their actions were also strange:

It's normal for second-tier beasts to be unable to stand before a Nascent Soul Great Cultivator, let alone fight, the only option is to flee.

This was a certain suppression of life levels, which was rarely contradicted here.

As the saying goes.

Something unusual must have something strange, so Si Boyun did not let his guard down.

Even when the four monsters came within thirty steps of him, he took the initiative.

A single incantation was cast.

A 'Burn' character instantly surfaced from the Heavenly Ascension Scroll.

After a moment.

A blazing flame roared toward the four monsters!

Perhaps due to the speed of the blaze.

The four monsters didn't even have time to react before they were entirely engulfed by the flames.

After a few breaths, the flames dissipated.

At the place where the four monsters originally stood, there were then merely four piles of ashes.

Si Boyun barely had time to proceed with the next move when these four piles of ashes suddenly spun without wind, spinning faster and faster.

Finally...

They resumed the original forms of the four monsters.

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