Chapter 141 — Bewilderment
The Sword Questions the Heavens · Page 6 of 6
Gust upon gust of cold, sinister wind blew chillingly from the black clouds in the sky, like a proud demon leering down at the earth with a vicious grin.
The sound of pounding footsteps finally drew near, and from a distant mountain peak appeared the first enormous figure.
Its white bones stood out starkly beneath the black clouds, but the three pairs of brilliantly colored wings behind it were strangely beautiful. Yet such beautiful wings, growing from the body of a giant serpent that was nothing but bare white bone save for its head, made it seem all the more horrifying.
A white-boned demon serpent nearly thirty feet long beat the three pairs of wings upon the bones of its back. The forked tongue at its head flickered in and out without pause, spewing jets of black vapor.
Moments later, from behind and beside this white-boned demon serpent, and from the rolling mountain ranges, the valleys and peaks around Qili Cave, amid the endless wailing of ghosts, countless bizarre beasts and alien races came surging forth, shrieking and leering, brandishing weapons and flailing claws, charging down from the mountains to fall upon the terrified people in the valley.
And at that moment, high in the sky, amid the howling of the sinister wind, a thunderclap suddenly exploded, a rumbling roar that came rolling in like surging waves, shaking heaven and earth, mingled with a faint, indistinct cry:
Linglong...