Fang Yun carefully examined the dragon bone. The glow on it had faded, as if a certain power had left it, and the danger had passed. He jumped back into the pit and picked up the beast skin.

On the other side of the blood-dripping beast skin, there were originally three drops of blood arranged in a line. But now, the three drops of blood were like the three vertices of an equilateral triangle, with a dark golden dragon pattern located inside the triangle.

Apart from this, there were no other changes. He couldn’t even sense any aura from it. It seemed like a very ordinary object.

“These three drops of blood seem a bit unusual.”

Fang Yun couldn’t figure it out, so he put the blood-dripping beast skin into his pocket and then tried to touch the dragon bone.

The dragon bone was smooth and slightly cool. When he touched it, he felt as if there was a vast and desolate power gently flowing inside the bone, like waves hitting the shore, constantly washing over the dragon bone.

Fang Yun was even more certain in his heart. Apart from the bone of a real dragon, no other demon clan’s bone could still possess such wave-like power after so many years.

Fang Yun once again used the spearhead as a shovel, quickly digging out the dragon bone. This dragon bone was much harder than diamond, so Fang Yun didn’t need to be careful at all. In less than a quarter of an hour, he had dug out a dragon bone that was about a zhang long.

This dragon bone was like a piece of art. The white bone was like Han white jade, and the dragon pattern on it was profound and full of beauty, containing a kind of primitive and mysterious power.

Fang Yun cleaned the dragon bone and put it into the Swallowed Lake Pearl.

“Phew…” Fang Yun let out a sigh of relief. Having this real dragon bone meant that after becoming an Imperial Scholar, he could immediately use the Sword Refining Poetry to wrap the real dragon bone and practice the War of Words. He just didn’t know how powerful the first War of Words refined from a real dragon bone in the world would be.

Fang Yun recited the War Poetry and quickly left the giant claw mark pit. He stood on the ground and silently recalled the instructions and map related to Dragon Cliff, then ran to the highest hill nearby and looked around.

In the direction of the river source, there were several peaks, one of which was very strange. The highest point seemed to be a forked dragon horn, which was the iconic place of Dragon Cliff and the direction of the exit.

Fang Yun looked in the opposite direction.

There was also a range of hills with varying heights, which looked particularly like waves. It seemed that some force had blown up the ground, turning the ground into hills, making the hills into waves, continuous and endless. Layer upon layer, as far as the eye could see.

Just as Fang Yun was about to head towards Dragon Cliff, his eyes suddenly widened, and he lay down on the spot, hiding behind the hill. He poked his head out and looked in the direction of the wave-like hills.

A huge black claw suddenly rose from the distance, soaring thousands of miles high. The claw was incredibly sharp and moved extremely fast, even creating flames and thunder due to friction, tearing a ten thousand mile long black void crack in the sky, and then plunged into it.

The earth shook, and the sun seemed to be about to fall.

As the giant claw rose, it brought up endless black fog that rushed into the sky. After reaching the sky, the black fog spread in all directions, forming dense dark clouds. In no time, the sky was covered by thick dark clouds. Only around the void crack were there no dark clouds, but there was only endless darkness there.

Various strange things were constantly spewing out from the dark clouds, including shiny gems, red feathers tens of miles long, golden ancient books, inkstones the size of small mountains, fingers several miles long, dragon heads dozens of feet long… All sorts of strange things scattered with the dark clouds, falling around the giant arm.

In addition to these, there were large amounts of boulders and magma dragging their fiery black tails and falling in all directions, like a volcanic eruption or meteorites falling to the ground. Some of the stones even flew near the giant claw mark, but they never flew into the claw mark.

The residual force of the giant claw’s rise rolled like a wave in all directions, stirring up a sky full of sand and dust, causing changes in the hills.

In no time, under the dark clouds and amidst the yellow sand, only a black giant arm thousands of miles high stood there. Like a pillar holding up the sky, the giant arm was covered with dense scales, each of which had a strange blue symbol on it.

Suddenly, a piercing scream came from the void crack, and surging flames suddenly spewed out from the crack, instantly dispersing the dark clouds and engulfing the giant arm before receding. Then, a strange liquid that was as red as blood and as fiery as fire flowed out from the space crack, continuously flowing down along the giant claw and arm.

“Hehehe…”

The earth shook, and a brutal scream came from deep underground, and at the same time, the giant arm shook violently and slowly fell back.

Fang Yun, who was already dizzy from the strange scream, felt even more dizzy when he heard the sound from deep underground. His literary palace felt like it was about to collapse at any moment.

The two sounds were the exact opposite of the Thunderous Holy Sound. The Thunderous Holy Sound was like a spring breeze to the ears, while these two screams were like demonic sounds piercing the brain.

The giant claw withdrew from the void crack, holding an incredibly huge heart that was as big as a mountain. It throbbed violently, each beat making Fang Yun dizzy. The heart was covered in blood that looked like magma, covering the giant claw and arm. Suddenly, the black giant claw reached out towards Fang Yun.

“Return mine…”

A language that Fang Yun had never heard before but could understand appeared. At this moment, the Book of Heaven and Earth shook slightly, and a new book appeared. On the first page, the words “Return mine” appeared.

Fang Yun didn’t have time to care about the purpose of the Book of Heaven and Earth doing this. In front of that earth-shattering giant claw, even the thought of escaping was suppressed by an invisible pressure. His body seemed to have changed its master and involuntarily walked towards the giant claw and arm.

The giant claw dominated the sky, and all things were its slaves.

Those ancient books, inkstones, fingers, feathers, etc. that had been spewed out were all drawn by an invisible force and flew back under the giant arm.

The world became even darker, and the giant claw was like a piece of sky collapsing, smashing towards Fang Yun.

Suddenly, thick golden chains appeared, instantly covering the entire giant claw and arm. The chains crisscrossed and moved slowly, making clear metallic collision sounds, dragging the giant claw downwards.Golden chains interlocked, each link slowly flowing, not composed of any metal, but of individual characters.

The horizontal chain was made up of characters such as lock, suppress, seal, trap, annihilate, slaughter, massacre… and many more, filled with strange power. They would sometimes grow larger, sometimes smaller, constantly changing and flowing.

The vertical chain, however, was not composed of single characters, but of strings of sentences linked together to form rings. These sentences combined into a text to form the entire chain. Fang Yun saw that most of these sentences were the works of the Saints of the Holy Origin Mainland.

A giant claw tore through the sky, enslaving all beings, but no matter how it struggled, it was eventually slowly dragged back underground by the golden chains.

The wild wind rose again, all the wind blowing from the outside towards the direction of the giant claw, the direction of the wave hills changing once more.

The giant footprint remained unchanged.

Fang Yun stared blankly as the giant claw fell back to the ground, disappearing among the endless hills, his body softened, and he sat on the hill. His clothes were soaked with sweat, a man who had swallowed three dragon pearls should not be like this.

Fang Yun stared blankly in that direction for a while, trying to recall the giant claw and the chains, but there were no specific images in his mind, only very unrealistic feelings. Then he suddenly had a splitting headache, his literary palace shaking, and he had to stop recalling.

“The power of the characters in the horizontal chain seems to be similar to the power of the heaven and earth’s vital energy, strong and emotionless. But the characters and texts that make up the vertical chain are filled with a strong sense of righteousness, shattering all evil, and have a firm belief in rebuilding the heaven and earth. Besides that, I’ve actually forgotten what characters were on it.”

Fang Yun had an illusion that the two chains, one vertical and one horizontal, could even lock up this heaven and earth.

Fang Yun sat on the hill in a daze, unable to guess what the giant claw, the void crack, and the chains were. But thinking of the various phenomena and powers described in the ancient books, he felt a chill all over.

“I’ve never tried to imagine the power of the Saints, but now I realize that even if I did, the power of the Saints would only be stronger than I imagined. Fortunately, I’m only using the poems from the Book of Heaven and Earth now, and not touching the core ideas of Confucianism and other schools, not ‘debating’. If I were to ‘debate’ with my current literary position, it would be a death wish, I would definitely be crushed by the overwhelming power of the Path of the Saints. I have to at least be a Grand Academician or a Great Scholar to ‘debate’, now I can only ‘compete for fame’ and ‘compete for talent’, laying the foundation for the future.”

“This place, it’s definitely not the Holy Land! It’s very likely that it’s a mysterious place connected to the Holy Land, and this connection is the Dragon Cliff, and the Dark Water River is similar. No wonder the Holy Land is so important, the secrets inside are probably not fully understood even by the Prominent Families of the Saints. No wonder those Demon Saints would kill the Semi-Saints like Zi Lu and others at the slightest disagreement, it’s because this place is too important, the so-called Demon Saint’s tomb is very likely a diversion!”

Fang Yun clearly didn’t want to think about the giant claw and the chains, but he couldn’t help but think about it. Every time he thought about it, his head would hurt. In the end, he had to give up.

“Let’s go back to Dragon Cliff Mountain first.”

Fang Yun knew that all the good things that had been spewed out were sucked back by the giant claw. If he went deeper now, it would definitely be a death wish. Even the residual power of the giant claw could kill him.

Fang Yun took one last look in that direction, slowly descended the hill, and headed towards the river.

After a few steps, Fang Yun remembered the small actions of the Book of Heaven and Earth, and immediately flipped through the new book in the Book of Heaven and Earth. There was nothing on the cover, and the first page only had the words “Return it to me”, and below the words was a drawing of a claw and a chain.

Fang Yun frowned, because the drawing was simply like a dog’s paw, even if he held a brush with his foot, he could draw better than this. The Book of Heaven and Earth was not recording painting at all, it was completely scribbling.

“Maybe there’s something special?” Fang Yun stared at the drawing for a while, but couldn’t see anything special, so he gave up and walked along the river.

After a few steps, Fang Yun felt a strange chill behind him. When he turned around, he saw a sky full of black mist monsters rolling towards him.

“I knew there was a big problem with that giant claw!”

Fang Yun cursed under his breath, immediately used the War Poetry to increase his speed and ran.

As he was running, the scenery in front of Fang Yun suddenly changed. There was clearly nothing there, but it suddenly turned into a forest, and he ran headlong into a giant tree.

“Not good!” Fang Yun quickly controlled his body to dodge, brushing past the giant tree, and quickly stopped.

Fang Yun looked back, there were no hills, footprints, or black mist monsters, just a steep cliff. He looked up, but couldn’t see the top of the mountain, which was thousands of feet high.

Fang Yun touched the Swallowed Lake Pearl in his chest, thinking that no matter what happened, he didn’t die and picked up a real dragon bone, which was the biggest gain. (To be continued.)