On the surface of the lake, a faint noise arose from the formation of bones, as countless skeletons spontaneously surfaced.
These were the bones of Southern People, buried for hundreds of years, varying in size and shape, assembling together into a sinuous path resembling a spine that led straight to the heart of the lake. The Path of Corpse Bones looked like an Emperor’s road crafted from flawless white marble, thoroughly translucent.
Though clearly a field of death made of mountains of bones, at this moment it radiated a bizarre kind of beauty.
At the end of the path, one could see that massive Devil Crystal that drove the world mad.
Yue Jinghua walked along the Corpse Bone Road piled with pure white bones, the path leading straight to the heart of the lake, Skeleton Island.
Stepping onto the lonely island, Yue Jinghua realized that the small island she stood upon was composed of no less than ten thousand skulls.
The gigantic Devil Crystal was also fully visible before her eyes.
In her more than twenty years of past and present lives combined, Yue Jinghua had never seen such a crystal.
The so-called Devil, in its worldly essence, serves only two purposes: to doom humanity and to lead people into sin.
In Yue Jinghua’s view, this crystal should rather be called Angel Crystal.
She had never seen Crystal Stones of such fine quality.
Pure and flawless, more transparent than a diamond, the hexagonal crystal stood three zhang tall and two zhang wide, about the height of a two-story building; amidst the bloody sea of Skeleton Island, it existed like a white lotus or a sword blade tearing through the chaotic bloody mist, plunged directly into the throat of the heart of the lonely island.
Within the crystal, a woman was smiling "watchingly" at Yue Jinghua.
The woman was young, her face wearing a kindly smile, her lips rosy like petals, her long crow-black hair braided into two plaits, her eyes twinkling lively.
Her clothes were different from those of the residents of the Canglong Continent, likely traditional attire from the area of the South Country Eighteen Towns from hundreds of years ago.
The seemingly lifelike woman was, however, already a dead person, whose breathing had ceased.
Her overly beautiful appearance and the complete stillness of her heartbeat confirmed this fact.
Whoever the person was, being sealed within such a crystal body, the once-living are now among the dead.
Devil Crystal, the legendary bearer of disaster known as the Devil’s Crystal, to Yue Jinghua was merely an original crystal body containing arsenic components.
During the medieval period, there were talks in the European Continent about using arsenic for beauty. However, using the raw crystal mineral of arsenic to preserve bodies was something Yue Jinghua was seeing for the first time.
"She’s beautiful, isn’t she?" a bare eye landed next to Yue Jinghua, belonging to the One-eyed Beast that had previously caused trouble in the sky.
"Are you Dan Demon?" Yue Jinghua had no interest in discussing the appearance of a dead woman with an entity that couldn’t distinguish between its right or left eye.
Perhaps, in the eyes of others, both the Devil Crystal and the lifelike woman inside it were extraordinary.
But in Yue Jinghua’s eyes, the Devil Crystal was nothing more than a coffin used to seal the dead.
"I am Dan Demon, greetings, fellow soul from another world," the One-eyed stated fluently in an international tongue.
Poisonous green mold arsenic, a few days and nights of poisoning killed over a hundred thousand people from the Eighteen Towns; Dan Demon, who terrified the entire Canglong Continent hundreds of years ago, was indeed a transmigrator as Yue Jinghua had guessed.
"Yue Xiaoqi, transmigrated in the year AD 2345, nationality Huaxia Alliance." Yue Jinghua and Dan Demon both were astute people, there was no need for beating around the bush.
"Joseph Loring, transmigrated in the year AD 2330, a citizen of the United States," Dan Demon said with a smile, blinking as a greeting.
"Are you an American? Have you been to Gamma Star?" In 2340, it was also the American military who dispatched experts to Gamma Planet to retrieve the Mo Xi Treasure Book.
"I was a chemist accompanying the Space Agency, responsible for searching for rare minerals of Gamma Planet in the lost civilization states, but I unintentionally transmigrated to the Canglong Continent. Your experience should be similar to mine, though I was not as fortunate as you," the explanation from the One-eyed settled on Yue Jinghua, implying she at least still retained a human form.
Compared to Loring’s experiences, Yue Jinghua’s soul transmigration seemed much more fortunate.
The inexplicably transmigrated Loring, after arriving in the Canglong Continent, was reborn into a First-rank Dark Beast called One-eyed Beast in the southern Chiwei Sea, a creature at the very bottom of the continent’s Dark Beast food chain.
It neither attacks nor defends; its only advantage is a long lifespan.