The entire area fell silent.
Everyone focused their attention on that single figure who was hovering in the air.
They did not know who that person was, and they had not noticed him among the crowd. However, he had struck out at the crown prince of the Ye Kingdom and stole the divine bone. That was too shocking.
“Where did that guy come from?”
“How brazen!”
Everyone exclaimed in surprise.
Tang Hao landed in the middle of the crowd while clutching the divine bone.
The divine bone was extremely hot, like a branding iron. He almost could not hold on to it.
‘What should I do?’
He was thinking about how to escape with the divine bone under the gaze of those Golden Core masters.
Now that his cultivation base was sealed, he could not use the Fleetfoot Stride to escape. Even if he could, it was hard to maneuver his way through the narrow exit.
“You bastard!”
The crown prince of the Ye Kingdom struggled to get to his feet. His face was twitching ferociously.
Someone had actually smacked him on the face!
His body trembled angrily, and he looked at Tang Hao with utter hatred.
“Kill him! The divine bone is mine! No one can take it away!” He roared crazily.
The two old men had sinister expressions on their faces. They looked at Tang Hao with hostility, and their bodies were poised to kill.
The monkey bared his teeth and shouted angrily, “Hand over the divine bone!”
Apart from them, the cultivators surrounding him were also eyeing the dragon bone and ready to snatch it.
Tang Hao was being attacked from all sides.
The divine bone was like a hot potato in his hands. However, there was no reason to hand it over now that he had it.
‘No!
‘There’s still a chance!’
‘The monkey is injured, and the others don’t have their cultivation bases. If I gamble on it, there’s a chance that I might get out of the cave. Once outside, I can activate the Fleetfoot Stride again,’ Tang Hao thought to himself.
Just when he was about to put his plan into action, he could feel the seal disappear and his cultivation base return. The others also felt the same thing.
“Haha! My cultivation base is back!”
Everyone was ecstatic, especially the Golden Core Perfected Masters. They stood up straight with utter confidence.
“Dammit!”
Tang Hao was so angry that he almost tossed away the divine bone in his hand.
He felt as though he had walked into a trap. If those people had recovered their cultivation bases, the chances of him escaping became slimmer.
He tried to put the divine bone into his pocket dimension, but he found that he could not do it at all.
“Haha! Are you an idiot? You can’t put an ancient treasure into a pocket dimension!” The monkey laughed loudly. However, he accidentally stretched his sphincter, which caused him to bare his teeth and gasp.
“Who did this? Own up now!”
He swept his gaze across the crowd, trying to find the culprit.
However, everyone in the crowd seemed equally likely to be the culprit. That made him even angrier.
Tang Hao was quite frustrated that he could not stash that stupid bone away. What should he do? That bone was shining like a miniature sun. It would attract attention no matter where he went.
Even if he managed to escape from the cave, anyone would be able to see him from ten miles away.
“That thing is useless to you humans. Only rakshas can use it. If we swallow it, our bodies can fuse with it, and the divine bone will become a part of our body. That’ll turn us into supreme beings,” the monkey said.
‘Swallow and fuse with it?’
Tang Hao’s eyes lit up. After pondering for a moment, he opened his mouth wide and stuffed the bone inside.
The bone was quite big, and it took him a few times before he forced it down his throat.
At that moment, the monkey was stunned. The two old men were also stunned.
In fact, everyone was stunned.
“Are… are you crazy? You have a death wish!” The monkey cried out in shock. His eyes were wide open in disbelief.
How dare a human in the State of Foundation Establishment swallow a divine bone?
He was really crazy!
Fusing with the divine bone had its risks. Even the monkey might not be able to withstand the power of the divine bone. If that guy swallowed it, his body would explode.
“Haha! What an idiot!”
The Crown Prince of the Ye Kingdom could not help but sneer. “It’s a pity that I couldn’t kill you with my own hands, but it’s not bad to see you die of stupidity!”
Even a fool would know that they should not swallow things willy-nilly, especially incredibly ancient things. If they were not careful, they would explode and die.
The Perfected Masters chuckled and secretly made preparations. Once that guy exploded, they would snatch the divine bone.
Tang Hao’s face gradually turned red. His facial muscles twitched a few times, revealing a pained expression.
The bone in his stomach became hotter and hotter. Waves of power surged through his veins and acupoints. He felt his innards scrambling.
“He’s going to explode!”
Everyone exclaimed and stepped back in case they got caught in the blast radius.
Tang Hao gritted his teeth. He felt every inch of his body burning with indescribable pain.
“Fff… f*ck!”
He gritted his teeth and cursed angrily as he tried to channel the chaotic energy in his body toward his chest.
There was a chakra there called Zigong. It was the third chakra.
He could not unseal the chakra using conventional methods, and that was why Tang Hao had the bold idea of using the qi of the divine bone to breach it.
Channeling the power of the divine bone to his chakras was also the way to prevent his body from exploding and dying.
Of course, it was a risky move. However, Tang Hao knew that it was the only way that he was going to keep the divine bone.
“This is it!”
He gritted his teeth, and the veins on his forehead bulged.
He guided small streams of power toward the Zigong chakra. That was only a small fraction of the qi surging in his body.
However, the streams combined and turned into a river that surged toward the chakra.
Soon, the walls began to loosen, and a spot on his chest gradually lit up.
“What’s going on? Is he going to explode?”
Everyone stepped back even more.
Soon, they realized that their guess was wrong. The light on Tang Hao’s chest became brighter and brighter, and the originally chaotic qi aura on his body also gradually became stable.
“What’s going on?”
They were puzzled.
“That’s a chakra! He’s unsealing a chakra!” Suddenly, someone shouted.
Everyone’s body trembled, and their faces froze.
In the next moment, they collectively gasped in shock.
That guy was so brazen to use the power of the divine bone to unseal his chakras right in front of them!
Furthermore, it seemed like he was going to succeed!
They were impressed by that kid’s courage.
“That’s the Zigong chakra. Oh my god, he’s a top-notch prodigy! No, we can’t let him unseal the chakra. Otherwise, we won’t be able to stop him!”
Everyone anxiously took out their Artifacts and prepared to attack.