Starting as the heir of a marquis's mansion, I gained access to a summoning system.

They emerged from the recesses in the cave walls, crawled out of the cracks in the ground, and hung upside down from the holes in the dome.

Each bone puppet was enveloped in a layer of dark golden light membrane, which was a fragment of the seal left behind by the Demon God Lu.

These seal fragments are extremely weak, barely enough to keep the bone puppets from falling apart, but unable to control their movements.

The number of bone puppets was increasing rapidly—dozens, hundreds, densely packed, blocking the cave passage and emitting the distinctive, grating sound of bones rubbing together.

Their finger bones and claws gleamed with a cold light, and their eye sockets flickered with a ghostly green phosphorescence identical to that deep within Shattered Bone Ridge.

Dongfang Wei did not stop. A dark gold longsword condensed in his right hand. This time he did not use sword techniques—sword techniques were useless against bone puppets. Bone puppets only had skeletons and no flesh and blood. Even if their limbs were cut off, they would still reassemble.

He held the dark gold longsword horizontally in front of him, adjusted the resonance frequency of the six fragments in his body to match the dark gold light membrane on the bone puppet, and then released it suddenly.

An invisible shockwave of resonance spread outwards from him in all directions. All the bone puppets covered by the dark gold residual light froze at the same time in the resonance, and the dark gold light membrane on their bodies trembled violently, rippling outwards like waves.

This does not belong to any martial arts technique; it is the suppression from the law of the same origin of the remains of gods and demons.

His skeleton is the "parent source" of these light membranes, and a single resonance causes all the daughter bodies to fall into a daze.

After swaying for a few breaths, the bone golems collapsed one after another, scattering into piles of broken bones that could never be reassembled.

At the end of the cave passage, the stone door of the stone chamber opened automatically amidst a resonant sound.

Dark golden light poured out from inside the stone chamber, illuminating the entire bone passage.

The stone chamber was small, and its empty walls were covered with sealing runes left by the Demon God Lü—in the same vein as the Broken Bone Ridge stone chamber, but even more intricate and complex, as if the Demon God Lü had used all his sealing skills in this stone chamber.

On the central stone platform, the seventh fragment lay quietly.

Unlike the previous six fragments, which were simple bone pieces or segments, it was a dark golden, almost translucent bone plate with a clear medullary cavity structure inside.

A liquid different from the dark gold substance flowed within the cavity. The liquid was alive, maintaining a faint cycle even after being sealed for thirty years, like a skeleton that had been paused, waiting for a legitimate heir to reactivate it.

Dongfang Weiwo walked to the stone platform.

Without needing to touch the fragments, the resonance of the six fragments within his body caused the bone plate to float up on its own. After rotating half a circle in the air, it precisely adhered to the position of his left ulna—directly above the core segment of Lu Moshen's ulna.

The two fragments met through the skin and flesh, one inside and one outside, one primary and one secondary, forming a complete ulna structure on the left arm.

Fusion. The seventh fragment returned to its place. Seven dark gold patterns within the body instantly shone with unprecedented brightness, the fusion rate breaking through the final bottleneck—50%, 51%, 52%—ultimately leaping across the line between life and death with unstoppable momentum.

The bottleneck of the Life and Death Realm shattered at this moment.

The air in the stone chamber was pushed outward by a shockwave of law.

At the same moment, a huge water arch rose from the black surface of the entire forbidden area, containing tens of thousands of dark gold bone powders, which exploded into a sky full of dark gold mist under the moonlight.

The altar on the isolated island trembled violently, and the two characters "Suluo" on the stone tablet burst forth with dazzling dark golden light, shooting straight into the sky.

Within a radius of a thousand miles, all cultivators above the Life and Death Realm sensed this fluctuation—not because of its strength, but because it contained an extremely unfamiliar law.

That was the aura of ancient gods and demons from beyond the realm, slowly awakening from a skeleton that spanned two worlds.

At this moment, Dongfang Weiwo, who was in the early stage of the Life and Death Realm, was pushed onto the list of laws of the Tianwu Continent for attention by the God and Demon Skeleton.

He felt his entire skeleton undergoing a transformation.

The complete seven fragments are no longer indistinguishable from the basic nine bones. Dark gold substance flows freely in the bones, seeping into every inch of bone marrow, pushing the completion of the divine and demonic skeleton to over 80%.

The fragments of the laws from beyond the boundary awakened at an unprecedented speed, their number surging from three to seven. Each fragment corresponds to a piece of Lu Moshen's left arm, and also to a complete law module of the remains of ancient gods and demons.

The breakthrough was complete. He stood in the center of the stone chamber, the dark golden core segment of his left ulna faintly visible beneath the skin, and a faint dark golden pattern appeared on his forehead, like a crown woven from bone patterns.

He clenched his fist, and the Heavenly Martial Qi surged through his meridians like a river, with the fusion rate jumping from 50% to 56%.

His cultivation at the early stage of the Life and Death Realm stabilized. From then on, he was no longer an ant in the Yin-Yang Realm, but had truly stepped into the ranks of the strong on the Tianwu Continent.

When he returned to the island's surface along the bone passage, Lin Xiaoman and Chuanying were already ready to go. Yan Fei appeared beside the altar, the old sword no longer at his waist, but held in his hand, the blade stained with a few wisps of gray, malevolent energy.

His period of weakness ended prematurely—not fully recovered, but he had recovered to the point where he could unleash 70% of his fighting power.

Last night, he sensed an extremely domineering divine sense sweeping across the direction of Iron Feather City, knowing that Chuan Ying had exhausted his three strikes. So, disregarding his inner core which was not yet fully stable, he forcibly left the secret stronghold of the Black Scale Merchant Guild and rushed to the edge of the forbidden area to meet him.

At this moment, he leaned against the stone tablet, watching Dongfang Weiwo emerge from the cave entrance, a faint smile appearing on his pale face:

"You've reached the Life and Death Realm. Good."

Outside the Forbidden Land of Suro, the situation on the Tianwu Continent changed dramatically overnight.

Before the nine suns rose, the Lord of the Undying Palace sent a message to the entire Supreme Realm circle of the Heavenly Martial Continent. The message consisted of only nine characters:

"This matter is not to be interfered with by those at the Supreme Realm."

No one knows his motives.

Some speculate that he is training a future rival, while others believe he has his eye on a certain quality in Dongfang Weiwu and wants to make him the next generation's "gatekeeper".

Regardless of their motives, once a powerhouse ranked ninth in the Supreme Realm spoke up, the other Supreme Realm powerhouses would no longer openly attack Dongfang Weiwo.

There will be no shortage of covert probing, but the direct attack by the Supreme Realm experts has been temporarily suppressed.

After retreating, Yin Jiuyou went into seclusion again to forcibly refine the second evil soul within his body. When he emerged from seclusion, his cultivation had recovered to the peak of the Life and Death Realm, and had even made some progress.

He secretly met with Blood Infant Granny and Wan Renyue and established the "Bone Hunter Alliance" to specifically target Dongfang Weiwo and his allies for extermination.

Blood Infant Granny and Ten Thousand Beasts Mountain provide combat power, while Yin Sha Sect provides the ability to track and assassinate with evil energy. The three parties form an unbreakable hunting net in the shadows.

Dongfang Weiwo made a decision that surprised the entire southeastern region of the Tianwu Continent.

He didn't flee with the fragments, but instead stayed at the Bone-Changing Village.

Using the manor as a base, with the gray-robed elder Lin Guyi as an inside agent, the Black Scale Merchant Guild's business network as a tentacle, and the spirit stones and intelligence from the Reincarnation Palace and the Valley of Life and Death as support, he proposed a loose alliance concept that would later be known as the "Bone Alliance".

The Bone Alliance does not appoint a leader, does not establish sects, and does not participate in any sectarian territorial disputes.

It does only one thing—research, develop, and trade skeletal resources from the Tianwu Continent.

The fragments of divine and demonic remains are merely the starting point of this alliance.

Shattered Bone Ridge, the forbidden Blackwater Swamp, the ancient battlefield of the White Bone Wasteland, and the ancient bone veins beneath Bone Changing Village—these skeletal forbidden areas, which no one has been able to explore in depth to this day, will become the core wealth of the Bone Alliance.

Dongfang Weiwo used clues about the fragments of gods and demons and his own bone domain perception ability as bargaining chips to provide the Bone Alliance with irreplaceable value.

He can accurately sense the distribution of all skeletal resources within a radius of a thousand miles, and can identify which bones contain fragments of laws, which bones can be used for medicine and weapon crafting, which bones are restricted and sealed, and which bones are dead ends and traps.

This ability is unmatched in the entire Tianwu Continent.

Bai Wuchen from the Valley of Life and Death was the first to respond.

He brought three cartloads of spirit stones and twelve alchemists skilled in bone medicine refining from the Valley of Life and Death, on the condition that the Valley of Life and Death would have priority in purchasing all the medicinal bone resources developed by the Bone Alliance.

Ya Jiu from the Reincarnation Palace brought a second group of people—four bone pattern appraisers from the Reincarnation Palace, who were specifically responsible for classifying and deciphering the ancient bone patterns unearthed from Broken Bone Ridge.

Master Mo of the Black Scale Merchant Guild personally escorted ten cartloads of supplies to the Bone Transformation Manor and announced that the Black Scale Merchant Guild would provide the Bone Alliance with logistics and auction channels.

Lin Guyi of Huan Gu Manor, in his capacity as the manor's owner, opened up all the facilities within the manor, including the bone trading network that had been closed to outsiders for three hundred years.

On the first morning after the Bone Alliance was established, Lin Xiaoman discovered something unusual in an abandoned drainage channel in the village—at the end of the drainage channel, there was an old mine tunnel blocked by bone fragments and mud.

The entrance to the mine tunnel was sealed by a bone plate engraved with an iron emblem. When opened, a thick, almost liquid, bone-like aura gushed out from the depths of the mine tunnel.

After verifying with Lin Guyi, she confirmed that this was the biggest secret of Huan Gu Zhuang—this vein was the core source of all the bone materials in the village, but Huan Gu Zhuang only knew that it existed underground, but did not know how to mine it on a large scale.

The deeper you go into the mine, the stronger the seal becomes. Once you reach a depth of a hundred feet, even those at the Life and Death Realm cannot dig any further.