A carefree soldier king in the city

Chapter 276 Skeleton

"You're too impatient, kid! I haven't even finished speaking yet!"

At this moment, Su Haijun could no longer hear what the evil was saying. Because, the instant the dragon pill was swallowed, a raging fire suddenly ignited within his body, and he couldn't help but let out a miserable scream, writhing in agony on the spot.

"Ah...it's so hot, I can't stand it."

He screamed in agony, roaring with heart-wrenching pain, but in just a moment, his consciousness began to blur, and he lost consciousness in an instant, lying motionless on the ground like a dead fish. However, the raging fire within him remained unchanged, spreading throughout his entire body, and a blazing fire erupted all over him, but his clothes and his skin were completely unharmed.

He didn't know how much time had passed when he woke up again. His first reaction was to jump up and check himself over to make sure he was alright before he felt relieved.

"Ha, it's okay, I'm actually fine."

"Heh, kid, why don't you take a look inside your own body?"

"Inside the body?" Su Haijun was slightly startled and quickly looked inward to examine his own body. What he saw there stunned him.

Hollows appeared inside his body.

"This..." He exclaimed in surprise, then overjoyed, "I understand, senior, is this what they call the inner space?"

"What do you think?"

"Internal space, haha, I actually have an internal space."

"Boy, take another look at your cultivation level."

Upon hearing this, Su Haijun quickly checked his cultivation level and exclaimed with great joy, "Haha, my cultivation level has actually reached the early stage of the Human Realm! Good, good!"

At this moment, nothing was more tangible than a rapid advancement in cultivation, especially the formation of the internal space. Su Haijun's heart was overflowing with joy.

"Kid, it seems that even the heavens are looking out for you, giving you such a great benefit."

"Yes, I think so too. God has been so good to me, Su Haijun. First, I met you, senior, and then I was given a Dragon Pill. Ha, awesome, so awesome."

"Hehe, kid, don't be too happy yet. Your internal space is just beginning to take shape and is extremely unstable. You need to consolidate it, otherwise, your internal space may very well disappear."

"Yes, I know. Senior, does the internal space expand as cultivation level increases?"

"Of course, the higher one's cultivation level, the larger one's internal space will be; that's only natural."

"oh oh."

Su Haijun weakly assessed his own abilities, feeling that he could turn the world upside down with a wave of his hand. After a moment of self-excitement, he then took a look around at the dragon's lair.

The dragon's lair was filled with nothing but jewels and precious stones.

He frowned slightly, thinking to himself, "These are all good things. It would be a real waste to waste them. No, I have to take them all."

He took a deep breath, then exhaled, and with a casual wave of his hand, all the jewels inside the dragon's lair immediately disappeared.

He really got lucky; he struck gold.

After collecting all the gems from the dragon's lair, he was overjoyed, filled with indescribable excitement and exhilaration. However, the moment he stepped out of the dragon's lair, he froze in shock.

Outside the dragon's lair, a dozen humanoid figures stood upright, blocking the entrance.

At first glance, the figures that were originally humanoid were actually skeletons wearing tattered armor. However, for some reason, two tiny emerald green flames were slowly burning in the deep eyes of these skeletons, as if they were supporting the dead bodies and standing up again.

Upon witnessing such a horrifying scene, Su Haijun was instantly stunned. After a moment, he reacted, feeling a chill run down his spine and goosebumps all over his body. A natural sense of disgust and fear welled up within him. However, his mind was resilient enough that he quickly calmed down. But then, the dozen or so skeletons suddenly paused, their heads turning in the air as if they were sniffing something. Immediately, green flames ignited in their eye sockets, and they abruptly turned around, all looking at Su Haijun.

Su Haijun's heart sank. The skeleton roared, its face contorted in a ferocious grimace, and was about to charge at him, as if the very breath of death was upon him. The skeleton strode forward, its aura menacing, but its speed wasn't particularly fast. Its joints cracked as it moved, a sound that sent chills down Su Haijun's spine. Su Haijun quickly took a step back, his mind instinctively racing. Returning to the cave would be fraught with danger; he had no choice but to steel himself and leap forward, advancing instead of retreating.

The skeletons seemed to pause for a moment, but quickly swung their claws down. Su Haijun hurriedly rolled away to dodge. The hard bone claws immediately stirred up a few sparks on the ground, causing Su Haijun's pupils to shrink. It was clear that the bones were extremely hard and were by no means ordinary dead objects.

Without hesitation, Su Haijun quickly summoned his staff, pointed it in the air, and shouted urgently, "Hurry!"

A chilling black aura suddenly shot out from the staff and flew towards the skeleton in front of it. With a sharp "thud," the black aura struck the skeleton squarely in the chest, and then, the seemingly fragile armor, so thick it was almost impervious to blades, was pierced by this black aura like a sharp blade. A moment later, a low "thud" sounded from inside the skeleton's chest, as if something had exploded.

The skeleton swayed twice, looking as if it were about to collapse, clearly injured by Su Haijun's attack.

However, to Su Haijun's surprise, the skeleton he had struck, which was either dead or seriously injured, suddenly seemed to be unharmed. It slowly straightened up, raised its head, and the flames in its eye sockets reignited. Then it strode towards Su Haijun.

"what?"

Su Haijun was immediately shocked. He hadn't expected that even this wouldn't be enough to subdue the skeleton. If he had known, that one blow would have blasted half of a mountain, let alone a skeleton. But the skeleton didn't behave as Su Haijun had imagined; it was completely unharmed.

Su Haijun didn't want to linger there; there was no need to waste time on this pointless fight. He just wanted to leave this dangerous place as soon as possible, so he vanished in a blur. Moments later, Su Haijun reappeared on the thick trunk of a large tree, his face grave as he asked himself, "Where am I? Why are there skeletons here?"

He was completely baffled. Just as he was pondering this, a beam of light inexplicably appeared in the distant sky and then, with lightning speed, shone on Su Haijun's chest in the blink of an eye. Su Haijun felt a sudden darkness before his eyes, and the next second he found himself in front of the oil painting.