Stepping Out Of The Darkness

The other disciples that had been lucky enough not to look into the skeleton's red eyed retained their faculties allowing them the freedom to scream at the top of their lungs as the skeleton slaughtered them like chicken.

It did not show nay merscy as it hunted down every one that tried d to escape it's grasp.

When everything was finally quiet, the skeleton looked down at one of the bodies that had a hole in its chest.

Blood was pouring to the ground as though endless.

When the skeleton saw this blood and the tender open flesh, it lost its mnd to an unknown urge .It knelt on the ground and crudely bit into the chest wound .

The skeleton then began suckng blood out of the dead body.each drop that entered its mouth disappeared into the bones.

When all the blood had been sucKed out of the corpse, the skeleton still felt a great hunger for the liquid of life.

It looked down at the drained bodies with it's red "eyes".

This was when it decided not to waste good material .It bend down with it's bones making weird noses.

It grabbed one of the arms and stepped on the corpse's chest.

It then casually pulled off the arm like one would pull off a chicken leg from a fried chicken.

The skeleton did not have much desire for the flesh but it needed to try everything in order to reduce the hunger.

It bit into the arm ripping flesh with ease .It's black teeth were dull but the force behind them was simply too great.

It swallowed the flesh but it simply passed through it's body and fell to the ground.

The skeleton looked at the fallen piece of

human flesh with disappointment.

Still, it continued munching on the flesh until the entire corpse was reduced to bits of flesh on the ground.

The skeleton could not produce any sound but if it could , a roar that could have shaken the entire canyon would have been heard .The skeleton was looking at the sky with it's jaw open as though it were roaring in rage.

When it was done , it decided to continue its hunt for other prey .It ran into the darkness with each step shaking the ground .The skeleton was as strong as a ninth-stage martial cultivator.

It moved through the darkness with a great hunger and an over whining urge to kill.

It ran into one group after another.

No one survived.

In the darkness, screams Of pain and horror could be heard from all directions making this still alive to scramble for dear life.

In the end , no one managed to escape from the canyon.

Mu Shen who had left earlier was the only disciple to escape.

In the darkness, the skeleton moved about looking for more humans to satiate it's hunger but non could be found .The skeleton was a simple e minded creature with limited consciousness.

It gattherd all the bits of flesh like some psychopath and used them to form a large mound.

It then sat on top of the mound and the red glow in its eyes dimmed to become almost imperceptible. It seems as though the skeleton had run out of energy.

The skeleton sat on it's pile of corpses and did nothing else.

It simply did not have the brain power needed to decide on what to do next.

It did not have a brain in the first place.

On its throne of death that it had formed due to some urge, the skeleton began absorbing a mysterious energy from the corpses.

At first , this energy was very weak and not worth talking about but after a few weeks , the bodies had greatly decomposed, and the mysterious energy had more than trippled in quantity and purity.

This energy was absorbed by the skeleton but it did not enter the bones.

It gathered into a small black sphere that was just below the sternum.

This sphere kept on rotating at a constant speed.

All the mysterious qi was absorbed leaving nothing behind. The entire process took over two years.

In the end , the moud of human flesh had completely decayed leaving nothing behind.

When there was no more qi to absorb, the skeleton finally opened its "eyes".

The red glow had become much more intense.

The power contained within this red light was quite immense and terrifying .It was like nothing else in this world.

The skeleton continued seating on the soil that was all that was left of the human.

The red glow that was its eyes seemed to contain more intelligence than before.

The skeleton stood up and began walking in the darkness .It did not know where it was going but it wanted to leave this place .With it's limited intelligence , it had realised that it needed to go out and hunt for more of those creatures that had awakened it if it wanted more of the mysterious qi.

The qi had greatly improved its power and intelligence and it wanted more of it.

The skeleton moved through the darkness taking one foot at a time.

The black sphere below its sternum continued spinning as it absorbed darkness qi from the surroundings.

The skeleton weighed at least one hundred kilograms .Wherever passed, a deep impression of its feet was left behind.

These footprints had dark, evil, sinister qi tendrils that came out of them.

The skeleton walked in a straight line .It did not tire and it did not reduce it's speed.

It marched for two entire years before it finally moved out of the darkness.

The first light ray that hit its body made the skeleton begin disintegrating.

The skeleton could not feel pain but it knew that it could not let itself disintegrate .For this reason ,it stepped back into the darkness and stood there watching the green field beyond.

It did not make another move to leave the darkness for the entire time.

It did not know what it was waiting for but it waited patiently.

It subconsciously knew that nothing was forever , not even light .If a place had light , there had to be darkness at some point in time .The skeleton's thoughts were not this complex but it instinctively knew this to be true.

It waited and as expected , ddarkness soon covered the land.

It was finally night time.

The skeleton did not wait even a second before taking it's first step out of the darkness from which it had been born.

It stepped onto the green field and wherever it stepped , the grass would die and decompose in less than a second .

It's footsteps were death to all life.

It crosed the field in thirty minutes .It then stepped onto a stone road.The skeleton just decided to follow the stone path .There was not reason for this decision .It just chose to do it like that instead of continuing with the green field beyond.

The skeleton walked for what seemed like an instant to it ,but in actual sense , it was over two hours.

It reached a black metal gate .It was locked tight and no one was outside.

The skeleton did not seem to see the gate as it walked straight into it.