Although Lü Ruoxue possessed a Half-Immortal Artifact herself, the Ice Fire Scepter before her could provide far greater assistance than that fragment of the Chaos Plate.
For that very reason, the moment Lü Ruoxue's gaze fell upon the Ice Fire Scepter, a sharp gleam flashed through her eyes.
But at that moment, three figures within the previously tranquil black hole suddenly snapped open their eyes. An eerie green light flickered within those three hollow, pitch-black eyeballs.
At the same time, low and sinister voices emerged from their mouths:
"Those who covet the Ancestral Artifact shall die!!!"
As those words fell, an immense and majestic aura, vast as an abyssal sea, swept forth in an instant like a hurricane and rainstorm.
This utterly terrifying power had actually reached the seventh or eighth level of the Divine Emperor Realm, sending chills down one's spine.
Even more strangely, not the slightest trace of life could be sensed from those three figures, as though they were merely puppets stationed here to guard the Ice Fire Scepter.
It was no exaggeration to say that anyone who dared harbor covetous thoughts toward the Ice Fire Scepter would inevitably suffer the ruthless and ferocious attacks of these puppets.
At that very moment, the three puppets suddenly spread their hands in unison. The already unfathomably deep black holes behind them began spinning at a terrifying speed, forming an enormous vortex in the blink of an eye.
A soul-chilling pulling force surged forth like a raging tide, as though it intended to swallow the entire world.
At the same time, within the boundless void around them, countless stars seemed to answer the summons of some mysterious force. They transformed into dazzling streaks of light and plummeted downward like dense raindrops.
Bearing unparalleled might, those streaks tore black fissures through