Bai Yujun led the way, flying around the densely packed ice and snow creatures.
After flying for half a day, her heart grew heavier and heavier. By now, she could be certain they had flown in a huge semicircle around some area. If she had guessed correctly, the ice and snow creatures and the confronting zombies formed a circle around something. A very, very large circle. Or rather, the zombies formed a circle within, while endless ice and snow creatures surrounded them from without. It was bizarre...
They landed. There was no need to keep flying; they would not find any gap.
The twenty Purple Void Sword Cultivators looked toward Bai Yujun. They could neither sense the dragon bones nor force their way through, so they could only see whether she had any good ideas.
She scratched her head and discovered that even her True Sight could not see what lay surrounded at the center.
"I can vaguely sense that the dragon bones are inside, but there's simply no way in."
The two Grand Elders looked at the ice and snow demons and the zombies.
"The zombies seem afraid to approach the center. They look deeply fearful. The ice and snow demons are compressing their range of movement. I don't know whether they intend to use the dragon bones to suppress the zombies, or whether they want the dragon bones within. I can't make sense of it."
Bai Yujun once again felt that this female Grand Elder must have finally opened up. She no longer spoke as if every word were worth a thousand pieces of gold.
She bent down and squatted, drawing a large circle in the snow to mark the ice and snow demons, then drew a slightly smaller circle for the zombies. The very center was left