Outside the desolate mountain, within the light barrier.
Emerald-green poisonous gas roiled like dense fog, carrying a pungent stench as it madly corroded everything within the barrier.
A faint azure glow shrouded Yao Yao's body. It was a defense she had formed by combining Soul Power with a trace of source energy, but beneath the suppression of the Soul-Suppressing Light Barrier and the relentless corrosion of the Soul-Corroding Poison, the glow was visibly dimming.
Her exquisite, jade-like face remained calm, yet fine beads of sweat had already formed at her smooth temples. Her jade hand tightly gripped the Source Rune Brush, its tip gleaming as she poured all her strength into drawing a complex defensive source rune, trying to stabilize the situation and find a weakness.
This poison... truly is troublesome. Yao Yao's heart tightened slightly. Golden Toad Son's natal poison blood was indeed tyrannical. If not for the extraordinary nature of her soul and her resistance to poison far surpassing that of ordinary people, she would have been unable to endure it long ago. Even so, if she remained trapped for too long, the situation would only worsen.
Just as she focused on dealing with it—
"Yao Yao!"
A roar filled with uncontrollable anxiety and fury exploded from outside the light barrier like thunder!
Immediately afterward, an indescribable, soul-freezing chill descended with the force of an erupting volcano!
Crack! Crack! Crack—!
The enormous light barrier covering the desolate mountain let out a groan of unbearable strain under the impact of that extreme cold! A thick layer of chaotic-colored ice instantly formed across its surface, and countless cracks rapidly spread through it!
Boom!!!
The next instant, the entire barrier exploded like fragile glass, shattering into a sky full of icy crystalline dust!
The moment the barrier shattered, the pervasive emerald