Antarctica, deep beneath the ice sheet.
A bitter wind howled past, whipping Ice Crystals across the sky.
At the entrance to the Abyss, the Energy Barrier flickered bright and dim, giving off cracking sounds as if it could no longer bear the strain.
On the surface of the barrier, countless hideous tentacles tore at it wildly.
Every impact weakened the barrier's energy by another fraction.
Fei Ruoyun sat cross-legged at the core of the barrier, her hands forming seals, a faint glow emanating from her body.
Her aura was like a candle in the wind, as if the flame of her life might go out at any moment.
"Cough, cough..."
Another mouthful of dark-red bloody foam spilled from the corner of her lips.
Fei Ruoyun opened her eyes and looked at the tottering barrier before her, sinking into deep helplessness.
"Five years..."
"In the end, this seal still couldn't hold..."
She murmured to herself.
"My life has already been overdrawn to its limit!"
"But the strange beasts in this Abyss are like they're endless. No matter what, I can't stop them!"
"If I die, who else can hold back this army of strange beasts?"
The strength of the Abyss's strange beasts had already surpassed all of Blue Star by far.
Putting everything else aside, just the number of level-nine strange beasts alone was already enough to sweep across the entire Blue Star.
When the time came, if the strange beasts here poured out in full force, it would surely be a disaster for all humanity on Blue Star.
Within the barrier.
The roars of the strange beasts grew stronger and stronger.
Fei Ruoyun could even feel that suffocating, violent aura.
"At most... I can only hold on for another two hours!"
"After two hours, I die, and the seal breaks!"