Li Yun had reached the Six-Wheel Realm. He had also used the Life-and-Death Millstone to grind away and refine part of the aura of Calamity. His confidence had soared.
The dread he had once felt toward the Calamity Aura had vanished completely.
The Snow Woman saw hope too.
Neither of them hesitated any longer.
They took their positions.
The Snow Woman began releasing more of the Calamity Aura from her body, faster and in greater quantities than before.
As more of it poured out, Li Yun felt a pressure unlike anything he had faced earlier. The Life-and-Death Millstone struggled to grind away so much of the aura at once. The resistance was clearly greater.
Fortunately, it was still within the range Li Yun had anticipated. He had prepared himself and did not panic.
He steadily kept the Life-and-Death Millstone turning, slowly grinding away the aura that swept toward him while maintaining a consistent rhythm.
The refinement proceeded in an orderly fashion.
He was helping the Snow Woman rid herself of the Calamity clinging to her while using the refinement to strengthen his own Life-and-Death Power.
In the blink of an eye, eight million years passed.
As the Calamity Aura on her body gradually diminished, the Snow Woman remained in rabbit form, but her vitality and spirit had visibly improved.
For the Snow Woman, every trace of Calamity Li Yun ground away was another part of an invisible shackle coming undone.
As those shackles broke one layer at a time, the vitality and spirit they had suppressed could finally be released.
Everything was getting better.
And just then—
Leng Yue, who had been missing without a word for years, suddenly arrived in the River Valley Immortal Domain.
She appeared without warning in Vast Cold City.
The sight that greeted her in