In the endless black desert, Li Yi and his party raced against time. Their protective barrier was shaped like a shuttle.
Boom! Boom! Boom!—
The endless dunes rose and fell like waves, one after another. Thousands upon thousands of sand arms kept bursting out of the desert. Each was thick and powerful, with bones of steel, wild and brutal as they slammed into the shuttle-shaped barrier with thunderous force.
The force that struck the barrier was enough to level mountains and shatter stars. The entire barrier lurched from side to side, like a candle flickering in the wind, in danger of going out at any moment.
The situation was perilous in the extreme.
Of course, they had gained something from this ordeal. The black sand arms contained a strange black mineral. Whenever an arm crumbled, the mineral fell out, and Li Yi and the others would use their formation to sweep it up.
Although the urgent situation left them no time to study the black mineral's properties, they knew it was no ordinary substance. Sars had tested it along the way, yet even with the strength of a Seven Tribulation Monarch, he could not crush it.
Even Mirror Demon had needed to exert nine-tenths of his strength to barely crush one. The mineral's hardness was truly astonishing.
By now, Li Yi and the others had collected more than a million pieces of the black mineral.
After struggling to hold out for half a day, Li Yi and his party finally reached the central region of the Black Desert, the most perilous part of the entire desert.
The sand arms had grown as thick as ancient Heavenly Dragons, blotting out the sky and shattering space. A single bare-handed strike opened a spatial abyss stretching thousands of miles. The force behind each