This scorching power was neither the power of the restriction nor the power of a monster beast. It was more like some kind of flame force from deep underground, yet it was stranger than ordinary Earth Fire, carrying a trace of evil aura.
This crack must have appeared only recently. The strange flame power underground seeped out along the crack and collided, then fused, with the power of the restriction. That was what had thrown the restriction lines into disorder, which in turn affected the Monster Beasts in the mountain forest, making them abnormally furious.
Lin Taichu stood and continued deeper into the mountain range. The farther he went, the stronger the restriction's power became. The Soul Power inside him grew more and more sluggish, until he could gradually use only twenty percent of his strength. The black qi around him also grew thicker and heavier, almost enveloping his figure.
There were more and more monster beast corpses along the way. There were even corpses of mid-stage second-rank monster beasts. Most of these monster beast corpses were incomplete, their bodies covered in burn marks. Clearly, they had been killed by that strange flame power.
Lin Taichu could clearly sense that the strange flame power in the air was becoming denser and denser as he continued deeper into the mountains.
After walking for roughly an hour, Lin Taichu finally reached the depths of the Lingyun Mountain Range. The restriction's power here had already grown fierce to the extreme. The Soul Power inside him could barely circulate at all, and he could only just maintain his body's basic condition.
The black fog around him was so thick it would not dissolve. He could not even make out the trees beside him. All he could hear was the scrape of gravel beneath his