The Ice Plain River was in utter chaos, everyone blazing with rage, their eyes bloodshot.
As time passed, more and more people lost control.
Those who still retained a shred of reason were almost all the cream of the crop, like War King, the Sacred Dragon Clan's Fourth Prince, Little Phoenix, Demoness Ji, Duan Wuyi, Zhou Yan, Gao Meinan, and the others.
They still had their wits about them, but the fire in their hearts was burning too.
They had also realized that someone was secretly making a move against them.
Their opponent was definitely an Old Monster, whose cultivation and strength far surpassed everyone present!
Everyone who still retained their will stopped fighting, hoping to find their opponent.
But they couldn't find where he was, or how he had attacked. They were utterly helpless.
An eye quietly appeared in Zhou Yan's palm, shimmering with starlight and surging with the power of Karma and heavenly secrets.
If anyone had noticed this eye, they would have been astonished to discover that it was an Eye of Heavenly Secrets—and one that had never appeared before, growing right in his palm!
But even after secretly activating the Eye of Heavenly Secrets, Zhou Yan still couldn't divine his opponent's location. Instead, he sensed a terrifying backlash of Karma surging toward him, and hurriedly withdrew the eye.
Just divining his location had brought such terrifying Karma. That showed just how frightening their opponent was!
"This is a setup too!" Duan Wuyi said gravely. His eyes were webbed with red veins, and he could lose control at any moment.
Even without him saying it, everyone understood.
The fragments, the secret treasures—everything was part of a setup laid by someone else!
They were nothing but Chess Pieces on the board!
Just then, the man in the shadows