At this moment, the Ice Sha Mysterious Tortoise was filled with hatred and urgency. A moment of carelessness had let Ao Han catch it off guard, damaging the physical body it had cultivated for hundreds of millions of years. Even its Taiyi Dao Fruit had been severely wounded. All it wanted now was to flee back to its old nest as quickly as possible and activate its final life-saving arrangement. This time, it had been grievously injured, with less than one-tenth of its strength remaining. What it needed most was to find a place dense with Malevolent Qi and heal first.
And in its "senses," the direction where the Malevolent Qi was denser happened to be the edge of the area where Lin Yan had repeatedly activated the Primal Chaos Plate to purify Malevolent Qi—precisely because he was constantly "drawing out" the Malevolent Qi, the concentration in that area had formed a "gradient difference" from its surroundings. In the Ice Sha Mysterious Tortoise's muddled perception, it instead seemed like a "lowland" where Malevolent Qi had "gathered," suitable for hiding and recovering.
This was a fatal misunderstanding.
The Sharp Blade Camp was currently resting in hiding at the foot of an ice peak. Taking advantage of the break, Lin Yan brought Li Zhu to a platform halfway up the mountain. As usual, he released the Primal Chaos Plate and began drawing in the Malevolent Qi there. Li Zhu sat cross-legged nearby, taking small bites from a glistening piece of beast meat, her face full of satisfaction. However, she had not forgotten her duty. Her eyes constantly swept the area beyond the mountain peak with vigilance.
Suddenly—
"Buzz!!!"
An indescribable, terrifying pressure, as though it could overturn heaven and earth and bring all things to an end, came crashing down like a