"What's going on?!"
Su Yaqing cried out, her golden-red eyes widening to their limit. Her long eyelashes fluttered violently, and the bright, confident face that had been so full of life was instantly covered by a deep look of shock.
Her hand shot to her waist, fingertips trembling slightly as she snatched up the silver-blue life-form detector and quickly lowered her head to look at its screen, where red light flashed without pause.
One glance was all it took. Her heart felt as if an invisible hand had clenched around it, and even her breathing abruptly stopped!
On the detector's screen, a gigantic blood-red dot, nearly filling the display, was moving at an impossibly terrifying speed!
Beside the dot, a line of text was clearly marked, making her scalp prickle: Star Core Realm, ninth tier!
Star Core Realm, ninth tier!
It was a terrifying being just one step away from the peak of the Star Core Realm! An apex ferocious beast powerful enough to lord over all of Luochen Star!
And the distance displayed on the screen was rapidly changing, shrinking without pause—
800 kilometers...750 kilometers...700 kilometers!
Its speed was horrifying!
Based on its movement, this terrifying beast would reach their position in less than thirty seconds!
"Star Core Realm, ninth tier... How could a monster of this level be here?!"
Su Yaqing's lips went pale, and her breathing grew ragged.
Her own cultivation was only at the West Tier Upper Rank of the Star Core Realm. Even with the secret, precious artifact her Lineage had bestowed upon her, she could briefly unleash power at the ninth tier of the Star Core Realm—but only once!
Once she used it, she would either kill the beast in a single strike or... die!
What's more, that artifact's overloading power would drain all