"Stay behind me, and be careful."
Moren finally could not sit still any longer. He decided to enter the secluded valley and investigate.
"Yes!"
The guards replied respectfully, then followed behind Moren and cautiously stepped into the secluded valley.
At the bottom of the cold pool, Shi Lan was prying ice-attribute runestones from the rock wall one by one and stuffing them into her storage bracelet.
With this batch of runestones, her Primordial Spirit Golden Body would undergo a qualitative leap.
As for that one Extreme Dao Sigil, Shi Lan had not absorbed and refined it. Instead, she had stored it inside her Primordial Spirit Golden Body.
The sigil had yet to reach its full potential. Absorbing it now would still bring her a tremendous boost, but compared with the foundation needed to become a supreme being, it was not nearly enough.
Shi Lan planned to search for runes after leaving this place and use them to nourish the Extreme Dao Sigil. Once it had fully matured, she would merge it into her Primordial Spirit Golden Body.
After prying loose all the runestones and the ice bearing rune patterns, Shi Lan summoned her Primordial Spirit Golden Body and swallowed the rune power permeating the bottom of the pool in one gulp.
Only after confirming that not a trace had been left behind did she turn and shoot toward the surface.
The return journey was much faster than the trip down. In less than the time it took for half an incense stick to burn, Shi Lan had reached the surface.
Splash!
The instant she broke through the water, Shi Lan sensed something was wrong. A wave of killing intent surged toward her, and more than a dozen auras locked onto her at once.
She turned her head. Seeing the