From above, Sunset Forest resembled a sea of dark green, its layered canopies blotting out the sky and sun.
A thin layer of seven-colored mist shrouded the forest's outskirts, gleaming with an eerie luster beneath the sunlight—that was the Seven-Colored Poisonous Miasma.
The mist was not still. It slowly churned like a living thing, sometimes spreading and sometimes contracting, as though it had a breathing rhythm of its own.
Snow Empress descended and landed in an open clearing at the forest's edge.
Xue Lingyun's feet touched solid ground. Xiao Bai descended from the air, his four massive claws striking the earth and making the surrounding trees tremble.
He closed his eyes as the Huangji Jingshi began circulating within his Sea of Consciousness.
His Spiritual Power transformed into countless fine threads and probed into the poisonous miasma.
The miasma's patterns of movement, its weak points, and the fluctuations in its poison concentration all unfolded clearly in his mind.
A moment later, he opened his eyes.
"The miasma's weak window is northeast, roughly two li away. The window will last twelve breaths."
Snow Empress nodded.
Xiao Bai followed behind them, his deep blue eyes warily fixed on the poisonous miasma ahead.
The three turned northeast, passed through a small stretch of dense woods, and arrived in a relatively open area.
The miasma here was lighter in color than elsewhere, its seven-colored glow far less intense.
"This is the place," Xue Lingyun said.
He released his Ice Prison Dragon King Martial Soul. An Ice Blue Dragon Phantom emerged behind him, emerald green patterns flowing across the surface of its dragon scales.
The Eternal Freeze Domain spread outward. Centered on him, the temperature within a fifty-meter radius plummeted, and a thin layer of frost formed over the ground.
He stepped into the poisonous miasma.