Hela was about to tease Li again when she suddenly froze. "Hehe, the Great Roc really did come up with a fine scheme to trick this girl onto the island. But it looks like he'll be dying here too."
No sooner had Hela finished speaking than Li felt the ground beneath his feet tremble violently. Then endless radiance suddenly surged from the sea around Absolute Island. Li watched as the once incomparably tranquil waters erupted into boundless waves. The waves rose over a hundred meters high, and the water near Absolute Island stood a full hundred meters above the shoreline—yet not a single drop struck the island.
With waves like these, none of the cultivators could leave the island. But what happened next left Li staring blankly from Yama's shoulder. The Great Roc, who had been smugly hovering in the sky, suddenly went pale. In an instant, he transformed into his roc form and charged toward the island.
Li could not help wondering whether the Great Roc had taken the wrong medicine. After all, anyone who could fly above the seas surrounding Absolute Island was either a mighty deity or a quasi-Saint. Once they entered the island, their consciousness would inevitably be sealed; they might even be trapped there forever. Yet the Great Roc rushed over without the slightest hesitation.
It made him seem as though he had come to die for that fallen angel.
Then something even more shocking happened. The Great Roc had only made it halfway before he suddenly stopped in midair. Then, just like that, he slowly turned to ash from the outside in...
That was right—he crumbled away bit by bit, starting from the exterior. First his feathers, then his skin, then his flesh, his bones, his internal organs, and even his primordial spirit slowly