The purple mist above Dragonbone Abyss had completely dispersed, yet the stagnant atmosphere between heaven and earth had not relaxed in the slightest. Standing atop a pile of rubble, Lin Chen fixed his gaze on the surging black baleful energy at the bottom of the abyss, his vigilance raised to its peak. The lingering consciousness of Purple Shadow, which had fled earlier, still echoed in his ears. He had thought the disturbance was temporarily over, but no one had expected the real anomaly to be hidden in the deepest part of this abyss.
A faint tremor came from the ground beneath his feet. It was not the violent upheaval of mountains collapsing and earth splitting apart, but rather like some colossal being slowly stretching its body after slumbering for countless years. Scattered broken bones and shattered stones around him trembled faintly. Strands of icy baleful energy crawled up through cracks in the ground, turning into wisps of cold mist the moment they touched the air. Breathing it in made even one's soul feel stiff with cold.
Within his dantian, the Fate-Defying Ancestral Seal throbbed ever more fiercely.
Unlike its wariness and resistance when facing Purple Shadow earlier, the golden light released by the Ancestral Seal now carried obvious excitement, along with the complicated emotions of a long-awaited reunion—ancient weariness, agitation, and a trace of indescribable vigilance. Golden radiance passed through his meridians and skin, outlining a faint membrane of light around his body. It automatically blocked the surrounding yin baleful energy that eroded the mind and firmly protected his aura.
Lin Chen slowly circulated his spiritual power, and the meridians throughout his body gradually loosened. Though the Ancient Soul-Locking Purple Runes had imprisoned him earlier and he had broken free instantly with the power of the Ancestral Seal, traces of