In the golden radiance, a badge engraved with the image of a lion emerged from obscurity, becoming clear, then dazzlingly brilliant.
In an instant, that radiance pierced through the ice's seal.
With effortless ease.
Crack!
After a crisp sound, spiderweb-like cracks rapidly spread across the surface of the ice sculpture, hard as diamond. As the cracks overlapped and intersected, the ice layer gave another sharp crack.
It shattered.
Qin Ran's rapidly fading vitality stopped draining away and slowly began to recover under his special Constitution.
But the cone-shaped object clearly had no time to concern itself with Qin Ran, who had just thawed and begun recovering.
It regarded the lion that had suddenly appeared before it with uncertainty and alarm.
Within that golden, lifelike lion was a power that filled it with boundless terror.
Though it was merely a cone-shaped object, at that moment, it was like a human, with eyes and an expression.
Its voice changed as well.
It was no longer an electronically synthesized voice.
It was a human voice.
A hoarse female voice.
"Who are you?"
Facing the golden lion formed from an unknown power, its tone carried an unprecedented gravity.
Yet the golden lion dismissed it with utter contempt.
After sweeping its gaze around the area, the golden lion shook the mane around its neck, then—
Roar!
With a deep, powerful lion's roar, the surrounding stillness instantly shattered, like glass dropped onto the ground, breaking apart with a crack.
Pride, Sloth, and the Higher Evil Spirit, who had been bound, immediately returned to normal.
Qin Ran recovered as well.
As did the...
Demon Power within him.
In the hall where frost had spread and temperatures had plummeted, the heat now rose with every breath. In but an instant, sparks appeared across the floor and walls.
Scorching