After leaving the valley, Ye Yun sprinted for dozens of miles. He did not stop until he reached the outskirts of the Desolate Forest.
There, he found a safe, hidden tree hollow.
Sitting cross-legged inside it, Ye Yun took several pills to restore his vitality and blood from his Storage Bag and swallowed them.
Then he swiftly circulated the Ice Jade Divine Art to refine their medicinal power, hoping to recover the vitality and blood that had just been devoured as quickly as possible.
Half an hour later, Ye Yun opened his eyes in alarm. Disbelief filled them.
"How is this possible? The vitality and blood that were devoured can't be restored!"
Sensing what was happening inside his body, Ye Yun muttered in disbelief.
He had thought the vitality and blood devoured by the mysterious patterns could be restored with pills.
But to his surprise, they seemed to have vanished forever. Even the power of the pills could not bring them back.
The result shocked Ye Yun, and a wave of lingering fear rose within him.
An inexplicable dread gripped him. He wanted to flee the Desolate Forest at once.
Only after calming his tangled emotions did Ye Yun carefully think back over everything he had experienced in the cave.
Looking back, the island covered in mysterious patterns seemed more like a vast formation, as though it were suppressing some terrifying creature.
The one thing Ye Yun could not understand was that the nest on the island had clearly belonged to the Crocodile Dragon Desolate Beast.
If so, why had it lived on the island without suffering any harm?
Judging by its condition, it had shown no sign of lacking vitality and blood.
At that thought, a possibility occurred to Ye Yun.
Perhaps the formation on the island had no