"Everyone, up ahead is where we sealed the Fell Star.
Its Dao connotation shines in all directions, infecting flesh and twisting the mind. We therefore have to pass through several checkpoints to enter or leave. Please stay close, lest you stumble into the bewildering array..."
Li Ling and the others followed Shang Yanshou toward the Fell Star.
As they passed the Temporary Camp, they saw that most of a nearby hill had collapsed, exposing a meteor crater more than a li wide.
Shang Yanshou explained, "That was where the Fell Star originally lay. After several rounds of fighting over it, people only managed to move it three to five li. Radiance Heavenly Lord knew how difficult it was to move, so he ordered troops to encamp here. That was how this array came to be."
"I see." Li Ling studied the crater and noticed that the surrounding area seemed to have been scorched by fierce flames, leaving traces of molten lava.
"Was this place burned by intense flames?"
Shang Yanshou said, "That was the fiery radiance released when Radiance Heavenly Lord cast down the Solar Spear. At the time, the Fell Star was releasing poisonous miasma that infected everything around it. It took considerable effort to clear the deadly baleful energy from the route along which it was moved."
Hearing this, the others already pictured a sinister, unfathomably dangerous poison stone, though they had yet to actually see it.
Before long, they passed through layer upon layer of restrictions and finally entered a valley.
There, on a stone platform ahead, lay a crystalline stone the size of a human head. Its entire surface resembled precious jade and gave off a spectral emerald glow.
An unnamed fiery radiance seemed to drift around it, casting distorted visions like mirages. Poison Baleful Intent