The Flying Boat flew for two days before finally leaving the dense forest behind. What they had not expected was that the vegetation would grow increasingly sparse once they passed through it. Before long, they felt the temperature rising, and then a wasteland appeared before them.
The earth in the wasteland was parched and cracked, without a single blade of grass. Above it hung only a scorching sun, continuing to bake the land.
Upon reaching the wasteland, Su Jiu distinctly felt the spiritual qi in the air thinning, especially the ice spiritual qi.
Su Jiu's brows drew together slightly. If a battle broke out here, she would be at a severe disadvantage. Even the water spiritual qi she could convert into ice spiritual qi was exceedingly scarce, let alone ice spiritual qi itself.
However quickly she could replenish her spiritual qi, she still needed usable resources around her to do so.
But heaven seldom granted people their wishes. The more they wanted to avoid something, the more likely they were to encounter it.
Suddenly, they saw the parched earth ahead splitting open at a speed visible to the naked eye.
The cracks were spreading far too quickly to have been caused by the scorching air drying out the ground. Something alive was moving beneath it. Before long, the fissure suddenly stopped spreading.
Yet Xia Jue and the others did not relax their gazes in the slightest. Instead, their eyes grew even darker.
"Set up the formation!" The words had barely left Lan Fang Ziyi's mouth.
An enormous worm rose straight out of the ground, and the earth shook even more violently than before.
The worm was immense, its entire body snowy white. Once it reared up, it stood well over ten zhang tall. Most revolting of all were its densely