Ye Han and the Glacier Immortal Emperor watched as the magic beast with the enormous, gaping maw finally lost patience and lunged to snatch the Starry Sky Stone...
Neither of them had expected this outcome. They had thought there must be something wrong with it-that it might be an enormous trap, or so terribly heavy that it would be difficult to seize, or something of the sort.
But they had never imagined that, like the entrance to the Mysterious Secret Realm, it was merely a shadow. Attacking the Starry Sky Stone was utterly useless. No wonder these creatures were fighting so fiercely here, yet none of them had made a move against the stone.
More precisely, they must have already tried before Ye Han and the Glacier Immortal Emperor arrived. The outcome had been just like the magic beast biting at the Starry Sky Stone: their attacks had struck only a shadow, neither damaging it nor revealing any way to obtain it...
These creatures were all terrifyingly powerful, and so much bloody light surged over their bodies that their condition hardly seemed normal. That was why they had plunged into an indiscriminate melee...
At the sight, Ye Han and the Glacier Immortal Emperor could not help exchanging a glance, seeing the disbelief on each other's faces. The Starry Sky Stone was merely a shadow?
How could that be?
When the entrance to the Mysterious Secret Realm had first transported them inside, the Divine Race Cultivator had attacked them. The only reason their attacker had abandoned the assault was that the Starry Sky Stone had appeared here, unleashing a pillar of light filled with astonishing power of the stars...
The strength of that pillar and the power of the stars it released were certainly more than a mere shadow could produce...