Sensing the sudden, terrifying chill, Ye Han immediately circulated his cultivation art, switching in an instant to the fire element's Fire Mystic Art.
Then he slapped his Storage Bag and released a pearl trembling with flaming runes. His hands flew through seals as he chanted, and the pearl formed a blazing Light Barrier, covered in fiery runes, around Ye Han.
Ye Han had few fire-element treasures himself. This Fire Spirit Pearl, a High-Grade Magic Artifact, was one of the spoils he had taken from the Cultivators who had set up a formation to murder and rob others when he first arrived at the Demon Sky Battlefield.
Actually, Ye Han had found those three Foundation Establishment Realm Cultivators rather strange. Although they were in the Foundation Establishment Realm, they were far weaker than ordinary Cultivators of that realm, yet their cultivation had clearly reached it.
Had they advanced to the Foundation Establishment Realm through some special method?
The Cultivators' travel journals, memoirs, and other accounts Ye Han had read in the Scripture Pavilion had all mentioned that some Cultivators, seeing no hope of reaching the Foundation Establishment Realm, would resort to special methods, such as a forbidden art, to force their way into it.
That was tantamount to severing their own path of cultivation.
Of course, if they could never reach the Foundation Establishment Realm, they had no cultivation path to speak of anyway.
Many Cultivators still refused to take that route, because it was too dangerous.
Only a few Cultivators would brave the danger and take that path.
But none of that had anything to do with Ye Han.
Just then...
Crack, crack, crack, crack! Terrifying cold surged throughout the entire house. A wave of dreadful chill poured out of the room and struck Ye Han, making the Light Barrier