The scenery of the Sunset Forest had hardly changed. It had once been a resource-rich habitat for soul beasts, but after centuries of hunting by human soul masters, few high-level soul beasts remained.
Low-year soul beasts could still be seen everywhere, but soul masters no longer deemed them worth their attention, choosing instead to travel to the Star Dou Great Forest a thousand miles away.
This was not Huo Yuhao's first visit to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, but after teleporting through the Gate of the Undead this time, he instinctively noticed something different.
He swept the distance with Spiritual Detection, which revealed several small soul beasts moving together in groups.
It was an unremarkable scene with nothing amiss, yet Huo Yuhao soon realized what had changed.
The outskirts of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well had originally been surrounded by an unbroken curtain of Jade-Phosphor Poison Miasma, so astonishingly corrosive that it could kill any living creature that trespassed.
During Huo Yuhao's first visit, however, he had subjected the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well to a baptism of Ice Explosion. The biting chill of the ultimate ice cold spring had spread rapidly outward, freezing vast numbers of the Jade Phosphorus Seven-Absolute Flowers growing around the perimeter to death.
The Jade-Phosphor Poison Miasma, which had devoured countless lives over ten thousand years, had rapidly receded as a result. Not long after Huo Yuhao's first visit, it covered less than a third of its original area.
Huo Yuhao frowned slightly, recalling what the Tang Sect's Poison Chapter had recorded about the Jade Phosphorus Seven-Absolute Flower.
The Jade Phosphorus Seven-Absolute Flower was an extremely rare plant. Not only did it reproduce poorly, but it also had extraordinarily stringent environmental requirements and needed copious nutrients throughout its growth.
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