Within the Seventh Layer of the Suppressing Prison Tower.
Above the altar, inside the barrier of extreme cold.
At the center of this crystalline palace-like space formed from the power of extreme cold.
Ao Li sat cross-legged in midair. Threads of deep blue light interwove between her and the Profound Nether Water-Covering Seal floating before her, linking them together.
By now, Ao Li's aura had permeated over ninety percent of the great seal, and she was refining the Sacred Relic's core region.
Yet the barrier of extreme cold she had formed with Heaven and Earth Origin Power and a powerful Secret Art.
Was already covered in cracks, many of which had spread to the area around her.
An unending stream of Yin Miasma seeped through the cracks, black mist swirling around her.
The protective Yuan Force on Ao Li's body rippled, constantly annihilating it.
But the black mist gathered even faster.
Under the erosion of the foul yin power, the speed at which she refined the great seal plummeted.
Moreover, as the Demonic Beasts battered the barrier with increasing intensity, its cracks rapidly multiplied, gradually pushing it beyond what it could bear.
The black mist gathering around Ao Li also grew ever denser.
And it began eroding her Heaven and Earth Origin Power, seeking to invade her body.
This not only severely disrupted her refinement of the great seal, but even destabilized Ao Li's aura.
The mental energy that had already permeated most of the great seal also began to fluctuate unsteadily.
She had yet to refine the great seal's core region, so it still instinctively resisted her control.
If anything went wrong at any stage, all her previous efforts would come to nothing!
No one could help her now. Ao Li could only struggle to hold the situation together.