Lin Ke and his senior sister saw that the Black Armored Kun happened to be waiting beneath the Floating Island for Spirit Beasts and spirit fish to fall from the Spirit Spring.
Who could have expected the Floating Island to start collapsing, sending several enormous rocks crashing onto his head?
Just as Lin Ke and Zong Ya were about to fly into his mouth, the Black Armored Kun actually began closing his jaws and swimming deeper into the sea of magma.
Left with no choice, Lin Ke could only activate the World-Altering Method.
He manipulated some magma, forming it into a giant hand that propped the Black Armored Kun's mouth open.
Only after he and Zong Ya had hidden inside did he close the kun's mouth, then conjure the purple pearl that warded off poison gas to envelop them both.
Only then did Zong Ya voice her confusion. "Why are we hiding here?"
"What did you mean just now, junior brother?"
Lin Ke did not want Zong Ya to know that he was the one who had earned the Dragon Pearl's Transcendent Heaven Tier recognition.
That would drag the completely unsuspecting Zong Ya into the Karmic Retribution, and he did not want those Fusion Stage cultivators setting their sights on her.
Unless he put the Dragon Pearl back into the Treasure Casket or his Niwan Palace to conceal its Karmic Retribution and aura. It would not be too late to tell Zong Ya then.
"Don't worry, senior sister. I just have some doubts about Mo Qi Qi's recognition."
"After all, the three of us went down together, and all three of us passed the Human Tier test. What if those three dragon cries were actually one for each of us?"
"If that's the case, I can control the Dragon Pearl