Bai Qingyan nodded at once. Ice Spirit Power surged around her, and countless icy threads spread across the ground, winding into the cracks that concealed the mechanisms. With a series of sharp clinks, the exposed Bone-Piercing Nails instantly froze into lumps of ice, wedged fast between the broken stones.
She then leaped onto the stone tablet, pointed the Ice Jade Immortal Sword diagonally at the ground, and called in a low voice, "I've sealed all the outer mechanisms. You can start!"
Holding the Immortal-Splitting Saber, Yun Che walked up to the rippling restriction and drove the Wushi Pill Fire to its limit. Pale golden flames slowly spread along the blade and seeped into the transparent restriction bit by bit. As expected, upon encountering the Wushi Pill Fire of the same origin, the restriction's fluctuations grew much gentler. The killing formation that had been about to activate went a long while without firing another hidden weapon.
Yun Che relaxed inwardly and pressed his blade a little farther forward. Golden flames followed the restriction's patterns, burning away the lingering marks of the Ancient Restriction bit by bit. Before long, the transparent spatial ripples gradually faded, finally vanishing altogether.
"It worked!" Bai Qingyan leaped down from the stone tablet and stared at the exposed Wushi Pill Lotus, delight filling her eyes. "The restriction really is broken!"
Yun Che remained on guard, however. He stared at the golden half of a Wushi Pill at the lotus's center and sensed immensely potent pill energy within it. Yet upon closer examination, he vaguely felt something was wrong.
He was just about to warn Bai Qingyan to be careful when she reached toward the pill at the lotus's center. The moment her fingertip touched its surface, the previously quiet Wushi Pill Lotus suddenly erupted with cold light