Qing Ye silently slipped deep underground. Before long, he stood in an underground chamber, where a faintly crystalline ball of light hovered before him.
Numerous cracks had already appeared across the translucent sphere, as though it were about to shatter.
After Qing Ye swept it with his Divine Sense, he made no movement. A flash of red light suddenly flickered through his eyes.
"Clink!"
With a crisp sound, the translucent sphere instantly dissolved into a scattering of starlike motes that melted into the surrounding earth.
"It still possesses the power of the late Void Refinement stage. No wonder it had never been discovered before!"
Qing Ye sensed the crystalline sphere formed from restraints ahead of him.
He could infer that if this restriction had not been weakened, it must originally have possessed the power of a Nether Emperor—or perhaps even a Nether Sovereign.
How could he have known that this restriction had not been left behind after weakening? It was practically the full force of someone's cultivation technique.
At the center of the shattered crystalline sphere, a fully transparent mosquito-like insect lay curled up, trembling beneath Qing Ye's pressure.
It did not dare move at all. This strange-looking Demon Beast glittered like an ice carving sculpted from jade, and Qing Ye had never seen such a creature before.
Yet Qing Ye's gaze merely swept over the mosquito insect before landing beside it, where his eyes immediately narrowed.
There lay quite a few "other shore flowers." Apart from one whose color remained rather vivid, all the rest had long since withered into shriveled stalks.
Among the many yellowed flowers and leaves, they had crumbled into fragments scattered across the ground, making their exact ages difficult to distinguish.
Yet from the petals and remaining leaf stems of the sole surviving plant, Qing