Given the terrifying speed at which the extreme cold spreads, it should reach that forest of Spirit Sun Trees in just a few minutes.

Just in case, Jiang Hao immediately asked Zuo Ming to borrow Yun Xinghe's talent, and then signaled Qiu Si to activate his skill: Invincible!

A faint, transparent light shield appeared around everyone. It was the same size as Zhu Lin's magic shield, perfectly covering their entire bodies. However, unlike Zhu Lin's magic shield, the outermost layer of the shield lacked a white edge. What pleased Jiang Hao was that even Xiao Shi's massive body was covered by this light shield, and it was perfectly concealed!

With a thought, Jiang Hao's little poop disappeared from its spot. In a flash, he found himself in an unfamiliar area.

This must be on a vast frozen lake. There's no fog around, and everything is clearly visible. Mountains surround the area dozens of kilometers away. But that thing—it—is nowhere to be found.

Apart from a thin layer of ice on the lake, there was no sign of coldness in the surrounding area.

That's absolutely bizarre!

Using Yun Xinghe's Heavenly Eye, Jiang Hao looked around but couldn't find any trace of a monster. Only at the bottom of the unfathomably deep lake was there a tiny, barely perceptible, glowing object.

Through Yun Xinghe's Heavenly Eye, it could be seen that although the light there was not strong, it seemed to be distorted irregularly, making it impossible for Jiang Hao to see what was inside.

Could that ball of light be it?

Is it beneath the ice?

Jiang Hao raised his staff and swung it at the glowing object.

No?

No!

For the first time in his life, Jiang Hao's talent was wasted!

Jiang Hao was horrified, a chill ran through his bones, and he shuddered.

Jiang Hao immediately wanted Xiao Shi to lead them away, to get as far away as possible!

The creature he was encountering was absolutely no ordinary being! Jiang Hao even thought it was a high-dimensional being from a science fiction novel!

But Jiang Hao was unwilling to leave just like that. Since he still had the invincible shield, Jiang Hao decided to take the risk one more time.

Jiang Haohen hardened his heart and immediately conveyed his thoughts to Xiao Shi: "Xiao Shi, travel to the front of that light at the bottom of the lake."

In a flash, the scenery before my eyes changed again.

This was at an unknown depth, at the bottom of the lake. The immense water pressure had even shrunk their invincible protective shields. Jiang Hao had no doubt that without this shield, they would have been crushed instantly, even now, inside Xiao Shi's mouth.

The entire lakebed was pitch black, but fortunately, the ball of light in front of us was emitting a soft glow, which barely resisted the encroaching darkness.

There were no other creatures on the entire lakebed, only this hazy ball of light before them. Without a doubt, it was this ball of light that had caused Jiang Hao and his group so much trouble, leading to their near annihilation.

The ball of light in front of us was only the size of a goose egg. Strangely, the tens of thousands of rays inside were twisted and flowing, as if there was an invisible shield around the ball of light, which firmly bound the rays inside.

Tens of thousands of rays of light twisted and flowed rapidly, like a beautiful net without a single gap. Suddenly, a gap appeared among the tens of thousands of rays of light. Through that hair-thin gap, Jiang Hao finally saw a colorful...caterpillar in the very center of the ball of light.

The gap disappeared in a flash, and Jiang Hao only saw a segment of the caterpillar's body.

Ling Feng, standing nearby, had already drawn his bow and fired a sharp arrow at the white orb of light. The moment the arrow pierced through Xiao Shi's invincible light shield, it was immediately crushed by the lake water, leaving not even a trace of debris.

"Little poop, swallow it!"

As the little poop moved forward, the ball of light was swallowed into its huge mouth.

The ball of light appeared before everyone's eyes. Without thinking, Ling Feng fired another arrow. The arrow pierced the ball of light, but was then lightly deflected by the flowing light and landed elsewhere.

The stream of light within the sphere suddenly accelerated.

Jiang Hao suddenly sensed danger. Just as he was about to warn them, a violent force, more terrifying than the simultaneous explosion of hundreds of legendary energy crystals, erupted from the ball of light. Jiang Hao only felt a blur before he was blasted away.

With a crack, Jiang Hao fell onto the ice. Then, more cracking sounds followed as his teammates all slammed onto the ice. The ball of light floated on the ice not far away. As for Xiao Shit, who was also floating next to the ball of light, his invincible shield had become extremely thin.

It turns out that the moment the explosion occurred, Little Shit had already traversed to the surface of the lake, and then his body shrank instantly, thus escaping being blown up inside the sphere of light.

The group was thrown into disarray by the blast, their protective shields becoming almost imperceptible. Yet, the ice on the lake remained completely unaffected.

Could these ice blocks be even more solid than his invincible protective shield?

That's absolutely bizarre!

Jiang Hao immediately leaped up from the ice and swung his staff again, but the thing inside, protected by the flowing light, still couldn't be pulled out.

Even Jiang Hao's will could not penetrate that layer of flowing light to lock onto it.

Jiang Hao swung his staff rapidly while carefully observing the streams of light, trying to find that tiny gap, no bigger than a hair, once again.

But it's not that easy. Within the egg-sized ball of light, tens of thousands of streams of light were flowing rapidly, just like a suit of light armor, leaving no gaps.

Jiang Hao was drenched in cold sweat. He used both Yun Xinghe's Heavenly Eye and Xiao Shi's vision to search for that tiny crack. Even with Xiao Shi's vision slowing the light down by tens of thousands of times, and even with Yun Xinghe's Heavenly Eye magnifying the sphere of light by hundreds of times, Jiang Hao still couldn't find that crack.

But he kept waving the staff in his hand.

He's gambling; he's willing to risk his own life and the lives of all his teammates to gamble on the life of that caterpillar inside the ball of light!

Either the ball of light will explode again like it did last time, blasting everyone present into nothingness.

Either he can find that gap again and pull the monster out of the orb of light.

After Ling Feng's arrow, who else would dare to make a move now?

Seeing Jiang Hao and Xiao Shi's state, they quickly guessed what Jiang Hao was doing.

Should we run now?

No one shared this idea. On the fifth day of their decision to continue traversing the fog, they were already prepared to sacrifice themselves. They only hoped that Jiang Hao would succeed, that he would pull the monster out of the orb of light. Even if everyone else died in the process, it would be worth it!

Can Jiang Hao give up?

Jiang Hao hadn't considered this. But if he gave up before the invincible shield ended and then ran away with his companions, he would be seen as a coward by them, even though he had saved their lives.

The light within the sphere accelerated faster and faster, as if an energy hundreds of times more intense than the previous explosion had been generated, threatening to destroy the entire realm!