The Ancient Forest was truly vast!
What appeared to be a short distance took the group a full day and night of travel to reach.
This was a wide plain. The essence here was abundant and the spiritual energy dense. Vegetation glowed with vitality, and even the common wild beasts were exceptionally huge. A few rats, half the height of a man, spotted Wang Xiu and the others from afar and vanished into their burrows with a SWOOSH.
"What a perfect place for cultivation!" Xiang Tiange exclaid, his body radiating divine light. rely passively absorbing the essence of Heaven and Earth here brought him great benefits.
Li Zuoyue cried out in amazent, "The spiritual energy here is denser than any place we’ve passed before!"
Ji Zidian surveyed the surroundings and frowned. "It’s strange. A place like this should be teeming with spiritual herbs, but it isn’t. Even the vegetation here isn’t as tall or lush as in the dense forest!"
Over a hundred people spread out to search. They soon combed through the surrounding area but found nothing at all.
"No spiritual herbs, no precious dicines... it’s all very ordinary!"
"But this place doesn’t seem ordinary. Could soone have already taken everything?" Xiang Kunlun said with a frown.
"No!" Xiao Yu, the leading disciple of the Formation Sect, had always been cautious and observant. He stated seriously, "There are no signs of any creatures having been active nearby. Even those rats and giant beasts stay far away from this area, not daring to approach!"
Wang Xiu’s brow furrowed slightly as he activated the Primordial Induction Chapter to its full extent, observing his surroundings.
The Dragon Qi beca increasingly dense, shooting up into the sky. In his eyes, the very ground beneath their feet was glowing and trembling. An imnse aura rushed toward the heavens, transforming into the shape of a dragon that roared and howled across the sky.
Faintly, he saw the entire area fill with immortal light and swirling purple mist. The enormous phantoms of Ancient Dragons, as vast as the sun and moon, weaved through the clouds. They were sotis hidden, sotis apparent, treating the void like an ocean as they churned through it at will.
The aura was as vast as an abyss. With Wang Xiu’s current cultivation level, he couldn’t probe any deeper without risking a backlash. But he could feel that this draconic might was far more terrifying than that of the True Dragon he had encountered on the outskirts of the forest. It was as if these beings were not creatures of the mortal world. An incredibly dense and unimaginable number of ancient runes filled every corner of the void.
This place was stranger than any treasure land Wang Xiu had ever explored. Why could nothing be found?
Too strange!
Wang Xiu no longer focused on the peculiar auras in the sky. Instead, he used the Supre Sensing Chapter to observe the surrounding void. After a long while, he finally discovered so subtle traces. Invisible streams of "qi" were constantly weaving together, seemingly condensing into strange patterns that enshrouded the area from above.
"There’s a Natural Ancient Formation here, concealing a great secret!" Wang Xiu suddenly opened his eyes, his pupils flashing with divine splendor.
"What?" Xiao Yu was astonished. "Junior Brother Wang Xiu, are you sure?"
Li Zuoyue asked, puzzled, "What’s a Natural Ancient Formation?"
The rest of the group also looked on in confusion, having never heard of such a thing.
Xiao Yu swallowed hard and began to explain to the crowd.
"The Dao of formations is not exclusive to sentient beings; it is a part of the natural laws of the world. The earliest human cultivators codified the mysteries of formations by observing the various patterns between Heaven and Earth. But in truth, these things were not the exclusive invention of later generations; they have always existed. The patterns on many exotic beasts, for example, help them better utilize their innate talents and can even double their combat effectiveness. These are, in fact, the most primitive of formations. It’s just that no one had nad them as such.
"Natural formations can be strong or weak, simple or complex. The simple ones can be broken with a bit of luck and a brute-force attempt. But when faced with the complex ones, even the most powerful formation grandmasters in the world can only sigh in helplessness. Those are true manifestations of the condensed power of a region of Heaven and Earth, or rather, they are Heaven and Earth itself. How could one possibly hope to contend with Heaven and Earth using only mortal strength?
"With my perception as the chief disciple of the Formation Sect, I could naturally see through an ordinary Natural Ancient Formation at a glance, and no secrets could remain hidden. However, in this ancient land before us, I can’t detect the slightest trace, even with my eyes wide open. It is clearly sophisticated to the extre—an outstanding work of the Holy Realm."
A complex expression appeared on Xiao Yu’s face. "If that’s the case, then any treasures hidden beneath this Natural Ancient Formation are likely far beyond our ability to obtain!"
Everyone was stirred, their faces filled with regret. Such an astonishing formation undoubtedly concealed great secrets, perhaps even a heaven-defying opportunity that could allow one to soar to the heavens and glimpse the Immortal Path!
After all, the existence of the Holy Realm had always been ancient and mysterious. In Nanzhou, among the One Hundred and Eight Immortal Sects of the Immortal Alliance, many ancient legacies were obtained from the Holy Realm, which allowed them to establish their foundations. There were even rumors that this place was a fragnt that had fallen from the Immortal Realm, not belonging to the mortal world. If one’s fortune was great enough to encounter an incomparable treasure, it wouldn’t be impossible.
But now, to have a Natural Ancient Formation standing before them, impenetrable, was a profound regret.
"I want to try!" Wang Xiu suddenly spoke up, and all eyes turned to him.
Xiao Yu’s expression changed, and he nearly cried out in alarm, "Junior Brother Wang Xiu, if it really is a Natural Ancient Formation, then every minute change within it could trigger a cataclysm! It would be a disaster!"
If they truly agitated the rules of Heaven and Earth, everyone present would face a precarious fate. This group of young geniuses, after all, had not yet matured into mighty figures. If a disaster occurred, even the Saint-level experts far beyond the Ancient Forest might not be able to save them, even if they tore through the void to get here.
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