Challenge

Yuan Ming traveled for half a day before finally reaching the East Pole Archipelago.

From afar, he saw an enormous five-colored light barrier shrouding a vast expanse of islands scattered like stars across the sky. There were over a thousand islands of varying sizes, seven of them especially immense. On each of those seven islands stood a pillar of light that shot into the heavens, supporting the entire barrier.

With Yuan Ming's current attainments in the Dao of formations, he recognized at a glance that this was an exceedingly impressive island-protecting grand formation. The seven islands served as one another's foundations and supported each other, making it extremely stable. Its grade far surpassed Changchun Temple's sect-protecting grand formation.

He descended from afar, but before he could approach the islands, he was intercepted by a patrol of guards riding a flying boat.

After learning that he was an outside cultivator, the guards did not pursue his rash trespass. They merely informed him that flying freely over the East Pole Archipelago was forbidden, then directed him to the eastern secondary island to complete entry procedures.

One of them then broke away from the group, guiding Yuan Ming down to the outskirts of the eastern secondary island.

A long embankment had been built there for passing cultivators to land their flying boats. Numerous cultivators came and went across it, making the place bustling and lively.

"See that domed hall over there? Register your identity there and obtain a passage token, then you may enter the island." After pointing out the direction, the guard who had led him returned to the patrol.

Following the direction he had been given, Yuan Ming quickly arrived at the circular hall, only to find that the cultivators waiting outside to obtain passage tokens had already formed a long