As a grandmaster of formations, Wen Xian had already sensed the formation's effects, and he had long since been unable to hold back from making a move.
If they acted any later, things might go badly.
For True Venerable Qu to have endured until this moment showed that his understanding of this formation was even deeper than Wen Xian had imagined.
Seeing Wen Xian's reaction, the other five True Venerables guarding the formation bases all followed suit.
As Social Butterfly True Venerable operated his, he casually asked, "This won't impede the formation, will it?"
"It will," Wen Xian answered without hesitation. "But not in the Silent Zone!"
This place was fundamentally not the kind of space everyone was familiar with. There were far too many anomalies here, and it could not be understood with normal thinking.
This divination took Qu Jianlei an extremely long time—a full half hour.
Once the divination was complete, he directly sent his divine sense into a Jade Tablet, raised his hand, and tossed it to Han Li. "This one..."
The next instant, his figure instantly blurred considerably, clearly having entered the Abode again.
Immediately afterward, the six formation bases all gave a violent shudder and turned to dust.
Social Butterfly True Venerable's face went slightly pale, but his eyes were full of astonishment. "Just like that... How did we fail to protect them?"
When True Venerable Qu was performing the divination, there had indeed been unknown energy violently battering the formation bases.
However, as Out-of-Body True Venerables, protecting one small formation base should still have been no problem.
As for whether a single True Venerable could protect all six... on the surface, it felt possible.
But once it came to actually doing it, that was hard to say. Who knew if some resonance or the