Half a year later.
Outside Heaven Underworld Palace, Heavenly Capital Child held a compass as he carefully worked to break the formation.
His eyes narrowed, his expression grave. He cast every hand seal with the utmost caution.
He could hardly be blamed. This was the long-term residence of a Spirit Transformation Great Power. Even with the sect's protection, the formations set here could not be too complex, but the simplest of them could still contain unfathomable power.
One mistake could trigger a backlash.
Though his lifespan was nearing its end, he had no wish to die on the spot. At the very least, he wanted the fitting end of passing away peacefully when his time came.
As he probed with care, a rumble suddenly came from outside.
It was faint at first, then swelled in layer upon layer, like a chain of dominoes falling.
The whole of Yanfu Mountain trembled with it.
Fortunately, Deng Taiyue intervened in time, using a mighty technique to force Yanfu Mountain back into stability before the disturbance could spread elsewhere.
Heavenly Capital Child realized what had happened, and surprise showed on his face.
"Luo Chen was that fast? He broke Heaven Water Palace's formation in just half a year?"
At Heaven Water Palace, Luo Chen watched its doors slowly swing open, a smile spreading across his face.
When it came to mastery of formations, he was nowhere near Tier 5. He even fell well short of Heavenly Capital Child.
By a finer reckoning, his current attainment in the Formation Dao lay somewhere between master and grandmaster.
He had mastered all kinds of basic restrictive formations and could set them up effortlessly. In speed, he even surpassed a Formation Dao Grandmaster.
But a grandmaster was someone who had absorbed the strengths of a hundred schools and