Luo Chen appeared on a plaza veiled in drifting clouds.
The moment he landed, a Dao Sect disciple approached.
Before the disciple could speak, Luo Chen produced a jade token.
Light flickered across the token. The Golden Core Cultivator took one look and understood who Luo Chen was.
"So you're a Star Gate Guest Elder. This way, please!"
Luo Chen nodded and followed him into the clouds. As he entered the plaza, he felt as though he had passed through a thin membrane.
For an instant, even his powerful body felt faintly constrained.
"A defensive formation?"
The cultivator guiding him blinked. "Senior, you have a keen eye. This is indeed a defensive formation that formed naturally on Heaven Earth Peak. It's usually inactive, but the Pill Saint's ascension is a matter of the utmost importance to our sect. We don't expect anything to go wrong, of course, but we must still take every precaution."
So that was it.
Luo Chen glanced back at the formless, invisible defensive formation.
A defensive formation born naturally from Heaven Earth Peak, which contained a Fifth Order Spirit Vein?
He could sense the terrifying power hidden within it!
Even his body, comparable to that of a Fourth-Order Desolate Beast, felt uncomfortable.
And this was only a partial activation, nowhere near its full power.
If the formation were fully activated, he feared even an all-out attack from him might not break it.
Of course, his unusually powerful body also made him unusually sensitive. Anyone else might not even realize a formation had been activated on Heaven Earth Peak.
"What is it called?" he asked.
The Golden Core Cultivator paused. This senior named Luo Chen was a Star Gate Guest Elder. Did he not know the formation's name?
Then he recalled the two additional words, "External Affairs,"