The formation patterns of the entire grand array had to be drawn with Ice Phoenix Essence Blood, supplemented by countless Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures unique to the Ice Phoenix Clan.
Finally, and most importantly, the formation eye required a descendant of the Ice Phoenix Clan with profound cultivation and a pure bloodline to preside over it!
Using a person as the formation eye was not uncommon.
What was strange was that no one was presiding over this Heaven and Earth Soul Punishing Array!
That meant this grand array was useless!
The Heaven-Bearing Pillar could not see it, but Gong Qi could.
Her mother had gone through untold hardship to set up such a grand array, yet had not assigned anyone to preside over it, allowing it to become abandoned. What exactly had she meant by this?
Or perhaps someone had originally been meant to preside over it, but for some unknown reason, that person had disappeared?
Gong Qi did not reveal her thoughts to the Heaven-Bearing Pillar Spirit.
She began setting up the formation with single-minded focus, a bold idea emerging in her mind.
In truth, there had indeed been plenty of exaggeration in what she had told the Heaven-Bearing Pillar Spirit.
Let alone a fifty percent chance, she had not even possessed a ten percent chance of success.
But once this new idea surfaced, Gong Qi truly might have a fifty percent chance...
Changing the Heaven and Earth Soul Punishing Array into the Heaven and Earth Soul Trapping Array had one advantage: most of the formation patterns that required phoenix blood did not need to be redrawn.
Otherwise, drawing the formation patterns alone would have drained Gong Qi dry of blood.
But that did not mean Gong Qi would have to shed any less blood.
After changing only