Of the four on this journey, aside from Song Qingming, a Grade 3 High-grade Formation Master, the other three were not particularly skilled in formations.
Faced with this somewhat strange "Ancient Array Formation," the group naturally deferred to Song Qingming's judgment.
After Song Qingyu and He Mengxin acknowledged him where they stood, Li Xuanyi said nothing further. She nodded, then led Song Qingming into the white mist before them.
A moment later, the two landed atop a set of Qingshi steps.
Li Xuanyi glanced at the Qingshi beneath her feet, then picked out a direction in the white mist ahead and started upward.
After following Li Xuanyi through the white mist for some time, Song Qingming soon spotted an azure stone lion roughly a zhang tall before them. Only then did Li Xuanyi stop.
This Qingshi lion was exactly the same color as the Qingshi below. Shrouded by the white mist, it would have been extremely difficult to notice from afar if Senior Sister Li Xuanyi had not led the way.
Only after arriving here did Li Xuanyi point to an ordinary iron ball held in the lion's mouth and explain to Song Qingming,
"Junior Brother Song, this is the Array Eye I found back then.
"I remember that when I merely took out the stone ball, the restriction of this great formation vanished immediately.
"But for some reason, after Qingyu and I found the Soul Nurturing Wood and encountered that Nascent Soul Puppet, the restriction suddenly recovered. It nearly trapped both of us within the formation."
(PS: Some readers said earlier that the name Soul-Gathering Wood did not sound very good. I felt that seemed true as well, so I changed it to Soul Nurturing Wood, and I will use this name from now on. I will slowly correct