After repelling the spirit beasts' attack, Jiang Ping'an immediately continued setting up the grand formation with Li Tongya.
Jiang Shuyue and Yan Ruyu arranged for the soldiers to go to the foot of the mountain and cut off the heads of the spirit beasts killed by the Heavenly Flame Meteor Jade Talismans as proof of enemy kills, to exchange for military merit.
At the same time, they cut up any spirit beast meat that had not been burned black for military provisions.
In less than half an hour, Jiang Ping'an and Li Tongya had joined forces to complete the grand formation.
The formation was called the Xuandu Vajra Grand Formation, and it had three forms: a defensive mountain-protecting barrier, a mist formation, and a mist formation combined with a defensive mountain-protecting barrier.
Not long after the formation was set up, the soldiers returned to the mountainside with the harvested spirit beast heads and meat.
6,147 first-rank spirit beast heads, 422 second-rank spirit beast heads, 27 third-rank spirit beast heads, and 3 fourth-rank spirit beast heads.
Jiang Ping'an ordered the officers and soldiers to formally set up camp on the mountainside.
Finally, he set up an Essence-Strengthening Formation on the central peak to imbue the newly refined Burning Essence Meteor Jade Talismans and Golden Sword Jade Talismans with spirituality.
The Essence-Strengthening Formation was easy to arrange. The key was the Essence Stones that supplied it with worldly energy.
Jiang Ping'an used only Low-Grade Spirit Stones and Mid-grade Spirit Stones.
One Superior Spirit Stone could be exchanged for a hundred Low-Grade Spirit Stones, but the worldly energy contained within one Superior Spirit Stone could not compare to that contained in a hundred Low-Grade Spirit Stones. It amounted to only around sixty percent.
And formations did not care about the harmful impurities within