Beneath the Soul Tree, there were no soldiers besides Su Xiao, Bubu Wang, Amu, and Baja. Even Guy was absent.
Su Xiao was bare-chested, his expression somewhat weary. He had spent the entire day setting up formations in the surrounding area with materials obtained from the Milu Kingdom.
It was not only those materials. Su Xiao had used many items from his storage space as well. Whenever he lacked a material, he substituted various items instead. As long as their properties were similar, there would basically be no problem after his processing.
After an entire day, Su Xiao had completed less than half of the formations. Bubu Wang was also exhausted from searching for suitable locations to set up the negative-ion plasma superconducting devices. Amu was even completely drained, having buried clumps of ice energy underground.
Once activated, the ice energy would form an enormous formation. Using it as a medium, all the alchemical formations Su Xiao had set up would activate instantly.
When Su Xiao did something, he either did not do it at all or took it to the extreme. If Lie did not descend in this area, he would have to activate his backup plan.
Su Xiao did not want to activate the backup plan. If he did, he would miss the changes taking place in Sand City. It was an opportunity to reap benefits, and might even determine whether he could rise to prominence within the seventh rank.
If he handled the situation in Sand City well, he would obtain a huge amount of resources. If he handled it poorly, even after eliminating Lie, Su Xiao would have to flee this world in disgrace. He might even be trapped here forever.
Su Xiao took a bottle of water from his storage space and gulped down several