After receiving Chen Chuan's approval, Wen Mingzhong wasted no time. Decisively and swiftly, he led his people in setting up the ritual at this newly opened pass.
The people he had brought appeared to be elites from the Secret Sect Review Bureau. Once orders were given, every one of them began their tasks in an orderly manner.
The ritual's first purpose was to suppress the secret ritual previously arranged by the Old Imperial Household, preventing them from turning it to their advantage if they attacked.
Its second purpose was to prepare that anomaly. Before doing so, they needed to create conditions favorable to themselves in order to enhance the anomaly's power, while also ensuring they could contain it afterward.
Chen Chuan also took the opportunity to learn about the anomaly and found it quite interesting.
Anomalies, or strange tales, came in many varieties. But broadly speaking, in his view, they could be divided into two types: area-based and trigger-based.
The representative of the area-based type was Maoshan Strange Tales. Once one left its designated area, it no longer had any effect. It had to be resolved through certain procedures, and if those failed, the entire area needed to be destroyed.
Trigger-based ones were like the Racoon Cat Rumor he carried. If the conditions for its appearance were met, it could exist anywhere until those conditions disappeared or it was triggered again.
What was worth noting was that such strange tales might not be particularly powerful at first and could not compare to area-based strange tales, but they often possessed a certain capacity for growth.
The strange tale brought by the Esoteric Sect Bureau this time clearly belonged to this category. It could be used by people and its power could be amplified through certain conditions.
Before bringing it out, Wen