Huo Rong's brows drew tight. A cold gleam flashed in his eyes, and his voice carried the authority of one long accustomed to command, along with the anger of being slighted.
"Who do these outsiders think they are? Any stray nobody thinks they can invade our Sin Domain City?"
"The Formation Masters Association has lain low for ages, devoting itself to the study of Great Dao Formation patterns. We have kept our power hidden for so long that the heavens have forgotten what we can do. Now even ants from beyond the domain dare run wild!"
He rose. Thousands of Formation patterns around him blazed to life, and power surged from him as he spoke with absolute certainty.
"Rest assured. In this war against the invaders, the Formation Masters Association will raise a towering Formation, an ancient killing array. With the supreme might of the Formation Path, we will strike down every invader and bury them all within its Formation Eye!"
With that, Huo Rong had no wish to waste more words. He raised a hand and ordered his attendants to see the visitors out.
It had taken only a few breaths. Before Gui Ying could say much at all, the proposed alliance had been settled.
Still dazed, he was escorted out of the Great Hall by the association's attendants. He stood beyond the void blanketed by its countless Formation patterns, struggling to grasp what had just happened.
Barely the time it took an incense stick to burn had passed between his arrival at the association's headquarters and the agreement.
Two of Chaos's foremost powers, the giants of alchemy and the Formation Path, had joined the alliance one after the other. It had cost him neither a soldier nor much persuasion.
After a long while, Gui Ying shook his head,