After Zhu Shisan died, Xu Yi found two tattered pages of formation diagrams among his belongings. Later, he used his vast collection of formation manuals to reconstruct the formation, which he named the Seven Aversion Palace Locking Formation.
Later, when Xu Yi took up his post in Zhongshan Prefecture, he had gone to the mountain gate where the Fanyang Prefecture magistrate's office was located to bid farewell to Commander Ming Liding.
As he entered the plaza before the mountain gate, Xu Yi noticed traces of the Seven Aversion Palace Locking Formation laid out in several places. (For details, see Chapter Seventy-Seven, "Night Walker.")
At the time, however, his cultivation was still low, and Ming Liding had set up the prefectural troops' camp there. No matter how tempted Xu Yi was, there was nothing he could do about it.
Now, he held a position of power and influence. Seeing how important the Sun Radiance Token was, he couldn't help entertaining the same thieving thoughts again.
Xu Yi was a man of action. Once the idea took root, he got moving. He informed Xi Mengfan, then left Duoluo Mountain before Xi Mengfan could even reply.
If some other chief strategist saw him acting this way, they'd be furious enough to spit blood.
After leaving Duoluo Mountain, Xu Yi didn't stop. He promptly left Auspicious Chimes Immortal City and headed south.
He flew more than ten thousand li without stopping, reaching the depths of a vast forest. There, he found a cliff face, carved out a stone chamber, and began refining his wish pearls.
That was right—he intended to break through to the Mortal Transformation Fourth Realm.
All this time, he hadn't attempted the breakthrough, not because he lacked enough wish pearls to see it through, but because he worried that once he