Lu Xiaotian had been sitting beside the mountain stream for half a year. It was now late autumn; white dew had turned to frost, covering the ground and the nearby trees in a blanket of crystalline white.
Even Lu Xiaotian's body was coated in a layer of frost. His spiritual power surged, vaporizing it into wisps of mist. The night was as still as water, and the bright moon hung high overhead.
Lu Xiaotian raised a hand and sent four formation plates, each carved with a starburst, flying to the surrounding area. To prepare for this Nascent Soul tribulation, Chen Henian had gone to considerable effort to obtain a defensive treasure from the Ancient Sword Sect: a gauzy blue veil. It was a masterpiece by Yue Chenggang, the Ancient Sword Sect's grandmaster artificer. It did not require much effort to refine, and, according to Chen Henian, the veil had been crafted using the Primordial Spirit of an Eleventh Tier demon electric eel as its core and the eel's hide as its material. It was a defensive treasure of the lightning element, and demon electric eels were capable of devouring lightning.
Of course, unlike other elixir-origin artifacts, it did not need to be nurtured with a Primordial Spirit for decades or even a century to unleash its tremendous power. That naturally came with a drawback: the gauzy blue veil was disposable. Once used, it would be gone.
After Chen Heyu, whose lifespan had been relatively long, fell in the battle at Moonwatch City, Chen Henian had spared no expense to give the Soaring Heavens Palace another Nascent Soul Cultivator. When Lu Xiaotian had first set out for Heaven Sword Mountain to fight, he had indeed been dissatisfied with the two old monsters. But after accepting the gauzy blue veil Chen Henian