Immediately afterward, Old Man Tianqi's phantom turned into a mist and vanished from the Stone Pillar. At the same time, the Stone Pillar burst forth with dazzling radiance, and a gigantic Formation pattern appeared out of thin air.
"This is..." Lin Taichu stared at the scene in surprise.
He had not expected the Formation to be able to recover. Looking at the newly appeared Formation, he willed it, and a fireball formed out of thin air before blasting toward it.
With a deafening boom, flames instantly engulfed the Formation and burned fiercely. Yet the Formation did not shatter as Lin Taichu had expected.
Lin Taichu's eyes widened in astonishment as he stared at the sight before him. "How... how is this possible... Could this Formation be special?"
He launched several more attacks in succession, but the results were exactly the same. The Formation remained stable.
Suddenly, an idea struck Lin Taichu. He took out a piece of metal ore from his Storage Ring and threw it into the Formation. At once, a flash of light lit up, and the ore was swiftly broken down before completely merging into the Formation.
"Whew!" Lin Taichu let out a sigh of relief. This should have worked smoothly, right? Yet just then, the Formation suddenly collapsed and vanished without a trace.
Lin Taichu blankly stared at the collapsed Formation and asked in confusion, "What... what happened?"
Old Man Tianqi's figure condensed beside Lin Taichu once more. "You touched the core of the Formation, so it could no longer sustain itself and could only collapse. Though you completed the task by sheer luck, you also exposed your own weakness."
Lin Taichu froze upon hearing Old Man Tianqi's words. "What do you mean?"
Old Man Tianqi said gravely, "If I am not mistaken, the attributes of