Meanwhile.
Within Qiming Village, the residents of all four villages had gathered together, and more and more were growing uneasy.
"Why... why hasn't the Formation Pivot Envoy shown himself since he arrived?"
"It wasn't like this before. The Formation Pivot Envoy would always arrange the auxiliary formation in advance..."
"It's over, it's over... Everything's over..."
"I heard he's a newly appointed Formation Pivot Envoy. He doesn't even know how to set up an auxiliary formation..."
Many had already sensed something was wrong.
And rumors about Chen Yan had spread throughout all of Qiming Village.
Children were crying everywhere in the village.
The old people, whose bodies had grown strange structures, crouched on their thresholds, staring at the pitch-black sky in the distance. Their cloudy eyes brimmed with despair.
Even the Formation Apprentices and Formation Attendants who had come from White Town were all in a panic.
"Pick up the pace!"
Peng Linjun, the Formation Vein Soldier from White Town, hadn't slept, eaten, or rested once since arriving in Qiming Village.
Under his relentless direction—indeed, his near-mad insistence—
all the Formation Vein Soldiers and Formation Reserve Soldiers had built a five-meter-high defensive wall and a network of defensive formations around Qiming Village.
At first, everyone thought Peng Linjun was overstepping his authority, taking on the work that only Chen Yan was entitled to do.
Until yesterday, when Peng Linjun had actually begun trying to form an auxiliary formation with the other Formation Vein Soldiers.
All of Qiming Village had descended into chaos.
Sister Chun, who had been confident nothing would happen to her, was now consumed by fear.
Because, judging by Peng Linjun's actions, everyone could guess that their suspicions about Chen Yan might have been right.
The Formation Pivot Envoy who had come from Luo Town simply didn't know how