After the two round pillars of the building rose up with the sound, the iron chains continued to operate.
However, operating the iron chains consumed a considerable amount of Xiantian power. Qian Ying and Zhou Zixing constantly switched positions while swallowing pills that replenished Xiantian Qi, one after another. The mechanisms inside the building moved slowly, with a clattering sound coming through only once every few minutes, while the iron chain links crept along at a sluggish pace.
Naturally, neither Qian Ying nor Zhou Zixing intended to give up. They had already taken several Pills. If they stopped now, the losses would outweigh the gains; they might as well continue.
Chen Mo, watching from afar, frowned. It was not because he regretted the number of Pills the two had wasted, but because he found their Xiantian power rather lacking. The energy contained within it was too little, leaving the formation's energy circuits short on power and causing the entire formation to run slowly.
If they had used Spirit Stones or a cultivator's True Essence to power it, the entire formation would have fully unfolded by now. Yet at present, only two pillars had risen, while everything else remained painfully slow.
Although the entire mechanism operated slowly, it was still steadily unfolding. Slow as it was, it would eventually be completed.
As the mechanism continued operating, its overall appearance gradually began to emerge.
With a thunderous rumble, iron chains made up of enormous iron rings slowly emerged from the lake. They passed over the tops of the two pillars before entering a hole in the ground behind the building.
Gradually, the iron chains fully emerged from the lake. At last, amid a sharp click, the building's mechanism was finally complete.
For a moment, everyone stared at what the iron chain mechanism