After you entered the Xing Qi Great Mountain Region, barely more than ten days passed before all the omens vanished.
What replaced them was a succession of tremors several times more violent than any large-scale Qi surge you had experienced.
Someone with senses slightly stronger than average, like you, could even feel the air becoming much thicker because of it. If one could arrive at the Xing Qi Great Mountain Region now, even without competing with others for the various grades of condensed Qi, simply comprehending the Dao here would be more useful than an ordinary moment of enlightenment. Great gains would surely follow.
Even Ye Chen was tempted, but in the end, he did not truly choose to do nothing. Given Ye Qingchen's cultivation, the best choice was for him to remain within the formation and comprehend the Dao, so as not to cause trouble for you all. Ye Chen, however, could still try to secure some lower-grade Qi near the formation. This was also a judgment Ye Chen had made based on your analysis.
Among the information you had organized, of the sixty-one people who had entered over the past ten years, only two possessed the strength to kill Ye Chen before he could retreat into the formation upon seeing that things had turned bad.
Both had received your special attention beforehand. Although they had escaped afterward, you could tell that both had fled in the direction opposite to where the formation was set up. Having gone through such an experience, they would certainly know in their hearts where they could go and where they could not. The chance of them returning to seek death was exceedingly low.
From this perspective, as long as Ye Chen did not stray too far from the formation you had arranged, there