Half a month passed in the blink of an eye, and today was New Year's Eve. It was also the perfect day for the Huashan Sect to activate the "Hidden Mountain, Bewitching Immortals Grand Array" Annie had set up for them!
In another half-hour, at midnight, the old year would give way to the new, and spring would arrive. The Huashan Sect's protective grand array would soon unfold, heralding the start of a new year—and even a new era.
Originally, the grand array wouldn't have been completed until after the Spring Festival. But Huashan Sect Leader Yue Buqun wanted to choose an auspicious time, and he also wanted to see whether the array's activation and the gathering of spiritual energy might help them master the New Purple Mist Divine Art sooner. So he simply brought nearly all the Huashan disciples along to help. Even old Feng Qingyang couldn't resist joining in.
And so!
Naturally, the time needed to complete the "Hidden Mountain, Bewitching Immortals Grand Array" was shortened considerably.
In the end, they managed to finish connecting the earth veins between all the locations, array points, and central nodes before the new year arrived. Now all they had to do was wait for Yue Lingshan to activate the Array Disk. Once she did, the Huashan Sect would complete its ascension, and the entire sect would "rise into the clouds" and officially transform from an ordinary martial sect into an immortal sect!
However, while everyone in the Huashan Sect ate their New Year's Eve dinner, nervously keeping watch and anxiously waiting for the moment to arrive, Yue Lingshan and Annie had gone down the mountain together and were waiting outside Huashan's main gate for the final hour.
They had no choice but to come!
As the one who would activate the