Thud.
The last Yellowstone Strongman crumbled into rubble.
Bai Xiaowen felt utterly exhausted. He had used every trump card he had.
Fortunately, this third nine-square grid should have been the final challenge.
Bai Xiaowen searched the four piles of rubble and found an Immortal Crystal Fragment.
Notably, no matter how many Yellowstone Strongmen appeared, each nine-square grid yielded only one Immortal Crystal Fragment.
So far, Bai Xiaowen had collected three Immortal Crystal Fragments.
I can't take these out of the Three Kingdoms Plane World, so they're basically useless to me. But since they're mysterious treasures, perhaps I can trade them to Zuo Ci for something worthwhile. That was Bai Xiaowen's plan. After all, "Immortal Crystal Fragment" certainly sounded impressive.
After resting and fully recovering, Bai Xiaowen walked straight ahead.
After sixty or seventy steps, the thick fog before him cleared.
"Young master, you finally made it out of the formation."
Ge Xuan's voice reached him.
Bai Xiaowen looked up.
He stood in a vast stone cavern that looked like living quarters. It held a stone bed, stone chairs, and some simple household items, all covered in dust.
At the far end of the cavern was what seemed to be a passage, though a dark-gold gate blocked its entrance.
Zuo Ci and his disciple Ge Xuan stood before the gate. They had evidently been waiting a long time.
Still shaken, Bai Xiaowen glanced back at the swirling mist behind him. "What kind of formation was that? It was far too dangerous."
Ge Xuan said, "It should be a formation diagram left by the immortal master Guangchengzi, derived from the River Map and Luo Texts. Originally, it was only meant to trap people, not kill them. Later, Zhou Yishan, a cultivator from the Former Han, modified it and carved stone figures to