"As long as we can catch the mastermind, that will be enough. This person is far too vicious and scheming; he must be eliminated! Too many cultivators died in the battle of Nine Emperor City. Our two families have made far too many enemies. If any one of them reaches the Tribulation Transcendence stage someday, won't our two families die without even a burial ground?"
An elder of the Zhao Family interjected.
His words won unanimous agreement from the others.
While they were talking, the formation was completed.
A semi-transparent white jade disk covered the sky and blotted out the sun, its dazzling radiance forcing the cultivators who saw it to shut their eyes in pain.
The soul of the Zhao Family's First Patriarch, who presided over the formation core, instantly split into several million strands.
At a speed far beyond that of Grand Ascension cultivators, they swept across the entire northern region.
Everything each strand of soul saw was as though the Zhao Family's First Patriarch had seen it himself.
This was originally a divine ability that only Tribulation Transcendence cultivators should possess—traveling from the Blue Sea at dawn to Cangwu at dusk. Only with the formation and the power of an imitation immortal artifact could the Zhao Family's First Patriarch barely accomplish it.
In less than a quarter of an hour, aside from the far northern lands that barred outsiders from entry, the entire northern region had more or less been searched.
One strand of soul suddenly stopped moving, then transformed into a blue eyeball.
At the same time, the formation reacted.
Blue light flashed through the eyes of the Zhao Family's First Patriarch as he controlled the formation, and he instantly saw what that strand of soul had seen.
A faint yellow glimmer drifted through a certain