Entering the Seal

Chu Ming agreed and flew toward the eastern side with Qingwei and Thunder Splendor.

Venerable Lingfeng had originally intended to follow, but Chu Ming stopped him. "Senior, stay here and provide support. The chains over there are too dense; having too many people would only make things inconvenient." Venerable Lingfeng considered it, then nodded in agreement.

The eastern formation node was even more breathtaking than they had imagined.

It was a cliff face wrapped in countless sealing chains.

At the center of the cliff was a depression. Floating within it was a fist-sized "phantom seal" condensed from pure light. That was the formation node.

One of the twelve formation nodes.

Chu Ming landed before the cliff face, while Qingwei and Thunder Splendor stood guard to his left and right.

"I'm starting," he said.

Qingwei nodded. "Don't worry. We're here."

Chu Ming took a deep breath and walked to within three feet of the phantom seal at the formation node.

He raised his hand, and the radiance of the Chaos Order Dao Seed surfaced in his palm.

The phantom seal seemed to sense something and began to tremble faintly.

The sealing chains around them started to sway gently, producing a metallic clatter of "clank, clank."

Chu Ming slowly brought his palm closer to the phantom seal.

When less than an inch remained between them, the phantom seal suddenly flared with light!

A powerful suction force surged forth, drawing the Dao Seed's aura from his palm into itself thread by thread.

Chu Ming did not resist, allowing that aura to be drawn away.

This was a two-way process.

As the Dao Seed's aura entered the formation node, the node would also feed a trace of the seal's origin back to the Dao Seed.

When the formation had been laid down, the twelve