"We can be certain now. This is the place."
Since the stakes were so high, the three of them checked and compared their findings repeatedly.
At last, they confirmed the destination of their journey.
"Wait."
The shrewd-looking cultivator stopped the others.
"What, we're not going in yet?" one of the others asked in confusion, widening his eyes as he scanned their surroundings again and again, but found nothing amiss.
"Something's wrong here. Look outside again. Isn't there a layer of formation around it?"
Because of an innate talent akin to intuition, the shrewd cultivator clearly placed greater importance on safety.
"A formation?"
The white-haired man in green robes crouched down. Suddenly, a slit opened from the pitch-black pupil at the center of each eye.
Behind the slits in his eyes, boundless black mist spread over his vision.
He let out a muffled grunt.
"What happened?"
"Are you all right?"
"I'm fine. Just a minor injury."
The white-haired man wiped away a bead of blood that had seeped from his pupil.
"There is indeed a formation here. I saw a sea of stars, and all the Star Lords in the heavens."
The shrewd cultivator said, "Looks like we haven't come to the wrong place. The Ancient Heavenly Court had a great cultivation formation, hailed even in the ancient Cultivation World as the greatest cultivation formation of all time."
"The Celestial Stars?"
The third man, who had remained silent all this while, suddenly spoke.
"Yes, that very formation."
"Can you break it?"
The other two looked at the white-haired man.
"Of course we couldn't break the complete formation, but this is only a formation node in a corner at its outer edge. Besides, it's broken and indistinct. Getting inside shouldn't pose much of a problem."
"Of course, just in case, we