Dan Ran had originally been an inner sect elder of the Divine Blood Sect at the Mahayana stage.
Back when Ying Wu advanced to the Tribulation Transcendence stage, he had acted on Song Wen's orders to set up a massive Spirit-Gathering Formation.
However, Dan Ran's attainments in formations were rather mediocre. At present, he could only serve as Kong Dang's assistant.
At this moment, he stood directly beneath the point where the dark-blue pillar of light was bombarding the barrier. The ground beneath his feet was level and pitch-black, spanning a hundred li, and covered in dark-red mystic patterns.
This was precisely the hub of the Divine Blood Sect's protective grand formation.
Dan Ran's eyes were tightly shut as the spiritual power within him surged, pouring madly into the formation hub beneath his feet.
Yet his divine sense enveloped the entire hub, and he did not dare relax in the slightest.
At present, Dan Ran was the actual controller of the grand formation.
Although the sect-protecting formation could operate normally without anyone controlling it, its power was considerably greater when controlled by someone of profound cultivation.
As for the spiritual power Dan Ran was injecting into the hub, it was not meant to sustain the operation of the entire formation. Rather, it activated the various formation anchors around its perimeter, drawing spiritual energy from the earth veins or spirit stones to replenish the formation's expenditure.
"Bring out the spirit stones!"
No Thought's voice suddenly rang out overhead.
Immediately afterward, spirit stones continuously poured from the storage rings on the hands of the thirty-six people. Every one of them was a high-grade spirit stone.
The spirit stones flew toward the poles of the formation flags. Almost the instant they touched them, all the spiritual energy within was drained away, turning into