Zhang Yu had the Square-Shifting Tablet floating before him. This was the most important item for controlling the great formation outside. Once he refined it, the formation would be entirely theirs to command.
Of course, the formation was not merely the formation itself. The many Creation Refiners and cultivators within it, the Ring Hall flying vessels, and the host of soldiers all had to be counted as part of it. The magical power and spiritual force of these people and objects were likewise part of the great formation, capable of helping drive its mechanisms.
Sleeping Foothills' upper-level strength naturally could not compare to the army King Xi had brought, but Zhang Yu's attainments in the Heartlight Seal and his cultivation were by no means comparable to Old Daoist Lin's. His control of the formation would thus be subtler and more profound, and its power would not be any weaker.
It took him only half a day to completely refine the artifact. He did not use the methods of the Twin Truth Sect or the Rongyou Sect, from which Old Daoist Lin hailed, but his abundant Heartlight Seal and profound cultivation were enough to accomplish this.
Still, a slight lack of harmony within it was unavoidable. Yet so long as King Xi did not come attacking, Sleeping Foothills could already defend itself well enough with the outer and inner formations.
Having finished this, he put the item away and continued his seated cultivation. As for the other matters he had arranged, he trusted his fellow cultivators would handle them properly.
At this moment, Shi Yanxin had arrived outside Light Capital. After he released the agreed-upon talismanic signal, King Xi immediately invited him in. However, he did not go to see King Xi. Instead, he conjured a document and had the attendant