"Daoist Ling, you flatter me. I know my own limits only too well. I can only say that human potential is boundless; beneath the threat of death, one can often unleash a few miracles."
"Besides, we made it this far through the combined efforts of the two of us."
"By my strength alone, it would have been impossible even to grasp the full scope of this formation, let alone break it!"
"Furthermore, this is only the preliminary preparation. Whether we can succeed and find a sliver of life still depends on what we do next."
"And for what comes next, I will need Daoist Ling's full cooperation and assistance."
Su Shi'er calmly waved a hand as he spoke with a serious expression.
The more he explored and deduced this grand formation, the more he could sense how extraordinary it was.
Whether it was the Nine Palaces or the Five Elements and Eight Trigrams, they had been worked into endless variations within this formation.
Leaving aside everything else, the power required merely to sustain such an enormous formation was beyond imagination.
Even now, he had yet to determine where the power that had kept such a formation operating for over ten thousand years truly came from.
After all, not the slightest trace of spiritual energy existed within the Ancient God Ruins. Even inside the formation, there was likewise not a hint of spiritual energy fluctuation.
Not to mention that every different formation region concealed dangers capable of destroying heaven and earth.
Had this journey not placed him inside the formation alongside Ling Yue Shang,
there would have been some formation regions he simply could not reach at all. Breaking the formation... would have been out of the question.
To have come this far within such a grand formation was something even