Within the formation.
With Su Shi'er and Ling Yue Shang working together, they first set up formations of the corresponding attributes in advance.
Then, Su Shi'er employed a Formation Dao secret art to activate the various formation regions, making them collide and clash according to the principle of Five Elements Generation and Restraint.
Wood restrained earth, metal restrained wood, fire restrained metal!
At first, it was still somewhat strenuous.
But as the earth element formation region was broken, the great formation's power plummeted. The subsequent formation regions also became much easier to crack.
By the time they reached the formation region filled with earthfire magma, Su Shi'er could easily break it even without relying on Five Elements Generation and Restraint, using Formation Dao methods alone.
Naturally, Su Shi'er knew nothing of the changes in the central region of the Ancient God Ruins that had been triggered by his breaking the formation from within.
In his perception, he and Ling Yue Shang had jumped down from the abyssal fissure that appeared at Jue Mountain daoist temple.
By all rights, the formation should have been located beneath Jue Mountain as well.
As for the spatial fluctuations that had once appeared in the abyss that day, he had already fallen unconscious at the time and had not sensed even the slightest thing.
As the eight formation regions were broken, Su Shi'er led Ling Yue Shang effortlessly through the various formation regions by teleportation.
The formation, constructed entirely from his own attainments in the Formation Dao, no longer held the slightest danger capable of threatening their lives.
And within these eight formation spaces, just as they had initially judged, each contained a giant sword hanging upside down that corresponded to its respective attribute.
Upon close inspection, they could see even more clearly.
Deep within