Either they claimed to be Rogue Cultivators and came to sell rare spirit plants at low prices.
Or they voluntarily joined during recruitment, asking for almost nothing in return.
One or two cases might have been coincidence, but once their numbers grew, something was clearly wrong.
It seemed Nine-Headed Insect and Lifeless Insect Mother's forces were preparing to return to the Eastern Domain.
Spirit Melody Sect was merely one of their targets.
If they were not restrained quickly, more sects and Lineages would likely suffer their poisonous hands.
Xu Changqing naturally did not conceal such matters. Not only did he warn those who had worked with Spirit Melody Sect to stay vigilant, he also notified the Immortal Sect.
After arranging everything, Xu Changqing headed to the rear mountain.
By then, Nü Tu had completed her survey of the Spirit Veins throughout the valley and drawn an array-pattern blueprint that matched the terrain.
On the blueprint, the twin cliffs at the valley entrance were marked with restriction nodes.
Every three zhang along Clearbrook Stream stood an array eye formed by aquatic spirit plants, while the millennia-old trees on the green mountains on both sides were linked by red lines, forming a wood-element Spirit Vein network.
The Silk-Binding Bewilderment Restriction at the valley entrance needed to be bound to the thorny roots and nourished by the Earth Qi from the cliff walls.
The Water Curtain Dominion Barrier of Clearbrook Stream had to connect with the pebbles at the streambed, using them as the array foundation to stabilize the circulation of spiritual energy.
Spirit-Gathering Jade needed to be embedded in the trunks of the ancient trees serving as array eyes, ensuring that the Teleportation Array could work in concert with the grand array.
If the grand array was breached, the Teleportation Array could