Very soon—
Three days flashed by. After making all the necessary arrangements, Liu Zide and Zhang Qing, the Dao Sect Master, set out for the Celestial Palace with a group of trusted aides and a large quantity of Spirit Stones. They intended to pay their respects to the seniors at the Celestial Palace before heading to an unknown continent to complete this mission.
A large flying vessel, laden with Spirit Stones and several hundred personnel.
Standing on the deck, Zhang Qing watched the clouds rolling and unfurling at the horizon. He let out a soft sigh, then murmured absentmindedly, "The Sky Axe Sect Master is nicknamed Lao Kui. He and I were close friends long ago."
"Did he ever tell you that the Sky Axe Sect has a mid-grade Body Integration Realm mountain-protecting grand formation?"
"Ten thousand years ago, an oddity emerged from the Sky Axe Sect. Everyone in the Sky Axe Sect practiced body cultivation, yet that oddity alone was a formation cultivator. Before his cultivation broke through to the Body Integration Realm and he roamed the continent, he left the Sky Axe Sect a mid-grade Body Integration Realm grand formation."
"The Dao Sect is Mystic Heaven Province's strongest formation cultivator sect, yet even the Dao Sect possesses only one low-grade Body Integration Realm grand formation. We simply have no mountain-protecting grand formation of the mid-grade Body Integration Realm."
"If you want to know the exact reason behind this, that is quite a long story."
Liu Zide stood quietly at the side without speaking. He had not asked about this story; Zhang Qing had chosen to tell it himself. Still, since the man wanted to talk, Liu Zide did not mind hearing a little gossip.
"The circumstances back then were rather complicated. I'll try to keep it brief."
"That