Cloud-Rain Sect, Pill Peak.
Inside the cave abode of True Person Azure Furnace, the peak master, she abruptly opened her eyes from cultivation. Sensing a change outside, she instinctively murmured, "Hm?"
Once True Person Hundred Flowers' order reached Formation Peak, its cultivators responded at once and activated the Cloud-Rain Sect's Sect-Guarding Grand Formation.
The Fourth Tier Grand Formation came to life.
Every cultivator inside it felt the change.
That was why True Person Azure Furnace had opened her eyes.
"Why activate the Sect-Guarding Grand Formation now? Has something serious happened in the sect again?"
True Person Azure Furnace murmured the question to herself.
Leaving aside the vast number of Spirit Stones a Fourth Tier Grand Formation consumed each day, the very fact that it had been activated spoke volumes.
Her first thought was that something had happened to the sect's Nascent Soul ancestor again.
After all, word had spread earlier that Elder Xuanji had passed away. The Pill Cauldron Sect and Heavenly Sword Sect had even pressured the Cloud-Rain Sect for a time because of it.
She did not know what had happened afterward, but the crisis had passed.
Now that the sect had abruptly activated its Sect-Guarding Grand Formation again, she could not help worrying.
Her first reaction was to ask Daoist Carefree, the "acting sect master."
"No response—"
She sent messages to several other Golden Core Late Stage cultivators in the sect. All she learned was that Daoist Carefree had gone to the Heavenly Sword Sect.
As for why the Sect-Guarding Grand Formation had been activated, none of them knew a thing.
After asking around, True Person Azure Furnace still could not shake her worry. She considered it for a moment, then took out the Hundred Flowers Maiden's Communication Talisman.
"May I ask, Grand Elder, has something happened