"What do you mean, the Gongyang Clan is carrying a Death Banner into Jiangbei to scavenge corpses?"

The instant night fell.

Millennium and a host of Strange Entities suddenly appeared out of thin air around Flat City.

In the darkness.

An enormous formation lay across the wasteland.

Scarlet lines drawn in blood formed its foundation, with Eerie Stones embedded at its nodes. Vast quantities of human blood mixed with remains were drawn toward the formation's lines.

Standing beside the formation, Millennium took an Eerie Stone from Qianqiu and carefully placed it in the last empty node.

The next instant—

Every line in the formation connected.

The enormous formation pulsed with scarlet light in the darkness, like something breathing, yearning for something. At its very center.

Stood a ritual platform.

All kinds of ghost materials and Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures surrounded the platform, while the faint wails of departed souls continually sounded above the formation.

"The Blood Sacrifice Formation is complete."

Millennium looked at the empty platform and said softly, his expression calm, "Once our King places the Mountain-Skeleton Embryo upon it, the formation will be ready to help him ascend to Wraith King and establish a legacy for the ages."

"You don't seem very excited." Beside him, Qianqiu turned to look at Millennium.

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After a long silence, Millennium turned his gaze toward Nameless Mountain in the distance. "I don't know why, but I have a faint sense of unease."

"What's causing it?"

"I reached the Jiangbei Wasteland before you. Since then, I've searched almost the entire wasteland without finding our mistress. I suspect she may be dead."

Qianqiu fell silent too. After a moment, he rasped, "You mean our mistress might have lost our King's Special Armament, the Godslaying Spear?"

"That would be rather bad."

Before Millennium could answer, Qianqiu continued murmuring, "When our King left the Jiangbei Wasteland during the last Rainy Season, he