Before long, Grand Elder Tian Heng explained the full story, and only then did everyone learn that, even before Fang Qianyuan entered secluded cultivation, he had used the Eye of the Future to foresee that formation master Lei Zhengming would soon fully master the Teleportation Array in the Past King's possession.
This was, after all, a legacy left by the sages of earlier generations. Although the times had changed and the traditions of their many arts had been lost, recovering those legacies and adapting them to a new era was far easier than creating everything anew.
Moreover, formations inherently accorded with the principles of the Great Dao. The Formation Dao was far easier to grasp than the Spirit Command Dao; ordinary people merely found it difficult to master because of the limits of their own intelligence and effort.
With the support of the Heavenly Realms Alliance, the great sects and aristocratic clans throughout the Spirit-Taming World gathered the brightest minds with the greatest comprehension among countless cultivators, who forgot food and sleep as they researched and deciphered the formations.
The Ten Great Sects even jointly offered enormous rewards, spurring them to work hard with generous bounties.
In the end, Lei Zhengming's team, under the Spirit Taming Sect, succeeded first. The timing differed little from Fang Qianyuan's prediction, making their achievement Grand Elder Tian Heng's trump card for bringing everyone to heel at this very assembly.
Moreover, Fang Qianyuan had prepared for a rainy day by dispatching numerous scouts to the far shore of the starry sky. They could help establish hubs of communication, progressing from small Formation Arrays to large ones, and then to magnificent star gates capable of supporting the entire expeditionary army. The efficiency of teleportation could even surpass that of the earlier campaign against the Jianmu World.