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Sure enough!
A dozen or so miles deep inside the mountain, Yao Zixiu and the other four Heaven-and-Earth Realm elders of the Heavenly Demon Race appeared in a spacious cavern, their bodies still enveloped in pulses of yellow light. At the center of the cavern lay a pale-gold metal floor as smooth as a mirror, covered in runes that shimmered with spiritual light. In the middle of the floor stood an extraordinarily complex formation made of silver metal, its surface covered in gleaming silver runes. At each of its four corners stood a Demon Beast Statue with exceptionally graceful curves, facing the formation's center. These were clearly the formation's control hubs. Stranger still, although the formation glittered with the peculiar light of magic power, it gave off no fluctuations of magic power whatsoever...
Yao Zixiu and the others were all glaring furiously at Elder Purple Gourd...
Once again, Elder Purple Gourd had just wandered off on his own to inspect one of the metal Demon Beast Statues. He had even remarked that its body was smooth all over, that it looked like some sort of water-element demon beast, and that it was rather adorable...
"Everyone! Haven't you noticed? We can't extend our divine sense here anymore!" Faced with their angry glares, Elder Purple Gourd remained utterly unconcerned and spoke casually.
At his words, Yao Zixiu and the other cultivators noticed it too. "Ah, this place has restrictions on divine sense!" they exclaimed in surprise.
"What powerful divine sense restrictions! My divine sense can't even leave my body!"
"What is this formation?"
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A formation? Li Xiaoya had naturally heard the Heaven-and-Earth Realm elders' discussion. Delight surged through him, but worry and uncertainty followed close behind. The formation those Heavenly Demon Race elders had discovered was, without a doubt,