A year had passed. Streams of clear qi surged throughout the lands from Red Cloud to Jiangyang. Pale blue formation flags settled upon spiritual veins, enveloping the surrounding region along the Li River.
Green Luo.
Mystic wind rose and billowed, and azure clouds drifted apart, revealing two figures within. Each worked his arts, driving formation flags into the mountains, making the spiritual energies between heaven and earth increasingly lively and ceaselessly turbulent.
Guan Quan rode a bank of violet rosy light. With a gentle grasp, he drew an azure jade formation disk into his hand.
The disk was crystalline and translucent, carved with cloud patterns and inscribed with ancient characters: [Clear Capital, Mysterious Heaven; I command the mountains and waters].
As the formation disk was fully activated, the grand formation in the mountains settled completely into place. From Golden Robe Valley at the northernmost tip of Red Cloud to Baleful Gorge east of Jiangyang, everything came under the command of a wondrous current of clear qi. Spiritual energies danced, nourishing the mountains and waters.
"The [Clear Heaven Mystic Imperial Grand Formation] requires mountains and waters as its foundation. Jade Flow is the mountain range dividing Yong and Chu, second only to the Qinling Mountains. With the Li River nourishing it as well, this grand formation has grown even more wondrous."
Clear qi ascended high into Mysterious Heaven and governed the mountains and waters, clearing the mind, dispelling karmic burdens, and greatly benefiting spiritual inspiration. Many ancient Dao traditions had studied it. Even today, when ancestral qi no longer manifested, this path faintly possessed the standing to rank first among the twelve qi.
Guan Quan raised his hand and pushed, sending the formation disk into the hands of the silver-robed man beside him.
Xu Xuan took the formation disk and briefly