Looking at the nearly black lines on the floor, Su Jiu finally understood why, despite having swept this place with her divine sense when she first entered, she had discovered neither the white cloth banner nor the demonic qi here.
So that was how it worked...
Yun Huanling was even more astonished than Su Jiu.
After all, this was the first ninth-tier formation he had ever seen in his life.
Yes, carved into the floor of the small entrance hall where they stood was a ninth-tier formation. A genuine ninth-tier formation, without any exaggeration or clever shortcuts-it was truly and unequivocally ninth tier.
To almost every formation arts artist, ninth-tier formations were an unattainable existence, like a heavenly chasm, found only in legends.
Of course, some advanced formation manuals mentioned them, but that was all. Moreover, only a tiny handful of people had the good fortune to read those manuals, which was the main reason Yun Huanling and Su Jiu could recognize a ninth-tier formation.
It could be said that no ninth-tier formation had appeared openly in the Azure Realm for over a thousand years-not in the Black Market, the Ghost Market, or the Auction House.
It was as though they had long since been lost to history.
Even the sect-protecting grand formations of first-rate sects like the Vast Righteousness Sect and the Azure Tide Sect were only eighth tier.
That alone showed just how rare a ninth-tier formation was.
Any sect that produced a ninth-tier formation arts artist would rise to an unrivaled position.
"So why is there a ninth-tier formation here?"
By now, Yun Huanling could hardly spare a thought for talking to anyone. He simply lay on the floor, studying the formation.
"Such a tiny formation, yet its reach is this extensive. It can even conceal the