The disciple who said this stepped into the Golden Light almost without hesitation. His figure flashed and vanished, and nothing else unusual happened.
Su Jiu truly had no time left to argue with these people.
"If you believe me, leave. If you don't, stop bothering me anyway. I'm sure you don't want to find out the consequences."
After saying this, Su Jiu paid the rogue cultivators no further attention and began studying the formation before her instead.
She wanted to know what kind of formation it was, what it was used for, and, most importantly, why it had appeared only after the Life-and-Death Tree vanished.
The fluctuations from this Grand Formation were unmistakable. If it had existed when she first saw the Life-and-Death Tree, there was absolutely no way she could have failed to sense it.
Just as Su Jiu was puzzling over it to no avail, a thought suddenly sprang into her mind.
Could it have been there all along, but not activated...?
If the Life-and-Death Tree acted as a switch, with the formation activating when the tree was destroyed, then everything made sense.
But if that was truly the case, whoever was behind this must have anticipated this very step to dare act this way...
The mixed blood of a Vermilion Bird and Merfolk... only the Gray-Clothed Man should have been able to obtain it. In that case, this was most likely a trap he had meticulously laid.
As for this unknown formation filled with blood, it hardly took much thought to realize it was nothing good.
Should I keep spending time here because of this formation?
Su Jiu hesitated.
She did not want to waste any more time on this formation, but if she simply left, she feared some unforeseen change might occur...
What baffled her most