Su Jiu arrived at Hua Household Village and found that the situation there was no better than in Ma Family Village. If anything, it seemed even worse.
Back in Ma Family Village, the occasional villager had poked their head out to look at the visitors out of curiosity, but here in Hua Household Village, not a single door stirred.
There was no foul stench of decay in Hua Household Village. In fact, a faint floral fragrance lingered in the air.
Before long, Su Jiu reached a flower garden. Its flowers bloomed in a riot of purples and reds, each splendid in its own way, but only one of them could be the medium.
Su Jiu did not rush to find the medium. Instead, she began considering the situation before her. She took out the map Ning Hai had given her, and her gaze suddenly paused. She discovered that the villages near Liu Household Village were arranged around it. Though their distances varied, in terms of terrain, it lay right at the center.
She was not merely a cultivator, but also a Formation Arts Artist. Su Jiu summoned her flying sword and rose into the air. Before long, the entire cluster of villages lay within her view. She still remembered the tree's location, and now she looked at this flower garden...
Su Jiu's pupils contracted. Natural Formation Arts? She had overlooked that. Natural Formation Arts differed from the various formations cultivators laid down. Spiritual qi flowed through cultivator-made formations according to certain patterns, but Natural Formation Arts were different. They changed in countless ways and could use anything as a formation disk or a formation eye. With human intervention, they became very difficult to detect.
*Could Liu Household Village be a barrier within the formation? In that case, these mediums really