Three days later, at noon.
Mang Village stood empty.
Bulldozers had flattened entire blocks of its original houses.
Heavy construction machinery had worked day and night, forcibly clearing a level parade ground the size of two football fields in the center of the village.
Ten-meter-high electrified wire fences surrounded it, with searchlights and heavy-machine-gun watchtowers sealing the place as tightly as a fortress.
Chen Lin stood on the flying boat in midair, looking down.
Changqingzi stood beside Chen Lin, carrying a cloth sack filled with spirit stones.
"Set up the formation." Chen Lin tossed out thirty-six spare formation flags.
Changqingzi blurred into an afterimage, darting around the perimeter of Mang Village.
Each time a formation flag was driven underground, a pile of low-grade spirit stones was crushed, releasing immense spiritual energy into the formation eye.
Boom!
The mist on the outskirts of Chen Family Village churned violently. The light barrier of the Sun-Covering Cloudmist Formation gave a deep rumble, then surged eastward like a beast opening its jaws, swallowing all of Mang Village in one gulp.
The formation was complete.
Immediately afterward, the array patterns of the Five-Element Spirit-Gathering Formation spread over.
The concentration of spiritual energy in the air soared at a visibly rapid rate.
Wild grass began growing madly across the formerly barren soil.
Although the concentration was nowhere near that inside the Song-Style Courtyard House, to these mortals who had yet to achieve even qi induction, this was already a cultivation haven comparable to a grotto-heaven blessed land.
At three that afternoon.
Ten heavy transport helicopters tore through the outer mist amid deafening roars and landed on Mang Village's parade ground.
Their cabin doors opened.
Five hundred soldiers in assorted combat uniforms filed out and quickly formed ranks on the parade ground.
The atmosphere was oppressive and