His guess was correct. As early as when Xu Taiping decided to ascend the Cloud-Ascending Platform, he had given Elder Zhang all the protective treasures belonging to him and the other Azure Dragon Armor soldiers.
"Bang, bang, bang!"
At that moment, several clouds of black mist revealed their true forms as demonic beasts and began attacking Elder Zhang furiously as he laid out the formation.
But Elder Zhang simply had too many treasures on him. As soon as one broke, another took its place.
Thus, no matter how powerful these demonic beasts were, destroying all his treasures in one go would still take at least the time needed to drink a cup of tea or burn a stick of incense.
"Boom!..."
Just as the demonic beasts' attacks grew increasingly fierce and swift, Elder Zhang finally planted the last formation flag, setting the enormous Spirit-Shocking Formation into preliminary motion.
Next, Elder Zhang only needed to activate several formation nodes of the grand formation to bring the Spirit-Shocking Formation fully into operation, thereby pulling open the invisible Heavenly Gate above the Eleventh Floor of the Mysterious Wasteland Tower.
Unlike the Spirit-Shocking Formation Fairy Lingyue had taught Xu Taiping to set up that day, the one Elder Zhang had laid out now was more complete. It no longer targeted just a single cultivator, but this entire expanse of heaven and earth.
"Bang!"
Just as Zhu Huai and the other two watched Elder Zhang somewhat nervously, following him as he activated the formation nodes step by step, a sudden crash rang out above the Cloud-Ascending Platform.
Zhu Huai immediately adjusted the image in the spirit mirror to look above the Cloud-Ascending Platform.
There, Ancient Demon Chi Yin finally failed to withstand Xu Taiping and the Blade Slave's combined assault. The Blade Slave seized an