Within the slightly distorted, pitch-black space, an enormous black hall floated in a valley shrouded in black mist. Not far away, a black-haired youth gazed at it with a slight frown. "Those bastards from the Soul Hall have no imagination when it comes to choosing locations. Do they really have to pick such sinister places?"
This was naturally the Earth Hall, one of the three Heavenly Dipper Halls. As a branch hall second only to the Soul Hall's headquarters, it was countless times larger than the Earth Fiend Hall Xiao Yan had destroyed before. Since he intended to wipe them all out in one fell swoop, he could no longer rush in recklessly as he had before. He had to make every possible preparation.
"Master." While Xiao Yan was grumbling, Little Yao emerged from his body and said respectfully, "Everything you ordered is ready."
"If everything's ready, then let's begin." Xiao Yan glanced at the spatial barrier surrounding the enormous black hall and swiftly formed a series of hand seals. Dense patterns of light lit up across the ground, linking together until they formed an extremely intricate formation.
The instant the formation took shape, the spatial barrier surrounding the enormous hall silently vanished, and an even sturdier spatial barrier appeared in its place. However, this barrier belonged not to anyone from the Soul Hall, but to Xiao Yan.
Having inherited the Heaven Refining Ancient Formation, Xiao Yan had studied formations like these to some extent in his previous life. Later, he had put some effort into collecting other formations and used them as a foundation to create several powerful formations of his own. The one he had just deployed was designed specifically to counter spatial seals like this. It was called the Chaotic Origin Formation, and his main reason for