The entrance to the formation opened!
Everyone looked toward the city lord, Immortal Lord Zhongyuan.
Immortal Lord Zhongyuan said, "You three prodigies, please enter first and wait inside!"
"As for the others..." His gaze swept over them. "Immortal Lord Stone Gatherer, Fellow Daoist Hidden Sword, you two come in as well!"
"And Elder Liu, you should come in and take a look too, so you'll accept the outcome wholeheartedly!"
"No one else needs to come!"
With that, Immortal Lord Zhongyuan made an inviting gesture.
He Pingsheng, Ji Wuxin, and Wen Buwan stepped inside first.
Hidden Sword and Stone Gatherer followed, with Elder Liu last.
Deputy City Lord Duan, Duan Nanfeng, suddenly said, "I want to go in and take a look too!"
Immortal Lord Zhongyuan shook his head. "Sorry, but you should stay out!"
The city lord had never really approved of what Duan Nanfeng's son had done. For all these years, out of consideration for Duan Nanfeng, he had held back and said nothing. Now that her son had been beaten to death, he naturally felt an indescribable pleasure.
To prevent Duan Nanfeng from offending these future prodigies, or even putting obstacles in their way and thereby implicating him, Immortal Lord Zhongyuan, he directly refused to let her enter this time.
Once Immortal Lord Zhongyuan entered, the formation closed!
Inside the formation were a full hundred red lanes.
He Pingsheng, Ji Wuxin, and Wen Buwan each took one.
The three Immortal Lords and Elder Liu each took a lane as well.
"Good!" Immortal Lord Zhongyuan said. "Begin now..."
He Pingsheng and the other two began making their way through the formation at a leisurely pace.
There were almost no obstacles ahead!
All three advanced straight to the eighth segment!
Once they reached the eighth segment, Elder Liu's expression suddenly