Cinnabar-and-Verdant Spirit Field.
Apart from when the field was first established, when two Nascent Soul Great Cultivators from the Eight Great Households had personally appeared, two Golden Core True Lords had guarded it at all other times.
This was no secret to the various factions, for it was a trap Lin Mo had deliberately laid, waiting for the Tai Sui Gate Fiends to throw themselves into his net.
Aside from the two Golden Core cultivators, there were only some Qi Refining disciples from the collateral branches of the Eight Great Households. They watered the spirit plants on schedule every day and tended to their growth, spending the rest of their time meditating and cultivating.
"Just what spirit plants are they growing in that restricted area? Last time I accidentally stepped inside, I was blasted straight out before I even caught a glimpse..."
"No idea. I only heard it has something to do with Guest Elder Lin. Never mind us-even the two Golden Core cultivators aren't allowed near it!"
"Shh, don't go making wild guesses. I heard from someone in the Wu Household that those are Guest Elder Lin's life-bound spirit plants, intimately tied to his cultivation. If anything goes wrong with them, he could very well be crippled..."
On the ridges at the edges of the spirit field, many disciples of the Eight Great Households whispered among themselves, occasionally glancing toward its center.
There, a faint, pale golden barrier flickered softly.
It was a Concealment Formation Lin Mo had personally set up. It could block the Divine Sense probes of Golden Core cultivators, though its defensive capabilities were only average.
It was not that a stronger formation could not be set up. Rather, with Lin Mo's current mastery of formations, the best he could manage was a quasi-seventh-grade formation like