With everything on the spirit islands settled, Perfected Zhiyang immediately returned to the Taizhen Sect. He then gathered several trusted confidants and began poring over vast numbers of ancient texts.
After more than ten days of searching, they finally found an ancient text describing the seal in the Boundless Sea, tucked away in an inconspicuous corner of the sect's secret repository.
It recorded not only the various matters concerning the seal in the Boundless Sea, but also the origins and lineage of the Taizhen Sect.
As it turned out, in ancient times, after the Ancient Demons had been defeated and the demonic qi sealed away, the Taiyi Sect, a major righteous path sect of Great Jin, had sent some of its disciples to the Heavenly South to establish the Taizhen Sect.
Their mission had been to guard the seal in the Boundless Sea. But so much time had passed that the Taizhen Sect had long since lost contact with Great Jin, and its cultivation arts had developed into a lineage of their own.
As for their mission of guarding the seal, they had long since cast it beyond the highest heavens.
Fortunately, the records did confirm that the demonic qi abyss was essentially as Xiao Yu had described it: it posed a grave danger, and if left unaddressed, it would certainly threaten the entire Heavenly South.
Perfected Zhiyang therefore sought out Xiao Yu and Wei Wuya and told them what he had discovered. All three took the matter extremely seriously.
They immediately assembled a large group of Array Masters, who began studying how to repair the sealing magic formation under the guidance of several grandmasters of array formations.
After more than half a year of round-the-clock research and experimentation, they finally set up numerous magic formations on Seven Spirit Island