Yuan Feng did not mind Zhe Qipeng's words. He turned to the other two cultivators and smiled. "I presume Elder Man and Elder Hu have also seen through the crux of the matter?"
Elder Man was named Man Yun. He was a cultivator with an unusually long torso and even longer arms, with a white patch on his face. Upon hearing Yuan Feng's question, he neither confirmed nor denied it. Instead, he turned to look at the other old woman, whose face was flushed red—Hu Yue Shi, another elder of the Huanling Sect.
Hu Yue Shi opened her eyes, and a cold gleam flashed through them. Her tiny black eyes fixed on Yuan Feng as she shrieked in a voice like a night owl's. "**Elder Yuan! We know this operation is led by you, and the Sect Master also instructed us to place the sect's greater interests first. But there is no need for you to show off, is there? Even if we did not know before, now that we are sitting here, we have naturally consulted the records! Tens of thousands of years ago, our Huanling Sect stood at the height of its power. Yet for some unknown reason, the Sect Master and all the elders vanished overnight. From then on, the Huanling Sect never recovered, struggling at every step among the cultivation sects of Xiaoyu Continent. Could this Spirit Awakening Five Aggregates Formation before us be connected to those missing predecessors?"
"Elder Hu is quite right!" Yuan Feng clapped his hands and laughed. "Yuan has devoted himself to the Dao of Formations and searched through all the Huanling Sect's records. At last, within an old discarded jade pendant, I discovered the incomplete Spirit Awakening Five Aggregates Formation. From this formation, I also obtained some vague information. The disappearance