When Xiao Hua's divine sense settled upon the defensive formation and examined it closely for a moment, his brows unconsciously furrowed slightly. This defensive formation was rather strange, like a lock covering the sandbar, while the three streams rushing in from all directions were like keys to unlock it. One could only open the defensive formation by relying on the streams. Yet those streams carried a faintly sinister oddity, containing an undercurrent of killing intent. Xiao Hua found it familiar, yet difficult to grasp, and had no choice but to ponder it further.
"How did Fellow Daoist Jingting enter this place the last time you came?" Xiao Hua seemed to have formed a plan as he asked.
True Person Jingting answered without hesitation, "The first time I attended the Yaotai Gathering, I had already obtained a National Teacher's token in the mountain range not far from here. Unfortunately, before I could put it into my Cosmic Bag, another fellow Daoist discovered it. That fellow Daoist was stronger than I was, and I was struck into that stream. To evade that fellow Daoist's pursuit, I used the Water Evasion Technique to hide. Who would have thought that some utterly inexplicable force would carry me into that sandbar? It was only... my time within the sandbar was extremely short. I was carried out after merely glimpsing the scene inside. Only later, through a series of coincidences, did I learn that what lay within was the human essence spoken of by ordinary Daoist sect cultivators! Alas, since learning it was human essence, I came here every time I entered, hoping to take a look. But apart from that first time, only this time have I been able to see the ancient trees around it. In the previous several hundred years, the Star Lord