Space split open like paper window coverings, revealing two rifts. Two figures flew out, a young Daoist and a little child.
The Daoist swept his gaze across the scene, taking it all in.
He had followed the aura of the blood sea here and now stood east of Emei Mountain, facing south with his back to the north. To his right was Emei Mountain's eastern mountain gate, less than a hundred li away. The ceremonial archway before it, bearing the words "Unrivaled beauty under heaven," was clearly visible. The blood sea lay to his left, likewise less than a hundred li away. Eight million mu of blood sea blotted out the sky and sun, its dense bloodlight forming rosy clouds that spread over five hundred li and already pressed down upon the cloud-capped peaks of Emei. Beneath the blood sea was the place where the Dadu River and Qingyi River joined the Min River, their waters surging. At this moment, a great formation shone in the broad heart of the river at the confluence. The Daoist knew at a glance that this was the Shifting Formation Disc that had drawn the blood sea here. Only a place with such abundant spiritual energy and stable earth veins could support a formation foundation capable of shifting the entire eight-million-mu blood sea. And only Deng Yin, who knew the area inside out, would know that such a place existed near Emei Mountain, where he could lay a formation and use the rivers to draw in the sea.
At the center of that great formation, the Daoist also saw someone he knew: Li Yingqiong.
She was the one who had laid the formation and guided it here.
Of course. Only she could have known the terrain surrounding Emei so well and completed the receiving