Azure runes appeared one after another among the clouds, seemingly trying to form chains and channels to draw out the power of the underground spirit vein.
The formation was still frantically drawing in spiritual energy from within and around it, waking many Luoxia Sect disciples from their breathing exercises. They stared at the sky in shock.
The disciples of Luoxia Sect were certainly familiar with the Mountain-Guarding Formation, but normally, they moved about with Transit Jade Pendants. Almost none of the younger disciples had ever seen the formation activate.
Even the older disciples had, at most, occasionally seen demonic beasts wander into the formation and be killed by it.
Yet now, the runes appearing abnormally in the air throughout the Luoxia Sect's Mountain-Guarding Formation were being shattered one after another!
That streak of light struck every node about to connect with unerring precision.
It made the aura of the Mountain-Guarding Formation, which should have been able to gather spiritual energy from the spirit vein, extremely unstable!
Even the vast amount of spiritual power gathering there was causing the formation itself to shake because of blockages in crucial areas!
"Someone's breaking the formation!"
Someone realized what was happening and cried out.
"Who is it?"
"How dare they!"
Some disciples grew agitated. The Luoxia Sect was the undisputed overlord of the surrounding area. Most other cultivators nearby were independent cultivators or members of cultivation clans, and the disciples had long grown accustomed to throwing their weight around.
Now that something like this had suddenly happened, many disciples instinctively began cursing.
But worry appeared on the faces of some calmer disciples.
The intruder had come to break their formation, and judging by the situation, things seemed to have been going smoothly for him all along. Th-this hardly seemed like a good thing!
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