"Since I've refined it, I ought to give it a try." Qing Chen rose and walked toward the center of the underground palace.
He did not leave immediately, but first reinforced the space throughout the underground palace once more. Then he took out some high-grade spirit stones and embedded them in the surrounding formation cores, lest the commotion grow too great later and alert the cultivators outside the Governor-General's Office.
His divine sense had now advanced tremendously, and he had also cultivated the Profound Womb Demon Lotus Platform Method. Its strength approached that of the foremost True Lords whose Nascent Souls had begun transforming into Primordial Spirits-half-step Spirit Transformation experts-and was sufficient to control eight powerful demon banners.
Qing Chen then pointed with two fingers together. Terrifying divine sense struck the Di Jiang Demon Banner, and all eight demon banners trembled at once.
In an instant, the underground palace, spanning a thousand zhang in radius, abruptly darkened. The lamps within the formations had not gone out; rather, all the surrounding light had been swallowed into the void by an invisible force.
The Di Jiang Banner rose in the center. The seven other banners, including Xuanming, Pojun, and Greedy Wolf, took their places in succession, their death qi linking together. Amid a patter of grinding bones as dense as rain, an enormous hundred-zhang white bone coffin suddenly formed.
Before the coffin had fully manifested, the entire underground palace abruptly sank!
Without the reinforcement of the fourth-tier formations throughout the palace and the host of third-tier supreme-grade formations, it would have collapsed countless times already.
Formation patterns flashed madly across all four walls, while the high-grade spirit stones placed in the formation cores beforehand dimmed in swathes, as though a ten-thousand-zhang mountain of bones had appeared out of nowhere and pressed down