The Chang Household, Cao Household, and Liu Household, the three great Foundation Establishment lineages, had in particular dispatched eighty or ninety Qi Refining Stage cultivators.
After all, these three lineages had only a little over twelve hundred cultivators in total.
Such a heavy commitment showed just how much importance they placed on this abandoned abode of a Pseudo-Core demonic cultivator.
The large company advanced in force, closely following the jade slip's guidance toward the cave abode recorded within it.
According to the jade slip, a gravely wounded Pseudo-Core demonic cultivator had attempted to refine all his personal and nominal disciples to recover from his injuries.
His plot had unexpectedly been exposed, triggering a gruesome battle.
In the end, only one exceptionally quick-witted nominal disciple had been fortunate enough to escape.
Though he coveted the treasures left behind, he lacked the strength to open the restrictions, much less pass through the layers of formations.
Thus, he could only draw a map recording the island's location and the cave abode's secrets, leaving it for later generations to explore.
According to the jade slip, the cultivation methods hidden in that cave abode were at least high-tier mystic grade, or even low-tier earth grade.
Their lofty grade and immense power were enough to inspire shock and covetous desire.
Outside the cave abode, Foundation Establishment-level defensive Spirit Restrictions stood like walls of bronze and iron.
Though the passage of time and decades without maintenance had greatly diminished their power, they were still beyond the ability of ordinary people to break.
Back then, Cao Banxian had brought Qing Chen and the others and fought bitterly for ten days and nights with the peak first-order Spider-Mantis Essence-Devouring Formation before barely managing to break through this restriction.
Now, Su Zixuan, a late first-order Formation Master, drawing on her