"The vortices are drawing closer, converging?" As Huang Xiao watched, he noticed that, taken as a whole, the vortices were still moving closer together.
Some vortices had originally been at the outer edges, but now they had all shifted toward the center.
That was where the Patriarch and the others had struck earlier, the place where they believed the Longevity Pill lay.
Once the vortices stopped shifting, they continued to change, this time in size.
The vortices, originally all roughly the same size, began attracting or repelling one another.
Some mutually attracting vortices began merging and growing, becoming larger.
The vortices that were repelled could not merge with the others and could only retain their original size.
The original count of nearly five hundred vortices rapidly dwindled.
This transformation happened very quickly. The number of vortices plummeted, then abruptly stabilized at one hundred and eighty.
The remaining one hundred and eighty vortices varied in size, and the auras they emitted varied in strength.
The larger vortices had powerful auras, while the smaller ones were considerably weaker by comparison.
These changes astonished everyone present, but they could only wait to see what happened next.
They still could not fathom what sort of formation the Immortal Alchemist had laid here, nor could they know what would happen next.
"Hm? Look, doesn't the arrangement of these vortices resemble human acupoints?" Huo Lian suddenly exclaimed in surprise.
The Old Fools' expressions remained fairly composed. Even without Huo Lian pointing it out, most of them had already noticed.
Huang Xiao, however, had not realized it. Even after Huo Lian said this, he only understood after examining them closely.
If they imagined a person within the area occupied by these large and small vortices, the positions where the vortices floated in the air essentially matched the