"You looked very carefully. The formation setup was rather crude, and these materials weren't exactly good, either," Huo Lian said with a nod. "But don't forget, we're inside an inkstone crystal."
Huang Xiao froze for a moment, then let out an exclamation of wonder.
Indeed, the formation had all sorts of problems, but the wondrous properties of this enormous inkstone crystal made up for those flaws. That was probably why the formation could be activated.
"We'll know once we try. Let's see whether this Spirit-Gathering Divine Formation can actually be activated," Huo Lian said with a light chuckle.
"Will it work?" Huang Xiao asked.
"Look. Those should be spirit crystals, shouldn't they?" Huo Lian pointed at the glowing, almost transparent crystals embedded in the formation.
"Yes, they're spirit crystals," Huang Xiao said with some excitement. "This is my first time seeing them in person."
"You should be able to sense that these spirit crystals still contain vast amounts of spiritual energy of heaven and earth. At least half should remain," Huo Lian said. "Hu Pursuing Wind and Yao Fengrong clearly didn't exhaust these spirit crystals, which shows they must have used the formation before. If we were setting up a Spirit-Gathering Divine Formation now, I wouldn't dare say we could succeed, but simply activating one shouldn't be much of a problem."
"Then let's try," Huang Xiao said at once.
He very much wanted to know how far the Spirit-Gathering Divine Formation could raise the concentration of spiritual energy of heaven and earth here, which was already countless times greater than in the Martial World.
Without hesitation, Huo Lian began activating the Spirit-Gathering Divine Formation based on what he had comprehended from the manual.
Setting up a formation was difficult, but activating one was no great challenge.
When the formation's grooves