"It's real?" Huang Xiao murmured.
When the enormous phantom image first appeared, Huang Xiao thought it might have been conjured by a formation.
That notion was soon ruthlessly shattered.
The phantom image rapidly solidified into substance.
"A snow mountain?!" Huang Xiao's eyes widened.
This snow mountain was no small thing; it was fully on the scale of the large snow mountains.
The sudden appearance of such a large snow mountain left Huang Xiao somewhat dazed.
"Was this large snow mountain concealed by a formation?"
This large snow mountain had not been here before. Huang Xiao was quite certain of that.
Judging by the changes in the Spiritual Energy of Heaven and Earth here, Huang Xiao deduced that this snow mountain was normally invisible, and perhaps only revealed itself at a time like this.
"The Spiritual Energy of Heaven and Earth has all gathered on the large snow mountain." Only when Huang Xiao reached its foot did he sense the dense Spiritual Energy of Heaven and Earth again.
That brings the number of large snow mountains to twenty-seven, with fifty-four small ones. Twenty-seven, fifty-four? Those two numbers seem to have some connection to the Nine Keys. Added together, they make eighty-one-nine times nine, Huang Xiao thought to himself.
The Spiritual Energy of Heaven and Earth on these snow mountains already bore heavy traces of human intervention. Now that their numbers had this relationship as well, Huang Xiao had little reason to be surprised.
"This should be the key to breaking the formation." Huang Xiao drew a deep breath.
Breaking a formation generally required finding its formation eye.
The large snow mountain before him was clearly this formation's eye.
No wonder his earlier search for the formation had yielded no clues at all. It had been hidden so deeply.
Huang Xiao could