The Demon God went back, while Xuan Yuanjun and the other seniors, including Du Mei, set off first to investigate the other formations in the Desolate Domain.
Huang Xiao and the other juniors remained on the island. Xuan Yuanjun did not want them coming along on this investigation.
There would still be time to have them come over when they went to the Creation Sect.
Huo Lian now devoted most of his attention to formations, temporarily setting aside the improvement of his own internal power.
He could still afford to spare these few years. After all, his current attainments in formations could still be of considerable help.
If he relied on his internal power, the help he could offer in the final battle would probably be very limited.
Everyone else had their own priorities, but most were desperately improving their internal power.
Demon Phoenix stayed with the divine weapons. He needed everyone to become familiar with one another and develop their coordination as quickly as possible.
This was crucial to setting up the grand formation in the future, and he dared not be careless.
Huang Xiao's attention was no longer solely on improving his internal power either. Aside from studying the Treatise on Seeking the Dao and the Treatise on Enlightenment, he also sorted through his own cultivation methods.
The Longevity Chapter, Heavenly Demon Disintegration, and Dantian as the Sea were definite choices. Huang Xiao could not possibly abandon these three cultivation methods.
As for some of his other cultivation methods, including those he had devised himself, he would most likely no longer devote much thought to refining and improving them.
There was nothing he could do about it. After all, the activation of the Longevity Daoist's formation was imminent, and he simply did not have enough energy to attend