However, in less than a breath's time, the pair of antennae on the multicolored butterfly began to tremble more and more slowly.
At last, the green gleam connected to its back swiftly dimmed as well, becoming faint and intermittent, as though it might sever from the multicolored butterfly at any moment.
Just as that green gleam was about to vanish, the female cultivator surnamed Yang raised her hand and formed another hand seal. Another inch-long green gleam abruptly surged from the compass and stretched outward.
In an instant, this green gleam landed on the multicolored butterfly's back, and the butterfly immediately became lively again.
Beating its wings, it flew away from where it had just rested. After making a tiny turn, it stopped at another spot within the hollow in the mountain wall.
Then its pair of antennae continuously touched the mountain, trembling rapidly.
After another breath's time, the green gleam on its back rapidly faded and disappeared, and the multicolored butterfly once again became sluggish.
Another green gleam burst forth from the compass in the female cultivator Yang's hand. This time, however, it struck the multicolored butterfly's abdomen...
The three people standing atop the fingertip of the palm-shaped boulder were all Golden Core Realm cultivators. Though none of them was proficient in formations, they all had some knowledge of them.
Before long, they discerned a few clues and patterns. The female cultivator Yang was using the compass to control the multicolored butterfly in some sort of investigation.
As for what she was investigating—whether it was the distribution of the restriction's strengths and weaknesses or the laws governing its operation—they had no way of knowing.
The forty-nine green gleams shooting from the compass likely corresponded to positions such as the Two Principles and Four Images, the Nine Palaces and Eight