After bidding farewell to Grandmaster Sheng, Xu Chunniang began to set up a formation to protect the sect.
When she crossed the Western Sea, she obtained many high-level spiritual objects at the bottom of the sea. With these spiritual objects, she was more than capable of setting up a large formation to protect the sect.
She flew to a high place, looked down, and had a panoramic view of the entire Xiaoyao Sect.
Everywhere you look is covered in ice. A third-level mysterious ice formation has been set up, perhaps by leveraging the power of ice and snow to maximize the effectiveness of the formation.
The third level of the Mysterious Ice Formation requires three fourth-order spiritual objects with ice attributes to be placed in six directions, facing each other from a distance.
The remaining two can be assisted by water-attributed or metal-attributed spiritual objects to increase their power.
Xu Chunniang had a plan in mind. She had a lot of ice-attributed spiritual objects in her hands, and the gold-attributed magnetic black stones were piled up like a mountain.
Her spiritual consciousness spread outward, exploring around Xiaoyao Sect several times. After repeatedly calculating with the Dayan technique, she finally found the eight most suitable locations.
She first went to the east direction, placed three Ice Soul Stones there, and continued to temper them with spiritual energy.
Only after these Ice Soul Stones merged with the surrounding environment did she go to the due west, which corresponds to the due east, and place three more Ice Soul Stones.
Despite the long distance, the two Ice Soul Stones echoed each other, creating some kind of mysterious connection.
In this way, two of the eight directions of the formation have been determined.
In the southeast and northwest, Xu Chunniang deployed another fourth-level spiritual object, Millennium Snow Dew.
The thousand-year-old snow dew is like water but not water, like jade but not jade. It looks crystal clear, pure and flawless, just like a drop of dew.
But its hallucinogenic effect is so powerful that it can even affect the minds of Nascent Soul cultivators.
After tempering the thousand-year-old snow dew slightly to make it blend with the heaven and earth, Xu Chunniang then went to the south and north directions and took out another ice-attributed spiritual object and laid it down.
At this point, the third level of the Mysterious Ice Formation has taken shape, with only the southwest and northeast sides remaining empty.
The Yuan magnetic black stone is very special. When it has not been refined, the Yuan magnetic divine light is always in a chaotic state and is difficult to control.
If Xu Chunniang had not revised the formation and understood the true principles of the formation, she would not have been able to use it to refine the formation.
But in her current opinion, everything can be included in the formation, and the magnetic black stone is just a little more difficult to handle.
Xu Chunniang smiled slightly and took out six magnetic black stones from her small world.
These magnetic black stones were not sealed and resisted fiercely. The six magnetic divine lights continued to struggle, and many of them even scratched her body.
After absorbing 3,600 Elemental Magnetic Stones and tempering her body with the power of Elemental Magnetic , she was no longer afraid of the Elemental Magnetic Divine Light.
But her robes were torn into several pieces by the magnetic light.
Xu Chunniang glanced at the tattered cuffs and activated the magnetic force in her body, instantly suppressing the six magnetic divine lights.
Seeing that they had become obedient, she drove them into the southwest and northeast, and then sealed them with the Soul Locking Formation.
At this point, the eight directions of the formation were finally determined.
Next, all you have to do is activate the formation to allow the spiritual creatures from all directions to merge into the formation, and then remove the soul-locking formation on the Yuanci Xuan Stone.
Xu Chunniang breathed a sigh of relief, sat upright in the center of the formation, covered all directions with her spiritual sense, and starting from the east, she carefully activated the entire formation.
The energy between heaven and earth has quietly changed at some point.
The wind and snow never stopped, but the snowflakes falling from the sky disappeared inexplicably before hitting the ground.
It was as if there was some invisible barrier in the air, blocking all the wind and snow.
This strange phenomenon soon attracted the attention of the disciples.
"Hey, there are obviously a lot of snowflakes in the sky, why don't they fall down?"
Someone speculated, "Could it be that they melted before they could fall?"
"No way, the snowflakes didn't melt so quickly before. Something must have happened to cause this change."
Just as everyone was guessing, a mysterious voice sounded.
"Don't guess anymore. I heard from my uncle in the inner sect that it was the Yuanying Patriarch who set up the sect protection formation!"
The crowd was in an uproar, looking extremely excited.
"Nascent Soul Ancestor! There are only two ancestors in our sect, one is Grandmaster Sheng, and the other is Grandmaster Xu. I wonder who you are talking about?"
"How would I know? Uncle Shi didn't tell me."
Seeing that everyone looked unhappy, the disciple who had revealed the news earlier quickly tried to make amends.
"But I haven't heard that Grandmaster Sheng knows how to set up formations. The one who is setting up the formation right now is most likely Grandmaster Xu, who has never shown up since we joined the sect."
Xu Wanran, who was listening at the side, was moved. Grandmaster Xu seemed to be the woman who led her into the sect that day...
When Xu Wanran saw the steward being very respectful to her before, she guessed that she was of a high status.
Later I found out that she was actually another Nascent Soul ancestor in the sect!
Xu Wanran looked up, her heart filled with excitement.
She must practice hard to see the wider world that Master Xu talked about!
Just as the disciples were discussing this, Xu Chunniang, who had finished setting up the sect protection formation, said goodbye to her master, Grandmaster Sheng, Uncle Yue and others, and quietly left the sect.
After leaving Xiaoyao Sect, she traveled westward, and wherever she passed was covered with wind and snow.
The sky and the earth were covered in white, and countless frozen corpses were hidden under the ice and snow.
Xu Chunniang felt even more depressed. She abandoned the flying boat and relied on the Xiaoyao Nine Steps to travel, increasing her speed to the extreme.
She had a premonition that time was running out for the Northwest Continent.
We must rush to the Western Regions as soon as possible and find the place where the goods are stolen.
After leaving Wuliang Mountain to the west, the spiritual energy of heaven and earth became increasingly thinner, and it was silent all the way, with even few living things to be seen.
Xu Chunniang followed the map given by Master Sheng and traveled for four months before finally arriving in the Western Regions.
Looking at the endless mountains in the distance, her eyes were filled with shock.
Compared with the vast sea cultivation world, the Northwest Continent seems not worth mentioning.
But when she arrived in the barren and desolate Western Regions, she realized that such a vast world was hidden in the seemingly inconspicuous northwestern continent.
Although this mountain range is vast, there is not a trace of spiritual energy in the air, and it is extremely barren.
Xu Chunniang frowned, remembering what Grandmaster Sheng had said.
In ancient times, the Western Regions was also very prosperous and produced many great figures who ascended to the spiritual world.
Even the founder of the Xiaoyao Sect came from the mountains of the Western Regions.
At that time, the Western Regions were not a barren land, but were revered as a sacred and precious land by the spiritual community.
The most famous of all the sacred mountains and precious places is Kunlun.
But no one knows when Kunlun disappeared and Lingshan became a barren mountain.
Some people have asserted that the Western Regions were too powerful and were envied by God.
Others said that the person who ascended from Lingshan had offended some big shot in the spiritual world.
The big shot was so furious that he even implicated the Lingshan Mountain before his ascension, which caused the Lingshan Mountain to decline overnight.
There are many different opinions, and because so much time has passed, no one knows what exactly happened in Lingshan back then.
It is an indisputable fact that the Western Regions today have no spiritual energy and have instead become a gathering place for ghost cultivators, making all cultivators avoid it.