They chatted to kill time as they waited for the moment Xin Yijie was talking about. They waited for an entire day, and nothing happened even when the sky turned dark. There wasn't even a shadow of the so-called third portal.
"Uncle Xin, where is this third portal you're talking about? Is it just a legend?" The people couldn't help but wonder.
"That …" Xin Yijie was a bit troubled himself, but this third portal was something recorded in the Archaic Pugilistic World. It definitely wasn't a legend. But, could it be that the Archaic Alliance had miscalculated the date of the portal's appearance? That was hard to say.
Xin Yijie's reaction made the group even more suspicious. They'd been looking forward to this once in a thousand years trial for a whole year, and they'd even given it their all to pass the toughest test in history, but now they couldn't even see the shadow of the third portal! If this was just a legend, how could they take it?
Just when everyone was thinking about it, Ziyu suddenly said, "The moon tonight is so round and so close."
Everyone was taken aback when they heard that. They looked up and started to discuss among themselves. For some reason, the moon tonight was indeed very round and close to them. If it was just round, it would be fine. After all, the moon was waxing and waning. Even if this was a transit point, there was nothing strange about it. However, the moon tonight was ridiculously close. It felt like they could touch it if they stretched out their hands. It was almost pressing down on everyone's face. This was something that no one had ever seen before.
"Look, the tide's receding so fast!" Someone shouted.
Everyone looked over, and the tide was indeed receding fast. In just an instant, the water level dropped by a huge chunk, and there were no signs of it slowing down at all. The tide was receding faster and faster, and in the end, it sounded like it was going to destroy the world. It was truly shocking.
"It's … it's actually connected …" Everyone was stunned by the scene in front of them. This was originally a transit island, but after the unprecedented turbulent ebb tide, the shallow sea that originally separated the islands had all turned into land, and they were all connected.
"Hm? Isn't that the spirit jade mine under the sea? It's much easier to mine now. We don't have to come up for air every once in a while, and it's so slow. If we go mining now, we can probably get three pieces a day, "the group discussed.
However, Xin Yijie ignored the crowd's discussion. Instead, he walked toward the new land that appeared out of nowhere with a complicated and abstruse drawing in his hand.
Everyone didn't know what was going on, so they stood up and followed him. They couldn't help but ask, "Martial Uncle Xin, is there any mystery in this?"
"The secret is right here," Xin Yijie suddenly stopped and pointed at the round black stone he was stepping on.
The group walked up and looked at it. Other than being a bit harder, there didn't seem to be anything special about it. They looked at each other, "What's so special about it?"
Xin Yijie smiled mysteriously without saying a word. After comparing it with his abstruse drawing, he turned around and walked to another place. Soon, he found another piece of black stone, which was exactly the same as the previous one.
Then, he found the third, the fourth, the fifth …
In the end, he found a total of 72 identical black stones in a large area around him. Furthermore, they seemed to have formed an inexplicable and mysterious spell formation.
"What are these?" The group was confused.
"Black Stone Plum Blossom Formation!" Xin Yijie smiled while stroking his beard.
"Black Stone Plum Blossom Formation? What is this thing? Is it also a type of teleportation array? "Everyone was confused by what they saw.
"No, but we'll see the third teleportation formation soon. Come, everyone, help me. Put three pieces of spiritual jade on each black stone," Xin Yijie said.
A moment later, three pieces of spiritual jade were placed on each of the 72 black stones according to Xin Yijie's instruction. At first, there was no movement, but soon, they began to glow. Then, an invisible gust of wind rose into the sky, sweeping away all the sand in an instant. The entire ground sank by seven to eight meters.
The group was shocked. The black stones they saw earlier were just a small part of it. It turned out that there were 72 black stone pillars, and there was an ancient teleportation formation among them.
"The third teleportation formation!" The group was overjoyed. One of them said regretfully, "If we knew we could find the teleportation formation by removing the sand, we wouldn't have wasted so many spiritual jades. We could've saved them with just a little effort."
It was not difficult for them to remove the sand, but more than 200 spiritual jades were a huge sum in the ancient underworld. Many of them had never seen so many spiritual jades in their lives.
"You're overthinking. The Black Stone Plum Blossom Formation is an ancient maze. If you don't activate it with spiritual jades, you won't be able to find the teleportation formation even if you clean up all the sand," Xin Yijie shook his head.
"Since we've found the teleportation formation, let's start the teleportation." Xue Jianfeng suddenly stood up and said. Ever since he came back from the center's intensive training, his temperament had changed a lot. He became more reserved and deep. He no longer had the arrogant attitude he used to have. Instead, he was more like a venomous snake that kept spitting out its tongue as if it was going to devour someone at any time.
Hearing his words, the group who were still immersed in shock immediately came to their senses. They became impatient and wanted to be the first to rush into the teleportation formation.
"Alright, then everyone enter in order. There's no need to hurry. There are only 43 people in total. With the scale of this ancient teleportation formation, it's enough to teleport everyone in one go." Xin Yijie immediately led the group into the teleportation formation one by one.
Forty-three. This was the total number of people participating in the Archaic Trials, and this was also because of Lin Yi's group. Otherwise, the number of people would be even lower. People valued quality over quantity. This was the unified thinking of the Archaic Alliance. They didn't need to let every disciple of the Archaic Alliance get the opportunity. They just needed to make sure that the most deserving disciples didn't miss it.
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