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Ye Jian and Tongtianlv Teng's heads bumped together in surprise. "This is Gold Sand Bone?!"

Lin Qi thought for a moment, "So the disciples of Duigubumen collected gold sand bones to make this?"

"No, no!" Lin Qi immediately refuted her own guess.

It's just a matter of making the chess pieces, there's no need to make a big fuss about sending them to the bone tomb.

The skeletal remains on that side clearly require a large amount of gold sand.

Yè Jiǎn and Tóng Tiān Lǜ Fēng saw that Lín Qī was deep in thought, so they didn't dare to speak, fearing that they might interrupt her train of thought.

Lin Qi remembered the scroll she had seen in the underground palace.

One scroll is dedicated to analyzing the Eighteen Evil Stars, Heavenly Array.

Although this formation is only of the fifth rank, if cast by a high-level formation master within another formation, its power will instantly increase, raising it from the fifth rank to the sixth.

But just setting up an array like this would consume a massive amount of financial and material resources. The resources consumed could be fully used to set up a sixth-rank array with some left over.

In terms of formation complexity and power, it's not considered a sixth-order formation, being somewhat underwhelming and gradually falling out of use.

Lin Qi discarded the chess piece in her hand and picked up another one to polish.

This time, she rubbed off the outer shell by following the shape of the pieces.

Ye Jian originally had no interest in these chess pieces, but as she watched Lin Qi polish them little by little, she exclaimed: "There are patterns carved inside the chess pieces!"

The pawn, stripped of its outer shell, revealed the golden veins hidden within.

Lin Qi explained softly, "It's the formation patterns. There is a simplified version of the Eighteen Evil Stars Heavenly Array inside."

The premise of setting up the formation within a formation is to set up a simplified version of the Eighteen Evil Stars Tianyao Formation at each formation point.

The eighteen simplified versions of the Evil Cultivator's Heavenly Illumination Formation within the chess pieces form a large-scale Eighteen Evil Stars Heavenly Illumination Formation, further complemented by the inner formations within the bone tomb.

Only by layering three formations together can one achieve the power of a Level Six Grand Formation.

Six-rank Great Array...Don't even say those foundation establishment cultivators, even a golden core cultivator would be instantly crushed.

Lin Qi's back was drenched in cold sweat.

"If this were an ordinary Heavenly Array, even if I found the eye of the array, I wouldn't escape being strangled to death."

Missed it!

Ye Jian looked at Lin Qi's serious expression and also worried, "What should we do?"

What can I do?

Lin Qi gazed intently at Ye Jian, suddenly reaching out to grasp her hand. "Ye Shijie, whether we can break the formation depends entirely on you!"

"What?!" Ye Jian was filled with confusion, a strange fear welling up inside her. "But... my strength isn't enough to break through a Six-Rank formation, is it?"

She often dreamed of breaking through a sixth-rank formation with a single sword strike. But that was just a dream, she could even dream of reaching the heavens.

In reality, don't even mention a sixth-rank formation; even a fourth-rank one could thoroughly trounce her.

"No, Yè Shījie, this time we need your connections!"

When Lin Qi accompanied Ye Jian Nanbei in their escape, they were fortunate enough to witness the strength of Ye Shijie's extensive network of connections.

As it turns out, the sweet and naive type is truly endearing!

Regardless of whether someone is male or female, cool or warm, they can chat with Ye Jian for an entire minute.

Everyone wants to get a glimpse into someone else's life, but when you try to pry, you always have to give something away first.

A single conversation and I want to be friends with this person, like brothers and sisters.

Anyway, out of the eighteen cultivators saved, seventeen had their divine consciousness imprinted on Ye Jian's jade pendant. The remaining one was blinded by Ye Jian's beauty and blushed when he saw her, stuttering and unable to speak properly. Ye Jian found his behavior too uncouth and did not force him to imprint his divine consciousness.

"Sister Ye, to break this great formation, we need to mobilize all the cultivators from Heisha Rock!"

Lin Qi pulled at the leaf draft, his face full of seriousness, "About this matter, I think only you can do it!"

Only the information revealed by a naive and innocent person would be believable, and only their righteous chivalry could put someone at ease.

Here, Lin Qi is outmatched.

Under Lin Qi's admiring gaze, Ye Jian unconsciously straightened her chest, feeling a surge of power coursing through her.

She patted Lin Qi's hand and readily agreed, "Okay!"

"Little Q, don't worry, I've got this!"

After entrusting the important task to Ye Jian, Lin Qi also pondered where the eye of the large formation would be placed.

She took the map and circled the location of the bone tomb.

After figuring out the structure of the formation, Lin Qi also knew why golden sand bones were sent into the Bone Tomb.

The formations within the ancient tomb were certainly drawn with gold sand on bone, and the same applied to each formation's center.

To destroy the Eighteen Evil Stars Heavenly Luminary Formation, one needs to employ a three-pronged approach, simultaneously destroying the eighteen formation eyes and the formation within the formation.

Within the bone burial ground's formation, Lin Qi can enter it alone, but eighteen formation eyes... She hasn't cultivated the art of splitting into doppelgangers.

This is why he proposed that Ye Jian should unite the Heisha cultivators and work together with them to break the formation.

Just hoping for the best… nothing bad happens.

In the Night Realm, time flies. Six hours passed in the blink of an eye.

Lin Qi and Ye Jian returned to the human world. This time, they not only had to work hard to accumulate points, but also had a new mission: to make as many connections as possible with cultivators who might appear in Hei Shayan.

The evil cultivator's actions are so blatant, leaving them little time.

With the help of the Heavenly Green Vine, Lin Qi and Ye Jian traveled through half of the Xiaocheng Heaven Secret Realm in a single day. They encountered over a hundred cultivators, but only more than thirty fell into the Black Sand Rock.

Lin Qi specifically asked, the total number of places to enter the Xiaocheng Heavenly Secret Realm this time was seven hundred.

Five major sects each receive one hundred disciples, and the remaining two hundred are distributed to other smaller sects based on their overall strength.

According to Lin Qi's statistics, about fifty or more of these seven hundred people have probably been eliminated.

Of the remaining six hundred and fifty monks, roughly one hundred and thirty people can be allocated to different regions.

More than a hundred cultivators in the foundation building stage... If half their power could be gathered, Lin Qi could also lead people to sweep across the Black Sand Rock!

AHEM, just kidding!

People from the evil cultivation sect aren't fools, they wouldn't just stay put and wait for Lin Qi to make a move.

After a short nap, Lin Qi emerged from the forest, clutching his Zhenshen blade, ready to dig up some spirit herbs.

He had not taken two steps when his nose twitched.

"There's a smell of blood!"

Yelan was more agile this time, her mind sharper. "Someone else got hurt? Where? Where?"

It's her turn now!

Lin Qi was amused by her excited expression.

Sister Ye is really helping Lin Qi with her own actions...

Then the two of them dug out two people covered in blood in a deep pit.

Lin Qi looked at Ning Sangyu's face and hesitated for a few seconds, "Should I save her or not?"

As the second female lead, how could Ning Shangyu have fallen so quickly?

She and her brother's wounds were clearly left by a demonic cultivator.

So... what exactly happened? To be injured this badly.

Looking at this, if it weren't for the time of day and night changing, the two of them were probably unable to return from the Night Realm alive.

Lin Qi was still hesitating when Ye Jian suddenly crawled out from the other side and shouted, "There's someone else here! He's still alive!"

(End of Chapter)