Bathed in moonlight, the Myriad Mechanism Formation of the Spark Palace Trial Ground cast a cold, shimmering light. The blood-red formation patterns embossed across the surfaces of the eighty-one bronze pillars pulsed rhythmically like breathing. The spectator stands were packed with Spark Palace cultivators, and the arcs of lightning dancing across Lei Ziyan's fingertips tore jagged rips into the night. On the east side of the formation platform stood a three-zhang-tall armillary sphere, where Elder Jiang Wujiu was inserting seven stellar core fragments into the observation ports.
"The third watch of the Yin hour, activate the formation!" Jiang Wujiu waved his Heaven-Measuring Ruler, and black mist mixed with ice crystals spewed from the bases of the bronze pillars. The nine shadowy figures looming within the mist all wore the blood-red robes of the Guiying Sect, with formation cores shaped like ice phoenix feathers embedded in their chests—precisely the tactical simulators captured three days ago during the raid on the Ice Phoenix Pavilion.
Liu Tong lightly touched the tip of her foot to the grey-blue bricks at the edge of the platform. As she unleashed her Wind Dancer movement technique, her jade hairpin burst with green light. Seventy-two afterimages formed a Later Heaven Eight Trigrams Formation, every single afterimage holding a miniature tempest in the palm of its hand: "Xiaorou, secure the Qian position! Xiaolang, lock down the Kun palace!"
Chapter 680