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When a mountain arose, they cut through it; when water appeared, they built a bridge over it.
From time to time, hidden Xuanwu Tiangong cultivators would suddenly emerge, causing heavy casualties, and groups of Qi Practitioners burst apart and perished.
Yet all this was nothing in the face of the continuously advancing army that stretched out for hundreds of kilometers; they were still unstoppable.
Days later, the nine peripheral Black Tortoise Tetrapolar Heaven Formation Bases appeared on the horizon amidst the mountains, built upon the nodes of the Spiritual Vein and nowhere else.
Even if the Xianmen Sect recaptured them, they would rebuild the Star Boundary Formation at this very spot; there was no hiding anything.
"It's coming."
Jiang Ding thought silently to himself.
The cultivators from Xuanwu Tiangong could not afford to sit back and watch the Array Bases crumble.
