Chapter 286: Life 76, Age 16, Martial Disciple 1
After returning to my small house, I sat down to wait. I wasn’t sure exactly how long my conversations with the Earthly Dao, my leadership council, and my Revered Elders had taken, but I knew I wouldn’t have to wait long.
So, I just sat and thought through my plans.
The grand formation under Rosehill had been formed from four concentric rings. The outermost ring was a Rank 4 formation, and the innermost ring was a Rank 7 formation. The details of the Rank 7 formation had been hidden from me, but I had recorded the Rank 4 formation down in my journal, and I had been studying it off and on for several years now. I didn’t understand it completely, but I had a fairly good idea of what its purpose was.
The Rank 4 formation was blocking Lords from entering the Wastes. Only Lords. It wasn’t powerful enough to affect any higher-level cultivators. I wasn’t entirely sure if the inner formations would serve as backups, but I felt rather confident that if I could destroy that outermost ring, then people in the Wastes would be allowed to ascend to Martial Lord. From there, with each successive ring, Kings, Emperors, and Sovereigns would be allowed.
This last part was nothing but a mere supposition, but it made sense to me. It felt like that was the intention of the person who had originally constructed this formation.
From what I had seen, there were five locations in the Wastes that contained formations. I had already seen the one under Rosehill, and the locations of the ones under Mount Jiang and the Verdant Fields Sect were rather obvious. As for the one under the Twin Mountains Sect, it was almost certainly under one of the mountains.
That just left the formation under the Su Clan.
I had no idea where this last formation might be hiding. My guess was that it would contain a fire seed that produced copious amounts of metal and wood, but Dragon Gate City was surrounded by forested mountains. The formation could be hiding anywhere.
I had a clue, though. Small patches of herbs had been growing around the Rosehill formation. One of those herbs had been the Metal Dragon’s Tongue Fruit. The Su Clan had been able to produce an Earth Dragon’s Tongue Fruit. This suggested that they knew the location of the formation, and I just needed to extract it from them.