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A moment later.

The Spiritual Energy within the Formation was completely drained by the eighteen steles, and then... the Formation began to "crack crack crack" as sounds echoed... Eight stone pillars on the surface started showing cracks, which kept getting bigger and bigger...

"As expected, it works!" Gao Fei quickly retrieved the eighteen steles and then waited for the Formation to shatter.

"Crack crack crack..."

Just at that moment, the stone platform beneath Gao Fei's feet suddenly split open, and the unprepared Gao Fei fell straight down, "What's happening!" Gao Fei reacted swiftly, stabilizing himself at the moment he fell through the stone platform, then quickly flew back out.

Gao Fei stopped mid-air and then looked down at the stone platform: "Eh? There's something inside the platform..." After the platform split open, a small, square hole was revealed with a small, square box inside, "Hidden so deep! It must be something good!" Gao Fei reached out and beckoned, "Come here!"

The little box didn't budge.

"Hey!" Gao Fei's face darkened, "You're challenging me, huh!" After several unsuccessful attempts to draw it towards him, Gao Fei had no choice but to fly downwards, landing inside the stone platform and reaching for the small box: "Now that I've discovered you, don't think about escaping."

A halo of light suddenly emerged on the small box, repelling Gao Fei's reaching hand.

"Argh!" Gao Fei's expression darkened again, "I don't believe this, I can't deal with you!" This time, Gao Fei increased his strength and reached for the small box again.

"Whoosh!"

Gao Fei's hand was repelled once more.

"This powerful?" Gao Fei shook his numb palm, "It seems I need to get serious. Li Fire, to me! Hmm, be careful, don't burn the box."

"Whoosh!"

Upon receiving the command, Li Fire immediately surged over and enveloped the little box, igniting a "crackling" flame. Under the burning of the Li Fire, the halo of light on the little box began to shake violently, and after persisting for a while, the halo collapsed, "Whoosh!" After destroying the halo, Li Fire released the little box and then flew back to Gao Fei's side.

"Not bad." Gao Fei nodded approvingly, "Well done!"

Pleased by Gao Fei's praise, Li Fire appeared very delighted, swaying about in the air non-stop.

"Now let's see where you can escape to." Gao Fei reached out once again, attempting to grasp the small box. "Boom boom boom..." Sounds of muffled explosions came from outside, and Gao Fei looked back to find that the Formation had already begun collapsing on a large scale and would probably be completely destroyed before long. Gao Fei shifted his gaze back, concentrating as he grabbed the little box.

This time, the process went smoothly without any resistance.

Gao Fei didn't have time to inspect it and threw the little box directly into his Storage Ring, then leapt out of the stone platform. By now, the Formation was almost completely devastated. Gao Fei recalled Li Fire, the Drug-absorbing Bug, and then flew out of the Formation.

"Gao Fei!" A person flew towards him head-on, it was the Great Cultivator Duanmu Hong.

"Senior." Gao Fei promptly greeted him.

"Seeing you safe and sound puts my mind at ease." Duanmu Hong glanced at the collapsing Formation, "Did you break this Formation?"

"Er... sort of." Gao Fei nodded, "I accidentally destroyed the Formation Eye, and then the Formation collapsed." As he mentioned this, Gao Fei let out a bitter laugh, "It was really too dangerous. I was nearly trapped and killed within the Formation."

"What was in the Formation?" Duanmu Hong asked.

"There were some stone pillars and a stone platform..." Gao Fei concealed the fact that he found treasures and mentioned some insignificant details instead, as the saying goes: caution is the parent of safety. If Duanmu Hong knew Gao Fei had found numerous treasures, he might become greedy and cause problems for Gao Fei. Thus, the safest course of action was to withhold this information.

"Gao Fei!"

A figure swiftly flew over from a distance, and upon closer inspection, it was He Hentian: "I just knew you'd be alright, kid!" He Hentian rushed over and punched Gao Fei on the shoulder: "Do you know? Ever since you disappeared, I've been worried sick. I couldn't eat or sleep properly, look at me, I've lost a whole lot of weight."

Gao Fei curled his lip: "You lost weight? Why do I feel like you've gained some?"

"Damn! What kind of eyes do you have? Where have I put on weight? Look at my face, then look at my arms, I'm practically all bones now." He Hentian pointed at his face, then rolled up his sleeves to show off his arms.

"Mm, alright, alright, you've lost weight, you really have, I saw wrong just now. My apologies," Gao Fei said with a laugh.

"That's more like it," He Hentian grumbled.

While Gao Fei and He Hentian were talking, Duanmu Hong walked alone into the collapsed formation, his bright eyes scanning around as if searching for something: "Eh?" Duanmu Hong suddenly let out a surprised sound, then bent down to pick up a fragment: "There's a pattern on this, like the mouth of some animal?"

"Yes, Senior, you truly have a keen eye," Gao Fei approached: "There were originally eight stone pillars here, each carved with an animal, and not just any animals, there were dragons, phoenixes, vermilion birds, turtles..."

"Something's not right," Duanmu Hong frowned: "This formation was definitely set up here with a purpose, it must have been meant to guard something..." He swept his gaze around once more, then rested his eyes on Gao Fei's face: "Are you sure you haven't found anything?"

"Nothing at all," Gao Fei hurriedly said: "I wouldn't dare deceive Senior. If you don't believe me, you can search me..." Gao Fei opened his arms, appearing calm. Of course, his calm was feigned, for if Duanmu Hong really did search him, Gao Fei would definitely resist; he had many precious treasures that he couldn't let Duanmu Hong see.

Gao Fei was gambling, betting that Duanmu Hong wouldn't search him!

As it turned out, Gao Fei's gamble paid off...

Duanmu Hong stared at Gao Fei for a while, then shifted his gaze away: "Let's search around, see if we've missed anything." After saying this, Duanmu Hong started walking forward.

Gao Fei breathed a sigh of relief, the pressure Duanmu Hong had put on him was truly immense, nearly making it hard for Gao Fei to breathe.

At that moment, He Hentian crept over covertly and poked Gao Fei's arm with his finger, asking in a low voice: "Hey, did you really not see anything?"

"What, you don't believe me either!" Gao Fei widened his eyes.

"Uh, no, I just thought... Don't get me wrong, I was just asking casually, no other meaning," He Hentian said with a smile: "You're my good friend, my good brother, I trust you one hundred percent."

Just then, a group of Great Demons came running over from the distance. After asking a few simple questions, they spread out to search for treasures. Everyone was no fool; there wouldn't be a grand formation here without reason, there had to be some secret hidden!

After searching for most of the day, they didn't find a single treasure.

"There's nothing here."

"Keep looking."

"I've searched several times over, I can't even see a feather."

"Stop searching, there's nothing here."

"All that excitement for nothing."

"Sigh..."

Not having found any treasures, everyone was disappointed.

The most disappointed was He Hentian; he had originally fantasized about finding several handy treasures once the formation was broken. Now that the formation had indeed broken, but without securing a single treasure, he was extremely frustrated.