Rise Of The Worm Sovereign

In the Frozen Cloud sect…

A meeting was currently ongoing in the Frozen Cliff's division's main peak.

"What do you mean you can't get into the Frozen Brook division's area, even now?" Elder Qianshu questioned, his tone harsh.

"We can't do much, Elder Qianshu… they have used some unknown barrier formations to lock the entire area down." One of the elders in the hall replied.

"We the entire formation pavilion under us and you can't figure out ONE formation array?" Elder Qianshu exploded.

The elders were all a bit scared and didn't dare to speak.

Pin drop silence could be heard in the hall as they all looked at their feet, afraid to meet Elder Qianshu's gaze. 

~Sigh~

At that moment, a sigh was heard. Usually it should have gone unnoticed, but due to the silence in the hall it was heard by everyone. They all looked towards the source and wondered who could be this rude to do this in a situation like this.

"Do you have something to say? Elder Weizhe?" Elder Qianshu asked, his voice cold.

He felt disrespected at this point and had already been irritated by the other elders due to the incompetence they were showing. The frozen Cliff division had increased in size by a lot and was now bigger than the Frozen Brook division and the Frozen Plains division combined.

It was done by poaching the elders and disciples of the other two divisions. There were many methods they had used, including enticing them with resources. But a majority were brought over with the use of blackmail.

After all… the Frozen Brook division had a lot of resources after they managed to get hold of the Di Guan mines. This made it harder for the Frozen Cliff division to use the resources as a carrot.

But after using some blackmail and threats, enough of the elders switched over.

"You should know when to be calm, Elder Qianshu." Elder Weizhe spoke with his eyes closed. "Being distrusting and irritated with your people will only make things harder for you." He added.

"You think I don't do a good job here, huh?" Elder Qianshu replied.

"No… I think you do a decent job… but that doesn't mean it can't be better." Elder Weizhe retorted, his eyes still closed.

Elder Qianshu felt as if a vein would burst in his head if he let the man speak anymore.

'Damn this old geezer. Why can't he just die!' Elder Qianshu thought to himself and cursed Elder Weizhe in his mind.

Elder Weizhe seemed unaware of Elder Qianshu's intentions and emotions, and instead turned to one of the people in the hall.

"Junior Elder Changming, why don't you tell the other discovery you had earlier?" Elder Weizhe spoke, this time opening his eyes.

His eyes were still the same, looking a bit cloudy and glazed over. It was evident that the man had lived a long time and was perhaps close to his end.

The man named Elder Changming was rather young looking and seemed hesitant to speak. His eyes darted between the pissed off face of Elder Qianshu and the calm and old face of elder Weizhe.

"Humph! What does a junior elder even know?" one of the senior elders of the formation pavilion scoffed.

To them, if a junior elder like Changming could say something that they didn't realize, it would just be an insult to them. And in the current scenario, when Elder Qianshu was angry, it would not be a good outcome for them.

"Elder Gunzhi, please let the junior speak first." Elder Weizhe stated, his voice a bit firm.

Elder Gunzhi seemed to want to say something, but one look from Elder Weizhe shut him up. 

'Ugh, this old man…' Elder Gunzhi scoffed in his mind, but still kept his silence.

"Go ahead, speak junior elder Changming." Elder Weizhe repeated.

The junior elder looked at the old man and the others before taking a deep breath.

"I… detected something else when we were analyzing the formation yesterday. In addition to the formation's durability and strength, I realized there is an additional layer that was hidden. 

It was also one of an unknown design, but I compared it with some of the other records we have and learned that it is quite similar to a timekeeper formation." Junior elder Changming spoke.

"A timekeeping formation?" the elders in the hall were confused.

A timekeeping formation wasn't anything special or unique. Rather, it was a low leveled formation that was used to do as its named told: it kept time. It was a common formation that was often used as clocks.

They could be changed to have different time periods and different units for the time as well. 

"And why does a timekeeping formation even matter? Nothing changes with us knowing about it." Elder Gunzhi spoke, seeing that he had a chance to suppress the junior elder.

"Let the junior elder explain himself first." Elder Weizhe said again, this time his tone containing a hint of a warning.

Now feeling a bit more confident, Junior Elder Changming spoke again.

"The reason why I think it's important is because it is integrated directly into the main layers of the formation array." Junior Elder Changming stated. "I think that… the entire formation array is temporary… it is on a timer and it would stop working once that time runs out. That is also why it is so tough, it is using up a large amount of spirit Qi to hold everything back." He explained.

Hearing this, the expression of elder Qianshu changed. From his previous pissed expression, it became one of thought. Elder Gunzhi was able to quickly realize what this meant, and a bead of cold sweat appeared on his forehead.

"Is this possible thing?" Elder Qianshu questioned the formation pavilion elder.

"This… Umm… Elder Qianshu, can be possible." The formation elders admitted.

"THEN WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING HERE? POST EVERYONE AROUND THE FORMATION ARRAY! ALL WE NEED TO DO IS WAIT!" Elder Qianshu yelled.

But just as he did that, something else was heard, that was even louder than him.

~RUMBLE~