Thanks to Yang Qi’s preparations, Yanhaven was now like a city blessed with divine protection.

After all, being a Nonary Lifeseizer who was on the very cusp of reaching the Legendary level gave him a solid understanding of spell formations.

It helped that, back in the Heavendawn Quarry, he had been able to observe the operation of the Nine-Heavens Ten-Earths Demon-Devil-Horde World-Ending Grand Spell Formation, which had been extremely beneficial.

And the past six months of practicing cultivation in the formation inside the Grand Emperor's Pagoda had been even more helpful.

In his early days as a country bumpkin, he had known nothing about spell formations, but his progress in the past years had been considerable.

It was the same with pill concocting, weapon forging, and the like; he now had foundational understandings of them all. Although he couldn’t be called a grandmaster of any of them, not in any sense of the word, at least he wasn’t groping around in the dark.

It helped that he had sworn siblings who had been raised in powerful institutes. All of them were geniuses with plenty of formal training. In fact, during the course of their...