A sudden thought sent a chill down Wu Bolin (Bick)’s spine.


    Although he hadn’t yet been able to enter the formation to investigate, the strength disyed by cultivators before the end of the Dharma era had already instilled fear in him.


    He began to consider his escape route.


    Since he had nowhere else to go, he might as well stay here and fight this ancient formation to the death. The timeframe would be the arrival of the Antarctic summer and the reopening of the Devil’s Forties.


    If he could find a breakthrough before the Antarctic summer, all the better.


    If it was still futile, he would honestly return to the Broken Qing Society and report to Sara.


    He would then tell Sara everything about Antarctica. Although Sara would me him for concealing the legend of the Gate of Ascension, he could pretend to be ignorant, iming it was all a coincidence, and then present the ancient formation to Sara to im credit.


    This formation is so powerful that Sara couldn’t possibly break it. He’d already said everything he needed to say, and since his purpose ining here was to find opportunities for Sara, even if she was unhappy with him, she couldn’t punish him.


    Furthermore, if Sara was capable of breaking the formation, he wouldn’t lose out. If she reaped the rewards, she would at least give him some benefits; otherwise, who would be willing to risk their life for her in the future? Although Sara was ruthless, she understood this principle.


    In this way, even if he didn’t obtain the treasures within the formation, he wouldn’t suffer any other losses, and he could at least give Sara an exnation.


    Having made up his mind, Wu Bolin (Bick) sat cross-legged on the rock, attempting to enter a state of seclusion.


    Although he didn’t have a cultivation method to generate spiritual energy, seclusion could continuously refine the spiritual energy within his body, repeatedly cleansing his meridians, which could also slowly improve his cultivation level.


    This is the tragedy of the Dharma-ending Age. Cultivators rely entirely on elixirs and spirit stones for their spiritual energy. Once these two arecking, they basically lose their source of spiritual energy and can only desperately cultivate and carefully tend to their own small plot ofnd. Like him, he has been in seclusion for a hundred years but has never opened his Niwan Pce.Before the Dharma-ending Age, cultivators could draw spiritual energy from heaven and earth through their cultivation techniques, allowing for almost supernaturally fast cultivation speeds. Those with exceptional talent could open their Niwan Pce within a few years of enlightenment.


    For modern cultivators, opening the Niwan Pce is already incredibly rare, but before the Dharma-ending Age, it was merely considered kindergarten level—like a two- or three-year-old child in the world of cultivators. A cultivator needed to reach at least the Foundation Establishment level to formally enter the path of cultivation.


    The difficulty of Foundation Establishment was so immense that even Sara, after four hundred years of cultivation, hadn’t achieved it.


    With Sara’s cultivation level, without the Eternal Longevity Pill, her lifespan wouldn’t have reached three hundred years.


    Meng Changsheng was in the same boat.