Qian Duoduo immediately understood.
The great commotion caused by the previous Undergoing Tribulation in Refining Spirit Sect would surely be replayed in Ba Ling Sect this time. Outside the Ice Cave Grotto-heaven, many Old Ancestors were bound to gather.
"Guess how many will come?" He chuckled and asked Liu Boli.
"All of them, for sure. If they couldn't see through the Ice Gale, and didn't dare to pass through the Ice Gale, they would have already come to kill us by now."
Liu Boli stroked his beard, quite satisfied with his disciple.
He was in the Heavenly Human Realm, and his Spiritual Awareness still couldn't penetrate the Ice Gale, let alone the Old Ancestors at Nascent Soul Great Perfection.
Although he wasn't afraid of the Old Ancestors finding this place, he didn't want to expose his whereabouts, so he let Qian Duoduo stay in the Ice Gale World for a few more days.
Qian Duoduo smiled. All his objectives had been achieved, and he was content; why would he proactively go out and find trouble?
He took out his cauldron, sat cross-legged, and began Artifact Refining the Corpse Puppet Armor, Zombie Blood Claw, and Soul Locking Chain.
These three Magic Treasures had already become the New Corpse Puppet's set.
He not only had to fully equip the Corpse Puppets for Guan Tusheng and Ming Huanhuan, but also arm his own Corpse Puppet.
There were also those Xuanshi Puppets that he couldn't Artifact Refining in Ba Ling Sect; he needed to Artifact Refining a batch of those as well.
The Three Sects War would definitely make use of them.
His focused Artifact Refining in the Ice Gale World really put the Old Ancestors outside the Ice Cave Grotto-heaven in a tough spot.
The Eight Ancestors of Ba Ling Sect had taken up positions, waiting outside the Ice Cave Grotto-heaven.
However, after waiting for three hours, there was no movement from the Ice Cave Grotto-heaven.
Zhao Family Old Ancestor sent an Elder down into the Grotto-heaven. That Elder nervously surveyed the area and, aside from discovering a scorched yellow rock that had been struck by lightning, found nothing of value.
That scorched yellow rock was where the Lightning Giant Dragon had burrowed into the ground.
The Old Ancestors converged their Spiritual Awareness, but still couldn't penetrate it. A Formation was clearly guarding it a hundred zhang below.
The Formation was so strong that these Nascent Soul cultivators couldn't Breakthrough it.
After some discussion, the Eight Ancestors decided to continue waiting.
Another three hours passed, then six hours passed...
The Eight Ancestors became anxious.
Ba Ling Sect's Formations were fully activated, consuming massive amounts of Spiritual Qi every moment. If this continued, Ba Ling Sect's accumulated Family fortune would be depleted.
Ancestor Zeng raised an eyebrow and sighed, "Close the Formations on all peaks except Nose Peak, right?"
As soon as he finished speaking, the other seven Old Ancestors, who were all feeling the pinch, nodded in unison.
Zhao Family Old Ancestor took over, "Have the Grand Elders of each peak send three Protectors down into the Ice Gale to investigate what's going on."
The Soul Tribulation occurred on Nose Peak, so keeping the Formation open there was reasonable. But just waiting wasn't a solution either, so he came up with this method of flushing out the snake.
The other Old Ancestors looked at each other but said nothing.
The area below the Ice Gale had been explored many times by Ba Ling Sect, especially when they first moved here to establish the sect.
However, each time, the result was that no one was found.
Including one time when a Nascent Soul Great Perfection Old Ancestor whose Lifespan was nearing its end personally went down, and no news was ever heard from him.
Zhao Family Old Ancestor's suggestion wasn't made with the hope of discovering the situation below the Ice Gale; it was more of a test for the person Undergoing Tribulation.
These more than twenty Protectors were all sacrifices.
"Let the ordinary Protectors from each peak go. Give each of them ten thousand gold coins."
Ancestor Zeng shook his head and gave the order.
Soon, the Grand Elders of the Eight Peaks sent twenty-four Protectors. These Protectors were all ordinary Foundation Establishment, neither from prominent families, nor did they achieve The Righteous Foundation Establishment, nor did they get good results in the Feng Fan Battle.
They didn't know why they were there, or why they received ten thousand gold coins.
When they reached the lower Grotto-heaven of the Ice Cave Grotto-heaven, they heard the cold command from the Old Ancestors above them—"Jump"—only then did they understand what the sect wanted them to do.