Once the hope in the heart of the Empress Huaiyang rises, it is like a fire that can no longer be extinguished.

Coming out of the secret room, the Empress Huaiyang first found her uncle Pei Lie and the Great Elder Yao Shun.

At this time, four hours, that is, eight hours, had passed since Li Ma Fan and Empress Huaiyang entered the secret room.

The bodies of more than a hundred disciples of the Clutch Sect who died in the battle had been collected, and Zhao Han and the others had recruited a large number of villagers from neighboring villages to help. When there were not enough coffins, they mobilized more people to buy them in neighboring towns, or gathered craftsmen to make wooden coffins from local materials.

Some of the people in Zhenguan Town have come back one after another. When these people heard that the people of the Nether Sect had retreated, they thought that they would not come again, so they tried to come back.

There are also some people who dare not come back immediately, so the whole Zhenguan Town is still very deserted.

"How are these men who died in the war doing?" Empress Huaiyang asked Zhao Han.

"Master, there are a total of one hundred and thirty-five disciples who died in the battle of the Clutch Sect this time, but there are only fifty-seven coffins raised so far, and there are still seventy-eight pairs left........... But there are already more than 20 craftsmen rushing to make ...........," Zhao Han replied.

"Immediately find someone to buy a coffin with a lot of money, and we must bury these people who died in battle! In addition, the families of these people should also be given large pensions.........." the empress commanded.

"Yes! Master! Zhao Han's heart warmed. Although the master is a woman, he is also a loving and righteous head.

Empress Huaiyang walked slowly in front of the rows of corpses placed on the floor of the main hall, her eyes full of tears.

These people, who vowed to live and die with the Clutch Gate on the martial arts training ground last night, did not expect that they would now become a cold corpse.

Although Zhao Han and the others were exhausted, they did not have the slightest intention of resting.

Compared with the more than 100 people lying on the ground, he is very lucky.

Ma Fan walked around the base of the entire clutch gate, and found that there was no trace of the clutch gate.

Back in the main hall, the Empress Huaiyang was ordering someone to count the list of people who died in battle.

"I'm curious, you don't even have a defensive formation here?" Ma Fan asked directly.

"Formation? Hey, if I had a formation mage in the Clutch Gate, or if a formation mage was willing to help, the Netherworld Sect would not have captured my Clutch Gate so easily today! What a pity! Empress Huaiyang's eyes darkened and she sighed.

"Could it be that this array of mages is so scarce?" Ma Fan couldn't help but feel puzzled.

"In the territory of Lixu, there are only more than 100 formation mages above the Xuan level, and among these more than 100 people, there are only a few dozen or so ground-level formation mages............. And a formation mage above the heavens level has not appeared for two thousand years............."

"So declining?" Ma Fan couldn't help but be a little surprised when he heard this. Judging from the cultivation realm of the masters in the current Lixu territory, there are only a dozen or so prefecture-level array mages, which is definitely not matched.

The empress was also very puzzled in her heart. This young man who appeared out of thin air was not only mysterious and possessed an incomparably precious elixir, but also seemed to have no idea about some of the things that happened in this ruin realm.

"Could it be ............" The empress suddenly remembered the general order from several major sect alliances she had received a few days ago, saying that traces of formation disorder had been found in the direction of the sacred mountain, and it seemed that the seal had been loosened. Don't.......... The empress couldn't help but look at Ma Fan deeply.

However, the empress apparently did not regard Ma Fan as an enemy or an intruder. After all, Ma Fan saved more than a dozen lives up and down the clutch door, and he can be regarded as the benefactor of the clutch door.

"Yes, more than two thousand years ago, the Leaving Ruins Realm Array Mages and Alchemists could be regarded as full of talents, and there were not a few Heavenly Rank Array Mages and Alchemists.......... However, more than two thousand years have passed, and the array mages and alchemists who have left the Ruins Realm have long since lost their former glory............"

Ma Fan didn't ask much, after all, if he didn't understand anything, he would definitely arouse the suspicion of Empress Huaiyang.

In fact, where did Ma Fan know that the Empress Huaiyang at this time had already guessed Ma Fan's origin.

"Now you have to deal with the aftermath of the door, and it is inconvenient for me to stay for a long time............ So I take my leave! Ma Fan decided to go and take a look at the rest of the ruins. After all, it has been a few days since he entered the realm of leaving the ruins, and at first he was worried about the safety of Zhao Han and others, but now that the overall situation has been decided, and Zhao Han and the others are safe and sound, Ma Fan has decided to leave.

"You.......... Are you leaving? When the Empress Huaiyang saw that Ma Fan was in such a hurry to leave, she couldn't help but be very reluctant.

Seeing that there was a strong reluctance in the eyes of the Empress Huaiyang, and the appearance of Chu Chu's poor little daughter was undoubtedly revealed, Ma Fan's heart couldn't help but waver.

"My master told me to come out and travel, and I ............ Actually, I want to go to a few more places to see............" Ma Fan said. For some reason, he actually saw a hint of pleading in this woman's eyes.

Thinking of Zhao Han and the others, and then looking at this woman, Ma Fan shook his head slightly, and said softly: "That's it, I'll do good things to the end, and do the last thing for you!" ”

"You're not leaving?" When Empress Huaiyang heard this, a hint of surprise flashed in her expression.

"Definitely........... Before I go, I'm going to lay a defensive formation for you............"

"What? You even know how to set up a formation? Are you a formation mage? Empress Huaiyang was overjoyed.

"Array mage? You can also say that! Ma Fan didn't deny it, "I wonder if there is jade in your door?" ”

"Jade?" The Empress of Huaiyang thought about it, took out a large pile of jade from the storage ring, and put it on the ground.

All the tables in this hall have been broken and have been cleaned up by Zhao Han and others, so only the ground in the entire hall can place these jades.

Empress Huaiyang also went to ask for several array mages before the war, but these array mages seemed to have already received notices, and they refused the request of the Empress Huaiyang without exception.

Therefore, at this moment, seeing that Ma Fan actually offered to set up a formation for the clutch gate, the Empress Huaiyang was naturally very happy.

Ma Fan looked at the jade, fortunately, most of them were some high-quality jadeite.

Empress Huaiyang had already let Zhao Han and the others leave at this time, leaving only Ma Fan and herself, in addition to more than a hundred corpses lying on the ground of the main hall.

Ma Fan did not let the Empress Huaiyang leave, after all, he also wanted the Empress Huaiyang to understand the various formations of this big array.

After picking the jade, Ma Fan gathered his strength into a blade, and soon cut the jade into fifty-six mahjong-sized squares like cutting tofu.

Ma Fan walked out of the main hall and placed the twenty-eight pieces of jade in the land around the building complex of the Clutch Gate in seven directions, and then embedded the remaining twenty-eight pieces of jade one by one into the various directions of the walls that were still intact in the building complex.

Immediately afterwards, Ma Fan induced the seal with both hands and began to carve the formation around each house.

The Empress of Huaiyang saw Ma Fan's figure flying, constantly jumping up and down, and the seal of her hands was sometimes fast and sometimes slow. The empress looked at Ma Fan's whole set of movements, even if her eyesight was outstanding, she couldn't help but be dazzled for a while.

Ma Fan kept carving the formation, and he didn't stop until he carved more than three hundred formations.

He left four array eyes around him, and he left a main array eye in the main hall just now. As long as you put hedrons in each array, you can maintain the operation of the defensive array. And the higher the level of the spirit stone placed in the eyes of the main array, the stronger the defensive ability of the defense array.

And once the spirit stone in the eyes of the main array is taken out, the entire large array will be closed.

"Where's the spirit stone, bring some!" Ma Fan said to Empress Huaiyang.

Empress Huaiyang hurriedly took out a large number of spirit stones, including lower-grade spirit stones, middle-grade spirit stones, and high-grade spirit stones.

Ma Fan took out some medium-grade spirit stones and placed them on the four array eyes. Then put two high-grade spirit stones on the main array eye in the main hall, and activated the formation.

"That's it!" Ma Fan shouted.

"Are you alright?" Empress Huaiyang was pleasantly surprised.

"That's it!" Ma Fan nodded.

Soon, the empress felt that the aura was getting stronger and stronger.

The surrounding aura quickly gathered in the various rooms of the clutch door, and Zhao Han and the others couldn't help but cry out comfortably: "It's so comfortable!" Why is this aura so strong? ”

Zhao Han and the others couldn't help but induce the cultivation method, and the spiritual energy in their bodies operated unimpeded, and the spiritual energy in the air was like mist, surging towards their bodies frantically. They involuntarily sat down cross-legged and began to cultivate.

The aura of the clutch gate base just now suddenly became ten times richer than before, and the Empress Huaiyang naturally felt it a long time ago.

"Hey, benefactor, why are those jade and spirit stones missing just now?" Empress Huaiyang had just seen Ma Fan shoot pieces of jade into the wall, and at this time, not only was the wall intact, but the jade was also gone.

"I set up a concealment formation, so you can't see these jades."

Ma Fan's hands moved slightly, and a faint light suddenly appeared in the center of the hall. The two high-grade spirit stones were suspended in the air, motionless.

"This highlight is the main formation eye of the entire formation, as long as you put a spar on this bright spot, you can activate the defense array."

"What kind of defensive array is this?" Empress Huaiyang asked curiously.

At this time, a faint light lit up outside the entire clutch door complex, and a transparent glass cover seemed to appear in the air, like a dome, covering the entire base.

"Oh my God," Empress Huaiyang walked out of the hall quickly, "the entire base is covered!" ”

"Master, what kind of formation is this, it's amazing!" Zhao Han asked in surprise. And the other clutch disciples have been sluggish.

Pei Lie and Yao Shun also stood in front of the main hall, staring at the transparent dome in mid-air in amazement.

"These are actually two formations, one is called the Xuantian Gathering Spirit Array, which can gather spiritual energy; One is the Sky Dome Protective Array. Ma Fan said to the Empress Huaiyang.

"Benefactor, I can understand this Spirit Gathering Array, the degree of aura is much stronger! Is this Heavenly Dome Protective Array mainly the outer protective shield? ”

"Yes, this defensive formation, the main thing that works is this protective shield. The protective strength of this protective shield is the same in every place, and every time two high-grade spirit stones are added, it can withstand ten consecutive attacks from the peak master of the Yuan Infant. ”

"Oh my God!" Empress Huaiyang gasped, and then she was ecstatic.

And Pei Lie and Yao Shun on the side had already reacted that this Spirit Gathering Array and Defense Array were also laid out by Ma Fan!

The two of them already had tears on their faces.

"Boom", without waiting for anyone to speak, the Empress Huaiyang and Pei Lie, Yao Shun and others, as well as Zhao Han and other more than a dozen disciples of the Clutch Sect knelt down in front of Ma Fan.