The Everlasting Silent Forest’s True Nature?

Aldrian checked the formation's eye, which had stopped functioning after his heavenly tribulation. Upon inspection, he found no visible damage or irregularities with the formation's eye itself. He carefully examined each point of the formation across the entire mountain but found nothing unusual. Yet, the formation had indeed stopped working.

While everything appeared fine on the surface, the formation had ceased absorbing the surrounding heaven and earth energy needed for activation. Aldrian suddenly realized the likely reason: something entirely new had appeared following his tribulation.

"The thick heavenly energy and aura now filling the entire mountain, mixed into the very air, can't be absorbed by the formation. I see—the formation needs time to adjust so it can handle the dense heavenly energy," he thought.