The cage was not particularly vast, only a little over a hundred zhang across.
Yet standing within it, Chen Sanshi felt an indescribable pressure. No matter what method he tried, he could not escape the sword formation's range.
He did not sit still and await death. Seven palm-sized black Formation Flags, neither metal nor wood and engraved with ancient runes, shot out from his Storage Ring.
The Formation Flags swelled in the wind, instantly growing to over a zhang tall and arranging themselves according to the positions of the Big Dipper.
Big Dipper Star Slaying Formation!
This formation was specifically designed to break formations!
The seven Formation Flags echoed with the stars beyond the nine heavens, drawing in Starlight Power and condensing it into a long spear that slowly descended from the thunderclouds, about to smash into the sword formation.
But at that very moment, the outer ring of the sword formation abruptly began spinning faster, while the inner ring slowly rotated in the opposite direction.
Between the two sword rings, a distorted, boiling vortex of space formed, swallowing all spiritual power within the cage like a giant whale gulping down the sea.
The light of the Big Dipper Star Slaying Formation Flags dimmed at a visible rate.
Above the heavens, the freshly condensed star spear also vanished into smoke.
This cage could devour spiritual power!
The Formation Flags let out mournful cries and trembled beneath the vortex's pull until they were completely torn apart, turning into fragments that entered the vortex and disappeared without a trace.
It was not only formations. Once Chen Sanshi himself used spells or divine abilities, thirty percent of the mana contained within them would immediately be absorbed by the sword formation.
In other words.
As long as he remained inside the cage, his Combat