Today's second update: Chapter 3686! 2/4!
"Ha... cough, cough!"
The eldest of the Eight Sons panted heavily outside the formation, unable to hide his smugness. "Little girl... this is the Eight Gates Locking Heaven Formation that we Eight Sons have immersed ourselves in for years! Though it is only a simplified version, it still possesses the might of an A-rank trapping formation! Let alone a mere Heavenly King Realm cultivator like you, even an ordinary Sixth Realm Peak expert would be trapped to death like a headless fly without profound knowledge of formations or an understanding of their transformations and counters, exhausted until defeat! Surrender... You have nowhere left to go!"
Hearing this from within the formation, Xu Caiyi showed not the slightest panic. Instead, she stopped her pointless probing.
She gently closed her eyes, her long lashes casting faint shadows across her cheeks as though she were quietly sensing something.
Several breaths later, she opened her eyes again. A trace of understanding—and... faint disappointment—flashed through them.
"A trapping formation laid out using nothing more than the superficial imitation of the Eight Gates Golden Lock Formation thinks it can bind me?"
She murmured softly, but her voice clearly pierced through the Wind Wall and reached the Eight Sons' ears. "That is... nothing but wishful thinking."
Her lotus steps shifted lightly. No longer attempting to force her way straight through, she instead began wandering through the Wind Maze in a peculiar fashion that seemed utterly irregular, taking a step east, then a step west.
The path of her footsteps carried a mysterious rhythm. Whenever a Wind Wall was about to form or the airflow was shifting, she passed through the gaps as if strolling through a garden.
"What is she doing?" one of the Sons of Flowing Clouds asked uneasily.