Yellow clouds filled the sky and sealed the void. The four symbols ran wild, and the entire Nine-Bend Yellow River Formation utterly cut off heaven and earth.
Three thousand golden-bodied arhats joined together into a pale golden Dao barrier, attempting to withstand the formation's might head-on.
But barely had they steadied themselves when they abruptly sensed a change all around them. An utterly uncanny, all-pervasive power of formations seeped into every meridian in their bodies and into their Niwan heavenly palaces.
This was the Interception Sect's supreme killing formation, concealing the mystery of the Immortal-Sealing Dao-Extinguishing Secret. It excelled at stripping immortals of their spirits, dissolving their souls, ensnaring their bodies, and diminishing their qi.
An ordinary Golden Immortal who entered needed no blade to touch them. The formation's power would silently strip away their Dao Fruit and grind their cultivation into nothing, sending ages of attainment flowing away down the river.
Within mere breaths, the golden bodies of the frontmost arhats began to dim.
Their once radiant, translucent golden bodies, impervious to all arts, lost layer after layer of spiritual radiance. The Dao resonance surrounding them rapidly thinned.
The immortal bodies they had refined through ten thousand years of cultivation were being silently eaten away and dissolved by the Yellow River Formation.
"Something's wrong! My magical power is dispersing on its own!"
One arhat roared in shock and fury, desperately circulating his magical power. Yet the harder he circulated it, the faster the Dao essence around him drained away.
The faint phantoms of three immortal flowers above his head tottered on the verge of collapse. The five elemental Dao qi condensed within his chest fell into chaos and scattered, while his pure cultivation vanished into thin air like flowing water.
Mortal combat outside the formation could still be resisted.