The Right Plan, but the Wrong Opponent

Pale yellow pillars of light suddenly shot up from below.

It took no more than a blink.

Hundreds of sky-piercing pillars, like celestial columns, encircled the battlefield where Ling Wuyuan and the others stood, forcibly sealing off the entire area.

Then—

Layers of special pale yellow light membranes naturally extended outward from within each pillar.

They filled the gaps between the pillars, completely linking them together and thoroughly isolating the entire area from the outside world.

In an instant.

A pale golden cube appeared high in the sky.

It felt as though the entire space had suddenly been stripped away from the main world and placed inside a separate box.

However, after observing for a moment.

Ling Wuyuan quickly determined that this was not the case.

Right now.

What he was experiencing.

Was more like being trapped within some rather special formation barrier.

He could sense it very clearly.

Once that layer of light membrane appeared.

The spiritual energy of heaven and earth around him underwent some sort of change at the very level of its nature. It became extremely hostile toward him, indicating that the surrounding environment had already fallen under the enemy's control.

Moreover.

An invisible force continuously surged in from all directions.

It was as though countless heavy weights had appeared on his body out of nowhere.

No, it would be more accurate to say—as though he had been stuffed into a hydraulic press, one that squeezed inward from every direction without a single blind spot.

That invisible force.

Was trying to forcibly twist his body!!

As though it meant to crush him into a meatball!!

Even.

His eyeballs had to withstand an immensely powerful pressure!!

If the one enduring that invisible force had not been him.

But some other cultivator.

Then even if the rest of