The Ten Heavenly Lords laid down the Ten Absolute Formations, each formation brimming with monstrous ferocity and Killing Intent. Among them, the Soul-Falling Formation controlled by Yao Tianjun gathered yin evil and Killing Intent into one, specializing in seizing the souls of living beings. It was vicious beyond measure.
Yao Tianjun stood within the formation, black mist coiling around him. Inside, yin winds howled, ghosts wailed and wolves cried. Soul-Summoning Banners carpeted the ground, Talisman Seals and Ritual Bells were scattered throughout, and the bone-chilling air shot straight to the clouds, enough to make a person's soul leave their body from several miles away.
He sat upright on the formation platform and personally bound together a straw effigy. On the effigy's forehead, he wrote the three characters "Jiang Ziya," then pasted Jiang Ziya's birth date and eight characters onto it before hanging the straw man from a wooden stake within the formation.
After that, he lit three Life-Soul Lamps, held a Peachwood Sword, and chanted the Soul-Falling Incantation day and night, carrying out the method of bowing to the soul and shooting the spirit.
Each time he bent down in worship, the yin Killing Intent within the formation swelled by another degree. The Soul-Summoning Banners whipped about wildly, and fine strands of soul-light were forcibly drawn over from the direction of Xiqi's main camp.
Each time he finished reciting an incantation, he took up a Red Steel Divine Arrow and shot it at the straw effigy.
The first arrow struck the straw man between the brows. Jiang Ziya was discussing matters in Xiqi's main camp when he suddenly felt dizzy and dazed, his mind thrown into a trance.
One of his three souls had already scattered. His whole body went limp, and he could neither sit nor stand in peace.