Surrounded by wave after wave of ice corpses, they had been in an extremely perilous situation. These ice corpse armies were the accumulated foundation of the entire Ice Corpse Lake over countless years.
Though many of them had already been worn down by other intruders before the Lotus Avatar and the others arrived, a starved camel was still bigger than a horse.
Relying on the formation and the ice corpse armies, along with the nearly inexhaustible Yuanxi Ice Qi within the lake, they still caused the Lotus Avatar and the others tremendous trouble.
Immortal Venerable Yiyang, Lu Yuanzi, and the others were all exhausted after their prolonged battle, yet the ice corpse armies surging from several formation gates remained endless.
Realizing that they had no hope of breaking out of the great formation anytime soon, they adopted a rotation system. Immortal Venerable Yiyang, Lu Yuanzi, and Palace Master Bingyuan formed one group, while the Lotus Avatar and Mu Xia formed the other.
The two groups took turns engaging the ice corpse armies and resisting the harassment of the formation's power. Only then were they able to barely hold on.
The six of them were trapped inside the great formation, and in the blink of an eye, a hundred years passed.
A considerable portion of the ice corpse army would quickly turn into ice qi after being slain within the great formation. After fusing with the lake's unique corpse qi, they would transform back into ice corpses and fight the powerful cultivators once more, repeating the cycle endlessly.
Fortunately, apart from Xiao Yu, the Lotus Avatar and the others were all Great Daluo Golden Immortals. Under such fierce slaughter, everyone's cultivation improved.
The Lotus Avatar, meanwhile, had been continuously fusing with the sword intent from the Sacred Soul Sword Stele fragments