"The grand plan is nearly complete. Though I'm still a little short of being able to kill you outright with the formation, it won't be difficult to guide the Void Beasts into surrounding you."
Kong Tianji sneered coldly, then flashed into the grand formation.
The formation didn't completely isolate the Void Beasts. In fact, Kong Tianji didn't have the ability to do that. If he'd tried, the rampaging beasts could have destroyed the entire formation. At present, he couldn't stop them by force; all he could do was guide them appropriately.
The formation hadn't been fully repaired. Under normal circumstances, it couldn't trap a powerful expert like Lu Xiaotian for long. Once the two of them began fighting, Lu Xiaotian would soon break out through one of several gaps.
The Void Beasts happened to block those gaps. Ferocious beasts poured inside, attacking Lu Xiaotian from several different directions.
The beasts' attacks appeared to be somewhat restricted, but Lu Xiaotian's room to maneuver was even more constrained. Kong Tianji could also mobilize the power of the restrictions to intensify the pressure on Lu Xiaotian, assisting the beasts' attacks from the sidelines.
Once Lu Xiaotian was too exhausted to go on, Kong Tianji could use the restrictions to hold back the beasts and buy himself time.
As for Kong Tianji himself, hiding within the restrictions couldn't completely conceal him from the beasts. But he could use the restrictions to suppress his aura and shift it elsewhere, easing the pressure on himself.
He'd already been in somewhat better shape than Lu Xiaotian. With one side gaining while the other lost, the difference would become obvious as time passed.
Hiss, hiss! The densely packed beasts all around continued to pounce.
Lu Xiaotian loosed an arrow. Countless arrow-shadows sliced through the air around him. Many