At the critical moment, Ling Tian successfully set up the Myriad Sword Demon Extermination Grand Formation. It was only a rudimentary version, but Ling Tian had long since gained control over this space, and it was thousands upon thousands of times smaller than the area covered by the formation that had once protected Fengyun Realm. Even in its rudimentary state, its power was therefore not necessarily much weaker. In particular, Ling Tian's Small World was far larger than before, and the greater its scale, the more powerful his Micro World Secret Technique became and the easier it was for him to control the Myriad Sword Demon Extermination Grand Formation. He could wield it with ease.
For that very reason, the energy arrows unleashed by the formation under Ling Tian's control were nearly as powerful as the energy arrows fired by Chi Xue and the others through their Phantom Combo. What was more, he could control the formation and the Micro World Secret Technique to conjure countless earthen walls that intercepted the arrows. Most were shattered; even those that slipped through had been greatly weakened. Xiao Shi and Ling Tian could withstand them with their formidable defenses and suffered only minor injuries.
With only the time it took an incense stick to burn left before the one-year deadline, those minor injuries meant they could easily hold out. Besides, they weren't going to take the energy arrows head-on. Xiao Shi followed up with Mountain-Pushing Sea-Toppling, Sky-Splitting Claw, and Sacred Beast Seven-Style Severing Slash, while Ling Tian controlled the Mysterious Magnetic Sword Wings to unleash countless Sword Feathers and intercept them. That stopped nearly all the remaining arrows and weakened those that got through even further.
At the same time, Ling Tian and the others used their powerful movement techniques to dodge as