"Voom—"
The moment the Primordial Golden Dou left her hand, it blazed with golden light and swelled with the wind. In the blink of an eye, it had grown to the size of a small mountain, hovering above the Formation Eye of the Nine Bends Yellow River Formation.
As soon as it appeared, the entire formation seemed to have been given a soul.
Rumble!
Within a hundred-mile radius, the winds and clouds changed, and the sky grew dark.
The Yellow River, which had been calm, suddenly turned turbulent, its murky waves surging into the heavens. Streams of filthy energy that could defile one's primordial spirit and corrode one's Dao fruit rose from the waters, spreading throughout the entire formation.
The astral winds high above the nine heavens were drawn in by the formation and transformed into countless visible blue blades of wind. They howled and wheeled through the formation, making sounds like wailing ghosts and shrieking wolves.
The turbid energy beneath the earth erupted as well, becoming a dense black fog that shrouded everything inside the formation and obscured it from view.
From outside, all of Mount Qi had vanished.
In its place was a vast, terrifying vortex shrouded in yellow mist and black fog.
Lightning flashed and thunder roared within the vortex. Astral winds howled, and faint roars of dragons and tigers echoed from within. Just looking at it made one's mind reel and head spin.
An invisible, terrifying aura that could seize the fortune of Heaven and Earth and strip immortals of their cultivation spread from the formation, enveloping the entire region of Xi Qi.
The mortals in Xi Qi City couldn't quite grasp what was happening. They only noticed that the sky had suddenly darkened and felt a little uneasy.
But to the Sect of Explanation immortals in the city, the arrival of this aura was nothing short of a calamity!
Inside the chancellor's residence.
Guangchengzi, who had been meditating to heal his wounds, abruptly opened his eyes. The color drained from his face.
"What... what kind of formation is this?"
To his horror, he discovered that the magical power within his body was being drawn out against his will by an invisible force—slowly, thread by thread.
Though it was happening slowly, the sensation was more terrifying than anything he had ever experienced!
It was as if an irresistible force were forcibly robbing a person of his lifespan!
"Something's wrong!"
Chijingzi, True Man Yuding, Taiyi Zhenren... Every Golden Immortal of the Sect of Explanation in Xi Qi City sensed the terrifying change at the same time.
Their faces changed dramatically. They hurried out of their meditation chambers and gathered in the courtyard of the chancellor's residence.
"Senior brother! Do you feel it?" Taiyi Zhenren asked, his face stricken with horror.
"I do!" Guangchengzi's expression was grim. "What an overbearing formation! We're still inside the city, yet it can affect our cultivation through the Apricot Yellow Flag!"
"What vile formation have the Sanxiao set up?" Chijingzi cried, both furious and alarmed.
Jiang Ziya hurried out of the residence as well. His cultivation was too weak for him to feel the effects clearly, but seeing the grave expressions of his senior brothers, he knew something terrible had happened.
"Senior brothers, what... what's going on?"
True Man Yuding looked toward the lands beyond the city, now shrouded in yellow mist, his expression solemn. "Their formation is complete."
"This formation can seize the fortune of immortals and strip away our cultivation. If we remain here, then in less than a hundred years, it will grind away all our power and turn us into mortals!"
"What?!"
Jiang Ziya was horrified.
How could there be such a vicious formation?
It was even more malicious than killing them outright!
For an immortal who had cultivated for billions of years, having his cultivation stripped away and being cast down into the mortal world was worse than death!
"Unforgivable! Absolutely unforgivable!"
Taiyi Zhenren trembled with fury.
"These Interception Sect fiends are vicious beyond belief! We'll fight them!"
"How?" Guangchengzi gave a bitter smile, his face full of dejection. "We were no match for Zhao Gongming alone. Now the Sanxiao have joined forces, with this vile formation to empower them. If we go out there, we'll be walking to our deaths."
At his words, everyone fell silent.
It was true. They couldn't win.
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They couldn't even enter the enemy's formation. How could they talk about breaking it?
For a time, an emotion called despair spread through the hearts of the Sect of Explanation immortals.
They were the renowned Twelve Golden Immortals of the Sect of Explanation, disciples of a Sage. When had they ever suffered such humiliation?
First, Zhao Gongming alone had beaten them until they fled in disarray.
Now his three younger sisters had trapped them in the city, slowly wearing them down with a formation while they didn't even dare show their faces.
If word got out, the Sect of Explanation would lose all face.
"Ha ha ha ha..."
Just then, a smug, brazen laugh rang out from beyond the city, clear in every person's ears.
It was Bi Xiao.
"You cowardly turtles of the Sect of Explanation! Listen up!"
"We three sisters have set up the Nine Bends Yellow River Formation! You have three days to leave the city and break it!"
"If you come, perhaps we'll leave you a wisp of True Spirit to be placed on the Investiture of the Gods!"
"If you don't dare come, then just wait here in Xi Qi City while my formation grinds you down into mortals, to suffer the torments of reincarnation!"
"We sisters have all the time in the world to play with you!"
Bi Xiao's laughter was like the most vicious curse, echoing above Xi Qi City.
On the city walls, the Sect of Explanation immortals turned livid and clenched their fists, itching to charge out at once and fight her to the death.
But in the end, reason won out over impulse.
They didn't dare.
"Senior brother, what... what should we do now?" Jiang Ziya was at a loss, and could only turn to Guangchengzi for help.
Guangchengzi drew a deep breath and forced himself to calm down.
He knew that this was no longer a problem they could solve on their own.
Their opponents feared neither Sages nor even a peerless, vicious formation like the Nine Bends Yellow River Formation. They were clearly determined to fight the Sect of Explanation to the death!
There was only one person who could resolve this.
"Junior brother, there's only one thing we can do now."
Guangchengzi looked at Jiang Ziya and spoke each word carefully.
"Leave at once for Kunlun Mountain and report everything that happened here to our master, exactly as it happened!"
"Ask him to decide what we should do!"
It was their only hope.
If the disciples couldn't handle it, they would ask their master.
They refused to believe the Sanxiao would dare behave so recklessly in front of a Sage!
"Understood!"
Jiang Ziya knew how urgent the situation was and agreed without hesitation.
"Rest assured, senior brothers! I'll go and bring our master here to seek justice for us!"
With that, he didn't dare delay. Using the Earth-Escape technique, he slipped out of Xi Qi City and raced east toward Kunlun Mountain.
On a mountain peak outside the city, the three Yun Xiao sisters looked at Xi Qi City's tightly shut gates and saw that nothing was happening. Cold smiles appeared on their faces.
"Big sister, it looks like they don't dare come out," Bi Xiao said, pouting in boredom.
"If they won't come out, we'll force them to," Qiong Xiao said coldly.
Yun Xiao gazed east, toward Kunlun Mountain.
"They'll come out," she said calmly.
"Jiang Ziya has already gone to Kunlun Mountain to call for reinforcements."
"We need only wait."
"I want to see whether Venerable Yuanshi will hand over the culprit and quell our fury—or whether he'll disregard the dignity of a Sage and come down here himself to break my Nine Bends Yellow River Formation!"
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