The instant the Nine Bends Yellow River Formation's light faded.
High above, the two Saints locked in a furious battle sensed it at the same time. Their gazes swept downward in unison.
"Oh no!"
Venerable Yuanshi cried out inwardly.
He saw the formation he hated with every fiber of his being fading at a visible rate. Three figures were already preparing to flee on beams of light.
They were getting away!
In that instant, Venerable Yuanshi's mind went buzz, and his blood surged.
Why had he come here today, suffered one humiliation after another, and spent half the day fighting Nuwa, that madwoman?
Wasn't it to kill those three insolent wretches who had dared to disgrace his disciples?
Now, as he and Nuwa fought so fiercely that heaven and earth seemed to crumble, the ones at the heart of it were about to escape?
What the hell was this?
He'd been played!
Nuwa and those three wretches had made a fool of him!
"Nuwa! Don't you dare!!!"
Venerable Yuanshi let out a furious roar that shook the Three Realms. He no longer spared a thought for Nuwa before him. Whirling the Pangu Banner around, he prepared to unleash the long-charged, world-destroying strike at the three Yun Xiao sisters, who had just escaped the formation!
But even if he wanted to leave, would Nuwa let him?
"Your opponent is me!"
Nuwa's cool voice rang in Venerable Yuanshi's ears.
The instant Venerable Yuanshi changed direction, a glint flashed in Nuwa's eyes. She seized that fleeting opportunity!
This was the moment she'd been waiting for!
The Mountain River Society Map no longer layered its defenses. Instead, it blazed with light, the entire scroll seeming to transform into a real Great Thousand World. With an overwhelming force of suppression, it came crashing down over