Inside the surging, winding Nine Bends Yellow River Formation, Guangchengzi was temporarily alone, fending off its corrosive power with the Heavenly Overturning Seal, Soul Falling Bell, and other magic treasures, along with the Three Flowers above his head.
The turbid waves rolled on, seemingly the other side of the Dao. Combined with the Primordial Gold Dou, they could dissolve the condensed, illusory Dao and wash away an immortal's wondrous body. This was truly one of the most powerful forbidden arts between heaven and earth, the bane of cultivators.
During the Investiture of the Gods War, after the Lady Sanxiao had captured Guangchengzi and the other eleven immortals of Yuxu one by one with the Primordial Gold Dou, they had all been trapped in the Nine Bends Yellow River Formation. Their Three Flowers were cut away and the Five Qi of their inner landscape sealed, reducing them to mortal bodies. It had taken them tremendous effort to recover their divine abilities afterward—a testament to how terrifying the formation was!
But times had changed. The Lady Sanxiao had suffered the calamity of the Investiture of the Gods and only returned to life with the help of the Chaos Green Lotus Seed. Their strength had yet to recover to its former peak. Meanwhile, after escaping his death tribulation, Guangchengzi had cultivated bitterly for countless ages. He had also reaped considerable benefits from falling from the Heavenly Court and advising the Human Emperor, among other things. He had long since reached the summit of the Great Divine Ability Users, looking down upon most in the Creation realm. Thus, even alone, surrounded and caught in a forbidden art, he could still struggle to hold on without losing his Three Flowers.
Seeing this, Meng Qi first wondered why he had spotted the Lady Sanxiao, while they