While the immortals drilled their formations, Lü Yue could no longer restrain the hatred in his heart and descended the mountain to seek trouble with Jiang Ziya.
Yet Yang Ren broke the Plague Formation and killed him with the Five-Fire Seven-Bird Fan.
After Western Qi's army passed through the Plague Formation and reached Tong Pass, Yu Hualong led his five sons in scattering pox sores through the air, nearly causing the six hundred thousand-strong army to perish on the spot.
Zhu Guang descended the mountain and used his alchemical arts to heal the soldiers and people of Western Qi. He also begged Shennong for cimicifuga, to aid later generations.
All formations in the world ultimately fell within the numbers of Taiji, Two Principles, Three Talents, Four Images, Five Elements, Six Harmonies, Seven Stars, Eight Trigrams, Nine Palaces, and One Origin.
The Ten Thousand Immortals Formation could be said to have brought the principles of such formations to their utmost extreme.
From these foundations were further derived the Twenty-Eight Constellations, the Thirty-Six Heavenly Gang, the Seventy-Two Di Sha, and countless other principles. Once deployed, their transformations were inexhaustible.
Seeing that the time had come and that the Ten Thousand Immortals Formation had been drilled to perfection, Ling Qing made ready to depart. Golden Spirit Holy Mother, Holy Mother Wudang, and Holy Mother Turtle Spirit followed behind him;
along with Cloud Immortal, Golden Light Immortal, Dragon-Head Immortal, Spirit-Tusk Immortal, and seven other immortals; Zhao Gongming, the Three Xiao Sisters, Lady Shiji, and others; as well as the Nine Luminaries Star Lords, Twenty-Eight Constellations, Thirty-Six Heavenly Gang, Seventy-Two Di Sha, and more.
The vast host of immortal adepts left the East Sea in mighty procession and arrived at a secluded place a hundred li beyond Lintong Pass. There, each raised camps and gathered