The Seven Luminaries and Four Residuals Banner was Daoxuan Xijie Mountain's supreme treasure for safeguarding its teachings. Wu Yousheng had stolen it, and it had thus fallen into Ying Wuji's hands.
The embryonic vessel of this supreme treasure was nearly fully refined, but it had yet to be imbued with a primordial spirit, leaving it somewhat flawed.
If it encountered a genuine supreme treasure for safeguarding a sect's teachings, the Seven Luminaries and Four Residuals Banner's power would likely be greatly diminished.
If Ying Wuji used the Seven Luminaries and Four Residuals Banner against He Ping's Puppet Demon City, he would undoubtedly be asking for trouble.
But if he used it in battle to suppress the empty-handed Yuan Weiting before him, victory was as good as certain.
"Heavenly light descends below; earthly virtue bears above. Seven Luminaries and Four Residuals, Ten Heavenly Stems Transformed into Luminaries!"
Ying Wuji activated his mana, and a great banner slowly rose behind him. It was covered in patterns of stars, the sun, moon, and Five Elements, as well as wind-and-cloud talismans. This banner contained the essence of Xijie Mountain's Dao arts, the Great Meaning of the Five Elements. Once set in motion, whether summoning clouds and rain, smelting mountain ranges, or opening up rivers, all became as easy as turning one's hand.
The instant Ying Wuji made his move, the surrounding spacetime shifted. The great banner swayed, and heaven and earth shook with it.
Yuan Weiting was immediately trapped within a grand formation. Arranged through the Seven Luminaries and Four Residuals Banner, the formation seemed to contain armies by the thousands in every direction, murderous intent surging and battle will galloping—as though countless heroic spirits from ancient battlefields had been summoned forth.
"Celestial Star Troop-Mustering Grand Formation!"
This old Sword Immortal had long been