Saving Taiyi, Subduing Immortals with Reason

Faced with this overwhelming combined strike, Yellow Dragon remained standing where he was, not even his dharma robe stirring in the slightest. His gaze was calm, and he regarded the divine abilities and spells filling the sky as though they were nothing.

Using his physical body alone, he blocked every attack. After taking the three strikes from the Sect of Interception disciples, Yellow Dragon felt the faint heat on his skin and the slightly dimmed spiritual radiance of his dharma robe. Ignoring the Sect of Interception disciples whose expressions had abruptly changed, he smiled. "Three moves are over. Now it's my turn!"

"Don't blame this senior brother for bullying the young!"

"Buzz!"

A five-colored radiance soared from above Yellow Dragon's head, expanding in an instant and transforming into an ancient, enormous tower. The tower had three levels, with the light of the Five Elements circulating endlessly, evolving the power of the Five Elements and suppressing all things!

It was none other than the low-grade postnatal spiritual treasure Yellow Dragon had refined himself—the Five Elements Tower!

With a slight movement of his mind, the Five Elements Tower above his head suddenly burst with brilliant light!

The Five Elements spiritual restrictions upon the tower spun madly, drawing in the Five Elements vital energy of heaven and earth and enveloping all the Sect of Interception disciples led by Qiu Shouxian!

The Sect of Interception disciples immediately felt their entire bodies sink, as if ten-thousand-zhang divine mountains were pressing down upon them. The circulation of dharma power within them became unbearably sluggish, and even their Primordial Spirits were suppressed!

Fear began to show in their eyes. They wanted to circulate their dharma power, wield their treasures, and flee, but it was all in vain. Everything around them had been completely sealed by the power of the Five Elements. They could not move at all!

"Suppress!"

Yellow Dragon softly spoke a single word.

The hundred-zhang giant tower crashed down, carrying an irresistible force of suppression as it smashed toward Qiu Shouxian and the other Sect of Interception disciples!

"No—!" Qiu Shouxian only had time to let out half a howl before the giant tower completely swallowed him.

"BOOM!!!"

The earth trembled violently, as though an earth dragon had turned over. After the deafening roar, heaven and earth fell silent.

Dust billowed everywhere, and spiritual energy ran wild.

Yellow Dragon lightly waved his hand, and a clear breeze blew from his palm, scattering all the dust in the air. Taiyi, watching intently from the side, saw that the giant tower had already vanished. In its place remained only an enormous pit spanning several hundred zhang, so deep that its bottom could not be seen. Within the pit lingered a heart-palpitating aura of the Five Elements.

Yellow Dragon walked step by step to the edge of the pit and glanced into its pitch-black depths. "If you don't come out now, then don't ever come out!"

In an instant, more than ten panicked figures shot out from the bottom of the pit and landed not far from Yellow Dragon. Aside from their deathly pale faces, they bore no signs of injury. Qiu Shouxian cupped his hands toward Yellow Dragon in salute. "Thank you, Senior Brother Yellow Dragon, for showing mercy." A thread of terror trembled in his voice.

The other Sect of Interception disciples were white-faced and shaking from head to toe. Looking at that enormous pit, then at Senior Brother Yellow Dragon, serene as drifting clouds and gentle wind, their eyes were filled with boundless fear.

"I still preferred that proud and unruly look you had just now!"

Yellow Dragon shook his head as he looked at Qiu Shouxian and the other Sect of Interception disciples, now obedient beyond measure. "Since you're fine, don't stand here being an eyesore. You bullies who fear the strong, get lost."

Upon hearing Yellow Dragon's words, the more than ten Sect of Interception disciples who had narrowly survived the ordeal feared that he might change his mind. One after another, they turned into escaping lights of various colors and fled in all directions in a panic. In the blink of an eye, they had vanished completely, leaving only devastation behind.

Only then did Taiyi seem to awaken from a dream. He hurried forward and respectfully saluted Yellow Dragon. Shock still lingered on his face, but his tone was brimming with gratitude. "Thank you, Senior Brother Yellow Dragon, for coming to my aid! Otherwise, this junior brother would likely have been unable to escape suffering damage to my foundation and a loss of cultivation today."

Yellow Dragon waved his hand. Looking at the still-shaken Taiyi, he said gently, "We are fellow disciples. Why thank me? But there is something you should realize from today's events."

His gaze swept over the ravaged mountains around them as he said slowly, "When an opportunity of the Great Dao accords with your own Dao and concerns your very life, then you must fight for it. Otherwise, if you harm the source of your own Dao over such external possessions, the loss will outweigh the gain."

"A few spiritual mountains are plentiful in Kunlun. So long as they do not involve your own Dao, what harm is there in yielding them to others? If you fear insufficient spiritual energy or shallow Dao resonance, you can set up formations to gather spiritual energy, regulate the earth veins, and cultivate spiritual plants. Given enough time, you will naturally be able to create a blessed land rich in spiritual energy."

He looked toward Taiyi, his tone turning solemn. "If you blindly vie for strength and ruthlessly fight over a momentary advantage, then should you damage your origin this time, who knows how much time and effort it would take to recover? The loss would outweigh the gain!"

Taiyi's face revealed shame, yet he also seemed to have gained some understanding. After the fierce battle just now, he had narrowly escaped death, and now Yellow Dragon had enlightened him. The little competitive spirit in his heart immediately faded greatly, and he gained a deeper insight into cultivation of the Great Dao.

"Thank you for your instruction, Senior Brother. This junior brother has learned his lesson and will remember it in my heart." Taiyi bowed once more.

Yellow Dragon gave a slight nod. "Good. Since the Sect of Interception disciples have left, establish your Daoist sanctuary here."

Yellow Dragon's figure flashed, turning into a streak of escaping light as he returned directly to his own Daoist sanctuary, where spiritual energy was abundant.

Five Elements Courtyard, beneath the Enlightenment Tea Tree.

Yellow Dragon sat cross-legged, brewed himself a pot of tea, and reflected on the battle just now. Though it had been decided in an instant, it had given him a few more insights into the use of the Five Elements Tower.

Yet the unrestrained conduct of Qiu Shouxian and the other Sect of Interception disciples left Yellow Dragon with a trace of unease. The mountain-protecting formation around his Daoist sanctuary had merely been set up back when he was a Xuanxian. If someone raided his home while he was away, his spiritual roots and spiritual herbs would suffer. Given the way those Sect of Interception disciples behaved, it was not impossible. By then, it would be too late even to weep.

"To raise the grade of the formation, my current attainments in formations are far from sufficient."

He first needed to improve his mastery of formations. Draining the tea from his cup in one swallow, Yellow Dragon sank his consciousness into the formation inheritance left behind by Sage Tongtian!

Time passed unnoticed in the mountains!

One day, within Five Elements Courtyard, Yellow Dragon opened his eyes from atop his meditation cushion. Countless formation runes flowed, appeared, and vanished within his eyes, evolving heaven and earth before finally returning to stillness. A profound and mysterious aura slowly withdrew.

He slowly exhaled a breath of turbid air. After leaving his body, that turbid air actually evolved on its own into a miniature killing formation, appearing and vanishing in an endless cycle.

"Uncle-Master Tongtian's inheritance of formations truly is vast and profound, pointing directly to the origin of formation Dao... What a pity."

Feeling the final drop of Creation Origin completely consumed and gone without a trace, Yellow Dragon's lips curled into a bitter smile.

To push his understanding of formations to the minor accomplishment realm, he had no choice but to use his last drop of Creation Origin to comprehend the formation inheritance. Now, with his attainments in formation Dao, any formation he casually laid down could trap and kill a Golden Immortal. If he were allowed to prepare a formation in advance and had sufficient formation materials, trapping and killing Taiyi would not be difficult either!

Yellow Dragon rose to his full height and flew above his own Daoist sanctuary. His gaze swept across the thin curtain of Five Elements light around its perimeter. Looking at it now with his current realm in formation Dao, he saw nothing but flaws everywhere. It was crude beyond measure, like a child's scribbles.

"It simply cannot bear looking at." Yellow Dragon shook his head, but his tone was incomparably resolute. "The most urgent task is to refine the formation bases first!"

With a wave of Yellow Dragon's hand, countless innate spiritual materials shot out and floated in the air. Though they gleamed with resplendent light and overflowed with treasure aura, they were actually only red copper, heavenly silver, Five Elements spiritual jade, void stones, wind-thunder stones... all common things in the primordial world. The best among them were the three grains of All-Heaven Star Sand; the rest could only make up for quality with quantity.

Yellow Dragon took out a top-grade spiritual artifact refining cauldron. A wisp of true fire condensed in his palm, and he placed it beneath the cauldron. Activating it with the Jade Purity immortal arts, he tossed countless innate spiritual materials into the cauldron and carefully tempered them.