The Daoist sensed that the formation outside him had been seized, and that he himself was now trapped within it. He knew something was wrong.
His reaction was swift enough. At once, he drew upon the aura of the Heaven-Bearing Diagram here, using it to protect himself and repel the formation's power. Then he turned into a streak of escaping light, intending to flee back from this place.
Daoist You had long anticipated his response. He lightly raised his wrist and gave the branch segment of the Azure Spirit Heavenly Branch in his hand another sweep. This time, however, he was not sending anyone across to another realm. Instead, he cut off that wisp of Heaven-Bearing Diagram aura descending from above for a brief moment.
Once the Heaven-Bearing Diagram aura around the Daoist vanished, the formation's power blocked him, and he fell back into the formation. What followed was precisely Daoist You's specialty.
He immediately activated his fundamental Dao method and effortlessly set all the formation mechanisms within the giant star into motion, pressing down upon the Daoist within the formation all at once. He operated them even more smoothly than their original master of the formation mechanisms.
The Daoist had intended to activate his fundamental Dao method to resist, but he realized that he had already fallen into an utterly passive position.
Above him, the formation mechanisms and Daoist You had cut off his path. It was no longer possible to smoothly draw down the Heaven-Bearing Diagram aura. He was bound to be trapped here. If he struggled now, he would only let the enemy learn what his Dao method was. So he simply ceased moving, relying only on ordinary divine abilities, magical power, and the formation artifacts on his person to fight.
But how could that possibly contend