"Myriad Immortals, take your positions!"
The words fell.
The hundred thousand immortal troops shuddered as one.
Purple-gold immortal banners rose from the ranks one after another.
The battle formation Luxuan had shattered with a single palm strike earlier had merely been a temporary large-scale immortal formation. But now, with Dongwang Gong personally presiding over it, the auras of all the immortal soldiers began reconnecting in an entirely different manner.
One Great Luo held each direction.
Taiyi immortals served as the central hubs.
The hundred thousand immortal soldiers formed the foundation.
Dongwang Gong himself stood at the very center.
"The Myriad Immortals Formation?"
A mighty expert watching from afar recognized a few clues.
"No, this is not yet the true, complete Myriad Immortals Formation."
"The Celestial Court has not existed for long. This formation should only be a rudimentary version Dongwang Gong deduced from the fate of the assembled immortals. Yet with a Quasi-Saint like him personally controlling it, its power must not be underestimated."
And that was indeed the case.
The instant the formation took shape, the previously independent auras of the hundred thousand immortal soldiers became wholly connected.
Dongwang Gong's cultivation surged once more.
His aura, originally only at the early Quasi-Saint level, faintly touched upon an even higher realm with the formation and the Celestial Court's fate empowering him.
"Luxuan."
Dongwang Gong finally regained some of the composure befitting the leader of the male immortals.
"I would like to see."
"How you alone can contend against the myriad immortals of my Celestial Court!"
Luxuan raised his head and swept his gaze across the formation.
Then his eyes fell upon Yunxiao.
"How is it?"
Yunxiao was intently observing the Myriad Immortals Formation. Hearing his question, she gently shook her head.
"Too fast."
"This disciple can currently discern only part of the aura connections, but I cannot find the true core."
Luxuan nodded.
"Normal."
"If you could see through everything the first time you encountered it, that would not be talent. That would be cheating."
Bixiao did not understand the last two words.
"Master, what does cheating mean?"
"Nothing."
Luxuan brushed it aside casually.
"Your master will go in and take it apart for you to examine."
Yunxiao: "..."
She suddenly felt that the phrase "take it apart" was somewhat disrespectful toward Dongwang Gong.
The next moment.
Luxuan truly stepped into the Myriad Immortals Formation.
Even Dongwang Gong was stunned for a moment.
He had thought Luxuan would seek a way to break the formation from outside.
Yet this fellow had actually entered it of his own accord.
"You are courting death!"
Dongwang Gong did not hesitate in the slightest.
"Activate the formation!"
Rumble!
The hundred thousand immortal soldiers simultaneously drove their mana.
In an instant, heaven and earth turned upside down within the entire formation.
The Eastern Sea scenery around Luxuan vanished completely, replaced by endless purple stars. Within every star sat hundreds or thousands of Celestial Court cultivators.
The stars revolved.
Boundless killing intent surged in from every direction.
The first divine beam descended.
Luxuan raised a hand and blocked it.
"Yunxiao, look southeast."
Outside the formation.
Yunxiao immediately fixed her eyes on the southeast.
A Great Luo was stationed there.
Whenever the formation launched an attack, the twelve purple stars surrounding him would flash first.
"That Great Luo is a node?"
"No."
Luxuan answered while blocking the attacks filling the formation.
"He is merely the formation eye on the surface."
"The true node lies in the third star beneath him."
Having said that.
Luxuan casually reached forward and grabbed.
Boom!
A purple star was forcibly torn straight out of the formation's operating trajectory.
The entire southeastern formation sector immediately fell into disarray.
Yunxiao's pupils contracted slightly.
She saw it.
Luxuan continued onward.
The western killing formation activated.
Tens of thousands of sword lights converged into a river.
"What should I look for here?"
This time, Yunxiao did not answer immediately.
She concentrated on sensing it.
One breath.
Two breaths.
At last, before the river of swords descended, she suddenly spoke.
"The sword river is not the core."
"The nine immortal banners to the southwest are what truly sustain the sword formation!"
Luxuan smiled.
"Half right."
"The immortal banners are the medium."
"The mana circulation of the nine hundred cultivators behind those banners is the true node."
He flicked a finger.
Nine streams of force crossed the void.
They harmed no one.
Yet they precisely disrupted the perfectly synchronized rhythm of mana among the nine hundred immortal soldiers.
Boom!
The vast sword river collapsed on its own before it had even surged halfway forward.
Dongwang Gong stood at the central formation eye, his face turning from black to green, then from green to a faint purple.
He finally understood what Luxuan was doing.
This man was not merely breaking the formation.
He was dismantling it piece by piece.
And after dismantling each piece, he deliberately paused.
So that Yunxiao, that disciple outside, could see clearly.
A formation personally controlled by the leader of the male immortals and jointly deployed by one hundred thousand immortal soldiers.
He had truly treated it as a teaching tool!
"Luxuan!"
Dongwang Gong roared.
"You go too far in bullying others!"
The entire Myriad Immortals Formation suddenly accelerated.
Countless stars moved at once.
The nodes that had once been clearly distinguishable instantly became incomparably chaotic.
When Yunxiao tried to observe them again, the difficulty soared more than tenfold.
Yet Luxuan was in no hurry.
"A formation is alive."
"Naturally, its nodes will not remain fixed forever."
"If the enemy merely alters the formation and you can no longer see anything, then all you learned before was still only a dead formation."
Yunxiao took a deep breath.
She once more focused all her attention upon the formation.
She did not look at the immortal banners.
She did not look at the stars.
She did not even look at those Great Luo immortals with the strongest apparent auras.
She only watched where all the power ultimately flowed.
One strand.
Ten strands.
Countless chaotic aura currents gradually became clear in her eyes.
Though the Myriad Immortals Formation changed with extreme speed, no matter how it changed, all power had to pass through several specific regions before flowing into Dongwang Gong.
Those were the truly indispensable framework.
Yunxiao closed her eyes.
A moment later, she opened them again.
"Master!"
"Three hundred and sixty thousand li southeast!"
Her voice entered the formation.
Dongwang Gong's expression changed dramatically.
Luxuan was already smiling.
"Eldest disciple."
"Your eye is not bad."
He threw a punch.
It did not strike Dongwang Gong.
It did not strike a Great Luo.
Instead, it smashed directly toward that seemingly empty patch of void Yunxiao had indicated.
Crack!
Heaven and earth seemed to split apart.
A hidden core fate-vein within shattered on the spot.
The next moment.
The entire Myriad Immortals Formation was like a building that had suddenly lost a load-bearing pillar.
The southeastern formation sector collapsed first.
Immediately afterward, vast numbers of formation patterns descended into chain-reaction chaos.
"Hold it steady!"
"Quick, stabilize the formation!"
The Celestial Court cultivators fell into complete disorder.
Luxuan threw another punch at each of two other nodes.
Boom!
Boom!
After the third core shattered, the Myriad Immortals Formation could no longer hold.
Countless purple stars exploded like bubbles and mirages.
Dongwang Gong and the hundred thousand immortal soldiers reappeared above the true Eastern Sea.
Luxuan stood no more than a thousand zhang away from him.
Yunxiao was already completely surrounded by countless array patterns revolving on their own.
She did not rejoice at once.
Instead, she closed her eyes again.
Every moment of the Myriad Immortals Formation—from its formation, through its transformations, to its collapse—replayed endlessly within her Primordial Spirit.
Luxuan likewise felt an even more immense surge of Array Dao feedback flood toward him.
This battle had gone on until now.
His cultivation had not broken through.
Yet his understanding of the Array Dao and the qi currents of heaven and earth had already reached a completely different level from before the battle began.
"Not bad."
Luxuan glanced at Yunxiao.
Then he looked back at Dongwang Gong.
"The lesson is over."
"Now."
"It's time to settle the score."
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