"All Immortals, Take Your Positions!"
The words fell.
The hundred thousand immortal troops trembled in unison.
Purple-gold immortal banners rose one after another from the military formation.
The battle formation Luxuan had shattered with a single palm strike earlier had merely been a temporary large-scale immortal array. 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 guarded each direction.
Taiyi served as the core.
A hundred thousand immortal soldiers formed the foundation of the array.
Dongwang Gong himself stood at its very center.
"The Myriad Immortals Formation?"
Some great experts watching from afar recognized a few clues.
"No, it is not yet the truly complete Myriad Immortals Formation."
"The Celestial Court has not existed for long. This formation must only be a prototype Dongwang Gong derived from the fortune of the gathered immortals. Yet with a Quasi-Saint like him personally controlling it, its power is still not to be underestimated."
That was indeed the case.
The moment the formation took shape, the originally independent auras of the hundred thousand immortal soldiers fully fused into one.
Dongwang Gong's cultivation surged once more.
His aura, initially only at the Early Quasi-Saint level, vaguely touched upon a higher realm under the empowerment of the great formation and Celestial Court Fortune.
"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 over 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 only make out some of the aura connections for now, but cannot find the true core."
Luxuan nodded.
"Normal."
"If you could see through all of it 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 casually brushed it aside.
"I'll go in and take it apart for you to see."
Yunxiao: "..."
She suddenly felt that "take it apart" was somewhat disrespectful toward Dongwang Gong.
The next moment.
Luxuan truly stepped into the Myriad Immortals Formation.
Even Dongwang Gong froze for a moment.
He had assumed Luxuan would try to break the formation from outside.
Yet this man had actually entered it of his own accord.
"Seeking death!"
Dongwang Gong did not hesitate in the slightest.
"Activate the formation!"
Boom!
The hundred thousand immortal soldiers activated their magical power at once.
The interior of the entire formation instantly turned upside down.
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's eyes immediately fixed on the southeastern direction.
A Great Luo was stationed there.
Whenever the formation launched an attack, the twelve purple stars around him would flash first.
"That Great Luo is a node?"
"No."
Luxuan answered while fending off the attacks filling the formation.
"He is merely the obvious formation eye."
"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 operational path.
The entire southeastern region of the formation instantly fell into chaos.
Yunxiao's pupils contracted slightly.
She saw it.
Luxuan continued forward.
The western killing formation activated.
Tens of thousands of sword lights converged into a river.
"What should you look at here?"
This time, Yunxiao did not answer immediately.
She tried her utmost to sense 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 true nodes are the circulation of magical power among the nine hundred cultivators behind those banners."
He flicked a finger.
Nine streams of force crossed the void.
They did not harm anyone.
Yet they precisely disrupted the perfectly synchronized rhythm of magical power among the nine hundred immortal soldiers.
Boom!
The mighty river of swords collapsed on its own before it had even traveled halfway.
Dongwang Gong stood at the central formation eye, his face shifting from black to green, then from green to a faint purple.
He finally understood what Luxuan was doing.
This man was not simply breaking the formation.
He was dismantling it piece by piece.
And after dismantling each piece, he deliberately paused.
So that the disciple outside named Yunxiao could see clearly.
A great formation personally controlled by the leader of the male immortals and jointly laid by a hundred thousand immortal soldiers.
He had actually turned it into a teaching aid!
"Luxuan!"
Dongwang Gong roared.
"You have gone too far!"
The entire Myriad Immortals Formation suddenly accelerated.
Countless stars moved at once.
The nodes that had previously been clearly distinguishable instantly became incomparably chaotic.
For Yunxiao to continue observing them, the difficulty rose more than tenfold.
Yet Luxuan was in no rush.
"A formation is alive."
"Of course its nodes will not remain fixed forever."
"If the enemy merely changes 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 focused all her attention on the formation once more.
Not on the immortal banners.
Not on the stars.
Not even on those Great Luos whose auras appeared strongest.
She looked only at where all the power ultimately flowed.
One thread.
Ten threads.
Countless chaotic currents of aura gradually became clear in her eyes.
Though the Myriad Immortals Formation changed rapidly, no matter how it shifted, all power ultimately had to pass through several specific areas before converging upon Dongwang Gong.
Those were the 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."
"You have a good eye."
He threw a punch.
He did not attack Dongwang Gong.
He did not attack the Great Luo.
Instead, he punched directly at the seemingly empty void Yunxiao had indicated.
Crack!
Heaven and earth seemed to split apart.
A hidden core vein of fortune within it shattered on the spot.
The next moment.
The entire Myriad Immortals Formation was like a structure that had suddenly lost a load-bearing pillar.
The southeastern region collapsed first.
Immediately afterward, countless formation patterns fell into cascading chaos.
"Hold it!"
"Quick, stabilize the formation!"
The Celestial Court cultivators descended into disorder.
Luxuan threw one punch each toward two other nodes.
Boom!
Boom!
After the third core shattered, the Myriad Immortals Formation could no longer hold.
Countless purple stars burst apart like illusions.
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 self-circulating array patterns.
She did not immediately rejoice.
Instead, she closed her eyes again.
Every moment of the Myriad Immortals Formation's formation, transformation, and collapse replayed endlessly within her primordial spirit.
Luxuan likewise felt an even more immense Array Dao feedback surge toward him.
The battle had reached this point.
His cultivation had not broken through.
Yet his understanding of the Array Dao and the workings of heaven and earth had already reached an entirely 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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