Yunxiao Comprehended an Array, Surpassing Others' Ten Thousand Years of Bitter Cultivation in a Single Day

Nine cloud rivers stretched across the skies above Penglai.

Each one was formed from countless strands of innate cloud-water energy. They looked like ordinary clouds, but once they connected along a mysterious trajectory, the surrounding heavens and earth immediately underwent obvious changes.

Southeast was no longer southeast.

Northwest might not remain northwest either.

A cloud drifted past before one's eyes.

When it appeared again, it might already be tens of thousands of miles away.

Bixiao had originally stood on the shore, watching with great interest. Yet after taking only a few steps forward, the scene before her suddenly changed.

Qiongxiao, who had just been within arm's reach, instantly vanished without a trace.

In her place was an endless sea of clouds.

"Hmm?"

Bixiao's first reaction was not nervousness.

It was excitement.

"Has Big Sister's array succeeded?"

The spatial magical power within her immediately began to circulate.

Her figure vanished.

A few breaths later, she reappeared.

Then she discovered—

She was still in the same spot.

The smile on Bixiao's face gradually disappeared.

She tried again.

Still in the same place.

A third time.

She had even retreated several hundred zhang.

"..."

She finally behaved herself.

This array was rather lacking in martial virtue.

She had clearly used spatial teleportation, yet the surrounding space itself had been altered by the formation. So-called "leaving" was merely jumping back and forth within a circle someone else had drawn for her beforehand.

Yunxiao stood at the center of the formation, seeing everything clearly.

She did not attack her younger sister.

She merely controlled the nine cloud rivers as they constantly shifted positions.

The core of the formation was not Slaughter.

It was trapping.

Confusing.

Suppressing.

After entering it, an enemy's sense of direction would be inverted, their divine sense obscured by cloud-water, and even their circulation of magical power disrupted by the Primordial Unity Dao resonance emitted by the Primordial Unity Golden Dipper.

The lower one's cultivation.

The greater the effect.

If cultivators of the same realm fell into the formation, escaping through brute force alone would be nearly as difficult as ascending to heaven.

"Second Sister."

Yunxiao looked toward Qiongxiao outside the formation.

"You should come in and try as well."

Qiongxiao did not hesitate.

The Mystic Origin Immortal-Slaying Sword left its sheath.

A sharp beam of sword light tore directly through the clouds ahead, and she immediately stepped into the great formation after it.

Her method was entirely different from Bixiao's.

Since she could not find a path.

Then she would cut one open.

With the first strike.

A sea of clouds split apart down the middle.

With the second strike.

The connection between the nine strands of cloud energy ahead loosened briefly.

Instead, delight appeared in Yunxiao's eyes.

What she lacked most was this kind of genuine feedback.

An array was not meant to be displayed for one's own enjoyment.

Whether it could trap people.

Whether it could withstand attacks.

Which areas were most easily forced open.

All of this required repeated real combat before it could truly be perfected.

Thus, over the following years.

Sword chimes occasionally rang out above Penglai.

At times, Bixiao's exasperated voice could also be heard.

"Big Sister!"

"Did you alter the formation again?"

"I obviously found the exit just now!"

Yunxiao replied with a smile.

"If you could find it, then it could no longer be considered an exit."

Bixiao said, "..."

For the first time, she learned that her usually gentle and tender Big Sister could hold such a grudge when it came to arrays.

Each time Bixiao broke through it once.

Yunxiao modified it once.

Was she not going to let anyone live?

Qiongxiao, meanwhile, grew increasingly serious.

At first, she could still use the Mystic Origin Immortal-Slaying Sword to forcibly break through portions of the cloud rivers.

But as Yunxiao continuously improved the formation, the nodes that had originally endured attacks directly were gradually shifted. When Qiongxiao struck with her sword, the force was often dispersed throughout all nine cloud rivers by the entire formation.

To break the formation with a single sword strike.

The difficulty soared more than tenfold.

Luxuan did not intervene throughout the entire process.

He merely sat outside the formation and watched.

He only offered a brief remark whenever he noticed an obvious issue.

For the vast majority of the time, he let Yunxiao resolve things herself.

Another ten years passed.

The nine cloud rivers had completely stabilized.

On the day the formation was completed.

Boundless cloud-and-water phenomena suddenly descended over Penglai.

The nine immense cloud rivers connected end to end, like nine heavenly rivers encircling the sky. The Primordial Unity Golden Dipper hung at the very center, pale golden divine light falling into the formation.

Bixiao and Qiongxiao were both trapped within it.

The two had already joined forces.

One used the Mystic Origin Immortal-Slaying Sword as the main offense.

The other used the Golden Flood-Dragon Scissors alongside spatial arts to continuously cut at the nodes.

Yet after struggling for several days straight, neither had truly torn open the formation.

In the end, Bixiao was the first to admit defeat.

"Big Sister."

"I'm done fighting!"

"If we keep circling around, I won't even know where I am anymore."

The formation slowly dispersed.

The two reappeared beside Three Lights Divine Water Lake.

The first thing Bixiao did was look up at the sun.

Only after confirming that southeast, northwest, and the other directions were normal did she let out a long breath.

Qiongxiao put away the Mystic Origin Immortal-Slaying Sword, but her gaze toward Yunxiao was filled with seriousness.

"Big Sister, if this formation were used against a real enemy, what realm could it trap?"

Yunxiao pondered for a moment.

"Early Taiyi should not be a problem."

"If I personally preside over the formation and have the Primordial Unity Golden Dipper suppressing it, even Mid Taiyi cultivators should be unable to escape in a short time."

The moment those words were spoken.

Bixiao's eyes widened.

They were still only Golden Immortals.

In other words.

Her Big Sister could already use an array to trap enemies across an entire major realm.

That was a bit absurd.

Yet Luxuan had no mind to care about his two disciples' astonishment at that moment.

Because the instant Yunxiao truly created the formation of nine cloud rivers, an unprecedentedly vast understanding of the Array Dao suddenly surged into his primordial spirit.

Boom!

If Yunxiao's observation of the Myriad Immortals Formation and subsequent improvements to the array had previously brought only scattered feedback.

Then this time was a qualitative transformation brought by creating a complete formation.

A hundredfold understanding of the Array Dao unfolded instantly.

The nine cloud rivers rapidly expanded within Luxuan's primordial spirit.

The formation that could originally only trap Taiyi cultivators had its flaws automatically filled in layer by layer under the hundredfold deduction.

How the formation eyes could be hidden.

How cloud-water could circulate in cycles.

How space could be layered.

Even the connection between the Primordial Unity Golden Dipper and the formation revealed countless new methods of application.

In only a few breaths.

Luxuan had deduced Yunxiao's formation to an entirely different height.

Of course.

He did not directly stuff every answer back into Yunxiao.

That might allow his disciple to grow stronger immediately, but it would be equivalent to blocking her own path of growth once again.

A master could teach.

But could not comprehend in place of a disciple.

"Master."

Seeing Luxuan staring at the great formation, Yunxiao felt somewhat nervous.

"This disciple's formation still has many shortcomings."

"There are indeed quite a few problems."

Luxuan nodded.

Yunxiao was not surprised.

But the next moment, she heard him continue:

"Still, for your first self-created formation, reaching this level is already quite good."

"Using the nine cloud rivers as its foundation, let it be called the Nine-Bend Cloud River Formation."

"The Nine-Bend Cloud River Formation..."

Yunxiao softly repeated it, and her eyes gradually brightened.

"This disciple likes that name."

Bixiao immediately leaned in.

"Master, then since I was led around by Big Sister in the formation for three days just now, does that count as participating in naming it?"

Luxuan glanced at her.

"What did you contribute?"

"I contributed being trapped."

"..."

That reasoning was so powerful that no one could refute it for a moment.

Qiongxiao could not help turning her head aside, a faint smile curling at the corner of her lips.

Luxuan raised his hand and tapped Bixiao on the head.

"With time for such nonsense, you might as well go cultivate."

"Your eldest sister can already use the body of a Golden Immortal to trap a Taiyi."

"What about you?"

Bixiao's smile vanished instantly.

This was bad.

The gossip had landed on her own head.

Qiongxiao silently tightened her grip on the Mystic Origin Immortal-Slaying Sword as well.

Naturally, she could tell that their master was not speaking of Bixiao alone.

The three sisters had become disciples at the same time.

Their eldest sister had already created a core formation truly her own.

The two of them could not keep resting on the laurels of the spiritual treasures in their hands.

Very soon.

Qiongxiao returned to Sword Valley.

Bixiao, meanwhile, hugged the Golden Flood-Dragon Scissors and headed for Void Cliff with a bitter expression.

Watching their clearly provoked backs, Luxuan was in quite a good mood.

A proper amount of internal competition.

Was good for both body and mind.

Especially for a master like him.

The harder his disciples competed.

The more he earned.

And as the Nine-Bend Cloud River Formation took shape, Yunxiao's magical power, which had already reached Golden Immortal Perfection, began to undergo an obvious transformation under the nourishment of the Array Dao.

An aura of the Great Dao, more complete than that of a Golden Immortal.

Was quietly being born.