Nine-Bend Cloud River Unleashed, and a Hundred Thousand Immortal Troops Could Not Find North

Yunxiao chose the three large military formations on the Celestial Court's left flank.

Together, they numbered more than a hundred thousand immortal soldiers.

Among them were over a hundred Primordial Unity Golden Immortals, while the formations themselves were commanded by three immortal generals at the peak of the Primordial Unity realm.

Under normal circumstances.

For a cultivator who had only recently entered the Primordial Unity realm to block a military formation of such scale alone was no different from a fool dreaming in broad daylight.

But Yunxiao had never intended to fight them head-on.

If an array cultivator rammed their face into other people's magic treasures every day.

Then why study arrays at all?

After nine Cloud Rivers stretched across the heavens, Yunxiao herself vanished directly into the depths of the formation.

The Celestial Court army had only just charged inside.

When the surrounding scenery changed in an instant.

The sea, Penglai, and allied forces that had been clearly visible moments before all disappeared.

All that remained around them was an endless expanse of white cloud and mist.

"Maintain the formation!"

A Celestial Court Taiyi roared.

The hundred thousand immortal soldiers immediately continued forward according to their original military formations.

At first, nothing truly went wrong.

But after flying for a full half hour, an immortal soldier at the very front suddenly found the person before him somewhat familiar.

"Weren't you behind me just now?"

The other man also looked utterly lost.

"I've been flying forward this whole time."

"So have I."

The two stared at each other.

Then turned around at the same time.

The entire military formation had already become a complete mess, like a pot of porridge.

Everyone had clearly been moving forward.

Yet as they flew.

Those at the front had ended up in the rear.

Those on the left had arrived on the right.

There were even two separate military formations that had crashed face-to-face. Their first reaction was that they had found the enemy, and they nearly unleashed their divine abilities, only to discover that the other side was also dressed in Celestial Court daoist robes.

"Stop!"

The Taiyi immortal general in command turned green.

A hundred thousand immortal troops had put on such a grand display.

Yet before they even saw the enemy.

They had gotten lost themselves.

Within the Nine-Bend Cloud River Formation.

Yunxiao took in every change.

She did not rush to unleash Slaughter.

Instead, she continuously adjusted the formation according to the reactions of the hundred thousand cultivators.

When Qiongxiao and Bixiao had entered the formation before.

There had only been two of them in the end.

Now that more than a hundred thousand cultivators had entered at once, many problems that had previously gone unnoticed in the formation were suddenly exposed.

After the numbers increased.

The fluctuations of magical power borne by certain Cloud Rivers were visibly greater than in other areas.

Some formation changes that had been extremely well concealed before two or three people could quickly be stumbled upon when a hundred thousand people tested them at once.

Yunxiao was not alarmed, but delighted.

Find a problem.

Fix it.

Several Taiyi discovered an array eye.

It immediately shifted.

A spatial loop was too regular.

It reversed outright.

Someone tried to use widespread divine fire to burn away all the cloud mist.

The Primordial Unity Golden Dipper spun in the sky.

The surrounding cloud water instantly transformed into a torrential rain that filled the heavens.

The divine fire had barely risen.

Before being drenched down to half its size.

Outside the formation.

Luxuan could clearly sense Yunxiao's Array Dao rapidly improving at an astonishing speed.

Once that feedback reached him, the changes became even more exaggerated.

Every minute adjustment within the Nine-Bend Cloud River Formation.

Would evolve into dozens or even hundreds of entirely new variations within Luxuan's Primordial Spirit under hundredfold comprehension.

One person comprehended the array.

Two people profited together.

And the disciple did not even know.

The experience was quite delightful.

Within the formation.

The three peak-Taiyi immortal generals finally could not endure it any longer.

"Stop worrying about that cloud mist!"

"Join forces and bombard one point!"

More than a hundred Taiyi activated their magical power at once.

The auras of over a hundred thousand immortal soldiers gathered with them.

The vast immortal radiance eventually condensed into a gigantic axe ten thousand zhang long, which cleaved viciously toward the cloud sea ahead.

Boom!

The Nine-Bend Cloud River shook violently.

One Cloud River was even severed outright.

The Celestial Court cultivators immediately rejoiced.

"It worked!"

"Keep going!"

The second giant axe swiftly took shape.

Yet there was no panic in Yunxiao's eyes.

As she watched the severed Cloud River, she instead became thoughtful.

A fixed point of impact.

Would naturally be easy to break.

But what if no Cloud River was truly the one receiving the attack?

The hand seals between her fingers suddenly changed.

The severed Cloud River did not reconnect.

Instead, it dispersed directly into boundless cloud vapor.

The second giant axe fell once more.

Boom!

It had clearly struck the very same place.

Yet the instant its force erupted, all nine surrounding Cloud Rivers lit up simultaneously.

The attack that had originally been concentrated at one point was instantly distributed across the entire grand formation.

One-tenth.

One percent.

By the time it spread across a formation domain spanning hundreds of thousands of li, the force that could have torn apart an ordinary Taiyi had dwindled to mere faint ripples.

The expressions of the three immortal generals changed in unison.

"She altered the formation!"

How much time had passed?

The method that had worked just now.

Was useless the second time around?

One of them gritted his teeth.

"Find the array eye!"

"No matter how profound the formation is, it cannot possibly lack a core!"

Dozens of Taiyi skilled in deduction released their divine senses at once.

Very soon.

They truly discovered a location where the aura was at its most concentrated.

"Thirty thousand li northwest!"

"The Primordial Unity Golden Dipper is there!"

A great number of Celestial Court cultivators immediately rushed northwest.

After flying thirty thousand li.

The cloud mist ahead parted.

An enormous military formation suddenly appeared in their sight.

The cultivators on both sides rejoiced at once.

"Found—"

The words stopped halfway.

Every expression froze.

Because the people opposite them were also from the Celestial Court.

And they were precisely another military formation that had separated from them half an hour ago.

Both sides had wandered around inside Yunxiao's formation for half the day.

Only to collide face-to-face in the end.

If Bixiao had been here, she would probably have offered an on-the-spot comment—

Good news.

They had found the road.

Bad news.

They had found their colleagues.

"Damn it!"

The lead immortal general finally snapped completely.

"Yunxiao!"

"If you have the guts, come out and fight me head-on!"

Deep within the cloud sea.

Yunxiao heard his voice, but her expression remained gentle.

"Why should I go out?"

With one sentence.

The Celestial Court forces were left completely speechless.

That was right.

She was an array cultivator.

Why would she stop trapping an army of a hundred thousand and run out to compare fists with them?

Was that not like demanding a chef take to the battlefield and compete with others in swordplay?

That was somewhat forcing the impossible on someone.

Yunxiao did not continue wasting words on them.

At the fall of a single thought from her.

The nine Cloud Rivers changed again.

The formation that had originally only trapped people revealed obvious suppressive force for the first time.

The Primordial Unity Golden Dipper cast down strands of faint golden divine light.

Every Celestial Court cultivator swept by that divine light felt as if their internal magical power had suddenly been shackled by invisible chains, its circulation noticeably slowing.

Taiyi could still barely resist.

But those Golden Immortal and Mysterious Immortal realm immortal soldiers began to stagger and sway outright.

The formation links among the hundred thousand immortal troops also quickly descended into chaos because of it.

Yunxiao watched this scene.

Her eyes grew brighter and brighter.

Trapping.

Chaos.

Severing.

The true core of the Nine-Bend Cloud River Formation finally began to take complete shape in this great war.

Outside.

Several Great Wilderness mighty figures watching the battle had lost count of how many times they had cast their divine senses in this direction.

One of them could not help but sigh.

"Luxuan being monstrously gifted himself would have been one thing."

"But why were each of his disciples even more freakish than the last?"

"Yunxiao was clearly only at the initial Taiyi stage."

"Yet now she had trapped more than a hundred thousand Celestial Court cultivators with a single formation."

Another fell silent for a moment.

"More troublesome still..."

"Her formation was still growing stronger."

Meanwhile.

On the other side of the Nine-Bend Cloud River.

A clear sword cry suddenly rang through the battlefield.

It was followed by Bixiao's voice, excited almost beyond measure.

"Second Sister!"

"Don't kill that Taiyi!"

"Leave him for me to test my scissors on!"