Yunxiao chose the three large military formations on the Celestial Court's left flank as her targets.
Together, they numbered over a hundred thousand immortal soldiers.
Among them were more than a hundred Taiyi Golden Immortals, while the formations themselves were commanded by three immortal generals at Peak Taiyi.
Under normal circumstances,
for a cultivator who had only recently entered Taiyi to block a military formation of such scale alone was nothing more than a fool's dream.
But Yunxiao had never intended to fight them head-on.
If array cultivators spent every day smashing their faces into other people's magic treasures,
then why study arrays at all?
After the 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 instantly changed.
The sea, Penglai, and allied troops that had been clearly visible moments ago all vanished.
All that remained around them was endless white cloud and mist.
"Maintain the formation!"
A Taiyi of the Celestial Court shouted.
Over a hundred thousand immortal soldiers immediately continued forward according to their original military formations.
At first, nothing seemed wrong.
But after flying for a full half hour, an immortal soldier at the very front suddenly felt that the person before him looked rather familiar.
"Weren't you behind me just now?"
The other man also looked utterly confused.
"I've been flying forward the whole time."
"So have I."
The two stared at each other.
Then they turned around at the same time.
The entire military formation had already become a complete mess.
Everyone had clearly been moving forward.
Yet as they flew,
those at the front ended up in the rear.
Those on the left arrived on the right.
Two separate military formations had even collided head-on. Both sides' first reaction was that they had found enemies, and they nearly unleashed their divine abilities before realizing that everyone opposite them wore Celestial Court robes.
"Stop!"
The Taiyi immortal general in command turned green.
A hundred thousand immortal troops had arrived in such an imposing formation.
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 hurry to launch Slaughter.
Instead, she continuously adjusted the formation according to the reactions of the hundred thousand-plus cultivators.
When Qiongxiao and Bixiao had entered the formation before,
there had only been two of them in the end.
Now that over a hundred thousand cultivators had entered at once, many problems that could not previously be discovered were all exposed at once.
Once the numbers increased,
the fluctuations of magical power borne by certain cloud rivers clearly exceeded those in other areas.
Some changes in the formation that had been extremely well concealed from two or three people would quickly be exposed when a hundred thousand people tested them through trial and error.
Rather than being alarmed, Yunxiao was delighted.
Find a problem.
Fix it.
Several Taiyi discovered one array eye.
Move it immediately.
A section of spatial loop was too predictable.
Reverse it directly.
Someone attempted to use widespread divine fire to burn away all the cloud mist.
The Primordial Unity Golden Dipper spun in the air.
The surrounding Cloud Water immediately transformed into a sky-filling downpour.
The divine fire had barely risen
before it was drenched down to half its size.
Outside the formation,
Luxuan could clearly sense Yunxiao's Array Dao improving at an astonishing speed.
After the feedback reached him, the changes became even more exaggerated.
Every tiny 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 formation.
Two people profited together.
And the disciple did not even know.
The experience was quite pleasant.
Within the formation,
the three Peak Taiyi immortal generals finally could not endure any longer.
"Stop worrying about that cloud mist!"
"Join forces and strike one point!"
More than a hundred Taiyi activated their magical power at once.
The vital aura of over a hundred thousand immortal soldiers also gathered with them.
The vast immortal light eventually condensed into a gigantic axe stretching ten thousand zhang, which hacked viciously at the cloud sea ahead.
Boom!
The Nine-Bend Cloud River shook violently.
One cloud river was even severed outright.
The Celestial Court cultivators were instantly overjoyed.
"It worked!"
"Keep going!"
The second giant axe quickly formed.
Yet Yunxiao showed no panic in her eyes.
She looked at the severed cloud river instead, appearing thoughtful.
If it bore the attack in a fixed manner,
of course it would be easy to break.
But what if no single cloud river truly bore the attack?
The hand seals Yunxiao formed suddenly changed.
The broken cloud river did not reconnect.
Instead, it dispersed directly into boundless cloud qi.
The second giant axe fell once more.
Boom!
It clearly struck the same place.
But the instant its power erupted, all nine surrounding cloud rivers lit up simultaneously.
The attack that had originally been concentrated at a single point was instantly distributed across the entire formation.
One-tenth.
One percent.
By the time it spread across the formation domain for hundreds of thousands of li, the power that could have torn apart an ordinary Taiyi had been reduced to nothing more than faint ripples.
The expressions of the three immortal generals changed at once.
"She altered the formation!"
How much time had passed?
The method that had worked moments ago
was already useless the second time?
One of them gritted his teeth.
"Find the array eye!"
"No matter how profound the formation is, it cannot possibly lack a core!"
Several dozen Taiyi skilled in deduction released their divine senses at once.
Very quickly,
they really did discover a location where the vital aura was at its densest.
"Thirty thousand li northwest!"
"The Primordial Unity Golden Dipper is there!"
Large numbers of Celestial Court cultivators immediately rushed northwest.
After flying thirty thousand li,
the mist ahead dispersed.
A massive military formation suddenly appeared in their sight.
The cultivators on both sides rejoiced at once.
"Found—"
Before they could finish speaking,
everyone's expressions 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.
The two sides had each wandered around within Yunxiao's formation for half a day.
In the end, they collided head-on.
If Bixiao had been here, she would probably have offered an immediate assessment—
Good news.
They found the way.
Bad news.
The people they found were their colleagues.
"Damn it!"
The leading 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 cultivators were left completely speechless.
That was right.
She was an array cultivator.
Why should she refrain from trapping an army of a hundred thousand people and come out to compare fists with them?
Wasn't that like demanding a cook go onto the battlefield and compete with others using blades?
That was asking rather too much.
Yunxiao did not continue wasting words with them.
With a thought from her,
the nine cloud rivers changed once more.
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 pale golden divine light.
Every Celestial Court cultivator swept by that divine light felt as though their internal magical power had suddenly been shackled by invisible chains, its circulation clearly slowing.
The Taiyi could barely resist.
But the Golden Immortal and Mysterious Immortal immortal soldiers began swaying and stumbling outright.
The connections within the military formation of over a hundred thousand immortal troops rapidly fell into chaos as a result.
Yunxiao watched this scene.
Her eyes grew brighter and brighter.
Trap.
Chaos.
Sever.
The true core of the Nine-Bend Cloud River Formation finally began to take shape completely in this large-scale war.
Outside.
Several Great Wilderness mighty figures watching the battle had lost count of how many times they had cast their divine sense in this direction.
One of them could not help but sigh.
"Luxuan being monstrous himself is one thing."
"But why are his disciples each more bizarre than the last?"
"Yunxiao is clearly only at the Early Taiyi stage."
"Yet she has now trapped more than a hundred thousand Celestial Court cultivators with a single formation."
Another fell silent for a moment.
"What is even more troublesome is that..."
"Her formation is still growing stronger."
At the same time.
On the other side of the Nine-Bend Cloud River.
A clear sword cry suddenly rang across the battlefield.
Then came Bixiao's overly excited voice.
"Second Sister!"
"Don't kill that Taiyi!"
"Leave him for me to test my scissors on!"
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