The Twelve Golden Immortals Finally Entered the Fray

The formation gate opened.

The Daoist stepped inside.

The next moment.

The Heaven-Absolute Formation unleashed its full killing intent!

Boom!

Lightning crashed down from the heavens.

Countless ferocious, baleful auras surged in from every direction.

Yet the Daoist merely raised one hand.

Jade Clarity Immortal Light formed an immense overturned bell, completely shielding his body.

The first wave of lightning struck it.

It only sent a few ripples spreading across its surface.

Qin Wan's pupils contracted slightly.

Strong.

When the previous testers faced the Heaven-Absolute Formation, their first thought had been to evade.

But this second-generation disciple of the Explanatory Sect before them—

Did not evade at all.

He took it head-on.

Then he continued walking forward.

As though the lightning around him was no more than ordinary wind and rain.

Outside the formation.

Lin Yuan's expression had turned completely grave.

The gap in their realms was too vast.

The coordinated operation of the Ten Ultimate Formations could increase their margin for error.

But it could not allow Qin Wan to cross such a tremendous gulf in cultivation out of thin air.

"Borrow power."

Qin Wan clearly understood this as well.

He immediately activated the formation talismans.

The other nine great formations lit up at the same time.

Streams of converted Upper Clarity Dharma Power rapidly flowed into the Heaven-Absolute Formation.

The formation, which had been struggling somewhat, instantly stabilized.

The lightning's might increased accordingly.

Boom!

The second wave of attacks descended.

The Daoist's steps finally paused.

"Just as I thought."

"All nine formations are replenishing yours."

He was not surprised.

He had already seen everything clearly over the past two days.

The next second.

A jade mirror flew out from his sleeve.

Mirror light shone upon the Heaven-Absolute Formation.

Qin Wan immediately frowned.

Wherever the mirror light swept.

Formation patterns emerged one after another.

The formation's structure, originally concealed amid the killing intent that filled the sky, was forcibly revealed.

"A formation-revealing treasure?"

Zhao Jiang's expression changed slightly.

The other side had clearly come prepared.

Yesterday, the ordinary qi refiners who entered the formation had merely helped the Twelve Golden Immortals probe its foundations.

Now that they had truly entered the field.

They naturally would not foolishly retrace the same path.

The jade mirror moved without pause.

The Daoist advanced step by step.

He did not waste himself in a direct contest against the lightning.

Instead, he specifically searched for the most crucial formation-pattern nodes of the Heaven-Absolute Formation.

Qin Wan changed the formation's configuration again and again.

Yet he still found it difficult to completely escape that jade mirror.

"Found it."

The Daoist suddenly looked up.

A jade-colored immortal sword flew from above his head.

Whoosh!

The sword light was so swift that it was almost reduced to a single white line.

It struck the southeastern direction of the Heaven-Absolute Formation dead on!

Boom!

A vast expanse of formation patterns shook violently.

Qin Wan's body swayed along with them.

"Lend it!"

Zhao Jiang and the other nine immediately gave their support.

Nine streams of power poured in.

The formation patterns that had been on the verge of shattering quickly stabilized.

Yet the Daoist seemed to have anticipated this long ago.

His second sword fell immediately after the first.

The same location.

Boom!

The formation patterns trembled violently once more.

Standing outside, Lin Yuan's Innate Spiritual Perception began issuing frantic warnings.

Something was wrong.

What the other side was attacking was not simply the formation eye.

It was the channel through which power was being transferred!

He was deliberately forcing the nine formations to keep sending power into the Heaven-Absolute Formation.

Why?

Lin Yuan's gaze swiftly swept across the ten formations.

At this instant, his perception of the battlefield's killing intent was pulled to its limit.

Amid the countless chaotic currents of killing intent.

There was an incomparably concealed edge.

It was not aimed at the southeastern formation eye.

Instead, it was aimed at—

Qin Wan!

Lin Yuan's pupils abruptly shrank.

"Senior Brother Qin!"

"Leave your current position!"

Hearing his voice, Qin Wan almost instinctively tried to move.

But at that moment.

The Daoist suddenly smiled.

"You only noticed now?"

The jade mirror suddenly turned!

The mirror light that had originally illuminated the southeastern formation eye instantly shone upon the core formation position where Qin Wan stood.

Qin Wan's face changed drastically.

He finally understood.

The repeated attacks on the formation eye earlier.

Had merely been meant to make him continually draw upon the power of the nine formations.

After the power of all ten formations had poured in great quantities into the Heaven-Absolute Formation, the formation had indeed become more stable.

But as the master of the central formation, Qin Wan likewise had to devote more attention to regulating the incoming Dharma Power.

At this moment.

It was precisely when he found it hardest to leave the position of the primary formation!

"Cut it off!"

Lin Yuan shouted.

"Disconnect all nine formations!"

Zhao Jiang and the others clearly hesitated.

If they disconnected now.

The Heaven-Absolute Formation would immediately lose its support.

"Cut them off!"

Lin Yuan roared again.

"His target isn't the formation!"

"It's Senior Brother Qin!"

Zhao Jiang's expression changed drastically.

He hesitated no longer.

The Earth Inferno Formation was the first to disconnect!

Dong Quan.

Yuan Jiao.

Golden Light Holy Mother...

The support from all nine formations ceased at once.

The pressure on Qin Wan immediately eased.

But the Heaven-Absolute Formation likewise suddenly weakened.

This was exactly the moment the Daoist had been waiting for.

"Break!"

The jade-colored immortal sword shot into the heavens.

The true killing move finally appeared.

Not the southeastern formation eye.

Nor any other formation pattern.

The sword's edge struck straight for Qin Wan!

At that instant, the system within Lin Yuan's mind even began trembling in advance.

A death node!

It was now!

If events followed their original course.

Qin Wan would die!

Lin Yuan had no time to think.

Wind and lightning suddenly exploded beneath his feet.

Boom!

He did not charge directly into the front of the Heaven-Absolute Formation.

That would have been seeking death.

Instead, he followed the outer route he had become familiar with over the past dozen days, while watching the Ten Heavenly Lords modify their formations every day, and rushed straight toward the linked formation talismans.

"Junior Brother Lin!"

Zhao Jiang and the others were all startled by him.

"What are you doing?!"

"Give me some Dharma Power!"

Lin Yuan roared.

"Don't worry about the attributes!"

Though the Ten Heavenly Lords had no idea what he intended to do.

Over this period, they had long grown accustomed to Lin Yuan's judgment at moments of danger.

Zhao Jiang was the first to pour his Dharma power into the formation talisman.

Dong Quan and the others struck at the same time.

The nine streams of power were no longer sent to Qin Wan.

Instead, they all flowed into the Supreme Clarity Formation Talisman before Lin Yuan, the one responsible for relaying them.

Lin Yuan pressed both hands directly against it.

Over the past days,

he had not understood the profound formation principles discussed by the Ten Heavenly Lords.

But he had watched the most basic operations of the first version of the linked formation hundreds, even thousands of times.

Relay.

Convert.

Reroute!

"Go!"

Lin Yuan forcibly altered the flow of power.

The nine streams of Upper Clarity Dharma Power did not enter the core of the Heaven-Absolute Formation.

Instead, they all surged toward an ordinary formation position behind Qin Wan.

Boom!

That formation position instantly erupted with power far beyond its normal limits.

Qin Wan reacted at the very same moment.

He took one step forward.

His body instantly shifted from the core formation position to the rear!

Whoosh!

A jade-hued sword light skimmed past his chest.

The spot where Qin Wan had been standing was completely pierced through by a single sword strike!

Outside the formation, the Ten Heavenly Lords all went pale.

So close.

Just that close!

The Heaven-Absolute Formation also shook violently as its core formation position was destroyed.

Yet Qin Wan had not died.

He was even remarkably intact.

The Daoist was clearly stunned for a moment as well.

A killing trap prepared for so long

had actually had its formation power route forcibly altered from outside by a junior True Immortal?

"Withdraw the formation!"

Lin Yuan gave no one time to stand around in a daze.

Hearing this, Qin Wan immediately waved the formation flag.

The Heaven-Absolute Formation rapidly contracted.

He used the momentum to withdraw as well.

The Daoist did not pursue him forcefully.

After all, once he left the range of the Heaven-Absolute Formation, the other nine formations could descend upon him at any moment.

For now, both sides pulled apart.

Qin Wan had only just landed.

When Zhao Jiang and the others had already surrounded him.

"Old Qin!"

"How are you?"

"I'm not hurt."

Qin Wan shook his head.

Yet his gaze fell on Lin Yuan at once.

Even now, when he recalled that sword strike,

his back still ran cold.

If Lin Yuan had shouted even half a breath later,

he might not still be standing here.

But Lin Yuan had no time to speak at all.

The system prompts had already fully unfolded in his mind.

[Target: Qin Wan.]

[The predetermined death node has changed.]

[The original death trajectory has been severed.]

[Defied fate successfully!]

[Inheriting target's strongest ability...]

Boom!

The next instant,

a vast flood of formation insights surged madly into Lin Yuan's mind.

Over the past dozen days,

the formation patterns, formation foundations, and qi mechanism nodes that had sounded like heavenly scriptures whenever Qin Wan and the others discussed them suddenly all gained meaning.

Why a formation pattern ran that way.

Why the Heaven-Absolute killing intent erupted from that formation position.

Where the greatest losses occurred after the power of the nine formations entered.

Which places did not need to take such a long detour at all.

Lin Yuan abruptly raised his head.

When he looked at the Ten Ultimate Formation before him again,

it was as though the entire world had changed beneath a new layer.

[Congratulations, host, for obtaining—Heaven-Severing Formation Insight!]

Zhao Jiang was still rejoicing over Qin Wan's escape from death.

But then he saw Lin Yuan suddenly take two steps toward the Ten Ultimate Formation.

He stared at those formation patterns they had revised countless times.

For a long while.

Qin Wan could not help asking:

"Junior Brother Lin."

"What is it?"

Lin Yuan slowly raised his hand.

He pointed at the few Dharma power pathways between the nine formations and the Heaven-Absolute Formation, pathways the Ten Heavenly Lords had spent more than ten days determining.

"Senior Brother Qin."

"These routes..."

"Take too long a way around."

The Ten Heavenly Lords fell silent at once.