Twelve Golden Immortals? Come in together, then

Guangchengzi said only one thing: "Together."

The Shang Camp instantly fell much quieter.

All Twelve Golden Immortals entered the Nine-Twist Yellow River Formation.

The sight was even more astonishing than the previous battle of the Ten Ultimate Formation.

The Ten Ultimate Formation had been divided into ten separate formations to begin with.

It was perfectly normal for multiple people to enter at once.

But the Nine-Twist Yellow River Formation had only one formation.

In other words—

This time, the Twelve Golden Immortals would truly enter the same formation together.

The moment Bixiao heard it, she laughed.

"This should have happened long ago."

"One at a time."

"We found that troublesome too."

Guangchengzi ignored her.

Twelve streams of Jade Clarity Immortal Light rose at once.

Then they stepped through the formation gate.

Boom!

The instant all twelve entered.

The entire Nine-Twist Yellow River Formation abruptly expanded.

The yellow sand that had originally covered only a section of the battlefield swept across several times that range in an instant.

Even heaven and earth around them darkened.

Surging yellow qi blotted out the sun and moon.

The ordinary cultivators of the Shang Camp instinctively retreated farther.

The aura leaking out from the formation alone left some of those with lesser cultivation short of breath and tight in the chest.

Yet Lin Yuan stepped forward instead.

Qin Wan grabbed him.

"Junior Brother."

"What are you doing?"

"Helping a little."

"The Nine-Twist Yellow River Formation of our three Martial Aunts is already powerful enough."

Qin Wan frowned.

"Don't go charging in."

"I'm not going in."

Lin Yuan had not gone mad, of course.

The Nine-Twist Yellow River Formation was the Three Cloud Sisters' home ground.

If a Golden Immortal like him charged in and started giving directions, he would merely be getting in the way of professionals.

All he intended to do was provide support from the outside.

After the battle of the Ten Ultimate Formation.

Lin Yuan had become exceptionally sensitive to the qi movements of formations.

There was no way he could comprehend the Nine-Twist Yellow River Formation in a short time.

But whenever certain outer formation patterns came under impact, he could sense it.

The Twelve Golden Immortals had entered the formation together.

The pressure far exceeded that of their previous single-person tests.

No matter how powerful the Three Cloud Sisters were.

The formation could not possibly be entirely without weaknesses.

Lin Yuan arrived at an outer formation foundation.

He closed his eyes.

His Innate Spiritual Perception and understanding of the Dao of formations unfolded at once.

Inside the formation.

Guangchengzi and the others had already begun to truly experience the Nine-Twist Yellow River Formation.

The twelve did not scatter.

From the very first moment, they remained gathered together.

Their Jade Clarity Immortal Light echoed with one another.

Several protective treasures floated above their heads.

What trapping formations loved most was separating their enemies.

Then breaking them one by one.

But the Twelve Golden Immortals gave it no such chance.

"East."

Guangchengzi judged the direction.

They advanced together.

After they had gone a hundred zhang.

The Yellow River ahead suddenly turned.

What had been due east instantly became due west.

"Spatial distortion."

Taiyi frowned.

A spiritual treasure flew from his hand.

It forcibly fixed the surrounding space in place.

The group advanced again.

This time, the Nine-Twist Yellow River Formation did not shift their direction further.

But Bixiao's voice drifted over from afar.

"You fixed a patch of space."

"What can that do?"

As her words fell.

A great number of talismanic seals suddenly appeared amid the yellow sand.

Every one of them carried an aura capable of wearing away the foundations of immortal cultivation.

The Twelve Golden Immortals' expressions changed slightly.

They attacked together to block them.

Boom!

Their mana collided.

For the first time, the entire grand formation shook violently.

Outside the formation.

Lin Yuan's eyes snapped open.

"The southwestern formation foundation!"

The pressure there had suddenly surged.

The Nine-Twist Yellow River Formation itself had not been damaged.

Yet the impact created by the Twelve Golden Immortals exerting their strength together still caused a brief delay in one of the outer formation patterns.

Lin Yuan did not presumptuously alter the formation.

He was not qualified to do so.

He merely raised his hand and sent an Formation-Stabilizing Talisman, which he had learned from the Ten Ultimate Formation, into the outer formation.

Its purpose was simple.

To help the formation hold out for one more instant.

That single instant.

Was enough for Yunxiao inside to complete her adjustment.

The qi flow of the Nine-Twist Yellow River Formation became whole and circular once more.

The former weakness vanished at once.

Taiyi's expression shifted inside the formation.

"There was a flaw there just now!"

Guangchengzi had already led the others in that direction.

But by the time they attacked.

The flaw was gone.

"Someone outside the formation is helping the Three Cloud Sisters stabilize it."

Taiyi barely needed to guess.

The first name that came to mind was Lin Yuan.

Sure enough.

The next time they jointly assaulted another point.

The instant the slightest delay appeared.

Someone outside once again reinforced it in advance with stabilizing formation qi.

Taiyi's face darkened.

"Lin Yuan!"

Lin Yuan stood outside.

He vaguely heard someone inside the formation calling his name.

He pretended not to hear.

Strong as the Twelve Golden Immortals were.

They now faced a most awkward problem.

The Nine-Twist Yellow River Formation was not the Ten Ultimate Formation.

All the experience they had gathered in dealing with the Ten Ultimate Formation had essentially become useless.

Find the formation eye.

They could not find it.

Separate the formation's controllers.

The Three Cloud Sisters were already responding to one another as one.

Forcefully break the formation.

The power within the formation was still continuously eroding their Three Flowers and Five Qi.

The longer this dragged on.

The more unbearable it became.

Taiyi could not help saying:

"Fellow Daoist Yunxiao!"

"This is merely a contest of Dao techniques between our two sects."

"Why must you use methods that strip away another's cultivation?"

Yunxiao finally replied.

"When all of you entered the Ten Ultimate Formation before."

"Did you refrain from breaking the formations because the Ten Heavenly Lords had lower cultivation?"

Taiyi fell silent.

"Today, you entered the Nine-Twist Yellow River Formation."

"Of your own accord as well."

"Since you entered the formation."

"Then naturally, you must follow its rules."

Her words were almost exactly the same as what they had once said to the Ten Heavenly Lords.

Now they were returned word for word.

They were especially stifling.

Outside the formation.

Zhao Gongming was having trouble keeping the corners of his mouth down.

"Yunxiao said that well."

Wang Mo nodded.

"This is called using a man's own way to deal with the man himself."

Gao Yougan looked at Lin Yuan.

"Junior Brother."

"Why haven't you smiled this whole time?"

Lin Yuan was staring at the entire Nine-Twist Yellow River Formation.

"I'm thinking."

"If the Twelve Golden Immortals really have their cultivation stripped away."

"Who would come next?"

The smile on Gao Yougan's face slowly faded.

Did they even need to ask?

The Twelve Golden Immortals had only one master behind them.

Yuanshi Tianzun.

At the thought of a Saint,

the atmosphere immediately lost its earlier ease.

Yet Lin Yuan did not urge the Three Cloud Sisters to stop the formation.

Stop now?

Why should they?

The Twelve Golden Immortals had entered it of their own accord.

The Three Cloud Sisters had not laid an ambush or launched a sneak attack.

Both sides had plainly been competing through formations.

If they did not even dare to claim victory just because they feared Yuanshi stepping in,

then what would the Intercepting Sect fight for in the future?

They might as well return to Golden Turtle Island and collectively shut their doors.

What he truly needed to solve

was how to withdraw safely after winning.

Inside the formation,

the Twelve Golden Immortals had already tried several times to force their way through.

Every attempt had failed.

At the same time,

the Nine-Twist Yellow River Formation's suppression of the Three Flowers and Five Qi was growing stronger and stronger.

The first person to show signs of trouble suddenly swayed.

The Three Flowers faintly manifested above his head dimmed by a layer.

"Senior Brother!"

The expressions of those beside him changed drastically.

Guangchengzi also realized they could not drag this out any longer.

"Break the formation with everything you have!"

Twelve streams of Jade Clarity Immortal Light erupted at once.

The entire Nine-Twist Yellow River Formation shook violently.

Yunxiao, Qiongxiao, and Bixiao simultaneously drove their mana.

Lin Yuan stood outside the formation.

Several Formation-Stabilizing Talismans had already flown from his hand in succession.

The next moment,

the Yellow River within the formation suddenly surged backward.

The formation that had only trapped people until now bared its fangs for the first time.

Yunxiao's calm voice echoed throughout the formation.

"Since all of you insist on deciding victory and defeat,"

"then—"

"Let it be decided."

The Nine-Twist Yellow River Formation changed completely.

If it had merely trapped them before,

then now it truly began to strip them away.

Billowing yellow sand swept in from all directions.

The Jade Clarity Immortal Light jointly maintained by the Twelve Golden Immortals was dimming at a visible rate.

It was not that the Nine-Twist Yellow River Formation's power had suddenly increased tenfold.

It was that they had remained inside the formation for too long.

Their Three Flowers and Five Qi had been continuously worn away.

The circulation of their mana grew ever more sluggish.