The [Pre-Heaven Five-Direction Five-Element Grand Formation] was interconnected as a single whole, its conceptual images circulating without end. The five-colored divine light appeared to be a single beam, but it was actually the combined power of the Pre-Heaven Five-Direction Banners' five divine effects, its might overwhelming.
Even Deputy Cult Master Gao and Tan Duanchang, both Ascension Realm cultivators, changed expression abruptly at the sight and hurriedly cast defensive spells to withstand it.
Boom.
The earth trembled and the mountains shook, dust and smoke billowing everywhere.
When the smoke cleared, Deputy Cult Master Gao and Tan Duanchang stood in midair where they had been, both completely unharmed. Yet the mountaintop beneath their feet had been erased by the five-colored divine light, leaving nothing behind.
The lingering conceptual image of the [Light Wielding] divine effect transformed the mountain beneath them into a fiercely blazing sea of fire.
"What a formidable formation..."
Deputy Cult Master Gao's voice was grave, all traces of complacency gone.
This formation was anything but simple. Never mind him, a formation grandmaster ranked among the top five in the Boundless Southern Heaven Realm-even the realm's foremost formation grandmaster would have no chance of breaking it by force.
It was already beyond what an Ascension Realm cultivator could forcibly break.
To break it, they could only follow the formation's rules.
"How do we break it?" Tan Duanchang asked gravely.
He had thought that with the two of them joining forces, taking down Zhang Yuan, this [Return to True Celestial Person], would be as certain as holding something in their hands. He had never expected Zhang Yuan to possess such a formation.
Now, never mind taking Zhang Yuan down-even whether the two of them could escape this formation was in doubt.
Breaking the formation had become their foremost problem.
"No need