Still one short (Fifth bonus update for Alliance Leader "Heavenly Immortal Equal to Heaven," 2/3)

Qin Shujian!

Ran Gaoyang had always remembered that name.

But he had never truly fought the man.

Even when Yan Caizhe had led his army into battle, Ran Gaoyang had not intervened.

So.

He had only ever heard of this Array Dao Grandmaster, the reincarnation of a mighty cultivator, and had never actually met him.

The city's protective formation was clearly the work of an Array Dao Grandmaster.

In all of Thousand Mountains Prefecture.

There had previously been only two Array Dao Grandmasters.

One was Ming Jingshan.

The other was Qin Shujian.

Ran Gaoyang had never fought Qin Shujian, but he had fought Ming Jingshan. Though the old man possessed formidable cultivation, his attainments in the Array Dao were not particularly profound, despite having reached the grandmaster level.

Ran Gaoyang was confident that he could put Ming Jingshan in his place single-handedly.

With Ming Jingshan's attainments in the Array Dao.

He could never have set up a formation like the one before them.

Suppressing his astonishment, Ran Gaoyang made the Storage Ring on his hand flash. Twelve flags flew out, taking positions in the eight directions and four poles of heaven and earth, and a grand formation abruptly took shape.

The best way to break a formation.

Was to counter it with another formation.

As the grand formation took shape.

An intense humming filled the void.

Then the two grand formations churned violently like boiling water. Bolts of thunder appeared out of thin air, and boundless killing intent revealed itself in the narrow space between them.

Boom!

Finally, the power of the formation over the city abruptly converged, transforming into a heaven-shaking saber slash.

In the end.

The grand formation shattered. Three of the twelve flags snapped, while the other nine were flung away.

Ran Gaoyang grunted and reeled backward