To be honest, Xiong Meng really did not want to enter the Nine-Bend Yellow River Formation. But Jiang Ziya assisting King Wu in his campaign against King Zhou was something all the Saints had agreed upon and the Heavenly Emperor had ordained. As a disciple of the Expounding Teaching, with all the Twelve Golden Immortals already inside, if Xiong Meng refused to enter and the Primordial Heavenly Venerable found out, then...
Just thinking about it terrified the bear. Compared with the Three Xiao Sisters, the Grand Master really was far scarier.
With that thought, Xiong Meng took tiny steps into the Nine-Bend Yellow River Formation.
Once they had all entered, the entrance closed on its own. An invisible current of Shangqing immortal power coursed around the perimeter, preventing ordinary creatures from entering.
Inside the formation, the Three Xiao Sisters stood on an Eight Trigrams platform, surrounded by roiling yellow sand and howling winds.
"Fellow Daoists, it has been a long time!" Guang Chengzi led the immortals through the vast desert conjured within the formation and arrived at its center, where he cupped his hands in greeting to the Three Xiao Sisters.
"Greetings, Daoist Brother. Now that you have entered the formation, do you dare break it?" Yunxiao raised her hands to return Guang Chengzi's greeting and posed her question.
"Invincibility Begins with Sacrificing the Patriarch"
"Since we have come here, we naturally intend to break the formation," Guang Chengzi replied. "But out of consideration for the friendship between our two teachings, I would still advise you not to bring ruin upon yourselves! You three sisters are different from the Jiejiao disciples who came before. You lead pure lives, exercise restraint, and have no intention of defying Heaven. Since that is so, why seek your own destruction? Return to the Heavenly