A fierce gleam flashed in Yan Hongyu's eyes. She tossed the Black Ring into the air, her sleeves fluttering as she followed with several hand seals.
The Black Ring blazed with spiritual light and swelled in the wind, growing to twenty feet across in the blink of an eye. Spiritual light flickered around it like sacred white flames, and its power appeared no weaker than that of an ordinary High-Grade Spirit Artifact.
Then it spun and hurtled toward the phantom of a giant black tiger that was attacking the formation.
Bang!
That single strike actually drove the High-Grade Spirit Artifact back twenty or thirty feet before it stopped.
The Black Ring, now twenty feet across, shone with white spiritual light. After repelling the enemy cultivator's spirit artifact, it did not pursue, instead hovering in place to confront it.
Elsewhere, Cao Mengyu's performance was equally remarkable. She controlled the Blackwater Extreme Wind Formation, condensing one wind- and water-attribute spell after another to attack with far greater force and spectacle than Liu Yu.
After all, Liu Yu's token could only control part of the formation, while the Formation Disk in her hands could unleash the full power of the Blackwater Extreme Wind Formation. Drawing on its strength, she actually held off the attacks of three Foundation Establishment cultivators by herself.
Judging by Cao Mengyu's practiced movements, she seemed to have some attainments in the art of formations.
Ding Hui's performance was comparatively ordinary. She was wielding a colorful fan magical artifact in a back-and-forth exchange with an enemy Foundation Establishment early stage cultivator, holding only a slight advantage.
Liu Yu and Ding Hui each held off one enemy Foundation Establishment Realm cultivator. Yan Hongyu blocked Steward Lu, the strongest of the enemy cultivators, while Cao Mengyu used the formation's power to intercept