Black mist churned, like billowing rosy clouds unfurled, stirring killing intent across half the sky!
This Six-Yin Turbidity-Stagnation Blurred-Light Great Formation was formidable indeed. Not only could it seal off heaven and earth and befuddle cultivators' minds,
it could also use the turbid qi within to conjure all manner of sinister, uncanny attacks, leaving one unable to guard against them, let alone resist!
Ao Zhongdu had fought for many years and weathered countless life-and-death battles. Naturally, he recognized this formation.
He merely kept his true body still, guarding himself thoroughly within the formation, while quietly releasing a strand of spiritual awareness to observe the situation outside.
But after that strand of awareness soared to the highest heavens and looked around,
his pupils involuntarily contracted, and a sense of absurdity welled up in his heart!
"Are you joking?!"
Ao Zhongdao's eyelids twitched.
As far as the eye could see, an enormous cauldron covered the entire expanse of heaven and earth, its mouth facing downward.
Its light was hazy, its shape like a full moon, with an aspect of discerning the two principles and distinguishing the three origins.
Although the Six-Yin Turbidity-Stagnation Blurred-Light Great Formation covered no small area, enveloping several hundred li, beside the enormous cauldron it was still a minor shaman meeting a great one!
At that moment, splendid light filled the cauldron's four corners, a profusion of radiance intermingling, with a different vision manifesting at each.
To the east stood a three-tiered celestial palace. Eight or nine people sat within, their faces indistinct, their bearing forbidding, mysterious and unfathomable.
Ao Zhongdu needed no further thought to recognize that familiar bearing: they were the Aristocratic Clans' deathsworn.
To the west, banners fluttered and troops massed like clouds, killing intent filling the sky. Several great demon kings of differing