Even the wealthy Queue Army had spent a considerable sum setting up a formation like this. It was quite a luxury.
But showing off formations before Cui Jiuyang was truly a case of displaying an amateur's skills before a master, no different from brandishing a saber before Guan Yu or selling medicinal plasters at Hua Tuo's door.
He sneered inwardly.
Once this Heaven-Locking Earth-Caging Formation fully took shape, breaking through it by force would indeed be extremely difficult. At the very least, a cultivator whose cultivation was roughly on par with it could not manage it.
But Cui Jiuyang had his own exclusive method.
This formation had nothing to fear from brute-force collisions, but it was vulnerable to a deft, yielding touch.
The gold crisscrossing the cave walls was embedded deep within them, firmly rooted in the stone and intertwined with the channels of earth qi. That made it indestructible and difficult to sever.
But-
A sharp gleam flashed in Cui Jiuyang's eyes.
If he could find a way to move the gold embedded deep in the stone walls, the pillars of golden light would shift out of alignment along with it.
That would naturally open a gap in the tightly sealed golden bars, large enough for a person to slip through.
Although it sounded simple, a spell capable of shifting the channels of earth qi was not so easy to cast.
Fortunately, "To the Eighth Level" encompassed a vast range of subjects and recorded an Earth Escape Technique that allowed its caster to travel swiftly through the channels of earth qi.
Although that spell required at least the Fourth Extremity to cast in full, Cui Jiuyang could now borrow its method of regulating those channels to shift them temporarily by about a foot.
Cui Jiuyang held his breath and