The moment the Nine-Bend Yellow River Formation closed completely, twelve streams of Jade Purity Immortal Light went out at once.
Within the formation, yellow mist churned skyward.
Guangchengzi, Chijingzi, Taiyi Zhenren, Juliusun, and the others were pressed into the depths of the formation beneath layer after layer of turbid waves.
They had once sat high above the clouds, looking down on mortal armies as ants.
Now, they could not even stabilize their Dao fruits.
"Protect the three flowers!"
Chijingzi roared hoarsely.
The Yin-Yang Mirror hovered above his head, its black and white energies circulating madly as they tried to block the Yellow River Turbid Qi.
But in the next instant.
The turbid qi swept past.
The black and white energies collapsed on the spot.
The first Dao flower above Chijingzi's head split open.
"No!"
Terror finally surfaced in his eyes.
This was no ordinary formation.
The Nine-Bend Yellow River Formation was already designed to strip away the foundations of the Immortal Dao. Now, the Beginningless Bell slowed time, while Zhao Gongming's Twenty-Four Worlds suppressed the void.
They could not escape.
Nor could they withstand it.
Elsewhere, Guangchengzi fared even worse.
Bixiao's earlier sword strike had shattered his three flowers and Five Qi, reducing his cultivation to True Immortal.
The moment he entered the formation, the Yellow River Turbid Qi seemed to find a breach, pouring madly into his ruined Dao body.
The Heaven-Flipping Seal hovered before him, its golden light flashing again and again.
Guangchengzi bit the tip of his tongue and desperately activated his life-bound connection.
"Come back!"
"Heaven-Flipping Seal, come back!"
Boom!
Yellow sand swept past.
A layer of the Yuqing imprint on the Heaven-Flipping Seal was forcibly scoured away.
Guangchengzi's eyes turned bloodshot, and his Primordial Spirit felt as though it were being torn apart.
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