The Silverback Azure Ape moved nimbly, its claws constantly harrying Tie Zhan, leaving him no chance to deal with the monk.
The Red-Mane Boar charged headlong into the formation base, its corpulent body carrying crushing force. Tie Ming did everything he could to stop it, only to be driven back again and again, blood spilling from his mouth;
The Black-Scaled Ghost Python finally moved. Its long tail lashed like a steel whip, striking precisely at the opening Venerable Sanmu had created, so fast that only a black blur remained, giving Tie Qingyao no time to react.
After more than a hundred exchanges like this, the formations' cascading collapse caught them utterly off guard.
Tie Qingyao had calculated that the three grand formations, layered together and supported by the Primordial Magnetism Cauldron, could hold out for at least ten days. Yet now, after just four hours, the Profound Azure Essence-Nurturing Formation was the first to give way!
Its emerald spiritual light gradually dispersed. Wood-aspect vitality drained away as rapidly as air from a punctured ball, and most of its formation patterns dimmed;
Then the earthen-yellow light barrier of the Earth-Kun Spirit-Fixing Formation began cracking across vast stretches, fissures crisscrossing its surface;
In the end, only the deep blue water curtain of the Tianshui Azure Waves Formation struggled on, its reach constantly shrinking. The formation, originally a thousand zhang across, now spanned less than three hundred zhang. Cracks covered the water curtain, and it could collapse completely at any moment.
At Tie Qingyao's temple, that streak of gray spread at a speed visible to the naked eye.
The agony of burning her lifespan made her vision repeatedly go black.
Sixty years of her lifespan. She had already burned away sixty years!
"Uncle! Brother! Go!" she sent them a voice transmission, her voice