System: After the fortune telling, my cultivation level skyrocketed.

It felt like being watched by pairs of eyes hidden in the shadows in a dark forest.

"However, we still cannot let our guard down, after all..."

Before the old man could finish his warning, the endless fog ahead suddenly surged. The surging fog, like a raging sea, instantly shattered the previous tranquility. Then, a battle formation of eighteen cultivators at the Foundation Establishment Realm swept in, overwhelming everything in its path.

"Enemy attack! It's the Jiang clan's Foundation Establishment Realm battle formation!"

At this distance, even without the old man's exclamation or reminder, the chilling killing intent had already caused everyone to turn around abruptly. That killing intent was like a biting cold wind, casting a shadow over everyone's hearts.

"Hmph, even if the eighteen members of the Jiang clan unite, they cannot pose a threat to our combined formation."

"Fellow disciples, the Jiang clan dared to launch the attack on us first, they must have thought our team was weak. Since they look down on our strength so much, we will definitely make sure that most of the eighteen members of the Jiang clan are wiped out here!"

Having learned from past mistakes, everyone knew that the Jiang Clan's battle formation, when combined, was utterly incapable of shaking the combined small tower. Coupled with their competitive spirit, the Cangyunling team members were all determined to retaliate against the Jiang Clan's frontal sneak attack.

Unexpectedly, the moment the Cangyunling disciple who rushed out of the tower formation made contact with the Jiang Clan's Eighteen Realm Battle Formation, the confident old Cangyunling disciple's expression immediately changed.

boom!

As the leader of the battle formation, Jiang Ming mobilized the spiritual energy of eighteen clansmen to enhance himself, and then unleashed a sword strike at a Cangyun Ridge disciple who was charging towards him. The sword strike was unstoppable and extremely fast, like a white lightning bolt, and it arrived in front of the old man wielding the sword in an instant.

Such a rapid sword strike startled the old man. Faced with the sword light radiating killing intent, the old man immediately abandoned his previous thoughts of attacking or resisting. Without thinking, he immediately took out a talisman and affixed it to his leg.

"Swift as a Thousand Miles, Retreat!"

As the Dao talisman transformed into a gentle breeze and merged into the old man's body, the sword strike that the old man could not avoid suddenly accelerated and dodged, returning to the small tower of the combined formation in the blink of an eye.

Upon seeing this, the other Cangyunling disciples who were about to go into battle were all taken aback.

They stared incredulously at the disheveled old man as he returned, asking, "Senior Brother Feng, what happened? How did you manage to produce a Swiftness Talisman?"

The old man's face showed shock and anger. He looked at the Jiang clan's battle formation with apprehension and shouted, "Stop talking nonsense! Quickly maintain the combined formation with all your might! I never expected the little Jiang clan to be so insidious!"

The captain of the third squad was this old man, and he was also the strongest fighter in the squad. The fact that their strongest fighter was no match for the Jiang clan's battle formation weighed heavily on everyone's hearts.

"How could this be? How could the Jiang Clan's Qi Refining Realm battle formation be so powerful!"

A large amount of spiritual energy surged from the old man and quickly merged into the white tower.

Everyone was the same. The spiritual energy flowed into the small tower like a rushing river, making its white light shine even brighter, like a lighthouse in the night.

"The feeling I got from that sword strike just now was that if I didn't use my trump card to save my life, I would definitely be killed in one strike!"

While struggling to maintain the formation, the old man looked up at Jiang Ming, who was charging towards him in battle formation. There was a slight fear in his eyes. "The Jiang family is hiding their true strength, they are hiding their true strength!"

However, upon hearing this, the other Cangyun Ridge disciples were all shocked, clearly finding it hard to imagine that a group of native rogue cultivators could possess such a sharp attack.

"kill!"

"Kill them for the sake of the Jiang family's continuation!"

The battle formation closed in within two breaths. Time seemed to freeze in that moment, every instant filled with tension and danger.

"Maintain the combined formation with all your might!"

Jiang Ming was now fully mobilizing the battle formation's power. The spiritual energy of the seventeen people at the Foundation Establishment Realm was almost entirely directed towards Jiang Ming. At this moment, disregarding the power of the sword technique, the power unleashed by Jiang Ming's single sword strike was comparable to the strength of the early stage of the Myriad Manifestations Realm.

"cut!"

Jiang Ming's face was flushed, and he held a divine weapon longsword in his hand. The sword emitted a chilling light, and sword energy swirled around Jiang Ming.

From a distance of three or four meters, Jiang Ming let out a deep shout, then turned and unleashed a sword strike. The sword light, enveloping the divine sword, resembled a three- or four-meter-long light sword, and struck the white pagoda with incredible speed.

Rumbling--

A muffled explosion rang out. The sound, like a thunderclap, echoed through the mist, causing the entire space to tremble.

The small white tower took the strongest blow from the Jiang Clan's Eighteen Realm Battle Formation head-on. Its originally dazzling white light suddenly dimmed and began to flicker rapidly several times, but in the end, it withstood the attack.

However, this is not the end of the story.

Although the art of combining formations is more mysterious and profound, its underlying principles are similar to those of battle formations.

When an object formed by the array's spiritual energy is struck with great force, the power of the impact will first be reduced by the combined array before being evenly distributed among everyone involved in the combined array. This is the advantage of combining large arrays.

The spiritual energy is interconnected, so an attack is equivalent to mobilizing the power of all the cultivators involved in setting up the formation. When attacked, the pressure is instantly distributed to everyone, making the pressure much less than that of a single person.

However, even though the power of this sword was weakened by the combined formation, when it was transmitted to the disciples in the combined formation, the faces of each Cangyunling disciple turned pale.

They stared at each other in astonishment, feeling that if the power of this sword had increased by one or two levels, even if the power had been deflected by the combined force of the sect, the residual force would still have caused them to vomit blood when it was transmitted to them.

However, in a clash of titans, both sides experience the same recoil force.

Overall, even though the Jiang Clan's battle formation at the Foundation Establishment Realm is strong, it still falls short compared to the combined formation practice of the Cangyun Ridge disciples.

After the white tower withstood Jiang's strongest attack, it only flashed a few times before successfully dissipating the domineering power.

In contrast, among all the members of the Jiang Clan's eighteen-person battle formation, only Jiang Ming managed to suppress the surging of his blood and qi caused by the recoil. The other elders, whose strength was relatively weaker, suffered severe consequences; three elders vomited blood on the spot because they couldn't control their churning blood and qi.

Of course, vomiting blood does not necessarily mean that one has suffered a serious injury. Vomiting blood due to the inability to suppress the churning of qi and blood is not actually considered an injury.

"Hahaha, the insignificant Jiang clan is like a mayfly trying to shake a tree. You dare to confront my sect's combined formation head-on? You're simply courting death!"

"You insignificant members of the Jiang clan, once the formation is broken, you will all surely die!"

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