Chapter 1601

A blue space seals the surroundings, and the Southern Border immortals realize it is a trap. Fang Yuan, a wisdom path grandmaster, reverse deduced Hua An in the past and now exposes his pursuers the same way, having made himself bait. The immortals calm down, taking it for an immortal battlefield, though not yama battlefield, which Central Continent already broke. Lu Wei Yin says it is a super immortal formation, and Xia Cha adds that it is a time path formation. Fang Yuan calls both very perceptive. ^{ch. 1601}

His strongest immortal battlefields, purple star broken life and yama battlefield, are rank seven and cannot trap rank eight Xia Cha and Lu Wei Yin, so he chose a formation. An immortal battlefield’s Gu usually stay on its user, while a formation’s Gu remain in the outside world. Most formations defend inside and strike outward, but this one isolates the formation space so that he can kill his enemies. When the immortals attack, their killer moves fade, and Liu Hao says the formation accelerates their killer moves to the time limit. The immortals guess Shadow Sect’s remaining members are controlling it. They are right: Bai Ning Bing, Hei Lou Lan, Lady White Rabbit, Fairy Miao Yin and Ying Wu Xie each hold one formation core. ^{ch. 1601}

The Southern Border immortals take on Ying Wu Xie and the others while Fang Yuan, Lu Wei Yin and Xia Cha watch. Lu Wei Yin, an earth path cultivator, cannot easily see through the formation. Xia Cha, a time path great grandmaster, sees more but is hindered by the formation path layer, since her formation path attainment is only ordinary. When Ying Wu Xie transmits that all is ready, Fang Yuan replies to let them all in and fades from view, and a huge spiral opens as countless year beasts charge out. They are all at least desolate beasts, and quite a few are ancient desolate beasts. ^{ch. 1601}

Xia Cha orders the immortals to kill the beasts, and Liu Hao, suspecting a tributary of the River of Time, says Fang Yuan is using the method of his fight with Feng Jiu Ge again. Years flow execution formation combines three formations. Shadow Sect used dense natural time path dao marks for an immortal formation concealing the tributary, the flood discharge formation connects to it, and the immemorial year beast fishing formation summons year beasts with rank eight Immortal Gu Years Flow Like Water. Fang Yuan could not do this before his time path attainment reached grandmaster. The beasts hold wild mortal Gu but no Immortal Gu, so the immortals slaughter them. A Ba clan immortal stomps one to death, Tie Qu Zhong splits them, and Shang Hu Zhang traps beasts in his aperture, thanking Fang Yuan for the wealth. ^{ch. 1601}

Fang Yuan stays calm, since this is within his deductions and the battle has just begun. The beasts keep coming, and the immortals see that he means to exhaust them. A rank eight immemorial year rooster arrives, and Tie Qu Zhong stops Lu Wei Yin from acting so that the two lords can break the formation. Tie Qu Zhong and several rank seven experts hold the rooster off for now. ^{ch. 1601}

Xia Cha destroys a formation core with a rank eight killer move, and the formation shakes thrice before stabilizing. Fang Yuan mutters that the formation’s true power starts now. A second spiral entrance opens and large numbers of year beasts rush in, and an immemorial year tiger jumps into the battlefield. Lu Wei Yin moves for the first time, and a huge yellow hand he forms grasps the tiger, preventing it from escaping. ^{ch. 1601}