Twelve Zodiac Battle Formation

Fang Yuan uses an immemorial year beast fishing formation to attract immemorial year beasts, trying to complete Twelve Zodiac battle formation. He had started this plan in his previous life. Only immemorial year beasts qualify as cores. The formation can suppress the methods of ordinary rank eight Gu Immortals. In his previous life he did not gather a complete set even by the Central Continent Refinement Path Convention. ^{ch. 1803}

The formation lacks an immemorial year ox. It requires twelve species of immemorial year beasts: rat, ox, tiger, rabbit, dragon, snake, horse, sheep, money, chicken, dog, and pig. ^{ch. 1813}

After collecting all twelve immemorial year beasts, Fang Yuan assembles Twelve Zodiac battle formation while cultivating. When it activates, twelve lumps of piercing light become twelve golden pillars that stab into the river bottom and extend toward the sky. The pillars connect and vanish into dense golden fog that shrouds the tributary of the River of Time. When Fang Yuan activates it, he breaks free of the battle formation’s limits and influences time flow in Beast Calamity grotto-heaven itself. ^{ch. 1854}

A grey stone giant grows chicken wings and feathers, its hands become tiger claws, and its mouth becomes a beak. Gu Liu Ru recognizes it as Twelve Zodiac battle formation. ^{ch. 1883}

Immortal killer move Twelve Zodiac battle formation is named. Fang Yuan summons twelve immemorial year beasts. Different from earlier uses, the formation does not condense into a giant monster. It transforms into a golden helm like a carriage wheel, with six spokes and twelve handles, each handle carved with a year beast. The Twelve Zodiac battle helm flies to Myriad Year Flying Warship and merges into it. ^{ch. 1943}