Cultivating immortality begins with formations.

The middle-aged cultivator, holding a white bone staff, was just approaching the cave.

"Whoosh—"

Just then, a thick fog rolled in.

The rapidly spreading thick fog enveloped the open space in front of the cave, and even the entire mountain forest.

"A formation?"

The middle-aged cultivator's gaze narrowed slightly as he stared at the approaching thick fog, and he took several steps back.

But then I realized...

Thick fog also enveloped him, and after retreating, he had already disappeared into it.

Concerned for his wife's safety, he turned to look.

But there was no sign of the bamboo forest or his wife; all he could see was a thick fog, within which multicolored light shimmered.

"Wan'er?"

He shouted loudly.

However, he found that the fog was thick and blocked the sound, so he had no idea how his wife was doing.

Think for a moment.

The middle-aged cultivator abandoned turning back and instead continued forward according to the location he remembered, waving his white bone staff repeatedly.

A sudden gust of cold wind dispelled the fog in front of them.

He was able to discern the direction and continue onward.

A few steps forward, a crimson flame suddenly shot out from the mist, its tongue flickering, already close to the middle-aged cultivator's face.

His pupils narrowed.

The white bone staff in his hand emitted a chilling white light, and when he pointed it at himself, the flames instantly dissipated.

"Heh~"

"I wondered what a powerful formation it was, yet it's so weak."

After a brief exchange, the middle-aged cultivator realized that the array master controlling the formation was nothing special.

His confidence increased greatly.

Suddenly, I felt my feet sink into the mud, as if I were in a swamp, and my body sank slightly.

In the blink of an eye, his entire lower leg had sunk into the ground.

at the same time.

Within the Five Elements Mist Array, the Five Elements spells—Golden Blade Slash, Ice Cone Technique, and Mystic Fire Technique—formed a triangle and suddenly attacked…

The middle-aged cultivator remained calm as he channeled his spiritual energy, transforming it into malevolent magic that flowed into his white bone staff. This immediately summoned several ghostly spirits that surrounded him.

The words are divided into two parts.

The beautiful woman in the purple dress was also shrouded in mist. She held a three-foot-long short sword, the blade of which shone with dazzling light. Whether it was mist or the Five Elements magic, it would crumble instantly upon being cut down.

"They're actually two Qi Refining Level 9 cultivators."

Lu Yuan was secretly alarmed.

He hid beneath the decaying leaves, concealing his aura and letting the Five Elements Mist Array operate on its own to defend against the enemy.

A formation without a master formation master will be much less effective.

But this was also Lu Yuan's intention, to show the enemy weakness and take advantage of their strength.

Moreover, his purpose was to delay Gu Qingyao's breakthrough to the Foundation Establishment stage as much as possible, and he would never dare to show himself unless absolutely necessary.

……

The fog surged like a tide.

The Five Elements magic rose and fell amidst the mist.

Golden blades pierced the air, ice spikes rained down, and fire snakes danced wildly, all crashing towards the middle-aged cultivator in the formation.

Beside the middle-aged cultivator, ghostly spirits swirled, and a chilling wind blew, the mist within the formation preventing any approach.

"break!"

The middle-aged cultivator shouted.

The white bone staff slammed into the ground beneath his feet, the staff penetrating three-tenths of an inch into the earth. A ring of grayish-white ripples spread outwards from the center of the staff.

Where the ripples passed, the mist churned and dissipated.

Even the Five Elements spells that constantly emerged from the mist were instantly disintegrated under the impact of the gray-white ripples.

"Again!"

The middle-aged cultivator increased the flow of spiritual power and suddenly slammed his palm against the white bone staff. Grayish-white yin energy surged outwards like a tidal wave.

The fog within a radius of several feet was completely dispersed.

At the entrance of the cave, the figure sitting cross-legged was no longer concealed.

He strode forward, his white bone staff activated by spiritual power, emitting a grayish-white yin energy that transformed into several bone spikes, which shot swiftly toward the figure blocking the cave entrance.

The middle-aged cultivator assumed that this Qi Refining Level 4 cultivator was the array master who controlled the array.

Once he is dealt with, the formation here will be easily broken.

"Pfft pfft pfft pfft..."

The bone spike easily pierced through the figure, causing him to fall backward. The middle-aged cultivator who was approaching saw this and knew something was wrong, so he turned back.

And where he had just stood.

A small ice crystal, about the size of a mung bean, suddenly appeared. Upon landing, it turned into a large patch of frost, freezing the flowers and plants on the ground.

The middle-aged cultivator had reached the ninth level of Qi Refining, and his spiritual power had reached perfection, but his physical body and divine sense were still far from sufficient.

Even with divine sense probing, they could not determine the origin of the ice crystals.

If I hadn't retreated quickly, given the power of those ice crystals, I would probably have been frozen into an ice sculpture immediately.

Even if they manage to escape, the few breaths it takes to be frozen into an ice sculpture is enough for the enemy to kill them several times over.

"Depend on!"

"Still too greedy!"

Seeing that the middle-aged cultivator had been tricked, Lu Yuan flipped himself up from the rotten leaves, holding the Golden Shadow Sword, intending to kill him with a single strike when he was frozen into an ice sculpture.

Unexpectedly, the other party, seeing that the situation was not good, immediately retreated.

In this way, Lu Yuan has already been exposed.

"So this is the person in question!"

The middle-aged cultivator turned around with a sinister look on his face after sensing a figure behind him with his divine sense.

With a wave of the White Bone Staff, several more bone spikes appeared and shot off.

Lu Yuan held the Golden Shadow Sword in one hand and made a hand seal with the other.

A large pool of mud suddenly rose from the ground in front of him, gently dissipating the force of the mud to resist the bone spurs.

Then, they used rattan ropes to weave a vine net and placed it in front of them.

Finally, a crescent-shaped golden blade materialized and slashed forward in fury.

After piercing through the mud and vines, the bone spikes had lost most of their strength. When struck by the golden blade, they instantly turned into bone fragments and fell to the ground.

"Next, I'll show you the power of this formation."

Lu Yuan slowly retreated, the mist enveloping his entire body.

The middle-aged cultivator was about to give chase, but he was blocked by the mist, and his divine sense was limited, so he lost track of Lu Yuan's location.

Lu Yuan, shrouded in mystery, made the most of his home-field advantage.

Under his control, the Five Elements Mist Array's power increased dramatically.

Lu Yuan frantically circulated his magical power, his five elements techniques working in perfect harmony, unleashing a barrage that left the middle-aged cultivator in a truly sorry state.

In contrast, the middle-aged cultivator had put away his contempt and was now focused on his enemy, not daring to be distracted in the slightest.

And even now.

He also did not know who had made the ice crystals earlier.

Therefore, he began to intentionally distance himself from the cave, thinking of reuniting with his wife first and looking after each other.

He knew that an array without an array master could not threaten his wife, who was at the ninth level of Qi Refining, so he focused all his attention on dealing with the array in front of him.

Unexpectedly, at this moment...

He then discovered that the power of the formation was gradually weakening again, and the coordination of the five elements was not as smooth as it had been before.

It turned out that the cultivator at the fourth level of Qi Refining was running out of spiritual energy.

Suddenly.

As if remembering something, he thought to himself, "This is bad!" He leaped up, soaring into the air, and looked down at the bamboo forest shrouded in mist.

Sure enough, within that misty area, the formation shone brightly, exuding a chilling aura.

The rosy glow that belonged to the wife was completely suppressed, and almost no rosy glow could be seen.

The middle-aged cultivator sped away, channeling all his spiritual power into the white bone staff, and projected it into the mist.

beep!

The white bone staff, accompanied by gusts of eerie wind, shot into the churning mist, instantly dispersing a large portion and revealing the two combatants within.

Lu Yuan, wielding the Golden Shadow Sword, used the Golden Edge Sword Technique to fight against the beautiful woman in the purple dress.

And in mid-air.

There was also a chilling ice silkworm that continuously spewed out vortexes of frost, suppressing the beautiful woman in the purple dress and forcing her to be on guard.

"Shatter the mountain!"

Lu Yuan channeled all his spiritual energy into the Golden Shadow Sword in his hand and suddenly drew his sword, as if carrying the force of a thousand pounds, slashing towards the beautiful woman in the purple dress.

Simultaneously.

With his other hand, he made a series of hand seals, unleashing the five elements' magic simultaneously, instantly engulfing it.

But the most crucial thing was yet to come; several swirling vortexes of frost surrounded them from all sides, and the beautiful woman in the purple dress had nothing but terror in her eyes.

Suddenly, the mist parted, and her husband's white bone staff shot into the arena. She immediately cried out:

"My husband, save me!"

however.

The middle-aged cultivator was still a step too late.

Several vortexes of frost exploded around the beautiful woman in the purple dress, and the extreme cold spread like a tide, freezing her instantly.

Then, the five-colored light emitted by the Five Elements magic, along with Lu Yuan's powerful and heavy sword strike, simultaneously engulfed it.

boom!

The human-shaped ice sculpture shattered.

The ice water and blood were mixed together, and there was hardly a piece of good meat left.

The middle-aged cultivator who had just entered the scene had no time to react before he witnessed his wife, with whom he had shared many years of life, being completely torn to pieces!