All this was thanks to the Beidou Formation Map that Peak Great Cultivator Yu Chao of the Beidou Sect delivered to his doorstep, and he even placed all the Great Cultivators who took part in ambushing him inside the Beidou Array within the Beidou Formation Map.

Within the Beidou Array, even if one had some life-saving method, it wouldn’t be able to display much effect.

Because no matter what kind of Escape Skill was used, there was no way to escape from the Beidou Formation Map—at least, as long as the Beidou Array laid out by the Beidou Formation Map wasn’t broken, there was no escaping.

Even a Peak Great Cultivator’s Great Ability Life-saving Jade Talisman was the same; the Beidou Formation Map was also crafted by a Great Ability, and the Great Ability–level Rule Power contained within it was several times stronger than that within a Great Ability Life-saving Jade Talisman.

Li Yuanba watched as the Infinite Fire Peak, having no one controlling it, was falling from midair.

He struck out a Master Recognition Technique, then his brows furrowed; there was also a Great Ability’s Spirit imprint inside the Infinite Fire Peak.

Helpless, he took out two Prohibition Talismans, shrank the Infinite Fire Peak, pasted the Prohibition Talismans on it, and then stored it into a dedicated jade box.

After doing all this, he finally turned his attention to the situations at the other two locations.

Great Cultivator Le of the Feiyu Sect was still holding on; the power of that treasure, the Storm Eye, was extremely strong, protecting him from being shot to death by the Late-stage Golden Corpse’s Sun Shooting Bow.

He was waiting; as long as the other Great Cultivators could break open the Beidou Array, he could escape with his life.

The Late-stage Golden Corpse, under Li Yuanba’s orders, had been staring fixedly at Great Cultivator Le, forcing Great Cultivator Le to maintain a defensive stance only, unable to use the Storm Eye to attack the Beidou Array.

In fact, at this moment the Beidou Array was already at the end of its strength; if it really took one hit from treasures on the level of the Storm Eye and the Infinite Fire Peak, most likely the Beidou Array would be broken open.

Li Yuanba looked toward the seven Great Cultivators of the Guiyuan Sect; this was also the only team still intact at the moment.

Because the Beidou Array had changed hands, they had no way of knowing the situation of the other Great Cultivators at all.

But through the repeated tremors of the great array, and the fact that they couldn’t contact the other Great Cultivators, they understood that an accident had happened.

The only thing they could do was try to break open the array and leave.

However, there was no Peak Great Cultivator among them; their attacks fell on the Beidou Array like rocks sinking into the sea, vanishing without a trace.

Li Yuanba very cautiously observed their movements through the Beidou Formation Map; thinking of the teams from the superpowers that had taken part in the ambush this time, he suspected that the Guiyuan Sect should also have a treasure.

He guessed that the seven Great Cultivators of the Guiyuan Sect were currently luring him to appear, then would use the treasure to deliver a fatal blow to him.

Think about it: the Beidou Sect had the Beidou Formation Map, Da Leiyin Temple had the Thunder Sound Bell, the Infinite Sect had the Infinite Fire Peak, the Feiyu Sect had the Storm Eye—only the Guiyuan Sect had yet to reveal the treasure they brought.

"Give them a sword first and force out their hidden methods!" Li Yuanba was cautious this time; he’d made up his mind.

In the previous battle against the Infinite Sect, he had taken a huge risk, mainly because he underestimated the power of a superpower’s treasure.

These treasures were all the handiwork of Great Abilities; treasures refined by Great Abilities had Great Ability–level Rule Power infused within them.

When Li Shiming refined spirit treasures, he didn’t have the corresponding deep understanding of powerful Rules; instead, his method was to use a sufficient number of attached-law runes, forcibly elevating the Rules of those runes to a powerful-rule level. This was also why he could use Top-Grade Fourth-Grade Refining Materials to refine spirit treasures.

But that was a shortcut; although it was impossible to judge whether his refined spirit treasures were stronger, or treasures refined by Great Abilities were stronger, one thing was certain: treasures refined by Great Abilities, whether in material or in function, had reached the ceiling of the Cultivation World.

These treasures refined by Great Abilities carried the might of Great Abilities, and they truly could threaten Li Yuanba’s life.

So after witnessing it once, no matter how careful Li Yuanba was, it was only natural.

He concealed himself through the Beidou Array, and when he closed to attack range of the seven Great Cultivators of the Guiyuan Sect, the Xingyi Sword shot out.

The Xingyi Sword emitted an indescribably dazzling light; the seven Great Cultivators only felt a flash of white before their eyes, then their eyes could no longer see, and at the same time their Divine Sense felt as if it had touched scorching heat and likewise lost all perception of the surroundings. 𝙛𝓻𝒆𝒆𝒘𝙚𝓫𝙣𝙤𝒗𝙚𝓵.𝙘𝙤𝙢

This was the blinding effect of the Xingyi Sword, and it was also the first time Li Yuanba had used it.

He intended to unleash his strongest strike and force out the treasure of the Guiyuan Sect’s Great Cultivators.

The seven Great Cultivators maintained their battle formation; their defensive treasures cooperated with each other, forming a solid defensive line.

The blinding effect of the Xingyi Sword did not cause any gap to appear in their solid defensive line.

The Xingyi Sword slashed onto the solid defensive line; the seven Great Cultivators all felt a sharp pain in their heads, and the seven defensive treasures each suffered varying degrees of damage.

Borrowing the momentum of that slash, the Xingyi Sword split open a crack in the solid defensive line, then continued on to slash into the battle formation.

The Xingyi Sword’s speed was simply too fast; even though it had been blocked once by the solid defensive line, the seven Great Cultivators still had no time to react.

By the time the seven Great Cultivators reacted, the Xingyi Sword had already entered the interior of their battle formation.

Seven miserable screams rang out one after another within the span of a single breath, and the life force of the seven Great Cultivators vanished.

Li Yuanba stared somewhat incredulously at the result of the battle; he had never expected that the seven Great Cultivators of the Guiyuan Sect couldn’t even withstand a single sword strike from him.

"Where’s their treasure?" he muttered to himself.

All the worries he’d had before were precisely to guard against the Guiyuan Sect’s treasure harming him.

Yet all seven Great Cultivators had been slain, and they had still not used any treasure.

"Could it be that the Guiyuan Sect’s Great Cultivators didn’t bring a treasure out?" Li Yuanba thought with some puzzlement.

Since this was five superpowers acting together, and the Great Cultivators of the other four superpowers all brought treasures, it was impossible for the Guiyuan Sect to be some exception.

Li Yuanba only pondered for a moment, then stopped thinking about it.

There was still the last Peak Great Cultivator left unresolved over there; he had to quickly finish off Great Cultivator Le and then return to the Sword Intent Chongxiao Pavilion.

As for this final Great Cultivator Le, Li Yuanba actually had a better method.

Li Yuanba controlled the Beidou Formation Map; earlier, because there were too many Great Cultivators trapped, he couldn’t concentrate the Beidou Formation Map’s might.

Now there was only one Peak Great Cultivator left, and this Peak Great Cultivator’s attention was still being pinned down by the Late-stage Golden Corpse; Li Yuanba could completely use the Beidou Formation Map to suppress this Great Cultivator Le.

Li Yuanba poured Spiritual Power Pattern into the Beidou Formation Map; under his control, the Beidou Formation Map flashed with light, and the Beidou Array underwent changes.

The Beidou Array, which had originally covered the entire battlefield, quickly shrank to a radius of a hundred meters with Great Cultivator Le at the center.

Great Cultivator Le still didn’t know that all the Great Cultivators participating in this operation had been wiped out by Li Yuanba; he was still holding on, believing that as long as the Storm Eye was still there, he could keep supporting until the other Great Cultivators broke open the Beidou Array.

Just as he was thinking this, he suddenly felt the Spiritual Energy in all directions being drained away, and at the same time a suppressive force descended from the void.

His reaction was quick as well; the Storm Eye instantly increased its power, blocking the descending suppressive force.

But this suppressive force was like a tide, wave after wave crashing toward him, and every wave of suppressive force contained Great Ability–level Rule Power.

This was the simplest application of the Beidou Formation Map—using the power of the Formation to bombard targets inside.

Great Cultivator Le could only use the Storm Eye to continuously resist, but after multiple times, he discovered that the Storm Eye’s energy supply was somewhat lacking.

It wasn’t that the Storm Eye was weaker than the Beidou Formation Map; on the contrary, in terms of offense, the Storm Eye absolutely surpassed the Beidou Formation Map by far.

However, Great Cultivator Le was inside the great array of the Beidou Formation Map, and there was not the slightest bit of Spiritual Energy around him. Besides needing Great Cultivator Le’s Spiritual Power Pattern to support it, the Storm Eye also had to absorb a large amount of Spiritual Energy from the void.