Going back in time to when Liang Meng had created the illusion formation and sent all of the juniors inside it.
The juniors fought for their survival and they were exploring Liang Meng's past experiences since she built the formation relaying on memories and past experiences, as well as mixing them and adding creatures that she had only heard about.
When she was thinking on how to build the formation in a way that it could trap strong practitioners inside, she immediately thought of many of her life and death encounters and put them together.
With this she was able to suppress the young disciples. But the ones she was counting on were the ants that came in last place, the King Ant and the Queen Ant.
The Queen Ant was obviously way too powerful for the juniors so the elders had to fight it. And since they could feel that the formation was collapsing, they finished it in a single moment.
It wasn't that the Queen Ant was weak, instead it was that the elders were way too powerful. Each and every single one of them would be considered to be a once in a century or perhaps once in a millennium genius, so they were quite literally unrivalled on the same plane.
But well none of this was known to Liang Meng at the time.
When the elders rushed into the formation, Liang Meng did not intercept them, since she knew that they only went in to see the younger generation fight and to control the formations set by their ancestors, in order to make it more difficult for them.
She was once considered to be part of an older generation to some extent, so it was only obvious that she could understand the thoughts of the older generation torwards the younger one, even though she couldn't actually care less about must people, or perhaps about any at all.
The moment those three rushed in, another three elders came at her.
The moment they sealed their cultivation, their Ki was reduced both in quantity, but also in quality. So they immediately also connected to the Ki formation and one of them attacked Liang Meng.
They were not trying to bully Liang Meng, instead they were trying to teach her that in a real fight even if she could support such a formation by herself, she would need to be able to stop opponents that came from outside to attack her, that she would not be as free as she was now.
Liang Meng on the other hand seemed to not have either sensed or seen him, instead she was only focusing on gaining new understandings.
Thr moment that elder closed in, four type of formations appeared, surrounding and imprisoning him.
Two of the formations were restraining type formations, one used space while the other was a normal type. While the other two were to attack him.
That elder was caught off guard. He had not sensed formations there previously and he did not even feel them forming. Even if his cultivation was sealed at the moment, he still had the senses of a really powerful cultivator.
He did not know how he had fallen into a trap, but that did not stop him, as he immediately attacked to destroy one of the restraining type formation.
When it shattered, he thought he was freed, but immediately the broken formation instantly gathered together and formed another type of formation, a killing formation.
It was just too fast and the moment the elder sensed it, that formation had already attacked him.
*BOOM*
A white ray caused a huge boom and the elder had to unseal his cultivation in order to forcefully take it.
Seeing this the other two elders also rushed at her.
Two of the elders had white disorderly hair and their weapon of choice were talismans and formations.
They purely focused on talismans and formations. These two elders were usually closed all day long with their disciples to study the formations that their ancestors had left them, but when they felt such interesting formations they immediately rushed here.
These two were the elders that did not do anything previously.
The one who had rushed towards Liang Meng, was wielding a saber.
When that elder rushed at Liang Meng now, the two at the back focused on attacking and suppressing the formations that would occasionally appear.
Suddenly the many formations around Liang Meng moved as if they had a mind of their own and formed a new type of formation.
The moment it appeared the elders attacked it, but when the attacks landed on it, they seemed to have been absorbed into it, as if they had no other effect other than to nourish it.
Suddenly a dozen formations appeared and moved to surround the three of them.
From those formations heavenly swords seemed to come out of them to form a new type of formation, that was empowered by the formation that was attacked previously, and then it attacked them.
The three elders were instantly defeated without even knowing how.
They did not feel any shame whatsoever, instead their eyes glimmered at the thought of those formations.
Each and every single person inside this clan basically grew in formations, so when they saw a new type of formation, they immediately studied and comprehended it to the point that they could make it appear even in their sleep.
Even though the lack of experience wasn't as noticeable on the elders, they still had seen way too few things on the worlds outside, so to a certain extent it could be considered that they were birds locked in a cage.