The obese body of the lord of Ganlu City was constantly sweating under the scorching sun. From time to time, he took out a white handkerchief from the pocket on his waist and wiped. From time to time, he issued orders to make his subordinates maintain good order. He was muttering to himself: It's almost noon. Why haven't the immortals come yet? Alas, if I keep being exposed like this, I'll definitely get heatstroke. Today is the day when the "immortals" accept disciples. Families on Wangyuan Continent who have children and can come have arrived in Ganlu City a few days earlier. At present, the huge square is filled with a sea of people. Looking at it, there are surging heads everywhere. The soldiers of Ganlu City, who are not many in number, seem very sparse in the sea of people. Fortunately, although there are many people, the order is still okay. The soldiers were busy coming and going and finally managed to barely maintain the scene.
In the crowd under the scorching sun, someone shouted: "The immortals are coming! The immortals are coming!" Immediately, everyone on the square knelt down. In the distance, five "immortals" flew over. Their wide sleeves fluttered in the wind, giving off an air of immortality. The five immortals landed on the high platform in the center of the square. The "immortal" with a long beard who was leading waved his hand and said, "Everyone, please stand up. This disciple acceptance ceremony will be the same as usual."
Under the direction of the soldiers, the flow of people on the square began to move along the high platform. Adults led children and walked past on both sides of the high platform. Those who hadn't reached the high platform yet had nervous expressions on their faces. Those who had passed the high platform had dejected expressions. Obviously, those who didn't get called onto the platform when passing in front of it were not selected.
Guo Xingyue had arrived near the square early. He casually set up a four-layer maze formation, which not only concealed his figure but also allowed him to observe the situation on the square. When the five cultivators flew over, Guo Xingyue recognized at a glance that the leading person with a long beard was Yu Kai. After several hundred years of separation, Yu Kai had also cultivated from the early stage of Out-of-Body to the middle stage of Out-of-Body. As for the other four cultivators, they were all only at the middle stage of Nascent Soul. Guo Xingyue didn't take the cultivation levels of these five people seriously at all. For him, capturing these five people at the same time was just a simple matter. But he didn't intend to act in front of mortals. First, it was easy for news to leak out. Second, he didn't want to arouse public anger. After all, being pointed at and cursed by so many people on Giant Horn Star behind his back was not a good thing.
Seeing the situation on the field, Guo Xingyue understood that these five cultivators were using their spiritual senses to scan and find children with spiritual meridians. Judging from the situation on the square, this so-called disciple acceptance ceremony wouldn't end in a short time. Guo Xingyue quietly left the square and headed in the direction where the people from the Changmo Sect had come. He planned to set up some formations on the way back for Yu Kai and others. When they returned to the mountain, he would capture them all in one net.
Ganlu City is not far from the mountain where the Changmo Sect is located. At Guo Xingyue's flying speed, it can be reached in just half an hour. But Guo Xingyue didn't intend to get too close. In case there were too many masters in the Changmo Sect, wouldn't he be walking into a trap? Guo Xingyue flipped his hand formulas and used the invisibility formula to hide his figure. (All cultivators know the invisibility formula. However, those with lower cultivation levels often can't hide from those with higher cultivation levels. Those with higher cultivation levels only need to scan with their spiritual senses, and those with lower cultivation levels will be exposed.)
People often have inertia. When there is a straight line to walk, they will never deliberately take a detour. Cultivators are the same. Guo Xingyue understood this very well. He rode his flying sword and flew into the air. He flew along the direction where the people from the Changmo Sect had come for a while. When he was about dozens of miles away from the square and estimated that the mortals on the square couldn't see the situation in the air anymore, he stopped. With his hand formulas, he summoned a large cloud not far away to his side. Guo Xingyue got into the cloud and began to set up a formation: First, he took out a treasure-level artifact as the eye of the formation. Then he continuously formed hand formulas and set up a four-layer maze formation in the cloud. This was the first time Guo Xingyue had set up a formation in the air. After setting up the formation, he was surprised to find that the true essence power consumed in setting up a formation in the air was several times higher than that on the ground. With Guo Xingyue's cultivation at the late stage of Out-of-Body, after setting up the formation, his true essence power was almost exhausted. He quickly took out a Guiyuan Pill and took it. Hiding in the formation and adjusting his breath for a while, he finally recovered.
The reason why Guo Xingyue only set up a maze formation and not a killing formation was that: Whether it was the mental tribulation he had experienced or Haotian's experience, they both told him the same thing - senseless killing could only aggravate his mental tribulation and couldn't solve the actual problem. If Guo Xingyue could destroy the Changmo Sect and at the same time exterminate all the cultivation sects related to the Changmo Sect, it would indeed reduce some troubles. But this was simply impossible. And Guo Xingyue's original intention in coming this time was just to teach the Changmo Sect a lesson and didn't want to cause a bloodbath. Secondly, after being baptized by the mental tribulation, Guo Xingyue's state of mind had become relatively peaceful. He no longer resorted to killing moves as soon as he acted like when he first arrived on Giant Horn Star.
Both suns had already tilted to the west. The sky gradually darkened. Guo Xingyue had been waiting in the maze formation for a long time. Finally, he saw the people from the Changmo Sect flying over in the distance. Yu Kai was in a good mood today. This disciple acceptance ceremony actually yielded three teenagers with spiritual meridians at once. This was very rare. In the past, it often took five or six ceremonies to find one. This time could be considered a bumper harvest. Yu Kai had cultivated to the middle stage of Out-of-Body and was qualified to accept disciples. Surely one of these three spiritual children would become his disciple. In a good mood, Yu Kai talked a lot. Along the way, he chatted and laughed with his junior brothers from time to time. Suddenly, a cloud floated over from the front and covered everyone from the Changmo Sect. Yu Kai only felt it get dark in front of him. Then all his junior brothers and spiritual children around him disappeared. There was a hazy fog all around. No matter how fast Yu Kai flew, he couldn't get out. Yu Kai knew that he was trapped in a maze formation by a master. Although Yu Kai was panicked in his heart, he remained calm on his face. Instead of rushing around blindly, he stood on his flying sword and said loudly, "I am Yu Kai from the Changmo Sect. I don't know which senior is here. Please come out and meet me."
In the thick fog, a cultivator with a young appearance appeared. Standing on a red flying sword, he looked at Yu Kai coldly and said, "Friend Yu, it's been a long time. I miss you quite a bit." Yu Kai saw that although the person who came had a young appearance, his cultivation had reached the late stage of Out-of-Body. Moreover, the appearance of a cultivator didn't mean anything. The level of cultivation had nothing to do with appearance. Seeing that the cultivation level of the person who came was higher than his own, Yu Kai hurriedly said respectfully, "Junior doesn't know what the senior means. I have never met the senior before. I don't know why the senior is making things difficult for us."
The person who came was Guo Xingyue. After trapping everyone from the Changmo Sect in the formation, he waved his hand formulas and separated everyone from the Changmo Sect one by one and trapped them. The others from the Changmo Sect had no enmity with him. Guo Xingyue didn't kill them either. He just knocked them unconscious one by one and casually threw them in the formation. As for Yu Kai, Guo Xingyue planned to fight him head-on. First, he wanted to test his own cultivation level. Second, he also wanted to find out the background of the Changmo Sect and understand what unique skills the Changmo Sect had. At this moment, seeing Yu Kai addressing him as "senior" one after another, Guo Xingyue was also stunned.