Meanwhile, Chen Qing, positioned at the core of the formation, began to exert his full strength to break it.
Three different formation flags floated before him: one of a dark cyan color, one of a dull yellow, and one of a crimson gold.
These three flags spun continuously, emitting tricolored spiritual light that enveloped all the golden pillars around him.
For a moment, the tricolored spiritual light flickered erratically, unleashing powerful spiritual energy fluctuations.
As the group began to break the formation, the layer of dusky yellow storm that swirled around them also unleashed its power.
Strange sounds arose from within the yellow storm, and countless boulders emerged from the wind, smashing towards the group's location.
It was as if the sky was falling and the earth was splitting apart, as countless stones and earth flew through the air. Fortunately, they were protected by the formation, so they were unharmed for the time being.
This step lasted for a very long time, a full four to five days.
Until, at a certain moment, the golden formation flags activated by Zhang Ling and the others disappeared, transforming into a golden pillar of light that shot into the sky.
With a buzzing sound, the spiritual light circled rapidly in the air a few times before transforming into a golden pillar of light, about ten feet thick, that silently descended directly into the small altar beneath their feet.
The dense golden spiritual patterns on the altar flew out and merged into the golden pillar of light, instantly dyeing the entire earth golden. A thin layer of golden spiritual light surged into the ground like a sound wave.
Zhang Ling felt the ground beneath his feet tremble, but after a few breaths, it returned to calm.
Seeing this, he breathed a slight sigh of relief and quickly tossed two pills into his mouth to replenish his depleted energy from the past few days.
The Foundation Establishment cultivators beside him were even paler; their strength was insufficient, and activating the formation had consumed even more of their energy than his. If it had gone on any longer, they would surely have been unable to hold on.
At that moment, the golden pillar of light was truly activated, and the small altar beneath their feet, which was one of the formation eyes of the Earth Prison Formation, was now being rapidly sealed.
In the other two directions, two more golden pillars of light shot into the sky. These were the two formation eyes sealed by Old Chen and Madam Cao.
After only a dozen or so breaths, Zhang Ling sensed that the surrounding yellow storm had weakened significantly. He could even see some of the surrounding environment with his naked eyes.
To be able to accurately pinpoint the location of the three formations, Chen Qing was indeed skilled. Zhang Ling couldn't help but admire him.
After the three of them temporarily stabilized the three formation eyes of the Earth Prison Formation,
Chen Qing, who was presiding over the breaking of the formation, rapidly changed his hand seals, injecting spiritual patterns into the formation plate in his hand. The formation plate instantly transformed into a tricolored sphere of light.
Then, it split into three strands of spiritual light, each as thick as an arm, and struck the three formation flags floating before him. The three formation flags danced, releasing a layer of thick spiritual light.
The three colors of light connected to form a tricolored light barrier.
This light barrier instantly pushed forward, and the yellow storm generated nearby was constantly pushed back.
At the same time, he turned his head and shouted to Old Taoist Yangshan, Fire Cloud Elder, and the one-armed man.
"I ask that the three seniors inject spiritual energy into the three formation flags. If we work together, we can break this formation."
Old Taoist Yangshan and the other two naturally took action. The old Taoist flicked the horsetail whisk in his hand, and a blue light shot out from the whisk and into the yellow formation flag.
Fire Dragon Elder and the one-armed man also simultaneously activated their magic power, injecting spiritual energy into the other two formation flags respectively.
With the assistance of three Golden Core cultivators, Chen Qing calmly looked ahead, his hand seals constantly changing. Before him, a tricolored disc had appeared at some point.
This disc was the formation plate from before, but now it was translucent, appearing to be completely condensed from tricolored spiritual light.
As he activated the formation plate, countless mysterious runes floated out from it and merged into the three formation flags, causing the tricolored spiritual light released by the three flags to surge greatly.
With the blessing of the formation plate, the tricolored light barrier continued to advance. At the same time, the Earth Prison Formation itself began to resist.
The constantly compressed yellow storm in front of them had turned pitch black, and a wailing wind echoed continuously as a large number of boulders and wind blades shot out, constantly colliding with the tricolored light barrier.
Zhang Ling and the others naturally didn't stand idle, and they constantly injected the earth-attributed spiritual power they had cultivated into the altar of the golden pillar of light.
The small altar was dyed golden, and the constantly released spiritual light was injected into the ground, reinforcing the sealing of the Earth Prison Formation's formation eyes. The thirty-odd golden pillars of light erected around them emitted buzzing sounds, playing their roles.
At the same time, the ground trembled every dozen or so breaths, as if there was an earthquake. Fortunately, the tremors were not large, so there was no major problem for the time being.
In this way, Zhang Ling and the others suppressed the three formation eyes, while Chen Qing, with the help of Fire Dragon Elder and the other two, pushed the formation flags forward.
This scene lasted for several days, and every day they could hear rumbling sounds coming from underground. The tremors became more and more intense, and countless cracks appeared in the ground.
Until noon on the fifth day, Chen Qing, controlling the tricolored light barrier, had pushed forward for more than a hundred feet, reaching a stone wall at the foot of the mountain.
It was an ordinary-looking black rock wall. After the tricolored light covered it, dense yellow spiritual patterns appeared on the stone wall.
Upon reaching the stone wall, Chen Qing's face was somewhat pale. After all, he was only a Foundation Establishment cultivator, and the consumption of the past few days was a bit too much for him.
If Old Taoist Yangshan hadn't been prepared and given him two bottles of pills to quickly restore his spiritual power, he would have been unable to hold on.
Upon reaching the stone wall, Chen Qing waved his hand and quickly pointed at the tricolored formation plate that had been floating before him, and a ray of spiritual light shot out from it and struck the stone wall.
Instantly, all the yellow spiritual patterns on it began to move rapidly. Chen Qing released his divine sense and covered the stone wall, and soon found the source of these spiritual patterns, which was an oval jade stone about the size of a head, embedded in a position on the stone wall.
Chen Qing immediately exclaimed with joy, "Senior Yangshan, that jade stone is the core formation eye of this formation!"
Old Taoist Yangshan narrowed his eyes slightly and also spotted the jade stone. Without thinking, he flicked his sleeve, and a blue light instantly struck the jade stone.
With two crisp cracking sounds, countless cracks appeared on the jade stone. With a bang, it burst into a cloud of dust.
After the jade stone was broken, the yellow rhombus patterns on the stone wall seemed to have lost their power and instantly dimmed.
In the next moment, the yellow storm that had been sweeping across the surrounding several miles seemed to freeze and quickly dissipated. After a few breaths, the yellow storm stopped, leaving only a thick layer of dust on the ground.
At this moment, the Earth Prison Formation was truly broken.
