The ninety-ninth step! 

This abnormally strong killing formation would disintegrate if that final step was completed, leaving the two brothers at the mercy of however many cultivators that still lived.

They did indeed have some skill up their sleeves, and were one step away from transformed spirit realm after eliminating several hundred cultivators, but their victims were all unparalleled geniuses, the best that the world had to offer. It mattered not that most of them were still in the core realm. In fact, even a few nascent spirit cultivators numbered among their ranks.

Formations were what the brothers were skilled in; they didn’t actually possess any great fighting strength. Instead, they’d relied on their ability with formations to make it to their current cultivation level. If Lu Yun broke their formation now,...