On the Flying Boat.

Zhou Tu had already seen the figure of Yang Zhenshan and grinned ferociously, "There! There! Quick, chase him!"

The flying boat they were on was a medium-sized vessel, about twelve or thirteen zhang long. Its body was spindle-shaped, glinting with a cold, hard light. The bow was raised three feet high, embedded with a half-cast bronze eagle beak, exuding a faint golden stream.

As it flew, it trailed a stream of light several zhang long, looking from a distance like a flying metal eagle, casting a cold silhouette between the clouds.

Xu Mingzhu also spotted Yang Zhenshan’s figure. Unlike Zhou Tu’s impatience, he squinted, his eyes sharp as eagle eyes.

"Master Zhou, this time we rely on you!"

He spoke to an elderly Foundation Establishment cultivator beside him.

Master Zhou stroked his graying beard, smiling warmly, "Rest assured, Master Xu, my array is prepared and can be activated at any time."

Xu Mingzhu smiled and nodded, "As long as Master Zhou’s array can isolate the void, this person is doomed!"

He was aware of Yang Zhenshan’s teleportation skills, so he was also prepared.

Without a counter to the teleportation, he certainly wouldn’t act rashly.

As for how to counter teleportation, that would naturally be by isolating the void using an array.

The teleportation or shifting skills of Immortal Cultivators mostly perform space shifts through the void, and once the void is isolated, the spatial shifting ability mostly fails.

To prevent Yang Zhenshan from escaping again from his grasp, Xu Mingzhu specifically invited Master Zhou to set up an array to isolate the void.

Ahead, Yang Zhenshan continued to flee. His flying speed couldn’t match the flying boat, but since he was fleeing, he naturally had to put on a show.

In the verdant mountains and forests, he occasionally zigzagged left and right, pretending to use the mountain landscape to evade the flying boat behind, while occasionally teleporting, moving only a distance of twenty or thirty li each time.

Thus, he lured the pursuing flying boat rapidly toward the great river canyon.

The sky was overcast, thick clouds heavy like they were laden with lead, seeming nearly to collide with the towering peaks. The exposed jagged rocks on the cliffs gleamed a cold hard gray-black in the dim light, as if the bared fangs of a giant beast.

The canyon wound its way through, becoming increasingly narrow and claustrophobic, with strange contorted rocks like lurking monsters, silently awaiting the arrival of prey.

The river roared relentlessly, like a raging yellow dragon charging forward, its path strewn with splashing waves shimmering with eerie white light under the gloomy sky.

Yang Zhenshan transformed into a blue streak, swiftly skimming across the turbulent river surface, with the flying boat behind him lowering its altitude, closely tailing him.

Seeing that he was about to fly out of the canyon, Yang Zhenshan suddenly performed a space shift, appearing instantly several li away on the river surface.

"Quick, quick, catch up!" Zhou Tu stood at the bow of the flying boat, his eyes fixed intently on Yang Zhenshan’s figure, shouting eagerly.

Xu Mingzhu, arms crossed, furrowed his brows slightly.

He seemed to sense something amiss, but couldn’t pinpoint what it was.

Just then, beside him, Master Zhou’s face changed slightly at the very moment the flying boat exited the canyon.

"Halt!"

He suddenly shouted loudly. 𝚏𝗿𝗲𝐞𝐰𝚎𝕓𝐧𝚘𝘃𝗲𝐥.𝐜𝚘𝕞

But it was already too late.

Above the mountainside, Ma Qiuyan sat cross-legged beside the cold spring pool, her phoenix eyes watching the flying boat enter the great array with a radiant smile on her beautiful face.

She pinched a spell, sending a stream of light into the pool.

"Activate the Taiyin Cold Pond Array!"

At the river bottom, within a dim water barrier, Ning Yun instantly sensed a thick cold aura emanating from the array plate before her. She had no hesitation, quickly casting spell after spell, each spiritual light falling into the array plate.

"Start the Taiyin Cold Pond Array!"

Normally, the array hubs of artifact arrays are typically the array plate, but the Taiyin Cold Pond Array, merged with an earth formation and leveraging the advantageous terrain, requires the water vein of the cold spring as the array hub, not the plate.

However, the array plate is the control hub of the array, while the restrictions and formations around it are the energy center of the great array.

As Ning Yun produced each spiritual light, the spirit stones the size of a small mountain beside her instantly turned to dust, and a large amount of spiritual energy surged into the array plate.

The next moment, a piercing cold aura spread out from the array plate.

The cold infiltrated through the water barrier into the river, but it didn’t freeze the water; it simply became incredibly frigid.

Meanwhile, along the riverbanks, on the slopes and at the foot of the mountains, clusters of cold aura began to rise, enshrouding over thirty li of the surroundings in the time of a breath.

Rumble~~

Suddenly, thunder exploded across the firmament.

The wind howled like a galloping herd, and the gloomy sky tore open with crimson lightning, shaking the mountains. Raindrops the size of beans pelted down, instantly turning into a torrential downpour, intertwining with the raging wind into an impermeable curtain of rain.

The wind wrapped the rain, the rain enveloped the wind, and the trees swayed violently in the storm, creaking under unbearable strain, as dried branches were snapped off, swirling into the rapid river in an instant.

The storm assaulted, and the cold within the array surged like an enraged beast.

The rain intensified, the cold grew heavier.

Outside the array, Yang Zhenshan stood, his eyes gleaming with golden light, observing the changes within the array.

The Taiyin Cold Pond Array isn’t a heaven array, unable to borrow the power of celestial phenomena, yet it occupies the advantage of timing.