The Quest for Immortality

The strange smiling face exuded a sense of destruction.

A strand of disintegrating spiritual power, like the source of a deadly plague, flowed from the smiling face, seeping into the large formation pivot and polluting it in an instant along the preset trajectory.

The mysteries of the mystery formation began to reveal their true form.

One by one, bizarre formation patterns showed their true nature, blossoming like eerie poppies before completely disintegrating.

First came a deadly silence.

The reversed spiritual power generated disintegrating power that fragmented the spiritual power and consumed sound, plunging everything into darkness.

Then, an astonishing explosion ensued.

This was Second Grade disintegrating power, eroding the Third Grade pivot structure and causing it to become imbalanced, triggering a massive explosion.

Mr. Tu was right at the center of the explosion.

Yet, he was helpless.

He could only watch as the reversed spirit formation came forth like blooming flowers, carrying terrifying disintegrating power, destroying everything completely.

The pitch-black disintegrating power and the blood-red explosive power intertwined in the depths of the blood sacrifice array, obliterating the core pivot.

The giant beast skeletons from the Great Wilderness began to disassemble, crumble, and fall into the earth vein blood river under this destructive force.

Mountain stones shattered, smoke and dust arose.

Black-red array power intertwined.

The blood and flesh maze began to tremble and collapse.

The core of the blood sacrifice array completely fell, turning to dust under the power of this explosion.

The entire Desolate Heaven Blood Sacrifice Formation, without the evil power of the formation eye for support, lost its supply and came to a complete halt.

Blood-colored evil light began to dim.

The dense blood ocean on the horizon stopped surging.

...

On Sword Observation Tower.

The gathered Heaven Void Ancestors turned pale.

”The blood sacrifice array... has stopped?”

”Why?”

A Formation Master ancestor frowned and said, ”The internal array power is chaotic, with strong formation fluctuations. It seems... the core operation has malfunctioned, the formation pivot... self-destructed?”

”Is there such a thing?”

”With the pivot self-destructing and the array halting, without the blessing of the blood sacrifice array, these demon cultivators have lost their greatest reliance. Why not take this chance to rush in and attack now?”

”Opportunities must not be missed...”

An elderly voice said, ”No.”

The Heaven Void Ancestors turned their heads to look at Elder Master Xun.

Elder Master Xun’s eyebrows were tightly knit, his voice deeply grave and filled with chilling intent:

”This is only... just beginning...”

He, a Fifth Grade Formation Master, could perceive that the current reversal of spiritual power was merely a ”warm-up,” and the truly terrifying changes accumulating within the large formation, the immense destructive aura had yet to be unleashed...

”Just beginning?”

The pupils of the Heaven Void Ancestors slightly trembled, then held their breath and focused their gaze into the distance.

...

Within the blood sacrifice array.

Due to the pivot explosion, the array collapsed, its power spreading outward, immediately eradicating some demon cultivators and startling the remaining majority of them.

A crowd of demon heads were all shocked and angry yet unclear about what had occurred.

Amidst the ruins of the collapsed pivot, lay numerous bloody demon cultivator corpses and severed limbs scattered about.

A moment later, dust flew while mountain stones shattered.

Four powerful auras surged forth.

Mr. Tu, Shangguan Wang, protected by the golden corpse of Yin Corpse Valley’s Feather Transformation, along with the elder of Demon Sword Sect guarded by the demon sword, all appeared with bloodstained figures.

Having been gnawed by thousands of demon monsters in the abyss of Yanluo Mountain, they stumbled a second time within a short period.

They were affected closely by the massive force of the pivot’s self-explosion.

Yet, such a self-destruction was merely Third Grade, and the explosion volume was not too large, nor did it last long, so it merely injured these four Feather Transformations but couldn’t kill them.

Being Feather Transformation makes one hard to kill.

Being schemed against, harmed repeatedly, leaving them in such a sorry state, the eyes of several Feather Transformations were full of killing intent.

While unclear about the specifics, just from the formation aspect, they could guess that these were Mo Hua’s tricks.

”If we catch that brat one day, regardless of his identity, we’ll gut him, sever his limbs, decapitate him, and refine him into a corpse slave for a good lesson...”

The demon path Feather Transformations vowed silently.

Especially Mr. Tu, whose hatred for Mo Hua reached the sky.

If hatred could kill, Mo Hua would be dead without a trace by now.

His prior prediction had been correct.

The Second Grade reversed spirit formation disintegrates with a force comparable to the third-grade golden core power.

Even, being an ultimate formation and involving disintegration, it surpassed in power the concept of Law.

This meant that although Mo Hua is a Foundation Building Cultivator, with the reversed spirit formation, he already possesses the ability to shake the foundation of a quasi-third-grade grand array.

And indeed, utilizing the reversed spirit formation, he destroyed the central pivot of the blood sacrifice array.

Once the pivot is destroyed, it equates to destroying the large formation.

Under current severe circumstances, reconstructing the blood sacrifice array center under the pressure from various Qianxue aristocratic families and sects is unbelievably difficult.

By now, a lifetime of planning and devoted effort has been completely and utterly ”ruined” by Mo Hua.

Thinking of that bizarre, taunting youthful smiling face, Mr. Tu felt his blood surge, heart bleeding, and eyes filled with blood streaks.

”Mr. Tu,” Feather Transformation from Yin Corpse Valley rasped, ”Is there any way to repair the blood sacrifice array?”

The elder from Demon Sword Sect added, ”If we cannot manage this, we should plan early, whether to retreat or stay, attack or defend, we must organize ahead.”

As long as the green hills are retained, there’s no fear of fuel running out.

As demon path Feather Transformation, who hasn’t faced a few hardships in life?