Chapter 1088: Heaven-Shattering Carnage
Chapter 1088: Heaven-Shattering Carnage
The eerie smile carried an aura of destruction.
A strand of disintegrating spiritual energy, like a source of venomous plague, flowed from the smile, seeping into the core of the grand array. In an instant, it "contaminated" the entire Blood Sacrifice Formation.
Unsolved mysteries began to reveal their true forms.
Strange array patterns emerged, resembling bizarre poppies that bloomed in sequence before completely disintegrating.
At first, there was an eerie silence.
The reverse transformation of spiritual energy generated a disintegrating force that not only broke down the spiritual energy but also swallowed the sounds, enveloping the surroundings in darkness.
Then, an astonishing explosion echoed.
This was the result of second-grade disintegrating force eroding the third-grade array structure, causing the third-grade core to lose balance and produce a powerful explosion.
Master Tu was at the center of the explosion.
But he was helpless.
He could only watch as the reverse spirit arrays, like flowers blooming, carried the terrifying disintegrating force and completely destroyed everything.
The pitch-black disintegrating force and the blood-red explosive force intertwined deep within the Blood Sacrifice Formation, destroying its core.
The remains of the colossal beasts from the Great Desolate Wasteland also began to disintegrate and collapse, falling into the blood river of the earth veins.
Rocks shattered, and dust rose.
The black and red array forces intertwined.
The Flesh Labyrinth began to tremble and collapse.
The core of the Blood Sacrifice Formation, under the impact of such a powerful explosion, was completely destroyed, reduced to dust.
The entire Heaven-Sundering Blood Rite Formation, without the support of the array’s evil power, ceased to function.
The blood-red evil light began to dim.
The dense blood sea in the sky stopped surging.
...
In the Sword Viewing Tower.
The Void Ascendant Elders all showed signs of shock.
"The Blood Sacrifice Formation... has stopped?"
"Why?"
An array master frowned and said, "The internal array power is chaotic, with strong array fluctuations. It seems... the core operation has malfunctioned, and the array core... self-destructed?"
"Is such a thing possible?"
"The array core self-destructed, the grand array stopped, and without the Blood Sacrifice Formation’s support, these Demon Path cultivators are left without their greatest reliance. Should we charge in now?"
"This is a rare opportunity..."
An elderly voice spoke, "No."
The Void Ascendant Elders turned to look at Xun Laoshi.
Xun Laoshi's brows were tightly furrowed, his voice heavy and cold.
"This is just... the beginning..."
As a fifth-grade array master, he could see that the current reverse transformation of spiritual energy was just a "warm-up." The truly terrifying changes and the overwhelming destructive aura within the grand array had yet to be unleashed...
"The beginning?"
The Void Ascendant Elders' pupils dilated, and they held their breath, staring intently at the distance.
...
Inside the Blood Sacrifice Formation.
Due to the explosion of the array core and the collapse of the grand array, the power spread outward, instantly eliminating a portion of the Demon cultivators and alarming the rest.
The various demon lords were all alarmed and angry, but they didn't know what had happened.
Among the ruins of the collapsed array core, numerous bloody corpses and severed limbs of Demon cultivators lay scattered.
Moments later, dust and debris flew, and rocks shattered.
Four powerful auras emerged.
Master Tu, Shangguan Wang, the Yin Corpses Valley Yu Hua protected by the Golden Corpse, and the Demon Sword Sect elder shielded by the Demon Sword, all appeared, bloodstained.
After being devoured by the myriad demons in the depths of the Geese-Falling Mountain, they had stumbled again in a short time.
They were directly affected by the explosive force of the array core.
However, this self-destruction was only third-grade, and the explosion's volume wasn't significant, nor did it last long. Therefore, it only injured the four Yu Hua but couldn't kill them.
Yu Hua weren't that easy to kill.
Being repeatedly tricked and harmed, the four Yu Hua were filled with murderous intent.
Even if they didn't know the full details, they could guess from the array that Mo Hua was behind all this.
"If we catch that boy one day, regardless of his identity, we will tear him apart, sever his limbs, and refine him into a corpse slave, to be thoroughly tortured..."
The Demon Path Yu Hua all thought with hatred.
Especially Master Tu, whose hatred for Mo Hua reached the heavens.
If hatred could kill, Mo Hua would have been obliterated without a trace.
His previous prediction was correct.
Second-grade reverse spirit arrays, disintegrating second-grade arrays, generated a disintegrating force comparable to third-grade Golden Core power.
Moreover, because it was an ultimate array and a disintegrating force, its power in terms of law concepts was even greater.
This meant that although Mo Hua was a Zhu Ji cultivator, he had the ability to shake the foundation of a near-third-grade grand array with the reverse spirit array.
And he indeed used the reverse spirit array to destroy the central core of the Blood Sacrifice Formation.
Once the core was destroyed, the grand array was essentially ruined.
Under the current severe situation, it was extremely difficult to rebuild the Blood Sacrifice Formation's core under the pressure of the various clans and sects of the Qian study.
Now, his lifelong layout and hard work had been thoroughly "ruined" by Mo Hua.
Thinking of that eerie, mockingly innocent smile, Master Tu felt his blood surge, his heart bleeding, and his eyes filled with bloodshot veins.
"Master Tu", the Yin Corpses Valley Yu Hua said in a hoarse voice, "Is there any way to repair the Blood Sacrifice Formation?"
The Demon Sword Sect elder also said, "If it's truly impossible, we should make plans early. Whether to retreat or stay, to attack or defend, we need to decide quickly."
As long as the foundation remains, there's always a way to regroup.
As Demon Path Yu Hua, who hasn't experienced several setbacks in their lives?
As long as the core of the grand array or the disciples of these demon sects remain, there will always be a way.
Master Tu's expression was cold as he pondered how to reconstruct the grand array and how to turn the current unfavorable situation around.
But after only a few moments of thought, Master Tu's face changed.
"Something's still not right..."
Previously, he had sensed a chilling horror.
Now, although the core had been destroyed, the losses were severe, but it wasn't enough to make him feel such a bone-chilling cold.
This meant that everything... wasn't over yet?
Master Tu's pupils dilated.
The eerie smile reappeared in his mind, and along with its innocence and strangeness, there was a hint of "cruelty."
As if a celestial demon from another realm was smiling at him.
At that moment, another anomaly occurred.
Beneath the ruins, a strand of reverse power reignited, like a "relay", initiating a second round of disintegration.
And the target of this round of disintegration was...
Master Tu's heart raced in panic: "The array eye?!"
First, the core, then the array eye?
The array eye of the Heaven-Sundering Blood Rite Formation was the heart of the ancient Great Desolate Wasteland beast!
Master Tu's face immediately turned pale, and his body deformed into a mass of flesh, plunging into the ruins' depths to protect the array eye.
But being a step behind, he was too late.
The reverse spirit power had already spread.
The array eye of the Heaven-Sundering Blood Rite Formation began to reverse, and the heart of the ancient Great Desolate Wasteland beast was covered with cracks.
Then the heart shattered, and the vast blood-red evil power it contained burst forth like a vast sea, surging along the predetermined array path, spreading outward.
Many Demon cultivators and blood meat demons within the grand array were engulfed and consumed by the tidal wave of evil power.
Evil power was the root of the Demon cultivators' cultivation and power.
They would normally seek such vast evil power eagerly.
However, the amount of evil power contained in the blood sacrifice array eye and the heart of the ancient Great Desolate Wasteland beast was too vast, far exceeding the limits the Demon cultivators could bear.
Many Zhu Ji Demon cultivators began to overload with evil power and explode to death.
Even some blood meat demons couldn't withstand it, their bodies twisting and limbs deforming before exploding to death...
With the ancient beast's heart as the core, a concentrated burst of evil power instantly exploded, spreading to the sky.
The heart's evil power, combined with the blood and flesh, formed a vivid red hue, painting the Heaven-Sundering Blood Rite Formation.
From a distance, it looked like a volcanic eruption.
Only, this "fire" was made of blood and flesh, cruel and beautiful.
In the Sword Viewing Tower, the Void Ascendant Elders were speechless.
Inside the Blood Sacrifice Formation, Master Tu and the others, immersed in the evil power, were equally terrified.
Before they could fully comprehend the situation, a third round of disintegration followed.
The array eye was destroyed, and the evil power and blood erupted like a "volcano", leaving only a blood-red sky.
But in the next moment, a layer of crystalline blue emerged from the blood-red center.
This was the color of spiritual energy.
The Heaven-Sundering Blood Rite Formation required the large-scale slaughter of cultivators, using their skin, flesh, bones, and blood as array materials to construct itself.
But the Lun Jian Conference was thrown into chaos due to Mo Hua. In a rush, Master Tu was forced to activate the Blood Sacrifice Formation prematurely.
Due to the lack of preparation and subsequent suppression by various factions in Qian Study, the Demon Cultivators' killings were restrained, leaving the formation short of materials and with many array masters dead.
Faced with these numerous difficulties, Master Tu had no choice but to use Mo Hua as the array master, employing the orthodox array system to construct the Heaven-Sundering Blood Rite Formation.
Thus, this Blood Sacrifice Formation was a hybrid of both orthodox and evil array systems.
Within the formation, spiritual energy and evil energy coexisted.
Master Tu oversaw the evil energy.
Mo Hua controlled the spiritual energy entirely.
Initially, the spiritual and evil energies stood apart, not interfering with each other.
However, Mo Hua broke this balance. He first dismantled the array's core, then the array's focal point, and finally intertwined the spiritual and evil energies.
In the world of cultivation, all forces are interdependent and contradictory, coexist and repel each other, yet remain unified.
Spiritual energy and evil energy are both forms of cultivation power.
When the blue spiritual energy and red evil energy first touched, they entangled and merged. The forces of righteousness and evil intertwined, mutually destroying and repelling each other, yet also transforming and permeating one another.
The first two collapses were merely preludes.
This, however, was what Mo Hua intended to dismantle in the end.
The Heaven-Sundering Blood Rite Formation, with its vast coverage of nine medium and small provinces around Qian Study, was on a massive scale.
The collapse of the first core only affected a small area.
The collapse of the second focal point spread the evil energy to one-fifth of the formation.
But the third and final collapse, facilitated by the intertwining of spiritual and evil energies, spread like a wildfire, engulfing the entire Heaven-Sundering Blood Rite Formation in an instant.
Amid the ruins, the previous two collapses had already accumulated a significant amount of "dissolution" energy, like a large field of kindling.
The massive influx of spiritual and evil energies, now intertwined, acted like a huge "explosive" at its critical point.
Kindling met the explosive, and it ignited instantly.
The dissolution energy ignited the ocean of spiritual and evil energies.
In that moment, the entire world darkened.
The sunlight was swallowed, and darkness enveloped everything.
The blood-red and crystal-blue energies were all shrouded in the darkness of dissolution.
Both the blood-red evil energy and the crystal-blue spiritual energy, now intertwined, were edged with a terrifying black.
Then, the world fell silent.
The "annihilation" that dissolved everything began.
From their very essence, both spiritual and evil energies began to "dissolve", and anything tainted by these energies started to quietly and irresistibly disintegrate, turning into black powder.
Mountains turned to black ash, layer by layer.
Grass and trees withered into dust.
Vast landscapes, like paintings, were erased by the black ink, vanishing into thin air.
Countless Demon Cultivators died instantly.
They were terrified, struggling, roaring, screaming, their faces contorted in madness and hysteria, but like ink figures on a black-and-white painting, they were torn apart and dissolved into ash by the terrifying dissolution energy.
This terrifying dissolution energy continued to spread.
Annihilation enveloped the world...
In Qian Xue Prefecture, all cultivators, whether from Dao Ting Si, various noble families, sects, or those who had come to observe the sword competition, and even the scattered cultivators around Qian Study who were fearful of the demonic threat, were all stunned and horrified by the dissolution of the world.
Even the wise and knowledgeable elders of the noble families and sects were shaken, their pupils dilating in silence.
At the top of the Sword Observation Tower, an old man with white hair stood, gazing at the scene of destruction, his hand frozen in mid-air with a chess piece.
Finally, the chess piece fell onto the board, and the old man sighed.
The fusion of spiritual and evil energies, their mutual repulsion and permeation, and the forced separation by dissolution energy, triggered an even more powerful dissolution force...
This dissolution, at its core, was not of the formation, nor of the spiritual or evil energies.
It was the dissolution of the "principle" of mutual repulsion and fusion between righteousness and evil.
In other words, it was a preliminary form of...
"Yin-Yang Inversion."
The old man sighed again.
Yin and Yang are the principles by which ancient cultivators understood the world.
All things in the world conform to the principles of Yin and Yang. Studying any array, cultivation technique, Dao technique, alchemy, or talisman technique can lead to a deeper understanding of the principles of Yin and Yang.
But these principles are both simple and complex.
Especially in the realm of arrays.
This involves extremely advanced calculations.
To use dissolution energy for Yin-Yang inversion and principle separation, one needs an extremely powerful divine perception, vast computational power, profound expertise in array construction, and highly advanced calculation methods.
One must also have patience, perseverance, and insight to accurately deduce the various scenarios after the core collapse and the myriad changes in spiritual energy, thereby planning the dissolution with precision, controlling it step by step, and secretly embedding killing intent...
There are too many variables.
The control is too precise.
The calculations involved are... insane...
The old man frowned and sighed deeply again. This was his third sigh, and he couldn't help but grumble to himself:
"What did that kid with the surname Zhuang teach him... Does he have any idea at all? Can he teach anything and everything?"
"Does he even know what kind of monster he's created?"
In the past, the most troublesome was that kid with the surname Zhuang.
Now, Zhuang is gone, and just ten years later, his disciple has taken over.
"He's still causing trouble even after he's gone... He never lets anyone rest..."
The old man rubbed his forehead and turned to look out the window.
Outside, the world remained dark, the Heaven-Sundering Blood Rite Formation still collapsing, the annihilation force still consuming everything.
The world was cold, like the nine netherworlds.
The old man was silent, his gaze heavy, and he murmured in disbelief:
"This isn't just 'taking over'..."
"This overwhelming killing karma... How many will die this time..."
"Zhuang never dared to kill like this..."
...
Xun Laoshi also stared out the window, his shock and bewilderment turning into a growing sense of gravity.
The Heaven-Sundering Blood Rite Formation was shrouded in darkness.
One life after another was erased within the formation, and the number was increasing.
These lives included not only cultivators from various Demon Path sects, but also countless flesh demons, as well as numerous blood slaves, corpse slaves, pleasure slaves, and spirit slaves of the Demon Path.
Now, all these beings, tainted by the terrifying dissolution force of the Yin-Yang Inversion, were completely eradicated.
Whether they were at the Qi Condensation, Zhu Ji, or Jin Dan stages, they all died.
Even if they were from the Demon Path, the number of deaths was enormous.
It was truly unimaginable.
This staggering number made Xun Laoshi's scalp tingle.
Taking lives is not a simple matter; it carries karmic retribution and accumulates a concentrated aura of death.
The more one kills, the heavier the karmic burden becomes.
The more intense the malignant aura in one's destiny.
If Mo Hua is indeed responsible for this dissolution, the amount of "killing karma" he has accumulated is truly "heavenly."
The intensity and ferocity of the murderous aura surrounding him were beyond Xun Laoshi's imagination, fearing it might be as profound as the abyss and as boundless as the ocean.
This is far from a good thing.
Worse still, Mo Hua is only in his mid-twenties, yet he carries this heavenly and sea-like killing karma...
Xun Laoshi's brows furrowed, his heart anxious, and his chest felt heavy as if a weight was pressing down on it.
But once the dissolution began, the killing karma could not be stopped by anyone's will.
Mo Hua's actions were truly "destroying the evidence", "dismantling the formation and erasing the bodies." The dissolution force he triggered was so powerful that almost all living beings within the Heaven-Sundering Blood Rite Formation were doomed to die.
The world was filled with annihilation, and life was erased.
Soul after soul returned to the nine netherworlds.
The entire world was stained with a deadly aura, and almost everyone could feel a bone-chilling cold.
Each soul that perished added to Mo Hua's accumulation of "killing karma" and intensified the malignant energy surrounding him.
After an unknown amount of time, dark clouds gathered in the sky, and thunder rumbled.
Xun Laoshi's face changed, and other Heaven-Opening cultivators looked up, their faces filled with fear.
A Tao aura, terrifying to all cultivators, including Heaven-Opening cultivators, spread through the air.
A vivid red lightning bolt descended from the sky, instantly erasing four lives.
These four lives were Yu Hua!
This red light was a Tao lightning strike!
The collapse of the Heaven-Sundering Blood Rite Formation, with its terrifying annihilation force, had forced these four Yu Hua to their deaths.
This means that Mo Hua's "heavenly killing karma" had been marked with four of the most significant and darkest entries:
He dismantled the formation, forcing the deaths of four Yu Hua!
(End of Chapter)
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