Immortality Through Array Formations Chapter 2071 Chapter 986: Third Grade - Part 3

One among them was even blind, leaving Mo Hua seething with rage.

What's more, every one of these Monster Beasts moves with agility and surprising speed.

Mo Hua wasted half a day without landing a single sword strike.

Beyond that, by angering so many Monster Beasts, he sparked a major disturbance.

Numerous Monster Beasts clashed with one another in their rush to consume him.

Yet Mo Hua's footwork proved so swift that none could touch him, so they lashed out at their own kind in furious combat.

With their dim wits and fierce predatory drives, Monster Beasts lose all control once blood spills in their brawls, ripping into each other savagely.

The little woodland plunged into pandemonium right away.

Monster Qi churned wildly, howls reverberated through the peaks, and the uproar echoed widely.

Xun Ziyou, perched at the sect entrance, caught the intermittent roars of beasts rising and falling.

Xun Ziyou drank his tea with composure at first, not overly worried.

This was Refining Demon Mountain, a haven for Monster Beasts where disciples hunted them; distant beast cries from the woods were commonplace.

Xun Ziyou had grown used to it and barely noticed, though soon his pulse quickened unexpectedly.

He grasped that things felt off from the norm today.

Mo Hua was up on the mountain this day!

Any odd event carries a cause behind it.

Mo Hua served as that very cause.

Trouble tends to follow him no matter where he ventures.

As Mo Hua's protector, Xun Ziyou had dealt with plenty of such situations before.

The woods fell into an unnatural quiet amid the ongoing beastly cries.

Xun Ziyou's mind raced now, spoiling the fine tea's taste.

Though the stir appeared minor, anything tied to Mo Hua rarely proves straightforward.

Xun Ziyou wavered for quite some time before placing his cup aside. "I can't ignore this; better check it out."

He lost all interest in the tea.

He had to investigate, and even if nothing was amiss, confirming it would ease his worries.

Thus, Xun Ziyou adjusted his robes and rose, his form blurring into sword light as he leaped onto the treetops, racing straight toward Refining Demon Mountain.

En route, he masked his presence and triggered a concealed Spiritual Artifact, slipping silently through the trees to creep up on the hill where the Monster Beasts raged.

As he drew close to the slope, a horde of wolves, bugs, tigers, and leopards appeared, clustered thickly and locked in heated fights, with blood spilling all over.

Xun Ziyou's eyes focused intently, scanning the area until he spotted Mo Hua on a tall tree nearby.

Right then, Mo Hua balanced on a thick branch, observing the scene below.

The Monster Beasts down there tore into one another with brutal force, while he seemed relaxed high up.

Xun Ziyou exhaled in relief, though words failed him somewhat.

He felt sure this mayhem stemmed straight from Mo Hua's actions.

With the Monster Beasts now bloodied and worn from their clashes, he simply watched the fray from afar in ease.

Xun Ziyou shook his head.

But having arrived, he couldn't simply depart.

Xun Ziyou stayed silent and unseen, keeping watch from nearby for the moment.

After some thought, he decided the spot felt too exposed, perhaps noticeable to Mo Hua, so he pulled back quietly to a safer range.

Meanwhile, from his perch on the branch, Mo Hua gazed down at the frenzied Monster Beasts, a sense of frustration washing over him.

He hadn't intended to unleash such disorder, but these creatures simply refused to play along.

Had just one Monster Beast faced him with big eyes staring back submissively, he could have swung his sword already, avoiding all this chaos.

"I'll wait for things to shift, then go after a wounded Monster Beast, trap it in a Formation, and make it lock eyes with me..."

Mo Hua mulled it over briefly, seeing no better option.

So he remained atop the tree, silently eyeing the Monster Beasts as they ripped apart their foes, biding time until the frenzy eased so he could pick off the survivors.

However, before the storm could subside, a far mightier wave of Monster Qi erupted from the distance.

Mo Hua's face changed.

Even Xun Ziyou, watching from afar, narrowed his eyes.

"A Third Grade... Monster Beast?"

Before either could dwell on it, black sand whipped up in a fierce vortex seconds later, hurling rocks and grit while a thick bloody odor permeated everything.

The nearby earth and plants shrank back entirely.

Through the dark haze, a massive shadow loomed vaguely, rivaling a tiny hill in size.

It bore jagged fangs and an elongated muzzle, eyes glowing like lamps with pupils wide as gongs, hide as dark and hard as steel, spiked with coarse, needle-sharp bristles.

Blood Qi flowed like mighty streams.

Tremendous demonic force pulsed inside it.

This was unmistakably a Third Grade Golden Core Realm Black Pig Monster!

Such a Third Grade Black Pig Monster ranked near the top of strength across the nearby ridges of Refining Demon Mountain.

In particular, this Pig Monster with its thick bloodline, tough hide and muscle, frame like a mini peak, could swallow almost any mid- or late-Second Grade Monster Beast whole.

As dark Qi billowed, the Third Grade Black Pig Monster's arrival hushed the once-tumultuous woods for a beat.

The Second Grade Monster Beasts that had been slaughtering each other now quivered in terror, gripped by primal dread, scattering in panic.

Those too sluggish got smashed beneath the huge Pig Monster's tread or snapped in two by its jaws.

A Second Grade Bear Demon, banking on its sturdy build, tried to stand its ground but ended up skewered through the torso by the Third Grade Pig Monster's razor tusks, hurled down hard.

Then a single tusk slash gutted the Bear Demon on the spot.

Any other Monster Beasts that couldn't flee met the Black Pig Monster's grasp one by one, their bones shattered and bodies mangled into pulp.

The woods, buzzing with disorder moments before, went deathly still in no time.

The scattered Monster Beasts mostly lay as carcasses now.

Only the crunch of the Pig Monster munching bones and the heavy, blood-scented huffs echoed eerily through the trees.

Mo Hua, high in the branches, held his breath tight.

This marked his closest encounter yet with a Third Grade Golden Core Realm Monster Beast, and one so gigantic; merely looking at it pressed down with crushing weight, let alone the surging demonic aura, the sharp reek of Blood Qi, and the raw murderous urge...

A chill crept up Mo Hua's spine.

"What now?"

"Flee?"

After weighing his options, Mo Hua saw no alternative, loath to risk battling this colossal Third Grade Pig Monster.

Far too perilous.

Mo Hua steeled himself and rose gradually.

But the instant he stirred, the Black Pig Monster below halted its feast, crimson glints flashing in its gaze.

Mo Hua went rigid, danger prickling at once.

"Trouble!"

He vaulted away from the tree without delay.

The next heartbeat, the trunk under him cleaved apart.

The Black Pig Monster had barely tapped it, yet its demonic might sundered the tree straight down, sending splinters flying as it toppled.

This Third Grade Pig Monster stayed hyper-alert, its nose keen for human smells.

Its hunger for human meat burned fiercely.

Spotting Mo Hua's leap, the Black Pig Monster bellowed in fury, its hulking form barreling ahead like a landslide.

Trees in its way crumpled like weeds, snapping sequentially.

Mo Hua clenched his jaw, pushing his movement technique to its limit as he dashed off into the distance.

The Black Pig Monster, eyes blazing like bronze bells with malice, whipped up howling gales and swirling black qi, doggedly chasing after Mo Hua...