Immortality Through Array Formations Chapter 2275 Chapter 1051: Massacre

Within the grand hall, white bones and discarded human skins formed towering piles on the floor, as blood coursed like rivers.

Around seventy or eighty figures donned eerie robes and displayed grotesque features—these Evil Formation Masters toiled ceaselessly.

Some sketched Formation Diagrams, others manipulated Formation Pivots, a few mended Formation Patterns, hastening to complete the Formations, while specialists blended Blood Ink and refined bone and flesh into formation materials... and more.

Like industrious 'worker ants' in a nest, these Evil Formation Masters adeptly shared tasks and worked in unison, upholding the Large Formation's function and steadily propelling the Evil Path Great Formation's advancement... Mo Hua watched, filled with hidden dread.

Such a vast Evil Path Great Formation demanded hordes of Evil Formation Masters for building and upkeep, hinting at its immense scale. What's more, training Formation Masters proved exceptionally tough.

The Evil Formation Masters in view boasted proficient techniques and vast experience, clearly experts in the Dao of Formations.

Assembling and raising so many top-tier Evil Formation Masters in secret wasn't a quick feat.

It's easy to picture the years invested, the immense labor, the profound dedication required.

Besides, nurturing Evil Formation Masters demanded generating massive 'carnage.'

Only vast slaughter yielded sufficient human blood, flesh, bones, skins, and hair for honing Evil Formations.

Not forgetting the colossal heaps of corpses and bones fueling the Large Formation at hand.

This Mr. Tu nursed grand designs, boundless aspirations, and unleashed tremendous carnage.

Mo Hua's eyes turned icy, though he refrained from hasty moves, pondering another issue instead:

'These Evil Formation Masters I see are all Second Grade—where might the Third Grade ones be?'

A Dark Formation of this scale surely couldn't do without Third Grade Formation Masters.

Naturally, Fourth Grade seemed improbable.

After all, this was the Third-Grade Yanluo Mountain State, so the Evil Path Great Formation's rank topped out at Third Grade. A single Fourth Grade Evil Formation Master like Mr. Tu ought to suffice.

In truth, Third Grade Evil Formation Masters were probably scarce too.

Within a Third-Grade State Boundary, erecting a Third Grade Grand Array demanded enormous expense.

Especially for an Evil Formation—crafting a 'pure Third Grade' Evil Path Great Formation near Qianxue, right amid sects and noble families, would require massacring countless Golden Core

cultivators, utterly unfeasible.

Golden Core advancements are arduous, Golden Core cultivators sparse, and most wield great power, hard to slay.

By comparison, Foundation Building cultivators abound, and Qi Refining ones number like cattle hairs.

Thus, Mo Hua surmised the present Evil Path Great Formation held only partial Third Grade core elements.

Beyond that, its structure largely incorporated Second Grade and even First Grade Formation Patterns and Formation Pivots.

This embodied the 'pattern downgrading compatibility' principle Elder Zheng had described.

Despite differences between righteous and evil Formations, core tenets overlapped.

Employing 'pattern downgrading compatibility' to 'cut costs and boost efficiency,' easing the Large Formation's entry barriers and easing its construction, hastening completion.

This marked the 'practical' method of manifesting a conceptual Formation Diagram into reality.

Not even Evil Path Large Formations escaped this logic.

Mr. Tu truly stood as a profoundly versed chief Evil Path Formation Master.

A twinge of unease stirred in Mo Hua's heart.

'Mr. Tu, plus those Third Grade Evil Formation Masters...'

Mo Hua's mind sharpened with caution, prompting him to warily scan the Formation Core Hall via stone-wall passages.

Blood-red Evil Spirits patrolled everywhere.

Evil power from the Evil Path Formation Pivot surged through the passage, laced with alerts every three paces and Killing Formations primed every five.

To outsiders, it screamed 'forbidden zone.'

Yet to Mo Hua, it felt like 'home in water.'

He glided like a 'specter,' traceless and soundless, probing the hall's surroundings, environment, and formation pivot setup within the Evil Path Formation Pivot's core.

The whole Formation Core Hall sprawled hugely, its layout intricate.

Mo Hua roamed extensively yet spotted no sign of 'Mr. Tu.'

Still, he uncovered a more secluded Formation Pivot Chamber.

Inside lurked a Third Grade Evil Formation, guarded by four Evil Formation Masters radiating thicker evil qi, masked in white bones, their Divine Senses linking to formation pivots, directing evil power flows in the Evil Path Great Formation.

Before them sat several white bone cups.

The cups brimmed with blood water.

A malformed, apparently living black-red eyeball spun endlessly in the blood water.

These four Evil Formation Masters concentrated utterly on managing formation pivots.

Yet this management strained them fiercely, draining vast Divine Sense; soon their faces paled, eyes hollowed, utterly spent.

Then, one weary Third Grade Evil Formation Master shed his white bone mask, baring a ghastly, sinister visage.

He approached the table, grasped the eyeball-filled cup, and downed the blood wine in a single swallow.

Blood light flashed across his face, his pallor swiftly brightening, Divine Sense surging back instantly.

Still, the frenzy in his gaze intensified, laced with wild thrill and zeal.

Resuming his white bone mask, this Evil Formation Master recommitted fully to formation pivot communion, sustaining the Large Formation...

Mo Hua beheld this in stunned silence.

Evil Formation Masters indeed trod deviant paths, every act steeped in wickedness.

He pondered what sort of eyeball it was and the blood wine's flavor... Mo Hua observed the quartet briefly, gauged their threat, and deemed them too risky for now.

Those Second Grade Evil Formation Masters in the main hall, however...

Mo Hua's eyes flickered, a scheme crystallizing within.

Silently and unseen, he slipped back through the formation core passage to the cave.