Immortality Through Array Formations Chapter 2302 - 1059: Killing Formation Master (2)

The Desolate Heaven Blood Sacrifice Formation ranks as a Quasi-Third Grade Grand Array, steering clear of the Fifth grade Qian Learning State Boundary.

Around Qianxue, territories below Third Grade are nearly entirely wrapped in a crimson glow, gradually consumed by the Desolate Heaven Blood Sacrifice Formation.

The sky's crimson shade intensifies relentlessly.

Within this blood-red veil, sinister evil thoughts begin to stir stealthily.

Beneath the onslaught of these evil thoughts and the crimson shroud, fierce clashes between righteous and demonic cultivators ignite instantly across state borders.

Loose cultivators and regular ones fall endlessly to Demon Path hands, then get forged into Walking Corpses or Iron Corpses by Yin Corpse Valley's corpse refiners.

Demon Sword Sect members butcher cultivators to feed their demon swords.

Ten Thousand Demon Mountain's monster cultivators start devouring human flesh, strewing mutilated limbs all over.

Blood Refining Sect cultivators launch into blood-draining frenzies, turning victims into 'blood slaves.'

At the same time, Hehuan Sect seizes young boys and girls, indulging in frenzied couplings amid the forests, employing Dual Cultivation Techniques to suck them dry into withered shells.

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All sorts of savage, blood-lusting atrocities proliferate.

In turn, ever more Demon Path cultivators perish under strikes from Qianxue's noble families, sects, and Taoist Court forces.

On raw power, Qian Learning State Boundary's righteous side vastly outmatches the demon cultivators.

Not forgetting the handful of Heaven Void Ancestors and Feathered Immortals dwelling inside the Fifth grade Qian Learning State Boundary.

Were it not for the Heavenly Dao's constraints on the Evil Path Great Formation in Second and Third Grade boundaries, these awe-inspiring powerhouses could unleash Heaven Void Dharma Phases to wipe out the Evil God’s followers and hordes of demon cultivators in a flash.

Yet in the present chaos, their might remains shackled.

Foundation Establishment and Golden Core cultivators bear the brunt of this Desolate Heaven Blood Sacrifice carnage.

Hence, the battlefield stays locked in deadlock.

Righteous and demonic sides wage unyielding fights over territory along the Blood Sacrifice Array's edge.

Beyond the Blood Sacrifice Array, righteous powers dominate, and as combat escalates, defenses across state borders contract sharply. Most loose cultivators flock to Immortal Cities for refuge from the demon slaughters.

Demon cultivators struggle more to unleash vast killings, assault cities, or claim territories.

Still, inside the Blood Sacrifice Array, righteous cultivators can't hold against demon ones.

Even if they seize a brief edge, breach the array, and cut down some demons, they must swiftly pull back.

For a fresh blood vein pulses through the Blood Sacrifice Array.

In those earth veins, hordes of flesh-rending demon beasts breed, while countless invisible evil spirits prowl. Should one succumb to the demon beasts' onslaught or the spirits' corruption, even peak Golden Core experts risk falling into depravity and death.

Due to these factors, the Desolate Heaven Blood Sacrifice Formation erects an impregnable wall.

The deadlock teeters on a knife's edge of savagery.

This 'balance' benefits neither faction.

The longer the Desolate Heaven Blood Sacrifice Formation persists, the stronger it swells—killing intent thickens, evil Qi weighs heavier, destruction mounts, shaming Qian Learning's righteous powers and defying Taoist Court authority.

To Mr. Tu and his ilk, such 'balance' spells mere stalling, postponing the Divine Lord’s arrival and risking His ire.

Prolonging also breeds variables.

But the array's rushed activation leaves them undermanned.

Lacking mass killings, vital formation fuels like human skin, blood, and bones run low.

Even Mr. Tu lacks a superior plan to hasten the Blood Sacrifice Formation.

In this bind, Gu Changhuai makes his move.

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Upstream along Mistwater River, beyond the Blood Sacrifice Array, at a hidden mountain peak.

Over a dozen Taoist Court Golden Core Stewards assemble.

Gu Changhuai unfurls a map across the ground, marked with formation paths and red dots in vermilion ink:

'I went to Taixu Gate, met Elder Master Xun, and presented him with the Formation Diagram of Yanluo Mountain that Mo Hua sent.'

"Drawing from the formation pattern of Yanluo Mountain, Elder Master Xun sketched a preliminary diagram of the other Blood Sacrifice Arrays and pinpointed the formation pivots with red dots."

"The formation pivot governs the array's operation."

"In the same way, every formation pivot location will have an Evil Formation Master guarding it."

"Our mission: trace the formation diagram, infiltrate the array, locate the formation pivot points, and wipe out the Evil Formation Masters..."

Gu Changhuai's eyes gleamed with icy resolve as he emphasized:

"Any Evil Formation Masters we spot—no mercy, no survivors, slaughter them all!"

He still vividly recalled Mo Hua's instructions to him:

Once outside, eliminate every Evil Formation Master in sight. The more of them that perish, the greater his own safety.

He couldn't directly help Mo Hua with the Blood Sacrifice Array, so slaying all the Evil Formation Masters was his utmost effort.

This act served both Mo Hua and Yu Er.

It remained the only contribution he could make.

As Gu Changhuai wrapped up his words, the dozen other Golden Core Stewards nodded in agreement.

Among them were Xia Canonical Official, who shared strong ties with Mo Hua, and Gushan City’s Records Officer Fan Jin, who had profited from Mo Hua as well.

The vast Desolate Heaven Blood Sacrifice operation engulfed numerous matters, and Solitary Mountain City was no outlier.

Fan Jin had naturally been summoned to combat the demonic horde.

For him, it meant danger intertwined with potential gain.

Born without noble blood, he hungered for ascent, shunning neither peril nor toil—merely the absence of chances.

And Mo Hua had already bestowed that chance upon him, earning him renown before Taoist Court Master Xia.

If he conquered the perils this time, braved the ordeals, fought valiantly, and showcased his might amid the Blood Sacrifice turmoil, promotions would surely follow in due course.