The Quest for Immortality Chapter 2302: Killing Formation Master (2)

The Desolate Heaven Blood Sacrifice Formation stands as a Quasi-Third Grade Grand Array, too timid to invade the Fifth Grade Qian Learning State Boundary.

Nevertheless, encircling Qianxue, virtually every region below Third Grade is now draped in a bloody crimson, progressively devoured by the Desolate Heaven Blood Sacrifice Formation.

The sky's crimson shade intensifies relentlessly.

Within this bloody tint, horrifying malevolent intents stealthily awaken.

Beneath the onslaught of these malevolent intents and the crimson veil, fierce clashes between orthodox and demonic cultivators ignite instantly across state borders.

Scattered cultivators and common practitioners keep falling to Demon Path foes, subsequently turned into Walking Corpses or Iron Corpses by Yin Corpse Valley's corpse refiners.

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

Beast cultivators from Ten Thousand Demon Mountain start devouring human meat, strewing mutilated limbs all over.

The Blood Refining Sect’s practitioners launch into blood-draining frenzies, morphing victims into 'blood slaves.'

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All sorts of savage, blood-lusting atrocities proliferate.

In turn, ever greater numbers of Demon Path cultivators fall to the blades of Qianxue noble clans, sects, and Taoist Court experts.

On raw combat power, the righteous powers of Qian Learning State Boundary vastly outmatch the demonic ones.

Especially with multiple Heaven Void Ancestors and Feathered Immortals dwelling inside the Fifth Grade Qian Learning State Boundary.

Were it not for the Evil Path Great Formation's expansion, bound by Heavenly Dao in Second and Third Grade territories, those awe-inspiring powerhouses could deploy their Heaven Void Dharma Phases to annihilate the Evil God’s followers and hordes of demon cultivators in a flash.

Yet in the present scenario, their utmost might remains shackled.

Foundation Establishment and Golden Core cultivators form the backbone of this Desolate Heaven Blood Sacrifice carnage.

Hence, the conflict stays fiercely deadlocked.

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

Beyond the Blood Sacrifice Array, righteous troops hold the advantage, and as clashes escalate, defenses across state borders contract sharply, with most rogue cultivators fleeing to Immortal Cities to dodge the demon cultivators' massacres.

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

Still, inside the Blood Sacrifice Array, righteous cultivators fare no better against their demonic counterparts.

Though they might briefly dominate and breach the array to eliminate some demons, they must swiftly withdraw.

For a current of fresh blood pulses through the Blood Sacrifice Array.

In the earth's veins, myriad flesh-eating demon beasts breed, alongside hordes of hidden malign spirits. Should one be overrun by flesh-devourers or tainted by those spectral evils, even peak Golden Core masters risk corruption and death.

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

The battlefield settles into a savage, precarious equilibrium.

This 'balance' benefits neither faction.

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

To Mr. Tu and his allies, such 'balance' spells mere procrastination, postponing the Divine Lord’s arrival and inviting the Divine Lord’s wrath.

Prolongation breeds uncertainty.

But the array was rushed into activation, leaving them undermanned.

Without vast killings, supplies like human skins, blood, and bones for the wicked formation dwindle.

Even Mr. Tu lacks a superior method to hasten the Blood Sacrifice Formation's advance.

In this bind, Gu Changhuai springs into motion.

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

Over a dozen Taoist Court Golden Core Stewards assemble.

Gu Changhuai unfurls a map across the ground, marked with array patterns and crimson-inked red points:

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

"Drawing from Yanluo Mountain's formation pattern, Elder Master Xun sketched a basic layout of the other Blood Sacrifice Arrays' diagrams, highlighting the formation pivots' positions with red dots."

"The formation pivot dictates the array's advancement."

"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 once more:

"Any Evil Formation Masters we spot—no talk needed, leave none alive, slaughter them all!"

He vividly recalled Mo Hua's instructions to him:

Once out there, eliminate every Evil Formation Master in sight. The more Evil Formation Masters that fall, the safer he becomes.

Unable to help Mo Hua directly with the Blood Sacrifice Array, he could only focus on exterminating every Evil Formation Master possible.

This act served both Mo Hua and Yu Er.

It was the one thing within his power to achieve.

With Gu Changhuai's words concluded, the other dozen Golden Core Stewards nodded in agreement.

Among them stood Xia Canonical Official, tied deeply to Mo Hua, and Gushan City's Records Officer Fan Jin, who had gained much from Mo Hua as well.

The Desolate Heaven Blood Sacrifice's vast operations spared no place, and Solitary Mountain City was no outlier.

Fan Jin had been duly summoned to battle the demonic horde.

For him, this venture brought equal measures of peril and promise.

From lowly roots, he hungered for ascent, shunning neither danger nor toil—only the absence of openings.

Mo Hua had already bestowed that opening upon him, forging his reputation in the eyes of Taoist Court Master Xia.

If he conquered the threats this time, braved the ordeals, fought with valor, and showcased his might amid the Blood Sacrifice's turmoil, future rises in rank would inevitably follow.