Chapter 2068: Evil Formation Activation, Dark Undercurrents Surge!
Chapter 2068: Chapter 2068: Evil Formation Activation, Dark Undercurrents Surge!
Within the blood veil, a dark red aura drifted through the air, and every wisp was consumed into the body or seemed to flow across the surface.
It would slowly devour the spiritual energy within!
The disciples and elders of the Heavenly Seal Sect realized this in horror, channeling their full spiritual energy to form barriers around themselves.
But the dark red air currents seemed unaffected by these barriers, biting through them and continuing to consume the spiritual energy from each person’s body!
"The situation is dire..."
Qin Zhao said in a deep voice, "If we don’t break the formation, death is only a matter of time..."
Jiang Yi quickly arrived, his expression extremely grave as he looked at the blood veil.
"Your Highness, our Guardians outside haven’t found any trace of evil cultivators or the existence of the array foundation."
Upon hearing this, everyone’s eyes turned stern.
Not even the Guardians of the Divine Country found even the slightest trace?
How did the opponent activate the formation?
Even if those present weren’t array masters, they understood that without an array foundation, a formation could not be established.
But there was only one possibility...
The opponent also possessed the Creation Array Spirit Body, such an extraordinary condition.
Of course, only Netherworld King, Hong Ying, and Xu Yeming knew... Fang Qiong possessed this form, making a formation with his body without needing a foundation.
At that time, with a wave of the hand, a formation could be cast...
"It seems we can only forcibly break the formation." Jiang Yi said coldly.
"Forcibly break the formation?" The evil cultivator in the black robe let out a strange laugh, revealing his scarlet eyes. "Worthy of being Commander Jiang, leader of the forbidden Guardians of Banan Divine Kingdom! Such majesty! I would like to see if the Guardian of Banan Divine Kingdom is just a paper tiger."
"Arrogant!" Jiang Yi roared, a blood-red long knife slashing out with a shocking sword qi, cutting toward the barrier.
This strike by Jiang Yi was with full strength, exploding with the cultivation level of Beginner Stage in Formless Realm!
The sword qi landed on the blood veil, but only caused a ripple, which was quickly devoured completely.
Jiang Yi’s face turned gloomy: "This barrier... is absorbing the power of our attacks."
"Not even a strong one from Formless Realm can break the formation?" Ba Xiyue’s face gradually darkened.
"Does Senior Han have a solution?"
At this time, Qin Zhao looked toward Han Shouyi.
Han Shouyi frowned slightly and said: "The opponent’s evil formation is at a high level... and presumably has absorbed the blood essence and souls from more than one sect... Even handling such a level of formation with the Heavenly Master’s Righteous Scripture requires locating its core."
Ba Xiyue quickly calmed down and looked at the sect leader of the Heavenly Seal Sect: "Does the sect have a secret passage?"
The sect leader’s face looked as if it had lost life: "Yes... but just now during the shock, the entrance to the secret passage was sealed by the blood lines."
At this moment, the disciples on the square were panicking. Some of the younger disciples tried to rush toward the edges of the sect, but upon touching the blood veil, they fell to the ground with unimaginable screams, their bodies shriveling up at a visible speed.
"Don’t touch the barrier!" Ning Chenxin shouted, spreading righteousness to protect the nearest batch of disciples.
Lu Mingyuan and Han Shouyi attacked simultaneously, the green Dao patterns and sword qi crashing into the same point of the barrier, yet they could only cause the blood veil to ripple, unable to break through.
"It’s useless." The black-robed leader outside the barrier said casually, "This formation is called the Blood Prison Soul Refining Array, requiring sacrifices from six sects’ living beings... That’s right, this formation is still incomplete. This Heavenly Seal Sect is the final point.
Unless you can find the eye of the array and destroy it from within, otherwise... within three days, the blood essence and souls of everyone inside the formation will become nourishment for the Blood Prison Soul Refining Array."
He raised his bone staff and lightly tapped it.
Inside the barrier, the ground’s blood lines suddenly brightened, dozens of Heavenly Seal Sect disciples screamed, their bodies uncontrollably floating up, and dark red blood threads were drawn from their Seven Apertures and merged into the blood lines.
On seeing this.
"You scoundrel!" Netherworld King drew his sword, his sword qi cutting through the blood threads, but piercing through—those blood threads were ethereal and immune to physical attacks.
The Red Tassel Emperor’s Will erupted, attempting to suppress it, however, the blood threads only slowed slightly, still extracting.
"The lure of blood essence and souls, ordinary means can’t sever it." Han Shouyi said in a deep voice, "We must find the eye of the array quickly!"
All formations have an eye of the array.
The array foundation is the base of the formation, while the eye of the array is the absolute core.
"It’s just, the Guardians outside have not found any trace of formation." Commander of Mystic Armor frowned.
That indicates.
Outside the Heavenly Seal Sect, there is no presence of an array eye or foundation.
Therefore, it could only be within the Heavenly Seal Sect.
"Six-pointed star..." At this time, Netherworld King slightly lowered his brows, pondering, "With the position of a six-pointed star to conduct sacrifices, finally forming the formation... Since this six-pointed star is the emblem of the Holy Sect, there naturally won’t be any deviation."
Upon hearing this.
Everyone was startled!
Xu Yeming suddenly said: "Since it’s a sacrifice with six sects, the Heavenly Seal Sect being the final angle, it’s quite possible the eye of the array is right at—"
Before he finished speaking, everyone’s gaze collectively turned to the center of the square.
There, it was the most concentrated area of blood lines, and also the point where all blood threads converged.
The sect leader of the Heavenly Seal Sect trembled and said, "That... that is beneath this sect’s Ancestor Hall..."
"Go!" Ba Xiyue decisively commanded.
Yet, just as everyone was about to move, laughter from the evil cultivator in the black robe outside the barrier drifted in: "A word of advice, at the eye of the array, there’s a specially prepared gift from the Holy Sect, wishing everyone... a pleasant time."
As his words dropped, the black robe figure gradually faded, disappearing into the misty horizon.
Inside the Blood Prison Soul Refining Array, the blood light shone even more intensely.
Ning Chenxin looked at the fading evil cultivator outside the barrier, furrowing his brows slightly.
This entire situation... although arduous and tragic... had been progressing a bit too smoothly.
The evil cultivator deliberately exposed the six-pointed star pattern, leading them here, and coincidentally activating the grand formation as they investigated.
It seemed like a trap long set, waiting for them all to jump in.
He looked at Netherworld King, they exchanged a glance.
Clearly, the master brother had also realized this layer.
But now, there was no retreat.
"Move, down we go!" Ba Xiyue ordered.
Moon Shadow Guards cleared the way, everyone followed. The remaining disciples of the Heavenly Seal Sect on the square formed an array to protect themselves under the elders’ organization, barely resisting the extraction of the blood threads with Ning Chenxin’s righteousness.
Passing through the grand hall, at the back was an ancient stone-built pavilion, with the plaque inscribed with "Ancestor Hall."
At this moment, the doors of the Ancestor Hall were wide open, without any light inside, only blood lines extending out from the entrance, resembling tendrils of some organism.
Jiang Yi stepped in first, the blood-colored sword light illuminating the hall inside.
Then, everyone was stunned.
Inside the Ancestor Hall, there were no tablets worshipping past Ancestral Masters.
Only a massive altar built from white bones.
Above the altar, a slowly pulsating dark red heart floated.
Each pulse caused the entire Blood Prison Soul Refining Array to be set in motion.
And around the altar, twelve skeletons draped in tattered black robes, with scarlet flames jumping in their eye sockets, slowly turned their heads.
Their bones were inscribed with bizarre runes, holding decaying weapons.
Their aura—were all at the Formless Realm.