Chapter 1067: Ambition
Painting the Blood Sacrifice Formation, summoning the resurrection of an evil god.
Such a request—any respectable formation master would never agree to it.
Mo Hua also thought about "putting on an act" to refuse once more, but seeing Mr. Tu's cold, ruthless eyes clearly lacking patience, Mo Hua no longer tried to avoid it and obediently nodded.
Mr. Tu waved his sleeve; the blood-colored formation pattern appeared, dissolving the flesh-and-blood prison. He said, "Follow me," and then walked ahead.
Mo Hua followed step by step behind Mr. Tu.
The two of them walked deeper into the flesh-and-blood labyrinth.
Along the way, the flesh was grotesque, white bones were everywhere, the labyrinth overlapped, and the atmosphere was oppressive and suffocating.
Although Mo Hua was already extremely familiar with this place, he still seriously acted unfamiliar, nervous, and timid.
At the same time, in his heart, he silently memorized Mr. Tu's route.
Mr. Tu was heavy-hearted and truly did not realize that this secret and solemn labyrinth had already been thoroughly explored by Mo Hua.
After walking for an unknown length of time, the atmosphere gradually changed, and the surroundings became unfamiliar.
The blood mist thickened, the sense of oppression grew stronger.
Mo Hua could even feel a strange heartbeat of evil energy hovering between life and death, tugging at his pulse, causing his qi and blood to stagnate and his chest to suffocate.
After another moment, a large white-bone gate appeared ahead.
Passing through the gate, a strong aura of an evil god hit him face-on.
A grand, blood-peculiar formation structure towered before Mo Hua.
His pupils contracted, and he held his breath.
After so many twists and turns, he had finally, with Mr. Tu, arrived at the deepest part of this flesh-and-blood labyrinth.
And finally saw the formation eye of the Arhatian Blood Sacrifice Great Formation, and its most core central hub.
His previous intuition was correct.
There really was a heartbeat.
Because the core formation eye of the Arhatian Blood Sacrifice Great Formation is a huge "heart" soaked in the blood of the earth veins, like a great mountain.
The fresh blood from the earth veins flows into the heart, injecting it with vitality.
The operation of the blood sacrifice formation, the evil power condensed by the formation, uses this heart as the formation eye, merging with the fresh blood, and with the heartbeat of the heart, surges back into the earth veins, contaminating the veins into a filthy river of blood.
Using the giant heart as the formation eye, the fresh blood and evil power merge into one.
Then the fresh blood and evil power pollute the earth veins, turning the vast endless earth veins into the blood vessels of the blood sacrifice heart.
The evil power flows through these blood vessels, gradually spreading and corrupting the entire Qianduo land.
"This is the formation eye of the Arhatian Blood Sacrifice Great Formation..."
Mo Hua was momentarily stunned and lost in thought, then raised his head to look at the even grander skeletal structure above the heart.
The skeleton blocked the sky, towering over the earth veins, carved with dense blood-sacrifice formation patterns, magnificent beyond words.
This was the central hub of the Arhatian Blood Sacrifice Great Formation.
Using the heart as the formation eye, and the spine bones as the central hub.
This heart and skeleton responded to each other, their auras united as one, as if they came from the same ancient giant beast.
"Mr. Tu… did he kill a huge demon beast, then peel open its heart as the formation eye, and refine its bones as the central hub, to construct the Arhatian Blood Sacrifice Great Formation?"
Mo Hua's emotions surged, and at the same time, he couldn't help but feel confused.
Is this really a demon beast?
Can a demon beast be this huge?
If not a demon beast, then what kind of beast could it be?
Mo Hua couldn't help but ask Mr. Tu, "Mr. Tu, this is…"
Mr. Tu instinctively wanted to speak, but stopped himself before the words escaped.
"Can't answer this brat…"
Mr. Tu thought silently, then remained cold and silent.
Mo Hua felt quite regretful, then turned his gaze again to the endless river of blood, the fresh red heart, and the magnificent skeletal central hub above it. The shock in his heart was still hard to calm.
This was something he had never seen before. Even with his knowledge of formations, he had never imagined such a magnificent formation setup.
Formations are vast and profound.
Their profundity lies in subtle details.
Their grandeur is majestic and spectacular.
He wasn't unfamiliar with even more grand formations.
The fifth-grade Lun Dao Great Formation on Dao Mountain was even more spectacular.
But using such a huge heart as the formation eye, and such massive bones as the formation medium to construct the central hub—both blending perfectly like a massive demon creature—not only was the conception extraordinary, but it was truly built and was right here before his eyes.
Mo Hua sighed lightly, his chest filled with amazement, and truly marveled at how vast the cultivation world was, and how limitless formations could be.
Mr. Tu handed Mo Hua a piece of parchment of unknown material, with a magnificent and wild formation central hub schematic.
"I've taught you the blood sacrifice central hub."
"Now you follow this central hub diagram, and draw the central hub I taught you, exactly as it is… on this… skeleton…"
Mo Hua glanced at the central hub schematic.
Many third-grade central hubs were crossed out and replaced with second-grade central hubs, obviously Mr. Tu's temporary modification for Mo Hua, so that he could help complete the construction of the blood sacrifice ritual formation.
Although downgrading the grade and pattern would reduce the blood sacrifice formation's power, Mr. Tu was clearly tied up with other matters and couldn't care about that now.
"Alright."
Mo Hua nodded, preparing to start drawing the formation, but Mr. Tu stopped him.
Mr. Tu said, "It's not drawn the way you think."
Mo Hua didn't understand.
Mr. Tu seemed reluctant to teach Mo Hua, but with the situation as it was, he had no choice. After hesitation, he slowly said:
"You know how to draw ground-based formations, right?"
Mo Hua's expression stiffened, but thinking of how he had used this technique openly at the Lun Jian Tournament with many witnesses and had nothing to hide, he nodded and said:
"Yes."
"Since you know how to draw ground-based formations, you should understand this more easily…" Mr. Tu said slowly:
"Common formation mediums are general-purpose; drawing formations on them isn't difficult;"
"But some secret formations involve special mediums. Drawing formation patterns on these special mediums isn't so simple."
Mo Hua nodded slightly.
Drawing ground-based formations uses "earth" as the medium, requiring communication with the Earth Dao essence—not something easily mastered.
Mr. Tu looked up at the huge skeleton in front of them, then said:
"This Arhatian Blood Sacrifice Great Formation is the same. Without specialized shamanic secret techniques, your formation patterns cannot stay on this ancient beast's skeleton."
"In the Great Wilderness legacy system, this ancient beast's skeleton is not a simple 'medium'; it's part of the formation itself, integrated with the formation eye, central hub, and overall formation patterns."
"If you merely regard it as a simple 'medium' or as a 'dead object,' then the formation patterns you draw will be useless and won't activate the power of the blood sacrifice formation."
Mo Hua frowned and asked, "Then how should I draw it?"
Mr. Tu was silent, then slowly said, "This is what I am about to teach you—the Great Wilderness Bone Engraving Technique."
"Great Wilderness Bone Engraving?"
Mo Hua was stunned.
"This is a shamanic technique that engraves formations onto bones, allowing the formation patterns and bones to merge into one."
Mr. Tu looked at Mo Hua coldly and said, "I won't say anything unnecessary, nor do you need to ask. Just learn the method and draw the formation well."
As long as he learned something, Mo Hua asked no more and obediently nodded.
Mr. Tu stepped onto the giant ancient beast skeleton along the white-bone spine path, speaking as he walked:
"The Great Wilderness Bone Engraving Technique doesn't use a formation brush, but a knife-brush. Using the sharpness of the blade, you engrave formation patterns onto the bones, making the patterns and skeleton one, ink and medium inseparable, pattern and bone united."
"When engraving, you must use the ancient beast's blood to carve its bones, sense the ancient beast's dying soul, and use your own divine sense as the medium—these three as one, connected and integrated to form the formation."
"Besides, there are many taboos…"
…
Mr. Tu walked while speaking, teaching Mo Hua the "Great Wilderness Bone Engraving Method" exactly as it was, then handed Mo Hua an ancient carving brush, a bottle of crimson blood ink, and pointed at a blank bone surface, saying:
"Give it a try."
Mo Hua understood Mr. Tu's intention, and following the engraving method, he sensed the beast's soul, controlled the carving brush with his divine mind, infused it with demon blood, and made a stroke.
A crimson array pattern was carved onto the bone remains.
A cold wind blew, the blood merged into the bone, becoming one seamless whole.
Mr. Tu turned to look at Mo Hua, his expression serious, his pupils contracted like needles, filled with disbelief.
Mo Hua looked up and asked Mr. Tu, "Is this right?"
Mr. Tu slowly nodded, "Yes."
Suppressing the many emotions in his heart, he added, "Follow what I say, draw as fast as you can."
Mo Hua nodded, "Alright."
Then, at the spot planned by Mr. Tu, using the carving brush, blood of demons, and sensing beast souls, stroke by stroke, he engraved the Blood Sacrifice Array Core.
At first, his strokes were slow and careful, each stroke deeply considered, slow but accurate with no mistakes.
The second stroke was still slow but slightly faster than the first.
The third stroke was faster than the second.
Then the fourth stroke...
Each stroke became incrementally faster, growing more skilled and confident.
After just a few dozen strokes, he transformed from a "novice" into a "veteran," calm and skillful in his strokes.
Mr. Tu took a deep breath, his heart trembling.
Very few knew the Great Wilderness Bone Engraving Method.
The Blood Sacrifice Great Array Core was controlled by only him alone.
But now, this boy who had just learned, just started drawing, was visibly growing to such a level...
"He can learn anything I teach him."
"Whatever he learns, he immediately applies it..."
"With such talent, what exactly is this... thing...?"
Mr. Tu cast a deep glance at Mo Hua, fleeting jealousy and worry crossing his face before settling into calm.
Beneath that calm hid killing intent.
And Mo Hua seemed completely unaware, still immersed in carving the array with the "Great Wilderness Bone Engraving Method," focused and absorbed in this new and unique array technique, oblivious to everything around him.
Mr. Tu's figure turned into blood mist, gradually fading away, then disappeared.
Mo Hua crouched on the ancient beast bones, focused on drawing the Blood Sacrifice Array as instructed by Mr. Tu, growing faster and more skilled...
With Mo Hua's help, Mr. Tu could finally free his hands to deal with the Dao Court's Profound Heaven Big Dipper Seven-Star Array.
Likewise, with Mo Hua's help, the core progress of the Blood Sacrifice Great Array finally began to move forward again...
…
Qianxue State Realm.
Sword Observation Tower.
Using the Big Dipper Seven-Star Array to spy on the array from the sky and understand the overall situation, Master Situ's expression was serious:
"Indeed, someone is helping that 'Mr. Tu' to draw the Wilderness Blood Sacrifice Great Array."
An elder of the Void Cave frowned and said, "Since it is a great array, it can't be drawn by just one person. What's the surprise?"
Master Situ shook his head and sighed, "This is different…"
"The Blood Sacrifice Great Array is a ritual array involving the Great Path of Divine Mind, different from ordinary arrays."
"The outer evil arrays may be drawn by evil array masters to fill the mass of the array."
"But the core array eye, including the array pivot, can only be controlled by one person."
"Like a sacrificial ceremony can only have one 'chief sacrificer.' This Blood Sacrifice Great Array also can only have one to master its deepest secrets."
"The forging of the array eye, the pivot's circulation, the array structure, must not be known to outsiders."
"And the only person who knows how to build the Blood Sacrifice Great Array is that 'Mr. Tu' whom all the demons call."
"This Mr. Tu is clearly locked down by me using heavenly secrets, suppressed by the power of the Seven-Star Array, unable to spare time to draw the Blood Sacrifice Great Array."
"But now\... another person has appeared, drawing this 'greatly treacherous' Wilderness Blood Sacrifice Array for Mr. Tu."
Master Situ's face full of wrinkles was stern, his tone grave, "The essence of the blood sacrifice is not something anyone can learn."
"It mixes ancient array techniques, Great Wilderness witchcraft, blood sacrifice rituals, and divine taboos... Those who can master this essence, like Mr. Tu, must have exceptional divine perception, extraordinary talent, and a mind like a demon—an elite demon spawn. If unchecked, they might become great demons that confuse the heavenly way."
"This person is a huge 'hidden danger.'"
"What's stranger is..."
Master Situ frowned, "I tried to use the Profound Heaven Big Dipper Seven-Star Array to communicate with the Profound Heaven stars, to strike down this 'helping evil' person, but I couldn't lock down his heavenly secrets..."
"Either this person's karma is immense, or he possesses a heavenly treasure that avoids karmic punishment."
"I came a long way here without knowing the current state of Qianxue State, never expected such a person would be near Mr. Tu..."
Master Situ looked at the Void Cave elders and asked:
"Do you know who this person is?"
The hall fell silent, so quiet you could hear a pin drop.
Many Void Cave elders had guesses in their hearts.
But such matters were not convenient to speak aloud. They silently looked toward Elder Xun.
Elder Xun closed his eyes, pretending calm.
"Let's not discuss this matter now\..." an elder from the Lun Dao Mountain, venerable and with a sage aura, said:
"The urgent matter is to find a way to suppress the Blood Sacrifice Great Array, to avoid catastrophe for the people of Qianxue State."
He looked up at the blood-red horizon and sighed deeply, saying solemnly:
"We all underestimated these fiends."
"This Blood Sacrifice Great Array has too great an ambition..."
Once these words were spoken, the elders present all looked somewhat grave.
When the Wilderness Blood Sacrifice Great Array started, they thought it troublesome but were not too anxious.
After all, it was only a quasi-third-grade great array. Using such an array to shake the foundation of fifth-grade Qianxue was considered wishful thinking.
Many Void Cave elders had become cold-hearted after years of cultivation, indifferent to this so-called "blood sacrifice."
Blood sacrifice was just more deaths.
Anyway, those dying were invisible solitary cultivators, low-level cultivators around Qianxue.
As long as they didn't die, the clans and sect disciples were safe.
Only to maintain Qianxue's reputation and give account to the Dao Court did they have to put great effort into trying to resolve these demons and heterodox.
But as the situation developed, and the Blood Sacrifice Great Array spread, some elders experienced in heavenly secrets and array studies realized this Wilderness Blood Sacrifice Great Array was not so simple, and Mr. Tu's ambition was much greater than they imagined...
Not to mention, it involved the "Evil God" resurrection, previously existing only in ancient cultivation texts.
Most Void Cave elders were skeptical of this.
But as the Grand Elder of the Profound Secret Valley, Master Situ's heart was filled with hard-to-conceal fear.
He took a deep breath, trembling slightly, and told everyone:
"The Evil God is the true great terror within heavenly secrets and karma."
"The Wilderness Blood Sacrifice may not really bring this great terror to the world. But it must be guarded against."
"This Blood Sacrifice Great Array must be suppressed and destroyed at all costs."
"Never let this Blood Sacrifice Great Array be completed, creating even a slightest chance for the Evil God's birth."
"I will try to use the Profound Heaven Big Dipper Seven-Star Array to lock down Mr. Tu through the Blood Sacrifice Great Array. Once he leaks significant divine presence or shows a trace, I will strike with the Seven-Star rays to annihilate him. Even if I can't kill him, I will severely injure him."
"However, the Seven-Star Array's mysteries cannot be controlled by me alone. I ask all of you to lend me a hand."
The Void Cave elders all nodded in agreement:
"Of course."
Among the crowd, Elder Xun opened his eyes, also looking at the blood-red great array on the horizon, frowning.
He was indeed worried about the Evil God.
The great calamity in Qianxue State and the future of the Void Gate also weighed on his mind.
But what he worried about most was Mo Hua, the child.
Not just worry, but also some fear.
"What has this child become, mixed among demons? What exactly is he doing?"
Elder Xun furrowed his brow.
…
Deepest inside the Blood Sacrifice Great Array, the flesh maze.
Mo Hua was still the same Mo Hua, still "working" for Mr. Tu.
Before, this "work" was just drawing the basic formations — more like menial tasks.
But now he was different. He was using the Great Wilderness Bone Engraving Method to draw the core formation pivot of the Archaic Heaven Blood Sacrifice Grand Array for Mr. Tu.
He had already reached a point where he could to some extent "take over" Mr. Tu's work.
If he kept going like this, it probably wouldn't be long before he could replace Mr. Tu himself, becoming "Mr. Tu" and resurrecting the Great Wilderness Evil God.
Of course, the prerequisite was that his cultivation realm could keep up.
No matter how chaotic and stormy the outside situation was — blood rain and slaughter — Mo Hua's eyes still held only formations.
He continued to diligently and devotedly draw the blood sacrifice formations for Mr. Tu.
And the position he now occupied was directly above the formation eye, at the grand pivot.
The entire Archaic Heaven Blood Sacrifice Grand Array lay beneath his feet.
His field of vision was incredibly broad; he could almost oversee the entire array's layout.
Everything Mr. Tu wanted him to learn, Mo Hua had learned.
Even the things Mr. Tu didn't want him to learn, Mo Hua had learned them all anyway.
As a "worker," naturally he had to have the mindset to "steal knowledge."
Otherwise, it would be impossible to improve or rise up to become the master.
Even Mr. Tu himself did not know exactly what Mo Hua was secretly learning.
The deeper Mo Hua participated, the more he drew and saw, the more he comprehended — the whole structure of the Archaic Heaven Blood Sacrifice became clearer and clearer in his mind.
What before in Yanluo Mountain, because he only saw one corner, he couldn't comprehend, now suddenly became fully clear.
On top of the ancient beast's giant bones, Mo Hua was drawing when suddenly his expression froze, his pupils contracting sharply, and he took a deep breath of cold air.
He understood.
He understood what Mr. Tu was really trying to do.
Why he dared to unfold the Archaic Heaven Blood Sacrifice Grand Array so openly, right under the noses of so many Dongxu elders in Qianxue Prefecture, in front of the major clans, major sects, and the fifth-grade Daoist Court's Si Yun assembly…
Mo Hua frowned, reconstructing in his mind the complete array pivots of the blood sacrifice grand array.
He linked these pivots as nodes, corresponding to the various prefectures on the Qianxue land.
"Luanshan City, Yanshui City, Yanshui Riverside, Bishan City, north of Gushan City, south of Qingzhou City's Yishan City…"
"All these second- and third-grade cities have altars. These altars are nodes, connected by underground veins of fresh blood, forming a complete encirclement that seals off the fifth-grade Qianxue Prefecture entirely within."
"A quasi-third-grade grand array cannot threaten a fifth-grade prefecture."
"So the plan is to connect second- and third-grade prefectures as 'parallel' pivots to build the blood sacrifice grand array, then use the heavenly dao's rule restrictions and the evil god's power threat to completely seal off the fifth-grade prefecture, and then gradually contaminate and devour bit by bit…"
"Until finally, completely swallowing the fifth-grade prefecture!"
The weak triumphs over the strong, the lower realm kills the higher realm.
Mo Hua's heart shook.
This kind of grand macro-level array conception, something he had never seen or even imagined before, was now deeply engraved in his sea of consciousness.
(End of this Chapter)