Immortality Through Array Formations

Chapter 2465 - 8: Ominous Signs (Part 3)

The child was using a Formation, roasting sweet potatoes, while his mouth slightly moved as if silently urging him to leave quickly.Shen Xiuyan wanted to leave, but in the dream, he couldn’t control his own body.

He couldn’t leave.

Just at this moment, he saw the Taoist slowly rise, carrying a cloud of black mist, walking step by step towards him.

Shen Xiuyan was utterly terrified.

He knew who this Taoist was.

He also knew that once this Taoist reached his side, something extremely horrifying would happen.

Shen Xiuyan began to struggle desperately.

Meanwhile, he was mumbling some mantras he’d acquired from other Cultivators, meant to slay evil, exorcise spirits, suppress dreams, and break nightmares.

He didn’t know whether these things would actually work.

But the shadow of the Taoist did indeed slow down, and even the black mist began to contract, gradually showing signs of consciousness, condensing together.

"Useful?"

Shen Xiuyan was filled with joy, exerting all his effort, nearly exhausting his entire Divine Sense, continuing to silently recite the spell to suppress the nightmare.

And as he recited, he felt the heavy thoughts pressing on his heart inexplicably relieved.

The clarity in the nightmare improved significantly.

The darkness of the ruined temple gradually receded.

The previously dim firelight brightened.

Shen Xiuyan breathed a sigh of relief, his heart lightened, and when he looked up, he found that the Taoist was no longer in the dilapidated temple.

The child roasting sweet potatoes no longer reminded him, just a pair of big bright eyes silently watching him.

"This ordeal... has passed..."

Shen Xiuyan exhaled deeply, a difficult smile appearing on his face.

He vaguely had a premonition that in the future, he would no longer be troubled by this nightmare.

But he didn’t notice that the child opposite him roasting sweet potatoes wasn’t refusing to remind him, rather he no longer dared to open his mouth.

The child’s gaze was fixed behind him.

And behind Shen Xiuyan stood a living Taoist, stripped of the black mist.

...

Three days later.

On the desolate altar that Shen Xiuyan had visited, patterns of blood were vividly red, the bricks split open, and a lump of flesh emerged.

The flesh gathered together, transformed into a Demon Monster in Human Form.

This Demon Monster in Human Form, pale, bore some resemblance to the former "Mr. Tu."

At this moment, its throat and teeth moved, speaking human words, its voice hoarse and terrifying:

"Who... released the seal on my third Demon body?"

"Who let me out?"

"Mr. Tu" had no clue, perplexed, suddenly felt an enormous sense of crisis, urgently thinking:

"No, I’ve got to escape!"

Without the overwhelming Evil Thoughts of the Divine Lord to conceal him, his presence had long been exposed to a group of great powers’ heavenly secret vision.

Once out in the open, he would be obliterated instantly.

"Mr. Tu" dared not hesitate, his pale Demon body instantly turned into a beam of blood light, burrowing into the earth, following the remnants of Blood Qi in the earth veins, fleeing southward toward the Qian Learning State Boundary.

And at this time.

At the Sword Observation Tower.

The Pavilion Elder, with closed eyes and napping in front of the chessboard, slowly opened his eyes, his gaze deep and terrifying.

"Another... fish that slipped through the net..."

The Pavilion Elder extended his withered fingers, holding a chess piece, and heavily placed it on the chessboard, the intent to kill overflowing.

Heavenly Mechanism Locking in, reality transformed, space began to twist.

"Mr. Tu," fleeing in panic within the earth veins, was instantly locked by the Heavenly Mechanism, and then with the fracture of the void, distortion of space, his bones and flesh were crushed, twisted, squeezed dry, obliterated...

All of this occurred in a mere moment.

And just when "Mr. Tu" was about to be obliterated, at the brink of life and death.

He gritted his teeth, using his last Great Wilderness Evil Skill, burning his lifelong Divine Thought, blocking a trace of heavenly secrets, then gathering all his Cultivation, splitting off a strand of flesh, under the terrifying killing intent of the Pavilion Elder’s finger spanning a thousand miles, forged a trace of life.

"Mr. Tu’s" Demon body vanished in an instant.

But that strand of flesh, escaped from the void’s prison.

At the Sword Observation Tower, the Pavilion Elder felt a slight surprise, then dropped the second piece.

If the first move didn’t finish him, then drop a second one.

This second move was already a complete kill, "Mr. Tu" couldn’t resist.

Yet at this moment, in the void, reality transformed, a Deceit Pattern appeared, shielding the only strand of flesh of "Mr. Tu" across space.

Though the next moment, the Deceit Pattern was crushed by the Pavilion Elder’s piece.

But "Mr. Tu" gained a chance at life.

With the Deceit Pattern’s concealment, he fled deeper into the earth veins, and had already left the Fifth Grade Qianxue State and entered the Second and Third Grade state boundaries, further escaping towards Li State.

This was the escape route he had planned for a millennium.

If the Large Formation was completed and the grand plan succeeded, the Divine Lord descended, then this fallback would naturally be insignificant.

But once the grand plan failed, facing the crisis of life and death, like a clever rabbit with three burrows, this third Demon body left behind on hand, could follow the previously plotted path and escape the Qian Learning State Boundary in the shortest time.

Providing himself, a thread of life.

Also leaving a seed for the Divine Lord’s grand plan.

But the problem was, his previous Demon Monster body died too thoroughly, directly obliterated by Robbery Thunder, not even ashes remained.

This backup hand had been unable to activate.

But now, unknowingly, someone found the altar, released the seal, and released it.

"Mr. Tu" was shocked and puzzled in his heart.

But with a great killing intent upon him, he had no time to take care of other matters, even though being obliterated to just one strand of flesh, to be loyal to the Divine Lord and rise again, he could only desperately flee, to seek that thread of life hope.

And the Pavilion Elder’s killing intent was momentarily blocked.

Just in this moment, cause and effect changed, life and death became different.

A strand of flesh, mixed within the earth veins, left the Qian Learning State Boundary, traveling towards the distant, vast land, like a stone sinking into the sea, vanished without a trace in the heavenly secret vision.

At the Sword Observation Tower.

The Pavilion Elder, momentarily blocked by the reality-transformed Deceit Pattern, feeling bewildered.

Silently staring at the chess piece at his fingertips, his gaze deepened, his expression growing solemn, finally speaking in a grim tone:

"Using Gui Tao to break the reality... are you trying... for the divine metamorphosis, to be lawless and unrestrained?"