The First Immortal of Destiny

Chapter 744 744: First Confrontation_1

The Formation outside the Chaotic Stone Stockade is a natural big array formed in special terrain! With gold and stone mineral veins at the mountain's base, magma, flames, surrounding streams, forests, swamps, and other environmental features as the array base, its nature leans more towards the common Five Elements Formation in the cultivation world. The greater and lesser Demons who occupied the Chaotic Stone Stockade for many years had developed it to possess quite notable power. When Shen Mo (Fairy Pei Yu) subdued the Chaotic Stone Stockade, he broke through this natural big array and then used his understanding of the Array Path to repair and strengthen it. However, limited by the big array's original foundation and a lack of materials, its power was ultimately not as formidable as the Mountain Protection Array of the Green Cloud Cave.

"KILL!"

"ROAR!"

"HEH... CACKLE! CACKLE!"

Within the God Slaying Array, tens of thousands of Demons, faces fierce and fangs bared, howled horrifyingly. The demonic Mana of differing attributes within them was continuously extracted by the big array to maintain the Killing Power of the Creation Array! Mottled, dark auras interwove and merged, filling the entire big array with a cold and gloomy atmosphere.

BOOM!

In an instant, the God Slaying Array collided with the natural big array in an incomparably violent and brutal manner. The terrifying shockwave instantly swept across hundreds of miles. The ground shook, countless huge stones on Chaotic Stone Ridge shattered into sand and gravel, and the clouds in the sky were torn to shreds by the fierce storm. The two colliding big arrays, both inside and out, flickered and interwove with a vast number of profound and intricate runes. Powers of various attributes, distinguished by their different lustrous glows, surged like a tide.

Looking down from high altitude, one could see two magnificent spheres of light, like two incompatible, alien worlds. They shone with dazzling grey and multicolored spirit light, attacking and entangling each other...

Facing the terrifying destructive power of the Demonic Array, the natural big array of the Chaotic Stone Stockade continuously drew the Mana required for its operation from the surrounding earth veins, Spirit Veins, streams, mountain forests, and even the nature's spiritual energy. An immense collapsing, inward-pulling force spread outward like ripples on a lake. Like a black hole, it devoured nearby nature's spiritual energy, flying sand and stones, flowers and trees, streams, and rivers. Deep within the unseen mountain, Spirit Stone Veins, various mineral deposits, and even magma from the extreme depths continuously supplied power for the natural big array's operation!

At the boundary between the two big arrays, even more bizarre phenomena manifested. The Killing Power produced by the God Slaying Array manifested externally as dark red thunderbolts, terrifying weapons, fiery demonic flames, and bone-chilling gusts of spectral wind... These were both phantasms conjured by the overwhelmingly strong Killing Power and actual, tangible entities. A single thunderbolt could slay a Class IV (Golden Core Realm) expert! Conversely, the natural big array of the Chaotic Stone Stockade also manifested phantasms such as mountains and rocks, gales, great rivers, blades and weapons, raging flames, and dense forests. These clashed and contended with the Killing Power of the God Slaying Array, creating a terrifying scene that would inspire awe and fear in any observer.

During their brief stalemate... deafening explosions constantly erupted: the SIZZLE of water and fire clashing, the CRACKLE of metal and stone shattering, the RUMBLE of raging thunderbolts. This cacophony merged into a terrifying soundwave that seemed to boil the heavens and shake the earth, instantly killing vast numbers of flying birds and running beasts near Chaotic Stone Ridge. If the tens of thousands of Demons forming the God Slaying Array lacked the protection of its power, thousands of the low-class Demons among them would have been shaken to death or deafened by this terrifying soundwave alone!

The runes, phantasms, and light, both within and without the two opposing Formations, continuously annihilated each other upon collision, only to be constantly reborn. It was as if two peerless experts were locked in a life-or-death struggle, at times erupting with blindingly brilliant light, at others unleashing soul-shattering explosions.

However, the natural Formation of the Chaotic Stone Stockade was, after all, based on the local terrain and received no Mana reinforcement from the Demons within the Chaotic Stone Stockade... As the terrain over hundreds of miles was progressively destroyed, the Formation's bedrock began to crumble and collapse!

Finally, with an ear-splitting BOOM, the full might of the God Slaying Array, formed by tens of thousands of Hou Corpse Cave Demons, erupted completely. The sky instantly turned a gloomy crimson, as if the entire Chaotic Stone Ridge was enveloped by a demonic aura, and the earth trembled violently. An overwhelmingly potent force obliterated the natural big array's foundations in mere moments... The rocky surface of the mountain where Chaotic Stone Ridge stood was instantly blasted into countless fragments and dust, forming a terrifyingly deep pit, tens of thousands of feet wide and over a thousand feet deep. This caused the Chaotic Stone Stockade itself to plummet a thousand feet!

Inside the Chaotic Stone Stockade, Shen Mo (Fairy Pei Yu) activated the Illusionary Mirror. Its hazy light transformed the real, devastating aftershocks of the battle into mere illusions, protecting the tens of thousands of terrified Demons.

A keen light flickered in his eyes as he savored the boundless profundities of the God Slaying Array. Previously, while lingering near the Hou Corpse Cave, he had witnessed this Creation Array through Fairy Pei Yu's five senses. However, he was always too far away to scrutinize it in detail, fearing that getting too close would alert the three great Demons. This time, Shen Mo (Fairy Pei Yu), positioned within the natural big array, allowed the God Slaying Array to attack relentlessly without intervening. This enabled him to observe it more clearly and directly than ever before!

This Creation Array, he mused, is not fundamentally different from ordinary Formations constructed from materials like metal and stone. Ordinary Formations primarily use extraordinary materials like gold, stone, wood, jade, and bone as their structure, with powerful magic artifacts and top-tier spiritual items as their array cores. They use runes and inscriptions to connect the Formation's structure... The forces driving their operation are the Spirit Stones placed within, the Mana from a cultivator's body, nature's spiritual energy, or various types of Demonic Qi and Turbid Qi! As for this God Slaying Array before me, it uses tens of thousands of Demons as its array base. Each Demon is equivalent to a refined spiritual brick of metal or stone, and stronger Class IV Demons serve as the array cores. Their vital energies are interconnected, equivalent to the numerous Dao runes that link a Formation, unifying them into a single entity. Their bodies' Mana, and even their primal Essence and Qi, provide the motive force for the array's operation. It is truly ingenious, exquisite, and profoundly mysterious...

With Shen Mo's attainments in the Array Path, even by merely observing through Fairy Pei Yu's five senses, he discerned many aspects of the Creation Array's operation that ordinary people would struggle to comprehend. Crucially, even the Demons within the Formation itself were unaware that, at critical moments, the array could drain not only their Mana but their very Flesh and Blood, souls—their entire primal Essence and Qi—to unleash an unimaginable level of terrifying power in an extremely short time! This God Slaying Array, by merely drawing upon the Mana within the Demons' bodies, already displayed power sufficient to annihilate most peak Class IV (Peak Golden Core Realm) experts. However, if it were to sacrifice all the Demons within it, its Killing Power would abruptly escalate to an entirely different level—a magnitude that even Shen Mo's real body would have to cautiously avoid!