The First Immortal of Destiny

Chapter 749 749: Practicing the Big Array_1

Because Shen Mo had not obtained the complete array diagram of the God Slaying Array, he could not directly set up a large array of tens of thousands in one go. Instead, he had to gradually expand the scale of the array!

With the passage of time, the number of Demon Soul Generals used for formation gradually expanded from hundreds to over a thousand, then to several thousand, and finally to tens of thousands. The Demon Soul Generals serving as the array core were also replaced from Class III to Class IV, gradually increasing from nine to eighteen, twenty-seven, and then thirty-six.

For a time, the skies above the Vacuous Zone were filled with rolling Demonic Qi of Bloody Fiends, accompanied by all kinds of terrifying illusions and deafening strange sounds!

It wasn't until the low-class Demon Soul Generals used for formation had expanded to more than 50,000, and the eighty-one Class IV Demon Soul Generals serving as the array core were in place, that the power of the entire array reached its peak.

Among the Demon Soul Generals who served as the array core, about fifty had Realms ranging from the middle-stage to the peak of Class IV; these were all elder Demon Soul Generals who had advanced to Class IV long ago. The rest were those Shen Mo had painstakingly cultivated over the years to complete the eighty-one array cores, possessing only early-stage Class IV strength!

By then, even if Fairy Pei Yu advanced to a Class V Demon Soul General ahead of schedule, Shen Mo wouldn't be able to use her as an array core.

He needed at least nine Class V Demon Soul Generals to maintain the operation of the God Slaying Array and elevate its power to the next level!

Meanwhile, as Shen Mo's mastery of this Creation Array became Great, his understanding of the Array Path also steadily stepped into Class V.

His solid foundation in the Array Path was something the Tiger Demon King Shan Hao could not match.

At this moment, Shen Mo was confident he could use an array of the same scale to crush the God Slaying Array that Shan Hao himself had set up!

Moreover, he had even reverse-engineered the method for the Blood Sacrifice of creatures within the array.

To trigger such an effect with the large array, all the creatures serving as the array core needed to "willingly" contribute their Flesh and Blood and souls. Then, by activating the formation, it would forcefully draw the primal Essence and Qi from the other creatures within the array.

Afterward, the power of the God Slaying Array would rise to a degree that even gods and ghosts would fear.

In Shen Mo's estimation, his large array, set up with more than 50,000 Demon Soul Generals, could withstand an ordinary middle-stage Divine Bridge Realm (Fifth Stage) expert when operating normally. However, if he were to sacrifice all the Demon Soul Generals without reservation, their souls and spirits disintegrating, the power unleashed by the large array could slay a peak Divine Bridge Realm (Fifth Stage) expert!

Shen Mo did not know whether the Tiger Demon King Shan Hao had mastered this Blood Sacrifice method for the array. From various known clues, he probably had not obtained this method.

That being said, even if this great demon knew this method, he probably would not dare to casually perform a Blood Sacrifice on the various demons, large and small, used in the array formation.

After all, behind him stood a figure of True Immortal level.

And this True Immortal was clearly intending to gather more creatures, more experts, to set up an even more powerful God Slaying Array.

Once the demons tamed by Hou Corpse Cave were completely subjected to Blood Sacrifice, what would this True Immortal use for array formation?

After Shen Mo completely mastered this array, pondered it repeatedly, and eliminated the possibility of any backdoors, he imparted the method of array formation and issued a Sect Master's decree, ordering all Sect Disciples to practice this array.

The million members of the Red Flame Sect, from Deputy Sect Masters like Yuan Heming, Situ Huo, and Ming Cang, down to newly admitted disciples in the Body Tempering Realm, had an additional compulsory task besides their normal cultivation: to cultivate and practice the God Slaying Array!

The number of people setting up the array and the scale of the large array also varied.

The smallest array scale required nine cultivators of the same Realm. Apart from this nine-person small array, there were also larger scales, including hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands, and even hundreds of thousands or millions.

Luckily, the basis of the God Slaying Array was the same. After the nine-person small array was practiced until Great, they could accumulate, forming a hundred-person array. After the hundred-person array was practiced until Great, they could form a thousand-person array. This pattern continued until all the million members of the Red Flame Sect were included, forming a million-strong Creation Array!

Even disciples in the Body Tempering Realm, whose internal Mana was weak and who could not fly using artifact controlling, could still be guided by the big array to fly through the air while within the Formation. At the same time, they acted as materials for the array base, contributing their share of Mana to the big array's operation.

Once their training was successfully completed, even the Body Tempering Realm disciples with the lowest strength would possess strong self-preservation abilities and formidable combat power!

Therefore, this time even Zhao Lingyin was no exception; Shen Mo forced her to practice the God Slaying Array.

If one day the Red Flame Sect encountered a crisis threatening its extinction, and Shen Mo happened to be absent or unable to protect them, Zhao Lingyin could still use the power of her fellow sect members to ensure her own safety or even quell the external calamity!

But if she relied on Shen Mo's doting and did not practice this array, she would be unable to integrate into the big array and would face a substantial risk of perishing.

While the Red Flame Sect diligently practiced the Formation, the demons of the Hou Corpse Cave, under Shan Hao's whip, were also constantly practicing the big array!

Unlike cultivators, demons and monsters are all bloodthirsty, violent, and unskilled in the Array Path. It was entirely impractical to ask them to practice the Formation in groups of nine by themselves.

Therefore, when Shan Hao trained the demon soldiers, he basically used tens of thousands of demons as one unit, forcing them to practice until they became Great, and then gathering them into larger scales for further practice.

Five years ago, Shan Hao was able to gather 50,000 troops. He successively subdued the intellectual Fox Demon Pei Wanchen and Pig Demon Heisha, and killed the Immortal Master of the Human Race, the Red Lotus Cave Lord. Now, five years later, the scale of the big array he could arrange had also reached the level of 100,000 creatures!

However, compared to the millions of demons, large and small, in the Hou Corpse Cave, this number of 100,000 seemed rather inconspicuous.

This Class V great demon intended to elevate the big array's scale to 500,000 to contend with an existence on Five Dragon Mountain even stronger than himself. Hence, he trained his forces year-round, preparing for war!

But overall progress was not fast, not matching the advancement speed of the Red Flame Sect disciples.

All of this was seen by Shen Mo in fine detail through Fairy Pei Yu's eyes!

With his plan partially succeeding, Shen Mo breathed a sigh of relief.

When the Hou Corpse Cave reaches the Green Cloud Cave, the many outer Mountain Protection Arrays should be properly arranged. The two God Slaying Arrays, composed of Demon Soul Generals and Sect Disciples, should also have been practiced until they're Great!

There's no need to worry about the Cave being breached...

How to avoid alerting that True Immortal in the future battle with the Hou Corpse Cave demons, and how to gain the maximum benefit from the situation—that still needs careful consideration!

The trickier part was that the reverse refinement of the Green Cloud Cave was not yet fully completed and couldn't be put away for now.

If Tiger Demon Shan Hao was killed by then and the True Immortal's plans were disrupted, it was very likely the True Immortal would be alerted and rush to Five Dragon Mountain!

As confident as Shen Mo was, he didn't believe he could escape with his life from a True Immortal.

The millions of demons in the Hou Corpse Cave are the best source of blood food for the Demon Soul Generals.

They are enough for me to cultivate more than ten Class V Demon Soul Generals. If I use them as array cores to set up the God Slaying Array, I would dare to fight even a Formless Realm expert. This opportunity must not be easily discarded!

As he pondered, Shen Mo took out forty-nine jade divination chips and began to calculate.