The First Immortal of Destiny

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Shen Mo had countless encounters with demons and monsters in the Primordial Realm and was intimately aware of their nature.

Therefore, from the moment he discovered that the demons of the Hou Corpse Cave possessed terrifying strength and boundless ambition, he never harbored the slightest intention of compromising with them. Now, the cruel conditions proposed by Shan Hao only reaffirmed the absolute correctness of his initial choice!

Shen Mo wasted no more words with him and immediately prepared for an all-out battle.

With a thought, blood-red light surged from the Soul Refining Flag located within the Green Cloud Cave. A Soul General—single-footed, bat-winged, with a crimson horn on its forehead and a green face with bared fangs—struggled out of the Blood River. Its body pulsed with a vast and potent dark purple Demonic Qi; it was the Single-footed Yaksha, Banzhi Jiaming!

This great demonic Yaksha had first been severely wounded by Fairy Pei Yu, then cleaved in two by Shen Mo and drawn into the Soul Refining Flag.

Shen Mo's willingness to converse with Shan Hao was not only to extract more information about the Immortal but also to buy time to blood-refine Banzhi Jiaming into a Soul General!

Currently, it was still an ordinary Soul General and had not yet undergone Demon-corruption.

Within the Soul Refining Flag, there were also tens of thousands of peak Class II minor Heavenly Demon Soul Generals. However, Demon-corrupting a Class V Soul General, even with the Soul Refining Flag's suppression, would require a significant amount of time. After today, he would completely transform Banzhi Jiaming into a mutated Demon Soul General!

Seeing Banzhi Jiaming emerge from a burst of spirit light, the tiger demon Shan Hao was initially stunned, but his expression quickly twisted with infinite ferocity. "So you have one more Class V Imperial Soul. What of it? Soldiers of Formations A, B, and C, heed my command! Kill them for me!"

As his voice fell, the three God Slaying Arrays constructed by the demons rumbled, shifting into a deadly offensive formation. They advanced in a triangular pattern towards Shen Mo, Fairy Pei Yu, and Banzhi Jiaming.

"Still not enough? Then how about this!"

As he spoke, Shen Mo once again opened his cave paradise. Amidst a dazzling spirit light, a God Slaying Array composed of a million Red Flame Sect Members suddenly materialized before the three Demonic Arrays.

Unlike the Demonic Arrays, the aura of the Red Flame Sect's array was pure and potent. It shimmered with a spectrum of colors—red, orange, yellow, green, and more—that gradually converged towards a chaotic transparency, ultimately forming a pure white radiance flecked with silver.

Within this grand array, Yuan Heming, Situ Huo, Ming Cang, Chen Mengze, Feng Wushuang, and the Thunder Corpse Master—forty-five Golden Core Realm (Class V) powerhouses—served as the array cores. The other sect disciples were densely arranged in a profound formation, constituting the array base.

Even Body Tempering Realm cultivators and Class I disciples of the Marine Race were drawn into the air by the array's power, each serving as a cornerstone and contributing Mana to its operation.

Although the Mana within each low-class disciple was meager, when a million of them gathered, it formed a terrifying force that could not be underestimated. Furthermore, there were thirty thousand Qi Gathering Realm (Class II) and higher disciples within the array. Coupled with the array's astonishing scale, the formidable aura it exuded made even great demons like Shan Hao visibly shaken.

"Impossible! This is absolutely impossible!"

"I only gave that Imperial Soul, Fairy Pei Yu, the talisman scroll related to the Spirit Controlling Talisman. I never transmitted the array diagram for the God Slaying Array to it."

"The generals under my command who received the array diagram all had Spirit Controlling Talismans personally embedded into their souls by me. Even with a Soul Search spell, no one could retrieve the array diagram from their souls. How did you obtain this formation?"

Shan Hao's expression changed drastically. The turn of events had finally spiraled beyond his control, filling him with shock and a growing sense of foreboding.

Not long after Fairy Pei Yu had seemingly defected to the Hou Corpse Cave, she had demonstrated remarkable proficiency in the Talisman Path before Shan Hao and the other great demons.

Needless to say, this was a deliberate act orchestrated by Shen Mo.

Few among the demons were skilled in the Talisman Path, and Shan Hao had been troubled by the constant depletion of the Spirit Controlling Talismans passed down by the True Immortal, with no way to replenish them. Upon discovering that this "Demon-corrupted cultivator," Pei Yu, was an expert in the Talisman Path, he had entrusted all the talisman scrolls for the Spirit Controlling Talisman to her.

Over the years, to avoid exposing himself, Shen Mo, acting through Fairy Pei Yu, had crafted dozens of Spirit Control Talismans for the Hou Corpse Cave, even earning Shan Hao's praise.

However, Shan Hao regarded the God Slaying Array with extreme importance. Apart from the demonic generals whose souls were bound by Spirit Controlling Talismans, no one else, not even great demons like Pei Wanchen and Heisha, had received the array diagram from him.

"You once controlled that Imperial Soul, Pei Yu, to volunteer as an array core when I was practicing the formation! Could it be…"

The expression on Shan Hao's tiger-like face grew increasingly grim.

He could never have imagined that someone could reverse-engineer such a complex and profound formation merely by being at its core and perceiving the details of its operation.

Yet, the facts were before him. There was no other plausible way the array diagram could have been leaked. He was forced to believe it.

Shen Mo offered a faint smile, not bothering to dispel Shan Hao's astonishment and suspicion. He directly issued commands to the numerous Golden Core Realm (Class V) powerhouses within the Red Flame Sect's grand array.

The next moment, the millions of disciples within the Red Flame Sect formation, drawing upon their arduous training from the past few years, began to shift their positions in practiced maneuvers, continuously supplying their Mana to the array's operation.

"Kill!"

"Kill them!"

"Wipe out this horde of demons..."

The Red Flame Sect Members within the array roared, urging the grand array into an offensive stance.

Streams of Mana, connected by their Qi, continuously converged. Surging waves of scorching energy intertwined, causing the silver-white spirit light of the entire grand array to become increasingly dazzling. A terrifying killing intent shook the heavens and the earth.

BOOM!

RUMBLE!

The Red Flame Sect's grand array, with a decisive and murderous intent, blasted towards the three Demonic Arrays!

Instantly, the four God Slaying Arrays from the opposing factions collided. Similar yet contrastingly colored runes, lights, and manifested phenomena began to interweave and radiate. The formidable killing power generated by the clashing arrays surged forth.

The horrifying shockwaves of the collision swept outwards like a tidal wave, shattering vast swathes of mountain rock and forest, and whipping up a terrifying storm capable of tearing everything apart!

Although the Red Flame Sect's grand array had fewer Golden Core Realm (Class IV) cultivators acting as its array cores compared to the demon side's 300,000-creature strong Creation Array, its power clearly surpassed the latter. It even enveloped the other two 100,000-creature scale Demonic Arrays within its attack range.

It constantly unleashed manifestations of slaughter—thunderbolts, deadly weapons, true flames, astral winds, floods, and rolling boulders—violently assaulting the three Demonic Arrays, engaging them in a fierce, grinding collision.

Simultaneously, Shen Mo, through his mental connection via the Soul Refining Flag, issued kill orders to Fairy Pei Yu and Banzhi Jiaming, the two Class V Soul Generals waiting nearby.

Immediately, Fairy Pei Yu, clad in battle armor and wielding her silver flame spear and the Illusionary Mirror, transformed into a beam of destructive light, lunging towards the Hou Corpse Cave's Third King, Pig Demon Heisha. Meanwhile, Banzhi Jiaming flapped its bat wings, whipping up a terrifying sandstorm as it engaged another Class V great demon, the Corpse King.

In the blink of an eye, only the Tiger Demon King Shan Hao and the Fox Demon intellectual Pei Wanchen remained before Shen Mo.