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Immortal Patriarch: Strength in the Family's Vitality (Web Novel) - Chapter 2016: Blood Soul Devouring Array? The Black Clad Demonic Cultivator Returns! (Part 2)
Chapter 2016: Blood Soul Devouring Array? The Black Clad Demonic Cultivator Returns! (Part 2)
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“This is not a simple Blood Soul Devouring Array.”“It is a more extensive and powerful, yet more sinister variant of the formation.”
“They have added something new to the original foundation.”
The final scene recorded in the Imaging Jade Scroll was a brief but devastating battle.
The Li Family Head activated the Protective Array, and a pale blue light barrier enveloped the entire valley.
However, a high-level demonic cultivator dressed in black robes, wearing a bronze mask, casually waved a hand.
That palm, seemingly light and effortless, stirred the demonic qi between heaven and earth, transforming into an enormous black hand, several tens of feet in size, descending from the sky.
Boom!
A loud explosion.
The third-tier Protective Array, capable of withstanding the full force attack of a Golden Core Intermediate Stage cultivator, crumbled like paper, turning into countless specks of light.
The Li Family Head, along with over a dozen Foundation Establishment Elders by his side, didn’t even have time to scream before being crushed into dust by the enormous black hand.
The aura emanating from that bronze-masked malevolent cultivator had already reached the Nascent Soul Initial Realm!
A Nascent Soul Stage demonic cultivator!
This discovery made the hearts of all the Elders present sink.
The seriousness of the situation had far exceeded their expectations.
In the following days, bad news came like snowflakes, one after another.
The Wang Family’s medicine garden in the eastern part of the sect was destroyed, with thousands of acres of precious spiritual medicine burned to ashes by a strange demon fire.
The Sun Family’s fleet in the south was entirely annihilated in an unknown attack while transporting supplies on the Lancang River, turning the river water black.
The Zhang Family Village in the north, a place where Luo Qingchen had once passed through, also did not escape devastation; the entire village turned into a ghostly land overnight.
Every attack mirrored the same pattern.
A twisted scorpion symbol and traces of a more powerful variant of the formation were left at the scene.
The enemy’s actions grew increasingly audacious and unrestrained.
The entire Qingyun Sect was cloaked in a repressive atmosphere interwoven with terror and anger.
The sect immediately dispatched several elite squads, led by Elders, to investigate everywhere, yet couldn’t even catch a glimpse of the enemy.
These black-robed demonic cultivators moved like phantoms from hell, appearing and disappearing without a trace.
Each time they emerged, they struck with precision at the sect’s weakest points, achieving their target in a single blow, then rapidly retreating.
In the depths of the main peak’s research hall, Luo Qingchen stood before a large map of the Qingyun Mountain Range and surrounding areas.
All of the attacked locations from the past few days were marked in red cinnabar on the map.
Li Family Qingshi Valley.
Wang Family Medicine Garden.
The section of the river where the Sun Family’s fleet was attacked.
Zhang Family Village.
These four points, seemingly unrelated, scattered across the territories of the Qingyun Sect.
But when Luo Qingchen connected these four points with a line of spiritual power, a massive, irregular outline emerged on the map.
His heart skipped a beat.
He took out another pen and marked more overlooked small-scale attack sites on the map.
As more points were marked, the massive outline became increasingly clear.
It was the embryonic form of an unimaginably vast and sinister formation covering the entire Qingyun Mountain Range, even affecting thousands of miles of surrounding area!
“They… they’re not merely plundering resources!”
Luo Qingchen’s voice carried a barely noticeable tremor.
Master Xuan Yang and the Elders present all gathered around, their faces filled with astonishment and suspicion.
“They are setting up a formation!”
Luo Qingchen extended his finger, pressing heavily on the center of the map, where the main peak of Qingyun Sect was represented.
“All their previous attacks, all the destruction on affiliated families and resource points, were merely for collecting materials for the formation and testing the formation’s power.”
“Their true target, from the beginning, has been us!”
“They are stealthily arranging a super evil formation around our sect that is beyond our knowledge and imagination!”
This conjecture, like a lightning bolt, exploded in everyone’s minds.
“This timing…”
Luo Qingchen’s gaze fell again on the star map data that the research group had just made a breakthrough on, and a more dreadful thought surged into his mind.
“All the acceleration of their actions aligns perfectly with the progress of our star map research!”
“They know we are studying the star map!”
“They might even know that we are about to open the Star Gate!”
“This gigantic sinister formation has only one purpose!”
Luo Qingchen raised his head, enunciating each word.
“Either to launch a fatal attack from the outside at the critical moment of us opening the Star Gate, utterly destroying us!”
“Or… to take advantage of the energy fluctuations caused by us opening the Star Gate to activate their evil formation, achieving some more insidious and terrifying purpose!”
“For instance… seizing the Star Gate, or… contaminating the Star Gate!”
Silence.
A silence akin to death.
The air in the hall seemed to freeze at this moment.
Every face was colored with unprecedented horror.
If Luo Qingchen’s conjecture was true, what they faced would no longer be a group of ordinary demonic cultivators, but a highly organized, meticulously planned, and deeply knowledgeable formidable enemy!
“Sect Leader!”
Luo Qingchen suddenly turned, making a deep bow to Master Xuan Yang.
“Disciple pleads to immediately elevate the sect’s alert to the highest level!”
“Recall all disciples sent out at once! The Mountain Protection Array, to be operative around the clock!”
“We must take the initiative before their formation is complete and destroy it!”
Master Xuan Yang’s face was dark as water ready to drip.
He glanced at the alarming gigantic formation outline on the map, then at Luo Qingchen’s eyes, filled with determination and resolve.
After a long pause, he slowly nodded, his voice icy and murderous.
“Approved.”
“Convey my decree.”
“From this moment, Qingyun Sect enters a state of war!”
An unprecedented sense of crisis, like an invisible net, instantly enveloped the entire Qingyun Sect.
Behind this net, a larger and more unfathomable shadow seemed to loom.
This power far exceeded what a normal demonic cultivator organization could possess.
Who are they?
What terrifying existence stands behind them?
All of this was a massive enigma waiting for Luo Qingchen and the entire Qingyun Sect to unravel themselves.
As Qingyun Sect entered a state of war, the atmosphere throughout the sect turned tense and murderous.
The towering mountain gate was perpetually enveloped by a thick golden light screen, a sign of the Mountain Protection Array operating at full capacity.
Countless patrols composed of Inner Sect Disciples, riding sword lights like meteors, shuttled back and forth within and outside the sect, their sharp eyes scanning every suspicious corner.
This sense of imminent external assault focused everyone’s attention on defending against the black-robed demonic cultivators.
However, the strongest fortress often falls from within.
A conspiracy targeting Luo Qingchen and the star map research quietly brewed under this tense atmosphere.
Fang Zhenxiong may have been dismissed and imprisoned in the Black Iron Dungeon behind the main peak, reserved for high-profile offenders.
Yet the network he established over years within the sect was not entirely eradicated.
Those who once depended on him and gained benefits from him, like serpents lurking in dark corners, temporarily dormant but always waiting for a chance to strike back.
In the hall of the star map research group, a small “accident” was happening.
A disciple from the Array Hall responsible for maintaining the monitoring formation accidentally slipped when replacing a core spirit stone, causing the precious Upper Grade Spirit Stone to fly out of his grasp, crashing right into the Memorial Crystal Stone that recorded crucial data.
Snap!
A crisp sound.
The Memorial Crystal Stone shattered on impact, turning into a groundful of powder.
