Qin He continued without pause.
With a turn of his fingertips, dozens of pitch-black demon crystals flew out of the Mustard Seed Space, each wreathed in dense true demonic qi.
The demon crystals landed and embedded themselves in the trapping formation's nodes. Qin He flicked a finger, injecting the gold-and-black power of the source-birth law into them. The crystals instantly burst, and black vapor spread like ink, flowing along the formation's markings and entwining with its foundational laws.
A moment later, Qin He opened his eyes and condensed a wisp of merit golden light at his fingertips. The golden light descended, striking an eerie balance with the true demonic qi within the formation. Neither devoured the other; instead, they amplified one another.
Then he took from his sleeve the Void-Breaking Talisman he had seized from Liu Chengye. With a stir of law power at his fingertips, he shredded the talisman paper, merging its fragments of space law into the formation.
With the trapping formation in place, he still needed an illusion formation and a killing formation.
Setting up the killing formation demanded more mental effort than either the trapping formation or the illusion formation.
Gold-and-black patterns surged across Qin He's body. An illusory shadow of a hundred-foot demonic body flashed and vanished, while the power of laws flowed along his fingertips, carving even more intricate runes into the ground.
These were no ordinary killing formation runes. They were dao-principle runes he had created himself by fusing the source-birth law, true demonic qi, and fire-aspect laws. Every rune held the essence of birth and destruction, capable of both scorching flesh and rending souls.
He swept his hand, and lotus flame leaped from his palm. The intertwined crimson-and-blue flames landed at the formation's core and mingled with the demonic energy left by