Flesh-and-Blood Millstone, Fiendish Array

"Kill!!!!"

Piercing battle cries rang through the sky. Blood rained and foul winds howled, corpses and bones littering the ground. As time passed, of the more than 150 billion cultivators, only a little over 110 billion remained. Nearly 40 billion cultivators had fallen. The entire battlefield was nothing less than a flesh-and-blood millstone, relentlessly devouring cultivators' lives.

The Six Great Sacred Dynasties were ultimately far stronger than the Eastern and Western Alliances. The advantage on the battlefield gradually tilted toward the Six Great Sacred Dynasties. Relying on their overwhelming numerical and equipment advantages, the Six Great Sacred Dynasties slowly gained the upper hand. Even the two alliances' desperate resistance was useless.

As Lu Ya and the others watched their side gradually seize control of the situation, faint smiles appeared on their faces. As for how many subordinates had been sacrificed, they chose to ignore it. As long as their foundations remained unharmed, it did not matter how many died.

This was the reality of the Primordial World—the sorrow of the weak. Without strength, one could only be enslaved, destined to serve as cannon fodder.

Old Ancestor Black Mountain, Old Ancestor Xuan Yang, Old Ancestor Tian Yin, and the others wore dark expressions as they watched the allied forces of the Six Great Sacred Dynasties advance without pause, cold light flashing in their eyes.

"Has the array been set up?" Old Ancestor Black Mountain asked as he looked at Old Ancestor Tian Yin.

"It has already been arranged. We can activate it at any time, draw upon the fiend qi on the battlefield, and deal a devastating blow to the Six Great Sacred Dynasties," Old Ancestor Tian Yin said, narrowing his cold, gleaming eyes.

This array had been developed under Old Ancestor Tian Yin's lead. It had originally been researched to deal with the Six Great Sacred Dynasties, the Fierce Beast Domain, and the Demon Domain, but unfortunately, it remained incomplete even now.

This array was called the "Myriad Heavens Fiend Qi Array." In theory, it could draw upon all fiend qi in the Primordial World to attack. Yet now, it could only use extreme methods to draw in the fiend qi within a radius of a hundred million li, and it required the lives of vast numbers of cultivators as a catalyst.

Old Ancestor Black Mountain and the others feared that the fiend qi gathered by the array would not be sufficient when the time came. That was why they had allowed the cultivators of the two alliances to slaughter one another with the allied forces of the Six Great Sacred Dynasties, filling the battlefield with every kind of fiend qi so they could achieve victory in a single strike.

"Begin. Follow the original plan: withdraw some of the elite cultivators from the battlefield first, then activate the array immediately," Old Ancestor Black Mountain said, a sharp glint flashing through his eyes as killing intent surged around him.

At the same moment, all the Zenith Heaven Golden Immortals of the two alliances moved swiftly, using divine abilities similar to Universe in a Sleeve to take away roughly 20 billion of their cultivators.

"Hm, are they planning to abandon the chariot to save the commander?" Lu Ya muttered. "Can you even get away?"

Lu Ya and the others believed they were preparing to flee, and they were in no hurry. After all, so many Zenith Heaven Golden Immortals could hardly escape all at once. They merely ordered their subordinates to hasten the extermination of the remaining cultivators.

But Lu Ya soon discovered something was wrong. Not only were they not fleeing, they had gathered together, forming Hand Seals as though they were plotting something.

Old Ancestor Black Mountain and the others activated the restrictions they had long planted within their own cultivators' bodies. A horrifying scene immediately unfolded on the battlefield. The more than 10 billion cultivators from the two alliances who remained on the battlefield suddenly bulged with veins as terrifying runes began to surface across their bodies.

"Ah! Ah..." More than 10 billion cultivators let out shrill screams, like the wailing of evil ghosts, making everyone shudder involuntarily.

Gradually, those runes twisted like earthworms. The runes were actually absorbing the essence of the cultivators' flesh and blood. One cultivator after another slowly shriveled, while the twisting runes began to emit faint blood-red light. In the end, each entire body exploded with a bang, turning to ash, leaving behind only several floating blood-red runes.

Seeing this, all the cultivators present sucked in cold breaths. More than 10 billion cultivators—gone just like that. And at the sight of their miserable deaths, everyone's scalps went numb.

"All members of the Six Great Sacred Dynasties, retreat immediately!" Lu Ya was the first to react. Black Mountain and the others were certainly preparing some forbidden art. Having sacrificed so many people, its power was easy to imagine. He hurriedly called for everyone to withdraw.

Unfortunately, it was too late. "Rumble..." Six enormous stone pillars suddenly rose around the battlefield, propping up the heavens, their surfaces covered in densely packed array markings.

The floating blood-red runes transformed into streaks of crimson light the instant the stone pillars appeared, shooting into the pillars.

The array markings upon the pillars were immediately activated, radiating endless red light. Then, each of the six massive stone pillars released a blood-red beam, connecting with the others to form a gigantic blood-red hexagon.

The instant the hexagon formed, all kinds of fiend qi within a radius of a hundred million li were stirred into motion. Torrents of black fiend qi surged toward the hexagon, while every trace of fiend qi on the battlefield was sucked clean.

Before long, an incomparably enormous blood-red hexagonal pillar appeared between heaven and earth, emanating an utterly evil, venomous, slaughterous aura.

Even the living beings of the Primordial World watching the blood-red hexagonal pillar from afar could not help feeling their blood and hearts churn, seized by the urge to unleash a massacre. It was horrifying beyond measure.

The allied forces of the Six Great Sacred Dynasties enveloped by the blood-red hexagonal pillar fared differently. The Zenith Heaven Golden Immortals were all right, their minds resolute, but the Golden Immortals, Mystic Immortals, and Heavenly Immortals suffered terribly. Waves of illusions appeared in their minds: old enemies laughing and chatting merrily, helpless events replaying over and over, even scenes they had never experienced but that filled them with boundless indignation...

The blood-red hexagonal pillar also continuously released waves of red mist, which slowly seeped into the cultivators' bodies.

Gradually, most cultivators' eyes glowed red, their faces twisting into savage expressions as they let out beast-like roars. Then they unleashed their Magic Treasures and divine abilities, or struck out with Hand Seals, frantically attacking the cultivators around them.

For a time, the entire battlefield descended into utter chaos. Magic Treasures flew wildly, divine abilities erupted without end, and a massive melee broke out. From time to time, Sword Qi condensed from fiend qi swept across the field. In only a short time, countless members of the Six Great Sacred Dynasties' allied forces fell.

Old Ancestor Lu Ya, Old Ancestor Yin Yang, Old Ancestor Qian Kun, and the others had cultivation as profound as creation itself, so naturally they were not deceived by such illusions. At that moment, they watched the chaotic battlefield with grim expressions.

"We cannot let this continue. We'll organize all the Zenith Heaven Immortals to strike back," Lu Ya said after pondering for a moment. "One group of Zenith Heaven Golden Immortals will specifically deal with those Sword Qi, while the other attacks the six stone pillars. I refuse to believe we cannot break this array."

"Bang! Bang..." Lu Ya and the others continuously unleashed divine abilities against the entire array. As time passed, the array finally began to tremble, much to Lu Ya and the others' delight.

In truth, this array's formation cores should have been six Innate Slaughter Spiritual Treasures. But Innate Slaughter Spiritual Treasures were simply too rare, so the two alliances could only use six Acquired Slaughter Spiritual Treasures, forged at the cost of countless materials, as substitutes. As a result, the array was far from stable.

Furthermore, the array was incomplete and was being forcibly driven by the essence of living beings' flesh and blood, which greatly damaged the Spiritual Treasures as well, further reducing its stability.

"Bang..." After Lu Ya and the others attacked continuously for three days, they finally broke free of the array, each of them in a miserable state. The other cultivators within the array also gradually regained consciousness.

Looking at the mere 50 billion or so cultivators remaining, Lu Ya and the others flew into a towering rage. Cold light flashed repeatedly from their eyes as they fixed Old Ancestor Black Mountain and the others with murderous stares, wishing they could tear them apart.