Blood Sea Soul-Locking Array!

[Martial formation detected: Blood Sacrifice Array;

Convertible: Blood Sea Soul-Locking Array;

Conversions remaining today: 1.]

"Convert!"

Chu Yuan didn't hesitate any longer. He issued the command to the system in his mind.

As the conversion count was used up, something miraculous happened...

The world seemed to fall still, as if some force had crushed all the agitation!

The blood-red curtain of light covering all of Chenyang City silently faded away... like a soap bubble.

But the atmosphere between heaven and earth grew increasingly savage!

The feeling was like the illusion of being swallowed by a giant beast just moments ago, except compared with this... that had been no more than a kitten yawning?

Yan Xuan froze. Under the pressure of that aura, every hair on his skin stood on end, and he nearly collapsed to the ground.

Could the Blood Sacrifice Array really change like this? The lord hadn't mentioned anything...

Most importantly, why had he suddenly lost control of the formation?

By then, Qi Da's attack had already reached him. There was no time to think, so he instinctively swept out with one leg!

The air trembled. The shockwaves from their clash whipped up a fierce gale that sent Chu Yuan flying!

Qi Da had also noticed something was wrong, but his hatred of Yan Xuan overwhelmed everything else.

With no need to resist the Blood-Sucking Array and no longer any need to worry about the teachers and students at First High School... since Yan Xuan had lost the formation's power, he would beat him to death right here!

Yan Xuan was no match for Qi Da, but he wasn't in the least bit worried.

Suppressing his confusion, he continued to taunt him. "You old dog, aren't you leaving?"

The Blood Sacrifice Array couldn't forcibly refine a Supernatural Realm Warrior, but that didn't mean they could come and go freely inside it.

If one of them was beaten badly enough to suffer serious injuries... the Blood Sacrifice Array could naturally refine him, too!

Qi Da's face darkened. He said nothing and swung another punch.

Blood seeped from the corner of Yan Xuan's mouth as he staggered backward, but out of the corner of his eye, he caught sight of someone standing in midair...

It was Chu Yuan, who had just been sent flying by the shockwaves!

Once again, he could hardly believe it. Standing in midair... was something only an Air-Traversing Realm Warrior could do. How could Chu Yuan have reached the Air-Traversing Realm?

Qi Da followed his gaze, his expression complicated, but that didn't stop him from continuing his attack...

Chu Yuan was simply absorbing the information about the Blood Sea Soul-Locking Array.

Now that the formation had been converted, it was naturally under his complete control. An even more vast body of information than that of the Foundation Establishment Method or the Sword Control Technique materialized in his mind...

But the Blood Sea Soul-Locking Array, converted from the Blood Sacrifice Array, was no benevolent thing.

Its name alone said a lot...

Could it be considered a super-evolved version of the Blood Sacrifice Array?

It had two functions:

One was to refine the body; the other, to refine the soul!

It wouldn't leave behind a dried corpse. It would refine a person so completely that not even a speck remained!

On top of that, it would refine the person's soul.

The soul could either be turned into a weapon to use against enemies, or used to strengthen one's own spiritual foundation...

As expected of a cultivation technique used by cultivators. Its whole purpose was to waste nothing!

Aside from Chu Yuan, no one knew that at this moment, the lives of more than a million people in Chenyang City hung on his every thought!

The Blood Sea Soul-Locking Array was nothing like the low-grade Blood Sacrifice Array. Their efficiency wasn't even on the same level.

If he wished, he could refine everyone in Chenyang City within ten breaths... including the Warriors!

They would all become resources for his path of cultivation...

But he wouldn't do that.

Through the formation, Chu Yuan sensed life force of varying strengths.

Most were as frail as tiny fireflies. They were ordinary people, naturally.

Those that glowed like candles or lamps... were Warriors!

Chu Yuan's feelings were complicated. He had already mastered the method of setting up the formation, but... a formation this vicious and cruel was absolutely forbidden in Great Qin!

If he ever used it, it would have to be one day on the Outer-Heaven Battlefield, against the Alien Races!

In other words, this card wouldn't be of much use to him in the short term.

But in truth, his original purpose had only been to save others and himself...

"Suppress!"

Chu Yuan pointed into the void. A dark-red talisman abruptly appeared beneath his fingertip.

Mysterious and sinister.

It inspired fear, yet at the same time made people want to understand it, to control it...

The talisman suddenly erupted with a powerful, evil aura, drawing Yan Xuan and Qi Da's attention at once.

But before they could make out its shape, it flickered and vanished like a phantom...

"Chu Yuan, what are you doing!?" For some reason, an ominous feeling welled up inside Yan Xuan.

Chu Yuan merely glanced at him, as if looking at a dead man!

Then he reached out and grabbed at the void.

"Seize!"

Thump~!

It was as if the heart of a colossal creature had suddenly throbbed! The sky, where all the strange phenomena had disappeared, turned dark red once more...

Countless complex, profound runes quietly emerged from the void, centered on Chu Yuan's body! They spread out like a blood-red painting.

The dark-red patterns flowed slowly, carrying a hint of elegance...

More than a dozen cocoons shot over from a distance and stopped not far from Chu Yuan.

Yan Xuan looked at them, and his pupils contracted sharply!

Inside the cocoons were none other than bizarre creatures!

Some were in the Fourth Realm, some in the Fifth Realm... but whatever their realm, they were all bound like pigs waiting to be slaughtered!

"You took control of the formation!?" Yan Xuan blurted out.

But then he immediately rejected the idea.

The Blood Sacrifice Array could only affect living creatures with flesh and blood, and it couldn't do anything to a Supernatural Realm Warrior.

Otherwise, they wouldn't have brought these bizarre creatures along and set up layers of barriers around Chenyang City!

Besides, bizarre creatures were harder to deal with than Warriors. That was common knowledge... Even if Chu Yuan had somehow taken control of the Blood Sacrifice Array by some method he couldn't understand, he couldn't possibly have done this!

But Chu Yuan still ignored him.

He formed a hand seal, and the cocoons shrank along with it...

Amid a chorus of shrill, resentful screams, the bizarre creatures' bodies were compressed and destroyed!

In the end... they turned into round pills, one after another!

They were faintly white and translucent, with a faint glow shimmering inside.

Chu Yuan was delighted and hurriedly put them away.

At last, he had made back some of his losses from this sudden calamity!

To cultivators, bizarre creatures were actually less troublesome than Warriors. They were nothing more than roadside trash.

Inside the Blood Sea Soul-Locking Array, they were like ingredients that had already prepared themselves...

"Chu Yuan! Answer me!" In his shock and fury, Yan Xuan risked his injuries to clash with Qi Da, then used the momentum to rush toward Chu Yuan!

A deep unease filled his heart. He reached out to grab Chu Yuan by the throat!

"Suppress!"

The formation patterns around Chu Yuan seemed to flow a little faster.

An unimaginable force descended. It seemed to be pulling at every inch of Yan Xuan's body!

Yan Xuan had only just felt the pain when a cloud of blood burst open before his eyes! The source of the blood... was himself?

His strength seemed to vanish into thin air. He stared blankly at his arms.

What met his eyes were bones stripped completely clean...