Ordinary disciples of the Mystic-Yin Cult used sets of nine banners to lay their formations, or eighteen, or twenty-seven. Even those who used thirty-six were rare.
A single person could hardly command so many "baleful spirits." Although those things could not subtly influence the human mind like god-demons, using them brought powerful "recoil" that continually battered the wielder's primordial spirit and soul. Once they could no longer be suppressed, they too would "rebel" and turn on their master—even more fiercely and savagely than god-demons.
The original Demon Corpse Gu Chen had used nine times nine banners, eighty-one in all, which already constituted a complete Profound Yin Soul-Refining Grand Formation. Once activated, it shook heaven and earth.
This Heavenly Lust Cult Master, Gu Chen, used eighty-one complete Profound Yin Soul-Refining Formations, covering all three hundred li of Mystic-Yin Island. Their vicious spirits were even more formidable, each a "stitched monstrosity" refined from the divine souls of countless humans and demons. Any one of them alone could bring disaster upon an entire region.
When this formation operated, it disrupted yin and yang and warped space and time. Anyone else, even if not immediately slain and refined, would inevitably become like a lone skiff on the ocean, barely able to preserve themselves.
Shi Feiyang stood enveloped in purple-and-azure divine light, holding the Haotian Mirror in one hand. With the other, he took out the Cosmic Light Disk and fitted it against the mirror's back. He breathed a mouthful of immortal qi onto it, and the precious mirror shot out a heaven-shaking pillar of light.
Although the Cosmic Light Disk rested against the mirror's back, the light projected from its front carried the disk's Twenty-Eight Lunar Mansions, the stars of the heavens, the twelve palaces of the zodiac, and more. All had been evolved