Ling Yishan nodded and said, "So it seems. After remolding my Dao Foundation, my cultivation has recovered, and my lifespan has increased significantly... This time, it seems you won’t outlive me. It will be my turn to send you off."
"..."
Sun Chongli pouted, "Don’t speak too soon. Perhaps once I’ve broken this grand array, I may ascend directly to the Ultimate Venerable by proving the Dao through the array..."
"Let’s hope so." Ling Yishan smiled without retorting, then asked, "By the way, how is the progress in breaking the Eightfold Exorcism Array?"
Sun Chongli restrained his expression and said solemnly, "Thanks to Mr. Chen, who provided the array guide, it helped us pinpoint the position of the Array Hub, which significantly reduced the difficulty of breaking it. We’ve now dismantled the seventh layer of the array; only the last step remains..."
As they spoke, they walked over to the sand table.
The grand array before them had been stripped layer by layer, revealing the directions of the Earth Veins, the structure of the array, and the position of the Dragon Vein... all laid out before their eyes.
Ling Yishan scrutinized it carefully. Though his expertise in the Formation Path wasn’t as advanced as Sun Chongli’s, he noticed something amiss, "The seventh layer of the array seems unrelated to the Dragon Vein?"
"That’s right," Sun Chongli nodded and said, "both the sixth and seventh layers are Illusion Arrays, primarily designed to obscure the Heavenly Secret, as if concealing something."
"Concealing what?" Ling Yishan pondered.
"It’s unlocked, I’ve unlocked it!"
Just then, an Array Master suddenly leaped up, excitedly shouting aloud.
"Let me see," Sun Chongli called out.
"Please review it, Director." The Array Master quickly stepped forward and handed over the blueprint.
Sun Chongli reached out to receive it, examining it carefully. His eyes immediately lit up as he nodded, "The East is the position of the Azure Dragon, channeling Qi to suppress evil, the central Wu Earth position stabilizes Heaven and Earth... that’s correct, well done!"
A strand of Primordial Qi flicked from his fingertips, merging into the Array. Following the blueprint, he connected the Earth Veins on the eastern side.
The moment the Earth Veins connected, the sand table transformed on its own, as if a layer of mist had been lifted, revealing its true form—
In the four directions of southeast, southwest, northeast, and northwest, four flickering red lights appeared, interconnected by countless dense threads, forming a vast net covering the entire Tiandu City.
"This is..."
Ling Yishan looked at the array before him, feeling a strange sense of familiarity.
Sun Chongli, realizing something, suddenly narrowed his pupils and gasped, "This, this is the Ten Thousand Spirits Blood Transformation Array!"
Once the Ten Thousand Spirits Blood Transformation Array is formed, it can obliterate all living beings within it, transforming them entirely into Blood Evil!
The array itself isn’t extremely complex, but because of its excessively brutal nature, it was long forbidden by the court. Who would’ve thought such a fearsome array was hidden beneath the Capital City!
"Based on the scale of this array, once activated, it could turn all the citizens of the city into blood!" Sun Chongli said urgently, "It must be broken quickly, or the consequences will be unthinkable!"
Boom—
This array was set up years ago. What is its true purpose?
Buzz—
While Ling Yishan pondered, the space in the courtyard distorted, and two figures suddenly appeared.
One of them, a woman in a purple dress wearing a golden mask, her eyes like two dark flames.
Beside her stood a hunched old man, tightly bound by jade chains, whose attire suggested he was an eunuch from the palace.
"You must be Miss Ji?" Ling Yishan nodded and said, "Chen Mo mentioned you specifically to me, saying that it’s thanks to you that the Demon Suppression Department hasn’t been razed to the ground these days."
"It’s nothing, just lifting a finger," Ji Lianxing furrowed her brows and said, "What’s going on in the city now, causing such a big commotion, it seems like an earth dragon’s flipping..."
"It’s a long story. The Blood Evil Array has been activated, and many lives are likely to be lost," Ling Yishan said in a low voice.
"The Blood Evil Array?"
Recalling her past experience in the Southern Border, Ji Lianxing was silently alarmed.
Worried the Imperial Music Bureau might also be affected, she waved her hand, throwing the old eunuch in front of Ling Yishan and said, "This guy was sneaking around nearby and I caught him. You can interrogate him yourself, I must take my leave now."
With that, her figure flashed and disappeared.

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