Immortality Through Array Formations

"It's soon, very soon!"

Behind him, there's a little tiger's head drawn, looking very much like a tiger.

Mo Hua used his Divine Sense to lead and let Little Tiger deliver the message."

Then he began to consider what he should do before returning.

The Formation of Ten Thousand Corpses, the Bronze Coffin, the Corpse Mine...

All of these must be destroyed, otherwise they will surely leave an endless curse.

The Corpse Cultivators in the Corpse Mine, who kill and refine corpses, also need to be completely eradicated.

The Zombies inside must be properly dealt with as well, best if they can all be burned to prevent them from consuming flesh and blood and allowing the Corpse Poison to spread, poisoning South Yue City...

"But just how many Zombies are there in this Corpse Mine?"

Mo Hua knew there were many, but he couldn't count exactly how many.

The ones in the Stone Palace and those within the Formation of Ten Thousand Corpses should only be a part of them.

The Corpse Mine is bigger than the Corpse Walking Stronghold, and the formations inside are more complex. With Lu Chengyun watching over, he was hindered, so there were many places he couldn't explore.

And outside the Corpse Mine, there are more mineshafts, and the number of Zombies inside them might be even greater...

Know yourself, know your enemy.

Without finding out how many Zombies there are, it is impossible to make a move.

Even a Foundation Building Cultivator, if surrounded by hundreds or thousands of Walking Corpses and unable to escape, would undoubtedly die.

Not to mention, there are numerous Iron Corpses inside the Corpse Mine.

Even if the Taoist Court were to deploy Taoist Soldiers to suppress the Corpse Mine, without knowing the internal situation, it would be difficult to conduct operations.

After thinking it over, Mo Hua decided to first take a look at the mineshafts outside.

Outside the Stone Palace, there is a mineshaft, separated by a large gate.

On this gate, there is a bloody Evil Formation.

And at the same time, there is a key.

This key is something Mo Hua discovered later on.

The key, made of bones, was placed on one of the Corpse Cultivators guarding the gate.

As for the formation, Mo Hua couldn't touch it for the time being – afraid to startle Lu Chengyun – but the key could be stolen.

Mo Hua seized the opportunity when the gate-guarding Corpse Cultivator was preoccupied with refining corpses and unable to be distracted, manipulating Little Tiger to steal his key, and then stealthily used the key to unlock the great door of the Stone Palace.

Outside the great door lies the mineshaft.

Dark, damp, gloomy, the air is heavy with Corpse Qi, yet it's also extremely noisy.

Mo Hua stepped out of the Stone Palace and walked along the mineshaft for a while, and then came upon a massive mining pit.

It was just as Mo Hua had guessed, and yet also different.

Walking Corpses were indeed mining, but there were far too many...

The pit is extremely vast, and within it, densely packed, were all Walking Corpses.

They are dressed in tattered clothes, their skin putrefied, each one holding a mining pick, mining in there!

They are dead, yet they are doing the work of the living.

Most of them were miners in life, after death refined into corpses, they are still miners, even busier and more tireless than when they were alive.

Countless Zombies mining...

This noisy spectacle seemed like something from the world of the living, yet also from the netherworld.

The Cultivators in the mines, while alive, are driven by life to numbness as if they're zombies.

The Walking Corpses in the mine, clearly dead, but slaving away for the Lu Family as if they were still alive.

For a moment, the daytime scene of Mining Cultivators laboring and the nighttime Zombies mining overlapping in Mo Hua's mind, confusing, seeming both real and unreal.

He suddenly couldn't distinguish what was the true reality.

Mo Hua was utterly shocked and stood still for a long while.

In that instant, he seemed to have a vague enlightenment about life and death in this world, as well as the underlying 'path' of people at the most basic level.

At the same time, another troublesome fact lay before Mo Hua.

There were far too many Zombies in this Corpse Mine!

Within this enormous pit alone, there appeared to be tens of thousands of Walking Corpses.

And according to the formations around," he estimated that the mineshaft was even larger than he had imagined, which meant that there were several mining pits within the mountain.

Each mining pit was filled with countless Walking Corpses...

Just thinking about it made Mo Hua's scalp tingle.

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These Walking Corpses, if they were to break out of the Corpse Mine and form a Corpse Tide, using Corpse Poison to infect further, I'm afraid not just South Yue City would be annihilated, but even the whole of the Minor Wilderness State Boundary might suffer the doom of all living beings.

The Minor Wilderness State Boundary would become Minor Wilderness "Corpse" Boundary.

Mo Hua stopped reading.

There was not much time left, and he again quietly slipped back.

The gate leading outside was a natural boulder guarded by two Second-Grade Iron Corpses, surrounded by thick mountain walls.

In a short time, he could not free himself; he could only go back first and plan ahead for the long term.

When Mo Hua returned, that Corpse Cultivator guarding the gate had yet to finish refining the corpse.

Mo Hua again controlled Little Tiger to return the key and then went back to his room, frowning in contemplation.

This Corpse Mine was larger than he had thought.

There were also more Walking Corpses in the mine than he had expected.

With so many Walking Corpses, how about Iron Corpses?

How many Iron Corpses were there?

Within the Formation of Ten Thousand Corpses, Mo Hua had counted there were roughly twenty-four iron coffins.

This meant there were twenty-four Iron Corpses.

Inside the Stone Palace, in some of the secret chambers, there were also traces of Iron Corpses' presence; Mo Hua roughly estimated there to be seven or eight.

There were also some Iron Corpses in the outer mines.

So, by this count, were there at least forty-plus Iron Corpses throughout the Corpse Mine?

Among the Iron Corpses, mixed First and Second Grade, the First Grade was slightly weaker, equivalent to weak Foundation Establishment, while the Second Grade was significantly stronger and could be considered at the Foundation Establishment Middle Stage.

All together, were there nearly forty-plus Foundation Building cultivators?

A chill ran down Mo Hua's spine.

Forty-plus Foundation Builders was an immense force, not only for South Yue City but even when considering the whole Minor Wilderness State Boundary, it was a leading power...

This strength was sufficient to look down upon the entire Second-Grade Prefecture Border...

Suddenly, Mo Hua felt a little shocked and confused.

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Where did Lu Chengyun get so many corpses to refine this many Iron Corpses?

To refine an Iron Corpse, one needed at least the peak of the Qi Refining Ninth Level and the corpse of a Foundation Establishment Stage cultivator.

Taking into account the success rate of Corpse Refinement, even more corpses would be needed to refine Iron Corpses.

It's one thing to find those at the peak of Qi Refinement, but where did he get the corpses of Foundation Building Cultivators?

Even if he killed for them, he couldn't have killed so many...

Where did he get so many Foundation Establishment corpses?

Mo Hua suddenly thought of the Lu Family Old Ancestor.

In the Spirit Pivot Sequence of the Formation of Ten Thousand Corpses, the Lu Family Old Ancestor was the "Corpse King," with the highest sequence position.

The Corpse King needed to command hordes of corpses.

Thus, the corpse used to refine the Corpse King was very particular; it had to be either a Sect Leader, a Family Head, or a ruler...

Those under its command were either Sect Disciples, Clan Disciples, or citizens of a country.

The Lu Family Old Ancestor was the "Corpse King."

According to the principles of Corpse Refinement, those who are submissive to it should be...Lu Family cultivators?n/ô/vel/b//in dot c//om

It's unlikely to be Mining Cultivators...

Among the Mining Cultivators, there were almost no Foundation Building Cultivators.

Moreover, although the Mining Cultivators were exploited by the Lu Family Old Ancestor, most harbored resentment; their grudges did not dissipate after death, and if refined into zombies that submitted to the Lu Family Old Ancestor, they could easily lose control.

It could only be the Lu Family...

Were most of these Iron Corpses refined from the corpses of Lu Family cultivators, or rather, the corpses of Lu Family Elders?

But Lu Chengyun was the Family Head, and although he could kill one or two Elders, killing so many would definitely cause problems and arouse suspicion from the Lu Family.

He wouldn't do such a thing, cutting off his own roots.

So where did these corpses come from?

Elder corpses...

Mo Hua's brow furrowed tightly.

Suddenly he realized something, and a great alarm struck his heart:

"This Lu Chengyun, he couldn't have dug up the Lu Family's ancestral graves..."

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