"Is this a Qimen Grand Array? Or a military battle array from a novel?" Zhang Chen pondered.
However, in his Eye of Devouring, the array seemed like a sieve, with flaws visible everywhere.
Especially within the array, there were more than ten auras, fresher and more enticing than usual, making Zhang Chen wish he could just pounce and take a bite. In the Eye of Devouring, those auras were far more valuable than those of ordinary soldiers.
"I’ll first use you to test the might of my Blood God Child." A thought crossed Zhang Chen’s mind, and a blood-red figure appeared behind him. Then, the blood-red figure transformed into a stream of light, rushing into a flaw in the military formation with lightning speed.
The guarding soldiers hadn’t reacted yet when the Blood God Child had already plunged into their bodies. In an instant, the Blood God Child left their bodies and pounced on another soldier.
Anyone struck by the Blood God Child would instantly shrivel up and fall to the ground as a withered corpse, with all the blood drained out of their bodies.
"Ah, monster!"
A soldier saw the red light and couldn’t help but scream, shock filling his eyes.
But before the scream of terror could be completed, the red light had already pounced directly at him.
The soldier swung his long knife, trying to cut down the red monster, but the normal long knife was completely ineffective against the monster. The red monster passed through the long knife, plunged into the soldier’s body, and then swiftly left, leaving a pile of withered corpses.
"The strength of the Blood God Child lies in being unaffected by attacks from the Material Realm. Unless Extraordinary Power descends, or there’s a long knife imbued with Extraordinary Power, no matter how many troops you have, they will become nourishment for the Blood God Child." Zhang Chen hid under the shade of a tree outside the grand array, coldly watching in silence.
"Monster! There’s a monster!" More soldiers screamed out, causing more cries of alarm. Faced with the Immortal monster, the common soldiers had no will to resist.
The cries alerted the Samurai practicing Qi Blood in the main tent. At this moment, the Samurai leader shouted, "Don’t panic, don’t run around, form the array! Form the array immediately! Use the power of the array to suppress him."
Even when dealing with the bizarre, an army is not entirely powerless. Five thousand elite troops could slay even a True Dragon, let alone an ordinary monster?
In theory, with three thousand soldiers forming a military array, Zhang Chen’s Blood God Child should have been defeated, but Zhang Chen used the Eye of Devouring to see through the military array’s operational patterns.
As the military array functioned, the generals mobilized the power of the array, using Qi Blood to suppress Zhang Chen’s Blood God Child. But Zhang Chen’s Blood God Child was too mysterious, moving around the flaws in the grand array like returning home, always avoiding the mysterious strangling of Qi Blood at the last moment, plunging into soldiers’ bodies and starting a massacre.
"We can’t stop it! We absolutely can’t stop this monster!"
A soldier saw the blood-red monster moving in the array like it was an ownerless territory and screamed out in fright, eyes filled with despair.
Everyone around the blood-red monster screamed, and the Martial Artist refining Qi Blood was also frightened by the Blood God Child.
"Die now!" A Martial Artist refining Qi Blood roared, slashing at the Blood God Child with a knife, but the Blood God Child quickly dodged, pulling away instantly.
The Blood God Child was only wary of the Martial Artist refining Qi Blood. The outcome of a fight was uncertain, but fighting with the Martial Artist delayed the Blood God Child’s slaughter, so it directly abandoned the Martial Artist and pounced on ordinary soldiers.
The Martial Artist wanted to engage with the Blood God Child, but it gave him no opportunity, swiftly maneuvering. The Martial Artist couldn’t catch up and could only watch as the Blood God Child slaughtered ordinary soldiers.
"Someone, quickly go to Huangli Temple and invite the priests to subdue this anomaly!" The leader screamed shrilly.
A soldier quickly left the array, running towards the mountain, but before taking a few steps, he was hit by the Blood God Child and fell to the ground.
How could the speed of a human running compare to the Blood God Child?
"Send out ten more people." The leader gritted his teeth, instructing his personal guards beside him.
Ten personal guards immediately fled, running towards the mountain gate, but the Blood God Child was so fast that within ten breaths, the ten had turned into withered corpses on the ground.
"I’ll go!"
A Martial Artist refining Qi Blood’s face changed dramatically, leaping out of the array and running swiftly towards the Daoist temple’s mountain gate.
Facing the Martial Artist refining Qi Blood, the Blood God Child showed a hint of dread in its eyes but ignored the Martial Artist who ran to summon reinforcements, turning back into the array to massacre the ordinary soldiers.
Zhang Chen stood under the shade of a tree, watching the Martial Artist running towards the Daoist temple in the distance, having a thoughtful look in his eyes but not stopping the Martial Artist’s actions, letting him go to summon people, using this as a chance to see what skills and methods Huangli Temple had for future vigilance.
The Blood God Child was immortal, so he wasn’t worried about its life or death.
Conversely, after devouring hundreds of people, the Blood God Child’s body seemed to solidify even more, and its power started to grow with the nourishment of the vast blood.
The slaughter continued, and Zhang Chen withdrew discreetly, retreating ten miles away to avoid being discovered by any strong individuals from Huangli Temple later.
One breath killed one person. By the time the Martial Artist invited a Huangli Temple Daoist from the mountain, the three thousand soldiers had already seen thirteen hundred killed.
At that moment, with the massacre of nearly half the troops, the grand array could no longer hold and collapsed. The remaining soldiers ignored the general’s orders and fled wildly through the mountains.
Without the restraint of the grand array, the Blood God Child slaughtered even faster.
"You abomination, stop this instant!"
At this moment, a furious voice rang out from afar. A divine light flew in from the sky, revealing its presence on the ground; it was a Daoist Zhang Chen had never seen before.
The Daoist was shrouded in Golden Light, exuding a divine aura in the night, appearing very majestic.
The Daoist looked at the Blood God Child, eyes filled with rage: "You abomination, dare to be reckless at the foot of Huangli Temple, you’re truly ignorant of the heavens and earth. Today, I will put an end to you."
A Treasure Sword shimmering with Golden Light unsheathed from the Daoist’s back, transforming into dozens of Sword Qi, slicing through the void towards the Blood God Child to tear it apart.
In the distance, Zhang Chen’s expression changed: "Sword Control Technique? No, it’s a Secret Treasure refined with the Power of Incense, empowered with Divine Power. That Treasure Sword is at least a fourth-tier existence, not something the Blood God Child can contend with."
"That is the power of Divine Dao, with some attributes of the Light of the True God, hence it can break the Blood God Child’s power." Zhang Chen came to a realization in his heart but was puzzled:
"Why can the opponent’s Divine Power control the Flying Sword, but my Light of the True God cannot?"
"No wonder Huangli Temple abandoned Martial Dao Secret Techniques; it’s because they have a stronger power. This person already controls what can be considered Divine Power, but compared to my Light of the True God, it’s lacking something, seemingly missing a kind of Divine Power." Zhang Chen pondered secretly.
The Blood God Child, of course, was unwilling to sit and wait for death, constantly dodging among the crowd, evading the encircling blow of the Treasure Sword. Yet, the Treasure Sword’s light was three points faster than the Blood God Child, and within just a few breaths, the Blood God Child had already been decapitated, slashed into a pool of blood, and vanished into thin air.
At this moment, the Treasure Sword wailed, stained with a layer of blood light, falling to the ground with a constant humming.
"My Treasure Sword!" The Daoist exclaimed and quickly went forward to pick up the Treasure Sword.
The Treasure Sword’s divine light was dimmed, the Incense Qi tainted by blood, and the sword lay on the ground, unable to continue flying, looking very pitiful with rust stains.