Immortality Through Array Formations Chapter 1975 - 955: Dragon Diagram
Previously on Immortality Through Array Formations...
Deep within the burial pit, the struggle atop the radiant yellow bronze coffin continued with savage intensity.
Severed limbs soared through the air amidst a gale of blood and rain.
A massive, fleshy corpse effigy thrashed its arms, directing thousands of corpse demons while letting out a monstrous, wrathful roar.
Facing it, the man in black robes bore an Evil Dragon upon his back, enveloped in a towering aura of Blood Qi. The Four Symbols Green Dragon Evil Formation was activated to its maximum capacity, its violent energy clashing head-on with the colossal corpse effigy.
Every strike delivered by this man manifested a dragon’s shadow.
Each shadow, accompanied by a resonant dragon’s roar, lunged forward with devastating force, smashing into the bloated fleshy corpse effigy.
The Evil Dragon’s power was incredibly fearsome; even the robust fleshy corpse effigy found it impossible to endure.
Great chunks of necrotic flesh were shattered and dissolved, reduced to nothing but ash by the Dragon Fist.
This display of overwhelming might did more than just drive the flesh corpse effigy into a frenzy; it stirred deep emotions in everyone watching.
Mr. Hui, in particular, wore a face masked in pure astonishment.
"Is this... a dragon?!"
He had never suspected that the man who had been so quiet during their journey actually commanded such terrifying Evil Dragon power.
Stone was equally paralyzed by shock.
Even the other three black-robed cultivators were momentarily stunned, their faces flashing with various emotions.
The black-robed elder wore a look of arrogance mixed with fanatical devotion.
The black-robed noble sighed with envy, whispering: "So this is... the dragon of the Great Wilderness..."
Another black-robed man, in the heat of the chaotic battle, ripped away his outer garment to reveal a frame as sturdy as a Bear Pi, decorated with a fierce Monster Pattern on his back.
This man crushed a corpse demon with his bare hands before looking up at the figure marked with the Dragon Pattern, his eyes burning with desire.
Within that longing, however, were flickers of jealousy and avarice.
While the cultivators present were either shocked or lost in their own schemes, only Mo Hua was quietly toiling away.
He was busy calculating Formation Patterns, "stealing" the formation.
Using the thick Corpse Qi and the turbulence of Spiritual Power and Blood Qi as a smokescreen, Mo Hua remained hidden at a distance. He utilized both the Heavenly Secret Tricky Calculation and Heavenly Secret Calculation in tandem to spy upon the cryptic Great Wilderness Four Symbols Green Dragon Formation Diagram.
Within his eyes, three colors—black, white, and gold—intermingled.
His powerful Telekinesis flowed out like a surging tide.
Ancient and enigmatic Formation Patterns, heavy with primordial meaning, began to reconstruct themselves in his mind through his calculations.
Simultaneously, Mo Hua’s hands moved across the ground, sketching Mo Patterns to quickly record each segment of the formation.
On the dark gray earth, ink-like marks began to take shape, piecing together like the scales and claws of an Azure Dragon.
First came the dragon claws, followed by the scales, the tail, the torso, and the fins...
A draconic figure composed of Formation Patterns slowly emerged... until he reached the head of the dragon.
At the dragon's head, the entire process ground to a halt.
The speed of his calculation plummeted.
Mo Hua’s Sea of Consciousness began to throb with a needle-like pain as his Divine Sense reached the point of exhaustion.
The calculation, pushed beyond his limits by the Tricky Calculation, began to take its toll; his eyes felt swollen, as if they might bleed at any moment.
It felt as though a massive bottleneck had blocked his path of deduction.
No matter how much effort he exerted or how persistent he remained, he could not bypass this obstacle to complete the full dragon.
With blood nearly seeping from the corners of his eyes and the stabbing pain in his Sea of Consciousness growing sharper, Mo Hua realized he had reached his absolute limit and was forced to stop.
"My Divine Sense is still insufficient, and being at the peak of Nineteen-Pattern isn't enough either..."
"My Tricky Calculation and Calculation techniques still lack the necessary refinement."
Mo Hua let out a sigh and softly rubbed his eyes, looking down at the Formation Map he had drawn on the ground.
The Four Symbols Green Dragon Formation, in its full state, should have been a complete dragon, but the one before him was headless.
The body alone consisted of eighteen patterns.
Despite his best efforts, Mo Hua could only deduce this much.
The remaining patterns for the Azure Dragon’s head were simply beyond what his current Divine Sense and Calculation abilities could handle.
Judging by this partial sketch, the full Four Symbols Green Dragon Formation Diagram was likely nineteen patterns, but it was more probably over twenty—perhaps even a twenty-one pattern Ultimate Formation.
This meant the Demon Sect Leader’s Green Dragon Formation was not merely a Four Symbols Formation of the Great Wilderness; it was a Divine Beast Formation within that category, and a transmission that exceeded a Second Grade Twenty-Pattern Absolute Formation.
"What a shame..." Mo Hua thought with a sigh.
Had his Divine Sense and Tricky Calculation been more potent, he might have been able to map out the entire Diagram.
He wouldn't have been left with a dragon that had claws and a tail, but no head.
"Even if I had finished it, it might be useless..."
Mo Hua studied the incomplete Azure Dragon Formation Diagram again, his brow furrowing.
Though it was a dragon, the bones appeared jagged and the patterns were reversed; its fangs and claws were overly sharp, radiating a sense of pure evil despite its majesty.
"This is an Evil Formation..."
If it belonged to the Evil Path, it was something he could not learn.
Mo Hua would not be so arrogant as to ignore the warnings of his mentor, Elder Master Xun, and the various seniors who had cautioned him.
He wasn't foolish enough to try and be clever by practicing an Evil Path Formation.
Ignoring the wisdom of one's elders only leads to visible suffering.
He could still clearly tell the difference between righteousness and evil.
"But what about my Lifebound Formation Map...?"
"How am I supposed to handle this unfinished Four Symbols Green Dragon Formation Diagram?"
Could he turn evil into good?
And where would he find a complete version?
Surely he wouldn't have to kill this powerful Demon Sect Leader just to flay the skin from his back and copy the design?
Mo Hua frowned deeply at the thought.
However, with time running out, there was no room for hesitation.
After copying the deduced patterns into a Jade Slip and tucking it into his Storage Ring, Mo Hua wiped away all traces of his work from the ground. Finally feeling secure, he looked back toward the distant, raging battlefield.