Immortality Through Array Formations Chapter 2071 Chapter 986: Third Grade - Part 3

One among them is even blind, leaving Mo Hua seething with rage without end.

Furthermore, every one of these Monster Beasts possesses great agility and unexpectedly rapid speed.

Mo Hua wasted half a day in pursuit yet failed to land a single sword strike.

Beyond that, by stirring up too many Monster Beasts, he sparked a major disturbance.

Numerous Monster Beasts clashed with one another, all eager to consume him.

However, Mo Hua's evasion skills proved so nimble that none could touch him, causing them to lash out at their own kind in savage combat.

With their dim wits and fierce predatory urges, Monster Beasts lose all control once blood spills in their brawls, ripping into each other with wild abandon.

The little woodland plunged into pandemonium right away.

Monster Qi churned wildly, thunderous howls rattled the peaks, and the uproar echoed across great distances.

Xun Ziyou, perched at the sect entrance, caught the intermittent bursts of beastly cries.

Xun Ziyou savored his tea with composure at first, showing little worry.

This was Refining Demon Mountain after all, a haven for Monster Beasts where disciples hunted them; distant roars from the woods were nothing out of the ordinary.

Xun Ziyou had grown used to such sounds and brushed them off, but soon his pulse quickened unexpectedly.

He grasped that something set today apart from the norm.

Mo Hua had ventured onto the mountain this day!

Any odd event carries a cause behind it.

Mo Hua himself embodied that "cause."

Trouble tends to follow him wherever he treads.

As Mo Hua's "protector," Xun Ziyou had dealt with plenty of these situations before.

The woods fell into an unnatural hush amid the ongoing beast roars.

Xun Ziyou's mind raced now, the fine tea turning tasteless in his mouth.

Though the disturbance appeared minor, anything tied to Mo Hua rarely proved straightforward.

Xun Ziyou wavered for a good long time before placing his cup aside. "I can't ignore this; I have to check it out."

He lost all interest in his tea.

He had to investigate personally—even if it turned out to be nothing, confirming it would ease his worries.

With that, Xun Ziyou adjusted his robes and rose, his form blurring into a ray of sword light as he leaped onto the treetops, racing straight toward Refining Demon Mountain.

Along the way, he masked his presence and triggered a concealed Spiritual Artifact, slipping silently through the trees to creep up on the hill where the Monster Beast frenzy raged.

As he drew close to the peak, a horde of wolves, bugs, tigers, and leopards appeared, clustered thickly and locked in frenzied fights, with blood spilling all over.

Xun Ziyou's eyes focused intently, scanning the area until he spotted Mo Hua on a tall tree nearby.

Right then, Mo Hua balanced on a thick branch, observing the scene below.

The Monster Beasts down there ripped into one another with brutal force, yet he seemed relaxed up high.

Xun Ziyou exhaled in relief, though he couldn't help feeling a bit at a loss for words.

He was dead certain this mayhem stemmed from Mo Hua's actions.

With the Monster Beasts now bloodied and worn from their clashes, he simply watched the fray from safety.

Xun Ziyou shook his head in disbelief.

But having arrived, he couldn't simply depart.

Xun Ziyou stayed hidden without a sound or sign of his arrival, keeping watch from nearby for the moment.

After some thought, he decided the spot felt too exposed and risked Mo Hua noticing, so he withdrew farther back in silence.

Up on the branch meanwhile, Mo Hua gazed down at the rampaging Monster Beasts, a sense of frustration washing over him.

He hadn't intended to unleash such disorder, yet these creatures refused to play along.

Had just one Monster Beast stood alone with big eyes to lock onto his stare submissively, he could have swung his sword already, avoiding all this mess.

"I'll wait for things to shift, then go after a wounded Monster Beast, trap it in a Formation, and make it face me..."

Mo Hua mulled it over briefly, seeing no better option.

So he stayed put on his perch, silently eyeing the Monster Beasts as they mauled each other, biding time until the chaos eased so he could pick off the survivors.

But before long, prior to any calming of the storm, a mightier wave of Monster Qi erupted from the distance.

Mo Hua's face changed abruptly.

Even Xun Ziyou from afar narrowed his eyes in alert.

"A Third Grade... Monster Beast?"

Before either could dwell on it, in just moments, a furious storm of dark sand swept in, hurling rocks and grit while a heavy blood reek saturated the air.

The nearby earth and plants shrank back entirely.

Through the murky black haze, a massive shadow loomed vaguely, towering like a tiny hill.

Its fangs gleamed sharp, muzzle stretched long, eyes glowed like torches, pupils wide as gongs, hide black as night and hard as steel, covered in stiff needle-like spines.

Blood Qi flowed from it like mighty streams.

A tremendous demonic force boiled inside its frame.

This was unmistakably a Third Grade Golden Core Realm Black Pig Monster!

Such a Third Grade Black Pig Monster ranked near the top of strength across the local peaks of Refining Demon Mountain.

In particular, this Pig Monster boasted thick Bloodline heritage, leathery hide and muscle, a frame resembling a mini mountain, able to swallow almost any mid- or late-Second Grade Monster Beast whole.

As dark Qi billowed forth, the Third Grade Black Pig Monster's arrival brought a sudden hush to the once-turbulent woods.

The Second Grade Monster Beasts that had been tearing at each other now quivered in terror, gripped by an unknown dread, scattering in panic.

Those too sluggish to flee got stomped flat under the huge Pig Monster's hoof or snapped in two by its jaws.

A sturdy Second Grade Bear Demon tried to stand its ground thanks to its bulky build, only to have the Third Grade Pig Monster's tusks gore its chest, hurling it down hard.

Then a single tusk slash from above gutted the Bear Demon on the spot.

Any other Monster Beasts that couldn't get away fell prey one by one to the Black Pig Monster, their bones crushed and bodies mangled into gore.

The woods, brimming with disorder moments before, dropped into dead quiet in the blink of an eye.

Most of the scattered Monster Beasts lay as lifeless heaps.

Only the crunch of the Pig Monster munching bones and its bloody gasps hung eerily in the trees.

Mo Hua, high in the branches, held his breath tight.

This marked his closest encounter ever with a Third Grade Golden Core Realm Monster Beast, and one so gigantic at that; merely looking at it pressed down with crushing weight, let alone its surging demonic might, the acrid Blood Qi tang, and the savage urge to kill...

A chill crept up Mo Hua's spine.

"What now?"

"Flee?"

After weighing his options, Mo Hua saw no alternative, loath to gamble on battling this colossal Third Grade Pig Monster.

The peril loomed far too great.

Mo Hua made up his mind and rose gradually.

Yet the instant he stirred, the Black Pig Monster below halted its feast, crimson gleams igniting in its gaze.

Mo Hua stiffened, a sharp threat prickling at him.

"This is bad!"

He vaulted away from the tree without delay.

The very next heartbeat, the trunk under him cleaved apart.

The Black Pig Monster had barely tapped it, but its demonic power sundered the tree straight down the middle, sending splinters flying as it toppled over.

This Third Grade Pig Monster showed exceptional wariness, its nose keen to human smells beyond compare.

Its hunger for human meat burned with fierce intensity.

Spotting Mo Hua's leap, the Black Pig Monster bellowed in fury, its hulking mass barreling ahead like a landslide.

Every tree in its wake crumpled like weeds, smashed aside in succession.

Mo Hua clenched his jaw, pushing his movement technique to its limit as he bolted far off.

The Black Pig Monster's cruel eyes blazed like gongs, whipping up gale-force winds and roiling black Qi, doggedly chasing after Mo Hua...