Under One Person: The Puppet Immortal in the Tang Sect

If this endless expansion continues and affects the towns, the consequences would be unimaginable...

Halfway up the mountain platform.

The last remaining soul of the Quanxing sect also vanished under the nameless sword and was captured by the nameless sword and entered into his body.

Cui Ming sheathed his short sword, but his expression showed no sign of relief.

He looked up at the mountaintop. With Zuo Ruotong's immortal-like strength suppressing the Sanyi Sect, there should be no worries.

He looked down at the foot of the mountain again.

From his position, he could clearly see the dark red blood light spreading upwards and downwards along the mountain path.

They have reached the Sanyi Sect's headquarters by going upwards, and are approaching the Divine Machine Alliance's camp by going downwards.

The entire mountain is being swallowed up little by little by the Yellow Springs Formation.

"Nameless, as you devour these souls, do you feel anything unusual?"

Cui Ming suddenly asked.

After a moment of silence, Wuming carefully sensed the surroundings and then slowly shook his head.

"No abnormalities. The soul power is pure. After severing the connection between these souls and the Yellow Springs Formation, there will be no impact."

"Their remaining obsessions and fragments of memory have also been filtered out by the demon sword's supernatural power."

"filter..."

Cui Ming seemed to be deep in thought.

"In other words, the eerie red light accompanying this Yellow Springs Formation, and the madness and resentment it inflicts on the souls of the dead, have not corrupted the essence of these Quanxing souls?"

The nameless man nodded.

A glint of light flashed in Cui Ming's eyes.

Chapter 237 What kind of big cream cake?

On the platform, the last remaining soul of the Quanxing sect was pierced and vanished by a flying sword.

The last eerie glint of blood faded as the soul dissipated.

Cui Ming sheathed his flying short sword and turned his gaze to his feet.

The array patterns at the center of the platform are still clearly visible.

However, after losing a large number of Quanxing's undead souls, the array patterns began to appear dim and lackluster.

He crouched down and lightly touched the edge of a line with his finger.

The touch was cold and slippery, as if I were touching the skin of some kind of creature rather than a stone slab.

"These patterns are actually repairing themselves."

Cui Ming was somewhat surprised.

The nameless man's gaze then fell upon it.

Indeed, deep within those already dim lines, a faint, dark red light was slowly flowing.

Where the red light passed, the tiny cracks in the patterns caused by the destruction of the dead souls were healing at a speed visible to the naked eye.

"It seems that the foundation of this Yellow Springs Grand Array is not these patterns that make up the array."

Cui Ming stood up and looked around the entire platform.

"This is just one of many nodes where energy converges. The true core of the array should be..."

His gaze shifted to the center of the platform, to the location of the Onmyoji leader's corpse.

The body was already cold, and the blood flowing from its seven orifices had already congealed and turned black when Zuo Ruotong held it up in the air.

But strangely, the stone slabs within a three-foot radius of the corpse had exceptionally dense and complex patterns.

Moreover, the eerie red light seemed to be centered on the corpse, and it was constantly spreading outwards.

Cui Ming walked slowly closer.

As the distance shortened, he had already sensed a soul fluctuation that was completely different from those of the other undead souls through his powerful spiritual energy.

The fluctuations were extremely subtle. If it weren't for Cui Ming's powerful soul forged through the Chaotic Mind Technique and the split soul of Tomie, ordinary people probably wouldn't have been able to detect his presence at all.

"Come out."

Cui Ming stopped three steps in front of the corpse, his tone calm.

I know you are still alive.

There was no response whatsoever.

The corpse lay still, the red glow of the surrounding patterns slowly swirling around it.

Cui Ming wasn't in a hurry. He raised his right hand, palm down.

A deep blue azure power of alchemy surged from his palm, transforming into dozens of hair-thin rays of light that fell to the ground, precisely intercepting the most critical patterns and nodes around the corpse.

zizi——

The moment the power of the pill touched the dark red pattern, it made a sound like cold water dripping into hot oil.

The light from those patterns fluctuated violently, causing the array patterns on the entire platform to become dim and uncertain.

"stop!"

A terrified voice finally came from the corpse.

The voice resounded directly within Cui Ming and Wuming's consciousness.

Although they were speaking Japanese, the two people present were a puppeteer who had emptied the heads of countless Japanese soldiers and a local Japanese man who had killed countless people, so it didn't hinder their communication.

Cui Ming stopped what he was doing, his Dan Shi power condensing but not being released.

"Finally, they've spoken up."

He said it in Chinese.

"I know you understand. Come out and talk, or I'll help you in my own way..."

A brief silence.

Then, a wisp of faint gray mist slowly rose from the hideous and terrifying corpse.

The mist condensed in the air, eventually forming a semi-transparent human-shaped silhouette.

Its facial features were blurry, but one could vaguely make out that it was the appearance of the leader of the Onmyoji.

"Who...who exactly are you?"

The leader of the Onmyoji asked in broken Chinese, his voice filled with barely concealed weakness and fear.

"Why were you able to directly sever the connection between the souls of the dead and the Yellow Springs Array?"

"You have no right to ask questions here."

Cui Ming glanced indifferently at the leader of the Onmyoji.

"What is the origin of this formation? Where is the true core of the formation? How can it be completely shut down?"

While secretly activating the alluring power of the Pill Devouring Force, Cui Ming gave Wuming a command through a mental link.

Twelve sword lights flashed with a cold light and appeared instantly beside the Onmyoji's soul, causing a violent fluctuation in his soul.

"Shut down? Impossible!"

It shrieked.

"Once the Yellow Springs Formation is fully activated, it will never stop unless it devours a sufficient number of living souls to reach saturation!"

"It will continue to expand until it devours all living things it comes into contact with!"

"saturation?"

Cui Ming grasped the key words.

How many souls are enough?

"If it were to devour the souls of ordinary people, it would probably have to devour a full ten thousand souls."

"But now, there are so many otherworldly souls! Hahaha!"

A hint of madness crept into the voice of the Onmyoji leader's soul.

"This is the culmination of my life's work! I've tested it three times on my homeland, and each time it was able to devour the souls of an entire village within three hours!"

"But the souls of those commoners are too weak... too weak to even awaken the initial stage of the great formation!"

Cui Ming's expression changed slightly.

Three trials, three villages.

These eight short words mean that at least several thousand civilians died at the hands of this Onmyoji.

"So you chose to come here."

Cui Ming's gaze gradually turned cold.

"Because there are enough alien souls here."

"That's right!"

The Onmyoji leader's soul became agitated.

"Your souls... cough cough, the soul strength of you Eastern Kingdom's superhumans far surpasses that of ordinary people! Especially those members of the Trinity Sect! Their souls are pure and resilient, definitely the finest fuel!"

"Once we devour all the fallen supernatural beings on this mountain, the Yellow Springs Formation will complete its first 'awakening'!"

What happens after awakening?

"And then? Hehehe."

It emitted a piercing laugh.

"Afterwards, the great formation will give birth to a 'formation spirit'! That will be a supreme being with self-awareness, capable of autonomously controlling the expansion of the formation!"

"At that time, not only this mountain, but the entire mountain range, the entire province... and even the entire country will be swallowed by the Yellow Springs!"