Chapter 1224: Chapter 1168: If I Don’t Stop Him, My Dao Heart Will Be Destroyed!

The Primordial Spirit returns to its place, Qin Liuxi opens her eyes and immediately takes out pen and paper, quickly drawing the Array Map in her mind, completely immersed in the recollection.

Feng Xiu and Fan Kong exchange a glance, walk to the side, and say: "You guard this first, I’ll be right back."

Fan Kong nods.

Qin Liuxi doesn’t notice Feng Xiu leaving at all, only tries to reproduce everything she saw on the paper, while Fan Kong stands aside watching, his brow furrowing.

The stars shift.

Qin Liuxi lays down the final stroke, her Spiritual Power depleted, a sweetness in her throat, a trickle of blood seeping from the corner of her mouth, and she collapses softly on the ground.

Fan Kong has already taken that drawing, his expression somewhat grim.

Although he is not as knowledgeable as Qin Liuxi about arrays, he is not completely ignorant, as he himself is a Buddhist Practitioner, and the temple has a Collection that records some Sacrificial Altars, and also has scrolls on Array Maps, which he has read.

And this drawing Qin Liuxi made, even though it was drawn with pen, she has infused it with Spiritual Power.

To put it this way, an obsessive Artifact Refiner will pour their heart and soul into their work, even sacrificing their own soul to become the Artifact Soul; similarly, someone obsessed with sculpture and painting will immerse themselves wholly, investing their very soul. When a drawing is completed with such focus, it contains Spiritual Energy and appears almost real.

The drawing Qin Liuxi created was made with such commitment, even infusing it with Spiritual Power, so it possesses Spiritual Energy and is alive.

What Fan Kong sees in the drawing are moving treetops, verdant mountains, pillars imbued with Qi Fortune, and even the Divine Beasts carved on those pillars seem to be alive.

What he sees is exactly what Qin Liuxi saw, all encapsulated in this drawing.

Looking at the Array Map, has a Sacrificial Altar been arranged?

He looks at the Sanskrit on these pillars, mixed with Taoist runes, forming Heavenly Flag Poles. To move them is to provoke the heavens, no wonder there is unrest in the south.

Si Luo...

Fan Kong closes his eyes slightly and recites a scripture.

"What about that fox? Your expression doesn’t look good, what’s wrong? Does it have anything to do with you all stopping me from destroying this thing?" Qin Liuxi sat up at some point and pointed to the pillar.

Fan Kong says: "If this is the Sacrificial Array, these pillars are Heavenly Flag Poles; if destroyed recklessly, it will result in world chaos."

Qin Liuxi’s pupils slightly contract, a sudden realization: "Where has a natural disaster occurred?"

The Void ripples slightly.

Feng Xiu walks out with a cold expression: "It’s the region west of Lingnan, a sudden downpour, landslides, mountain torrents flooding, over ten thousand acres of farmland submerged, houses washed away. This is harvest season, with villagers working in the fields unable to escape and swept away by the flood. This crop will likely be destroyed."

Qin Liuxi’s expression is extremely grim, she says in a deep voice: "It’s late autumn in October, soon to be winter, how could..."

Everyone looks at the vibrant Sacrificial Array Map.

"This Array Map is already more than halfway completed." Fan Kong sighs: "At the very least, these Heavenly Flag Poles must not be moved recklessly, or the consequences will be unimaginable."

"You mean, my desire to destroy them has caused such extreme weather phenomena?" Qin Liuxi feels as if she has swallowed a fly, disgusted and uncomfortable.

Fan Kong does not speak directly: "With the loss of Spirit Veins and Spiritual Energy, the nation’s fortune declines. A declining fortune leads to unrest, with frequent occurrences of natural and man-made disasters, not entirely due to your movement of these Heavenly Flag Poles."

Qin Liuxi laughs coldly: "Why doesn’t the heavens just strike Si Luo dead? Didn’t he cause all this? He suffers no retribution, and instead we endure hardship, the people suffer, heaven is unfair!"

Passion flares.

Fan Kong remains silent; although a Buddhist Practitioner, he knows her temper. To preach Buddha’s poem of mercy now would fuel her indignation rather than quell it.

To avoid igniting his side, he chooses to feign deafness and muteness.

Qin Liuxi vents her frustration, and tells Fan Kong: "Regardless of how much of this Array Map he completes, we cannot destroy what’s nearly finished; it limits us. I see Sanskrit on the pillar, study it and see if you can unravel one or two things. Otherwise, it’s like handling jade bottles amidst rats, impossible to proceed."

Now wanting to destroy these pillars provokes a natural disaster, can’t move recklessly; if he completes the Array, it’ll be even more troublesome.

Qin Liuxi observes the Array Eye missing from the smaller arrays and says: "These smaller arrays split outwards, lacking an Array Eye, something seems off."

"Could the Array Eye be outside?" Feng Xiu asks.

The two look at him, indicating for him to continue.

Feng Xiu twists a strand of his hair around his finger, saying: "Suppose this drawing is his God Formation, there’s a Magic Altar inside. If, as Fan Kong says, it’s a Sacrificial Altar, what is used for sacrifice? I think, the great arrangement he set in this Secret Realm years ago might offer clues to counter it."

"Sacrifice of all living beings." Qin Liuxi says: "Years ago, he sought to ascend and become a god, ruling over a region, setting the Heavenly Dao rules, by sacrificing all living beings, leading to the Buddhist and Taoist rescue battle."

In that battle, he lost and was suppressed and imprisoned in the Nine Netherworld, enduring a long period.

Si Luo lost, imprisoned in the Nine Netherworld as well, but he didn’t completely lose, as he endured the passage of time and secretly schemed under the eyes of Yama in the Underworld, eventually escaping.

In contrast, the Buddhist and Taoist practices have changed over time; though they have disciples, the scarcity of Spiritual Energy makes Cultivation difficult compared to the past. Some have cultivated for centuries, unable to Ascend, unwillingly succumbing to mortality—this is the disparity.

And now, Si Luo exploits the era of Spiritual Energy scarcity, where Buddhist and Taoist cultivators are weaker compared to his first attempt to become a god, thus daringly repeats his actions.

This person is arrogant, somewhat perversely egotistical, convinced that no one can stop him with the current cultivators’ cultivation and nature’s spiritual energy.

Understanding this, Qin Liuxi grows melancholy.

Unhappy, unwilling, feeling her Dao Heart dissolving!

"Using all living beings for sacrifice means the smaller arrays are set for the Sacrificial Array, and the offerings are the Soul of All Living Beings. To obtain many souls, nothing achieves it faster than natural disaster and man-made disaster, and the Array Eye of these small arrays is likely outside, moving these pillars triggers the Array Eye, sparing much of his karmic burden." Feng Xiu says: "Truly a cunning plan."

"What is the Array Eye?" Qin Liuxi furrows her brow.

Feng Xiu shakes his head; if he knew, he’d directly find it rather than speak futilely here.

Fan Kong stares at the Sanskrit within the drawing, his mind muddled, an image flashes, his eyes sting, blood seeps from the corners, and he spits blood, collapsing to the side, trembling: "It’s the Grave Guardian Stone Beast."