Chapter 720: One’s Patience Is at Its Peak When Doing Bad Things

Chapter 720: Chapter 720: One’s Patience Is at Its Peak When Doing Bad Things

Fear, numbness, resignation, and a deeply buried trace of unwillingness.

Xu Yunfan was completely indifferent to this.

Han Shi was a born traitor. Given the slightest chance, he would absolutely seize the opportunity to strike.

Most of his Heart and Spirit was immersed in deducing the nesting, connection, and final activation plan for the two Grand Arrays.

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Deep within the Sea of Suffering Reincarnation, eight hundred miles from the outskirts of White Bone Island, above a massive vortex of bloody waves.

Through the Attribute Panel’s forced control link, Xu Yunfan’s Heart and Spirit silently watched the area perfectly covered by the Yin Nether Cloud Qi.

Han Shi’s figure lay dormant within, his aura completely merged with the eternally dreary Cloud Qi above the Netherworld, making them indistinguishable.

Just a moment ago, through Han Shi’s hands, the two Killing Arrays—which Xu Yunfan had spent considerable effort deducing, Refining, and finally nesting—were fully prepared.

The Nine Nether Profound Evil Slaughter Immortal Thunder Array, a composite Grand Array, was governed by the Destruction Celestial Gang Thunder Method of the Divine Sky Purple Mansion as its General Outline. It fused the Earth Evil Abyssal Yin Thunder, the Nine Nether Profound Yin Evil Thunder, and the Yellow Springs Soul Summoning Soul Thunder. Nested within it was the Ten Thousand Tribulations Yin Sha Extinction Sword Formation, which drew its power from the endless Muddy Fiend, Death Qi, and killing intent of the Sea of Suffering. The final connections and deductions for this entire setup were now complete.

At this moment, the scene at the center of White Bone Island was clearly reflected in Xu Yunfan’s Divine Thought.

The thousand-zhang skeletal Qiu Long, once a tyrant of the Sea of Suffering with a heaven-scorching baleful aura, was now coiled beneath a gnarled, bizarre tree, its condition utterly miserable after its fierce battle with the White-haired True Daoist.

Huge tears covered its massive skeletal body. In many places, ghastly white bone fragments were exposed, gleaming with a dim, ominous luster.

The aura it exuded was listless, a far cry from the fearsome might of a Golden Core Fierce Beast. Even its instinct to maintain its own existence seemed to be faltering, giving off the strong impression that it was a spent force, at the end of its rope.

This scene was too abnormal.

How could a Golden Core Realm tyrant of the Sea of Suffering, a companion beast born from a Dao Fruit, be so grievously injured in such a short time and still not have recovered?

This was very likely a fatal lure, using the critically injured, dying Qiu Long and the tantalizingly close Dao Fruit to bait would-be coveters.

’Hmph, trying to lure the snake out of its hole?’

Xu Yunfan sneered inwardly, his Divine Thought growing even more focused.

Although he had already laid down a dual Killing Array, he would not set foot in the core area so easily.

The center of a trap is often the most dangerous place.

He confirmed through Han Shi’s scouting that there were no obvious ambushes or signs of the White-haired True Daoist around the Qiu Long. At least for now, Xu Yunfan was certain the man wasn’t nearby.

With a slight shift in his thoughts, Xu Yunfan issued a command to Han Shi.

"Activate the Nine Nether Profound Evil Slaughter Immortal Thunder Array. Lock on to the Qiu Long. Begin the Profound Yin Siphoning. Slowly draw out the Yin Evil Death Qi from the hundred-mile radius around it. Do not trigger any other changes.

"Pay attention to the intensity. Only siphon, do not attack."

Han Shi naturally did not dare to refuse. Following the Hand Seals transmitted by Xu Yunfan, he executed the command step by step.

Lying dormant in the Yin Nether Cloud Qi, Han Shi’s finger seals changed silently, activating the Array Banner hubs that had long been placed at specific nodes around White Bone Island.

HUM...

An extremely subtle, almost imperceptible fluctuation spread out from the core Array Disc of the Nine Nether Profound Evil Slaughter Immortal Thunder Array.

Like invisible tentacles, it quietly probed the space of White Bone Island and the hundred-mile area surrounding it.

The Array Banners and Array Discs, placed in the crevices of Blood Sea Reef Stones, within giant skeletons, and deep in the dreary Cloud Qi, began to operate silently.

The first to be activated were the Earth Evil Abyssal Thunder Array Banners, which were connected to the Yin Evil and Dirt Qi that had accumulated in the depths of the Sea of Suffering for eons.

Like roots digging into a filthy land, they frantically and secretly siphoned the purest Yin Evil Origin.

Next, the Array Hubs inscribed with Nine Nether Ghost Face Runes lit up faintly. An invisible force pulled at the omnipresent Nine Nether Xuan Yin Qi of the Sea of Suffering, forming a thin but ever-expanding vacuum around the Qiu Long.

The Yellow Springs Soul-Attracting Yin Thunder Array Banners, pale as bone and capable of stirring the resentment of departed souls, began to pull away the pure Death Qi and the faint energy scattered by spirits, thread by thread.

The entire process, under the precise control of the Divine Sky Purple Mansion’s Destruction Celestial Gang Thunder Method, was executed without a sound. It stirred not the slightest ripple of energy, caused no spatial fluctuations, and certainly didn’t trigger any potential warning restrictions.

All the Yin Evil, Death Qi, and resentful energy were silently devoured, converted, and stored by the core of the nested Thunder Array, not leaving behind even a trace of stray Spiritual Qi.

This region, already cold and deathly silent due to the Netherworld environment, became even more empty under the Array’s deliberate siphoning.

It was as if the air had been sucked into a vacuum. The dense, cloying feeling of cold and deathly silence unique to the Sea of Suffering became visibly thinner around the Qiu Long.

Although this change was extremely subtle and almost undetectable without a careful scan from a Golden Core True Monarch Level Divine Thought, it was indeed happening.

Xu Yunfan’s Divine Thought, through the feedback from the Attribute Panel, could naturally sense that the energy density of this area was slowly and continuously decreasing.

He understood. This Qiu Long wasn’t a true Golden Core True Monarch, after all. It was merely a companion Fierce Beast that had evolved from the Taiyin Qiu Dragon Dao Fruit. Its foundation and very existence were largely dependent on the nourishment of the endless Yin Evil Death Qi in the Sea of Suffering environment.

Xu Yunfan’s current action was akin to pulling the firewood from under the cauldron, silently severing its most important source for recovering its strength and healing its wounds.

Xu Yunfan controlled the degree of this siphoning with extreme precision.

The outer Blinding Array was linked to cause and effect, capable of forming a certain degree of a Knowledge Barrier. This prevented the Qiu Long from reacting, like a frog being boiled in slowly warming water.

It would neither immediately provoke a strong backlash from the Qiu Long nor expose him, while also effectively slowing its recovery speed. This would keep it in a state of weakness without causing it to collapse outright.

After all, a dying Qiu Long was far less valuable than a live bait that could be steadily worn down.

’Its wound recovery has been slowed...’

Xu Yunfan’s Divine Thought captured the faint glimmer of energy that had been slowly squirming at the edges of the Qiu Long’s massive wounds; it now seemed to have become even more sluggish and dim.

Within its eye sockets, where the blood-red flames had dimmed, a barely perceptible flicker of exhaustion and... seemed to flash.

Its massive skeletal body shifted slightly, as if it had instinctively sensed the discomfort in its surroundings but couldn’t pinpoint the source.

’Excellent. The Cause and Effect Secret Technique was successfully triggered.’

Xu Yunfan sighed in relief inwardly. The Celestial-Eroding Netherworld Talisman was truly useful. The effect it produced at the Perfection Level could entrap even a Golden Core Realm Cultivator if they were careless.

Naturally, Xu Yunfan wasn’t going to activate the Killing Array to hunt down the Qiu Long just yet.

The Dao Fruit was right before his eyes, within arm’s reach, but the greatest threat was not this grievously injured Fierce Beast.

The true hidden danger was the White-haired True Daoist—a man proficient in the art of Life and Death Reincarnation, someone even True Monarch Pu Du spoke of vaguely, and a suspected traitor of the Primordial Sect.

Heaven knows if he was hiding in some nearby spatial rift, lurking deep within the Sea of Blood or among the White Bones using some Secret Technique that reversed life and death, or perhaps even attached to the Qiu Long itself.