Immortality Through Array Formations

Chapter 2699: Chapter 86: The Secret of Shugu

What could this thing... be?

Mo Hua pondered for a moment, suddenly shocked, and found Dan Zhu and Chi Feng, saying:

"Stop fighting for now, consolidate the defenses, and everyone retreat to the Stone Palace."

Bi Jie has now recruited other tribes, surrounding the outside of the Shugu Valley with large numbers. If this continues, the Danque Tribe will be at a disadvantage.

Dan Zhu and Chi Feng understood as well, and immediately followed Mo Hua’s instructions and withdrew to defend.

Then Mo Hua asked, "Are all of Shugu Tribe’s supplies packed?"

Dan Zhu nodded, "Food, Barbarian Armor, and the materials for forging armor have been inventoried and packed into the storage boxes."

Mo Hua said, "Take out all the Barbarian Armor, dismantle them piece by piece."

Dan Zhu was stunned and asked in confusion, "Gentleman, why is that?"

Mo Hua simply said, "These Barbarian Armors... might have some issues. Dismantle them and take a look first."

Dan Zhu thought for a moment and also nodded, "Alright."

Over these days, Mr. Witch’s various "miracles" left Dan Zhu and the others in awe.

They knew that whatever Mr. Witch did, he must have his own reasons.

So Dan Zhu passed the order down.

A part of the barbarian soldiers from the Danque Tribe, including Chi Feng and others, were stationed outside the Stone Palace, guarding against attacks from enemies like the Bi Fang Tribe.

Meanwhile, Dan Zhu, Mo Hua, and dozens of barbarian soldiers took out all the Barbarian Armor from the Shugu Tribe.

They then dismantled them piece by piece and placed them in the hall of the Stone Palace.

Most of these Barbarian Armors were not finished products; the components were incomplete, as if they were only halfway forged and were forced to stop before the final tempering and "packaging."

Initially, Mo Hua did not pay much attention.

But now upon careful reflection, it seemed quite problematic.

Why were all these Barbarian Armors "half-finished?"

Why weren’t they completed during the forging?

What kind of Barbarian Armor was the Shugu Tribe trying to forge, and why did they stop?

A set of Shugu Tribe’s Barbarian Armor was sloppily dismantled and laid out.

Mo Hua examined one set after another carefully.

These Shugu Barbarian Armors are a batch of very old battle armors, not particularly high-quality, forged with rather crude and somewhat primitive armoring techniques.

The crafting style was quite ordinary.

They included some Formation Patterns, which seemed fragmented to Mo Hua and were not particularly sophisticated.

For this reason, Mo Hua had only glanced at them briefly before and did not dwell on them.

But now the more Mo Hua looked at them, the more he felt these Barbarian Armors exuded an inexplicable sense of peculiarity.

After scrutinizing most of the Barbarian Armors, Mo Hua’s expression became even more peculiar.

Without exception, all of these Barbarian Armors were engraved with formation patterns.

Yet without exception, all of them had "incomplete" patterns.

Not a single Barbarian Armor had "complete" formation patterns.

That is the crux of the issue.

A few incomplete pieces are no problem.

Even most incomplete pieces are no problem.

But if all the armors’ formation patterns are incomplete, that’s extremely abnormal.

Looking again at the Barbarian Armors piled in the hall, and the incomplete formation patterns on the armors, Mo Hua suddenly had an illusion.

These densely packed, fragmented Barbarian Armors stacked together resembled...

Body parts of a dismantled formation.

Giving off a sense of eerie mystery and ruthlessness.

"Formation patterns are like the remaining limbs after a formation is dismantled..."

Mo Hua frowned, murmuring to himself.

"What Bi Jie wants is actually not this batch of Barbarian Armor, but the incomplete ’formation patterns’ on them?"

"What use do these formation patterns have?"

Mo Hua meticulously examined each formation pattern, concluding that these were somewhat old "Beast Patterns."

The patterns appeared ancient, and upon examination, seemed like typical Four Symbols Monster Patterns, lacking any profound features.

But Mo Hua intuitively judged that these formation patterns could not be ordinary.

What made them unusual?

Mo Hua frowned in deep thought and soon recalled something:

"Transformation of Ten Thousand Demons into the Dragon!"

Piecemeal assembly of Four Symbols Monster Patterns into an even more powerful Dragon Pattern Formation.

This occurred before at the Refining Demon Mountain within the Valley of Ten Thousand Demons at the Qian Learning State Boundary, something Mr. Tu painstakingly accomplished.

Mr. Tu sought to harness the essence of ten thousand demons and fuse them into a real "dragon."

And Mr. Tu indeed succeeded.

He ultimately created a Four Symbols Green Dragon Formation.

So...

Mo Hua looked at the fragmented Barbarian Armors in the hall, his pupils narrowing:

"Could the Shugu Tribe also be attempting this? Are they also trying... to transform Ten Thousand Demons into the Dragon? To create a ’Dragon Pattern Formation’?"

"That’s impossible..."

Mo Hua thought it over, thinking the Shugu Tribe wouldn’t dare take such a bold step.

This is a dragon.

Would a Third Grade tribe dare to contemplate such an idea?

But Mo Hua reconsidered and felt unsure.

He himself, at the Foundation Establishment level, had dared to entertain the notion of a "dragon," even having devoured a "Dragon Soul" before.

Why wouldn’t a Third Grade tribe like Shugu dare?

Publicly they may not, but covertly, perhaps?

Doubt lingered in Mo Hua’s heart, so he turned his head and quietly asked Dan Zhu:

"Have you ever seen ’Dragon Armor’?"

Even Dan Zhu was startled and quickly shook his head, saying, "Only the Imperial Court and Direct Lineage Royal Court dare wear Dragon Armor."

"What if someone else wants to wear it?" Mo Hua asked.

Dan Zhu said, "Unless they are Desolate Royal Descendants or Direct Lineage Royal Court, privately making or wearing Dragon Armor is punishable by extermination of nine clans."

Mo Hua’s heart skipped a beat, feeling uneasy.

Now, it seems not only am I the Taoist Court’s "number one rebel."

I am also a major offender in the Great Wilderness, facing extermination of nine clans.