What appeared before them was neither a python statue nor a human statue.
It was a stone statue of a snake-man.
This snake-man stone statue is extremely strange. Its lower body is a snake-man, while its upper body is a human. In Chen Zhou's mind, how could such a creature exist in this world?
Moreover, the snake-man statue is holding a giant snake's head.
Chen Zhou felt as if he had seen this snakehead somewhere before.
Ren Lao suddenly reminded him, "This is the head of a purebred Great Wilderness Python."
Chen Zhou was awakened by Ren Lao's words. He had seen the true form of the Great Wilderness Python many times, and now that he thought about it, it seemed to be true!
Why is this snake-man holding the head of a giant python?
This makes the entire stone statue look incredibly eerie. The snake's head is enormous, while the snake-man appears extremely small, making it look very strange.
"This is the ruins of a snake-people tribe. The snake-people are now completely extinct from this world," the Great Wilderness Python said with a fierce expression.
"The Snake People tribe has oppressed our race for over a thousand years, using the bodies of our Great Wilderness Pythons for sacrifices to the heavens. They also befriend the human race and constantly hunt down our Python tribe's spirit beasts and wild animals, making them the greatest enemy of our Great Wilderness Python tribe. Just two hundred years ago, our clan's old patriarch finally broke through to the Golden Core stage, becoming our race's first Transformation Stage expert to achieve the Golden Core stage."
"With this Golden Core Realm expert, our clan's bloodline has finally evolved, and our strength has been enhanced like never before. Almost all the Great Wilderness Pythons now possess the bloodline to break through to the Transformation Realm. With this foundation of bloodline, our clan's strength has risen sharply, ultimately leading to the extermination of the Snake-Man tribe."
"This site contains many things left behind by our ancestors, but there is a huge protective formation here, which was jointly set up by the snake people tribe and human formation masters. No one in our tribe can break it, so naturally this task was handed over to me. I established the python tribe in the desert to find and capture the formation masters in the surrounding area."
"You four are the unlucky ones. You were captured by me. The main purpose of this trip is not to have you set up the formation, but to break it. The scroll in your hand is the original scroll of this formation. I've even given you the original scroll, so breaking the formation should be much easier than setting it up, right? Since you're confident in setting up the formation, don't disappoint me."
"There is only one consequence of disappointment: death." The Great Wilderness Python finished speaking viciously, then walked to a huge stone chair next to it and quietly watched Chen Zhou and the other four array masters.
This stone chair is exquisitely crafted, with a snake head on each side. At first glance, it appears to be two python heads. However, these are not the heads of a great wild python, but rather the heads of ordinary pythons, all carved from stone.
Indeed, the snake people are intelligent; their craftsmanship far surpasses that of spirit beasts, and the exquisiteness of their handicrafts is in no way inferior to that of humans.
Upon hearing the Great Wilderness Python's words, Ji Lanying was immediately dumbfounded. It wasn't about setting up an array?
"Senior Sister Ji, neither of us has learned how to break this formation, so we can only rely on you now." Fatty Zhu Yuande waved his hand and said helplessly.
As he spoke, his tone was very sorrowful, as if he were about to face death.
He had made up his mind. If Senior Sister Ji couldn't break the formation, neither of them had the strength to do so, so they would have no choice but to flee by force.
"Regarding the skill of breaking formations, although neither of you devised the plan, you can lend me a hand. Breaking formations is the complete opposite of setting them up; you simply need to dismantle the lines one by one," Ji Lanying said slowly.
The two remained unmoved by Ji Lanying's words.
“Although breaking an array is easier than setting one, we mainly cultivate array formations, so we are very weak in breaking them. Our main cultivation methods are array diagrams, and our true qi is very weak, making it difficult to break through arrays,” Zhu Yuancheng the skinny man continued to explain.
Indeed, breaking an array is simpler than setting one up, relying on the strength of one's true energy to break it. Chen Zhou overheard their conversation and realized that these three were all from the same school, and their main cultivation method was array diagrams. Their true energy attacks were very weak, so their ability to break arrays was naturally very weak.
Although Chen Zhou's main cultivation technique is also array diagrams, with the root of the poisonous tree and the primordial truth, the destructive power of Chen Zhou's true energy is far stronger than that of the three people present combined.
Before they even began breaking the formation, the three of them started disagreeing.
Of course, the one who couldn't stand the disagreement the most was the Great Wilderness Python.
The Great Wilderness Python immediately showed an expression of annoyance.
“You two, listen to me. Although our combined true energy is weak, I am only at the Fusion stage, and you two are both at the Enlightenment stage. The combined strength of our true energy will surely be enough to break this formation!” Ji Lanying said.
Hearing Ji Lanying's words, Chen Zhou couldn't help but feel a headache. The strength of the true energy to break the formation was only secondary; the key was to find the formation's core.
If we're talking about the strength of true energy, who among us is stronger than the Great Wilderness Python?
If they were solely reliant on strength, would the Great Wilderness Python even need to seek them out?
Once these array masters find the array core, they can simply call upon the Great Wilderness Python to take action. There's a free henchman right there; why not make good use of him?
Chen Zhou already had a plan in mind.
"It's really noisy," Chen Zhou said in a low voice, before leaping into the center of the altar in front of him.
This was a huge altar, with a giant snake-man stone statue standing on each of the four sides. As soon as Chen Zhou entered, a huge blood-red array slowly emerged above everyone's heads.
As soon as the blood-red array appeared, Chen Zhou smelled a strong stench of blood.
"This...it's actually a blood array..." Elder Ren stammered in shock.
Not only was there a strong smell of blood, but Chen Zhou could also see human faces emerging above the blood-red array above his head.
Every one of these faces was contorted in a grotesque manner, and each person's expression was different, but they all conveyed the same emotion: fear.
"The Blood Array is a formation made up of the blood and qi of countless corpses." At this moment, Ji Lanying, the most experienced of the three formation masters, said blankly.
She was stunned. She had only seen records of this blood array in ancient books; this was the first time she had ever seen it with her own eyes.
There are many ways to set up an array. For example, Chen Zhou used the Dragon Buddha power of the Great Mighty Heavenly Dragon to set up the last small array of the Divine Tree Protection Array.
This blood array utilizes the blood and qi of a person.
That's why so many faces faintly appeared above the formation. Moreover, at first glance, Chen Zhou noticed that some of those faces were actually snake-men, as he seemed to see monsters with snake bodies and human heads.
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