Leader Yang nodded, "I will personally lead a team to search, we’ll leave no stone unturned!"
"As long as we find and destroy the Patriarch of the Qian Family’s pill furnace, preventing him from completing the Lifespan Transformation Elixir, he won’t be able to stir up any more trouble."
Mo Hua frowned, feeling like he was overlooking something.
Something very crucial…
Zhang Lan noticed his serious expression and thought he was still worried, so he comforted him:
"Don’t worry, even if the Patriarch of the Qian Family schemes in the shadows, it’s all futile once everything is out in the open—their tricks and conspiracies become useless."
Mo Hua had his concerns, but he still nodded his head.
Afterward, the investigations of the Qian Family, the examination of pill furnaces, and the search for Black Mountain Stronghold went on methodically.
These tasks were handled by the Taoist Court and the Taoist soldiers Court, and Mo Hua couldn’t be of help, so he turned his attention to the collapse of the Compound Formation.
Nearly a month passed, and Mo Hua, working on and off, finally completed the calculation of the Compound Formation’s collapse.
It shouldn’t have taken this long, but with one thing after another cropping up, the delay was somewhat lengthy.
Fortunately, it was now complete.
Mo Hua was very curious whether the collapse of a Compound Formation could truly injure a Foundation Building Cultivator.
He wanted to find an opportunity to test the power of the Compound Formation.
But there was no way a Foundation Building Cultivator would let him test it, and a Second Grade Monster Beast wouldn’t do either.
Mo Hua didn’t know whether his Concealment Technique could deceive the senses of a Second Grade Monster Beast.
Monster Beasts differ from cultivators; in addition to vision and Monster Sensing, they have an acute sense of smell.
Moreover, each species of Monster Beast has different innate talents, so their perceptions of the external world vary—some have keen eyesight, others have sensitive Monster Sensing, and some are responsive to Blood Qi.
Even if the Concealment Technique could fool one type of Second Grade Monster Beast, it might not work on others.
After all, while human bodies are made the same, Monster Beasts vary greatly.
Without prior understanding, rashly jumping in front of a Second Grade Monster Beast would be akin to courting death.
In this case, a peak late-stage First Grade Monster Beast was the limit that Mo Hua could challenge.
If anything unexpected happened, he might not be able to fight back, but he could still run away.
Mo Hua proceeded to set up the Formation beforehand.
This was a set of First Grade Earthfire Compound Formation.
The power of a Compound Formation’s collapse has nothing to do with the type of Formation, but it is dependent on the Formation’s Divine Sense strength, the abundance of Spiritual Power, and the number of Formation Patterns.
As long as the Formation is powerful enough, even a Concealment Formation can produce a formidable force when it collapses.
Mo Hua chose the Earthfire Compound Formation to make a comparison.
Mo Hua had tried before; when this Earthfire Compound Formation was triggered, it was capable of severely injuring a peak late-stage First Grade Monster Beast.
Now he wanted to see the effect of the Compound Formation’s collapse and its power.
Would it be stronger than the explosion of an Earthfire Compound Formation? And if so, by how much?
Once everything was prepared, Mo Hua saw a Black Bear Demon appear in his field of vision.
The Black Bear Demon had black fur like bristles, eyes like copper bells, and a huge stature, making it one of the most powerful species in Big Black Mountain.
It was also a type of Monster Beast that Monster Hunters greatly feared.
But now, looking at it, Mo Hua didn’t feel much fear at all.
All fear stems from one’s own weakness.
Although Mo Hua’s current cultivation couldn’t be considered formidable, he had enough power to protect himself even against Foundation Building Cultivators, let alone a late-stage First Grade Monster Beast.
He might not be able to kill this beast, but the beast also couldn’t kill him.
But that would soon change.
What Mo Hua wanted to do now was to prove whether he could vanquish this peak late-stage First Grade Monster Beast by leveraging his mastery of formations and relying on the collapse of a Formation!
Setting traps, deploying Formations, concealing tracks, using Demon Smelly Grass to mask the scent...
The entire process was like second nature to Mo Hua.
The Black Bear Demon, unguarded, walked along the path Mo Hua had anticipated.
In Big Black Mountain, there weren’t many cultivators or Monster Beasts that posed a threat to it—it killed whatever it wanted to kill and ate whatever it wanted to eat.
Moreover, it detected no abnormalities.
Soon, it walked into the trap Mo Hua had set, triggering the Formation he had created.
The moment the Formation was triggered, Spiritual Power reversed abruptly.
The Compound Formation began to collapse!
Mo Hua’s pupils shrank.
Just like when he previously collapsed a Single Formation, the reversal of Spiritual Power followed by breakdown and annihilation was not dramatic, silent and noiseless.
But differently, this time the collapse was much larger in scale, the reversal of Spiritual Power covering more than half of the Black Bear Demon’s body.
Half of the Black Bear Demon’s body vanished in an instant, turned to black ash, obliterated from existence.
It was as if suddenly someone had crushed the void, along with half of the Black Bear Demon’s body, into nothingness!
The formidable Black Bear Demon, left with only half a body, fell thunderously to the ground, dead on arrival!
Mo Hua’s expression was shaken, and he was astounded, muttering:
"This... is the true power... of Formation collapse..."
This is the true... Power of Annihilation of the Dao!