Ink Painting walks into the mural, walks into the zombie’s mouth, and also walks into the secret passage within.

The secret passage is narrow and dim, but not long.

In less than the time it takes to drink a cup of tea, after walking through the secret passage, the area before Ink Painting suddenly opens wide.

What enters his eyes is a huge altar.

The altar’s arrangement is extremely exquisite, splendid with gold and jade.

Precious sandalwood, jade candlesticks, candles carved with gold, a huge incense burner carved with golden beast patterns, and burning incense within the burner producing curling smoke.

On the altar are placed five-colored spiritual flowers and offerings of pig, sheep, and spiritual beasts.

Before the altar hang golden banners and dragon-patterned lanterns.

In the middle of the altar, a sculpture is placed.

This sculpture is covered with yellow cloth, so its appearance cannot be seen.

But its material is either gold or jade.

The entire altar is both grand and luxurious.

Ink Painting clicks his tongue, silently thinking in his heart:

“How many spirit stones did this thing cost?”

He looks downward, his eyebrows furrowing, his gaze even more shocked.

Below the altar is a huge bronze coffin.

On the coffin is green copper rust, corroded over an unknown number of years, exuding an ancient, decayed aura.

Around the huge bronze coffin are arranged dozens of iron coffins.

The iron coffins are raised and appear black-green, slightly smaller than the bronze coffin.

Outside the iron coffins, looking around, are densely packed black wooden coffins.

There are thousands upon thousands of these wooden coffins, and for a moment, Ink Painting actually cannot count exactly how many there are.

Between the wooden coffins, blood-colored array patterns are connected.

First, the wooden coffins are divided by category and connected to the iron coffins above, and then through the iron coffins, with blood-colored array patterns, they connect to the huge bronze coffin in the center.

On the ground among the numerous coffins, various evil arrays are also painted.

All the evil arrays are connected together.

They are evil and grand.

Ink Painting’s heart trembles.

Is this… an evil path grand array?

He strongly suppresses the shock in his heart, calms his mind and concentrates, uses his divine sense to calculate the array hub and array number, then slightly relaxes his breath.

It’s not a grand array…

Although it looks scary, the quantity of individual arrays, the structure of the array hub, and the scale of the array all fail to meet the requirements for a grand array.

At most, it can only be considered a “quasi-grand array.”

Essentially, it is still just a complex array. Compared to a grand array, its power is much weaker, but compared to a general complex array, it is much stronger.

This is also the strongest complex array Ink Painting has ever seen.

And it’s still an evil path complex array.

Lu Chengyun sees Ink Painting’s shocked expression, feels quite satisfied, and says with a smile at the corner of his mouth:

“Little mister, what do you think?”

Ink Painting has a plan in his heart, pretends not to see through it, his expression changes uncertainly, and finally, with an incredulous face, says:

“Patriarch Lu, you are actually building a grand array!”

Lu Chengyun modestly says:

“It doesn’t count as a grand array yet, just a complex array on a larger scale.”

But in his eyebrows and eyes, a trace of self-satisfaction also flashes. Obviously, he is quite proud of the array he has laid.

Ink Painting again pretends to be someone who hasn’t seen the world, and says in shock:

“This kind of scale actually still doesn’t count as a grand array…”

Lu Chengyun asks with a smile:

“Little mister, haven’t you seen a grand array?”

Ink Painting blinks his eyes.

He thinks to himself, I can’t tell you. I’ve not only seen one, but also personally built a first-grade eleven-pattern Five Elements Demon Slaying Grand Array, and later even used a grand array to kill a great demon…

If he said that, Lu Chengyun probably wouldn’t believe it.

Ink Painting then shakes his head with a “sincere” look, his tone yearning as he says:

“I haven’t seen one, I’ve only heard Master mention it. A true array master who can build a grand array has extremely strong divine sense, extremely broad array knowledge, and extremely deep attainment. They also need to coordinate the construction of the grand array and are big figures famous in a certain area.”

Ink Painting厚着脸皮 (thickens his face) and praises himself a bit.

Lu Chengyun also nods and sighs: “Not bad.”

Becoming a main array master and building a grand array is the lifelong pursuit of every array master.

Lu Chengyun is no exception.

But so far, he doesn’t have the ability to build a grand array. The current complex array is already his limit.

Even so, he already surpasses other array masters by too much.

Once this array is completed and operates, the Lu family can cover the sky with one hand in this small barren state.

Whether it’s personal power or array attainment, he can go further.

With time, he will surely be able to build a true grand array.

In Lu Chengyun’s gaze, a burning ambition flashes.

The thirteen-year-old Ink Painting, who has already built a grand array, just stands at the side, silently watching him.

After Lu Chengyun comes back to his senses, Ink Painting quietly asks:

“Patriarch Lu, what exactly is this… array?”

Lu Chengyun’s gaze slightly condenses, and he slowly says:

“This array is called… Ten Thousand Corpses Array.”

“Ten Thousand Corpses Array…”

Ink Painting is slightly shocked in his heart.

“Ten Thousand Corpses…”

Not right…

This is not the name of a single array, nor even the name of a complex array.

A mere complex array cannot be named with “Ten Thousand Corpses”.

Ink Painting looks at the countless coffins below and the densely packed evil arrays, his gaze slightly moving.

This Ten Thousand Corpses Array is definitely a grand array!

It should be called Ten Thousand Corpses Grand Array!

The current complex array is a reduced version of the original grand array.

Lu Chengyun’s array ability is insufficient, and the Lu family also cannot empty their family fortune to build the array.

So Lu Chengyun cannot build a grand array, and instead built this Ten Thousand Corpses Complex Array, which is a reduced version of the Ten Thousand Corpses Grand Array.

But where did Lu Chengyun get the array diagram from?

The inheritance of grand arrays is all absolute secrets.

His own Five Elements Demon Slaying Grand Array was given by his master.

Who gave Lu Chengyun the Ten Thousand Corpses Grand Array?

Moreover, this is an evil path grand array. To have this kind of evil array inheritance, it must be a prominent demonic path sect or a powerful demonic figure…

Ink Painting’s heart slightly chills, and his gaze also slightly chills.

“Patriarch Lu, where exactly is this array from?” Ink Painting asks again quietly.

Lu Chengyun hesitates to speak, looks at Ink Painting, and says with a smile:

“This… please forgive me for not being able to inform you.”

Ink Painting also smiles apologetically: “Please forgive me, Patriarch, I shouldn’t have asked.”

Immediately, he asks curiously again:

“Patriarch, why did you ask me to come? I don’t know complex arrays, and moreover, this complex array is still an evil array. I haven’t learned it, and Master wouldn’t let me learn it.”

Lu Chengyun smiles indifferently, “Little mister, rest assured, I won’t do anything that makes things difficult for you.”

“Little mister, please follow me…”

Lu Chengyun finishes speaking and walks directly forward.

Ink Painting also follows behind him, walking through the densely packed coffins and the layered blood-colored evil arrays on the ground, arriving near the bronze coffin.

Near the bronze coffin, some places are blank and have not yet been painted with arrays.

Lu Chengyun then says:

“I invited little mister to come, not to paint evil arrays, but to ask little mister to help me build the array eye of this complex array.”

Ink Painting says: “Isn’t the array eye of an evil array still an evil array?”

Lu Chengyun shakes his head, “Not to construct it with the method of an evil array, but to construct the array eye with the method of righteous path spirit gathering.”

Ink Painting is confused.

Aren’t you painting an evil array? Why are you not taking the crooked path in this key place?

Lu Chengyun sees Ink Painting’s doubtful expression, then sighs:

“The killing karma of an evil path complex array’s array eye is too heavy. My Lu family is also unwilling to do that…”

Ink Painting secretly scolds him as a hypocrite in his heart, but says with a straight face:

“Patriarch Lu indeed has a compassionate heart…”

Ink Painting opens his eyes and talks nonsense, his small face still serious.

Lu Chengyun is slightly stunned. He also doesn’t know if Ink Painting is praising him or disparaging him…

Of course, he doesn’t care.

“But…” Ink Painting is again somewhat troubled: “I don’t have the array diagram.”

Lu Chengyun then hands the array diagram to Ink Painting.

Ink Painting glances at it and instantly has a general idea in his heart.

This array diagram is incomplete.

It only has parts related to the array eye and the array hub.

He can indeed build the array eye system according to this, but he cannot know the full picture of the spiritual power operation.

Ink Painting looks at the Ten Thousand Corpses Array diagram again, and gradually understands in his heart.

An evil path grand array’s array eye requires extremely abundant blood energy and evil force to supply the array’s operation.

This Ten Thousand Corpses Complex Array, derived from the Ten Thousand Corpses Grand Array, requires less blood energy and evil force, but the total amount is still massive.

According to the array diagram’s records, building the array eye of the Ten Thousand Corpses Grand Array originally required using a complex array composed of the Blood Refining Array and the Blood Spirit Array.

First, kill people, use the Blood Refining Array to refine the blood energy of cultivators and extract their spiritual power.

Then, use the Blood Spirit Array to fuse the cultivators’ blood energy and spiritual power, forming evil force to drive the array’s operation.

Like this, it requires killing a large number of cultivators.

Ink Painting remembers what his senior sister said.

The operation of some demonic path grand arrays even involves slaughtering a city of cultivators, refining their blood spirit, injecting it into the array eye, and driving the grand array.

The Ten Thousand Corpses Complex Array does not need to kill so many cultivators at once.

But in the long term, as long as the array operates, it needs to keep killing people and constantly refine spiritual power and blood energy to sustain the array.

Nan Yue City also doesn’t have so many cultivators for him to kill.

Moreover, the Lu family also doesn’t dare to kill like this.

If they really kill like this, with so many people dying, even fools can sense something is wrong.

This is also something the Dao Court will definitely not tolerate.

Unless the Lu family really wants to rebel against the Dao Court, fall into the demonic path with the entire family, and convert to a demonic sect, then they would dare to do so.

But this behavior is too vicious in nature.

Once discovered by the Dao Court, they will definitely suffer suppression and killing by Dao soldiers, their entire clan slaughtered, not one left.

Ink Painting estimates that Lu Chengyun also doesn’t have that guts.

Even if he does, with so many people in the Lu family, not all of them dare to be so desperate.

It’s clearly an evil array, but the array eye of the evil array cannot be used.

Then they can only use a spiritual power array eye.

Ink Painting estimates that Lu Chengyun wants to use a Gather Spirit Array as the array eye, using spirit stones as materials to refine spiritual power.

Once the spiritual power circulates, they will use the evil energy of the evil array to pollute the spiritual power, forming evil force, thereby driving the entire Ten Thousand Corpses Complex Array.

“Master was not wrong, righteous path arrays are fundamental, evil arrays are all just opportunistic paths.”

Ink Painting silently says in his heart.

However, this Lu Chengyun’s array insight is also very profound.

He can actually think of this method of mixing righteous and evil.

Ink Painting thinks for a moment, then tactfully declines again: “Patriarch Lu, complex arrays… I’m not familiar with them, I probably cannot draw them…”

Lu Chengyun says: “You can.”

Ink Painting is somewhat doubtful, “How do you know?”

“I heard it from Elder Su.”

“Elder Su?” Ink Painting frowns, “Is this matter also related to Elder Su?”

Lu Chengyun shakes his head, “It’s not related to him.”

Lu Chengyun looks at Ink Painting and sighs: “I was chatting idly with Elder Su and heard him mention that your insights on building array eyes are truly wonderful! As soon as I heard them, I was shocked as if I had seen a heavenly person!”

“This kind of insight involves the core structure of higher complex arrays and even grand arrays. Without deep array inheritance and guidance from a high-level array master, it is impossible to have this extraordinary understanding.”

“Therefore, I then had an idea and wanted to ask little mister to help me build the array eye of this Ten Thousand Corpses Complex Array.”

Ink Painting understands.

It turns out it was Elder Su who let it slip.

Ink Painting had admonished him not to tell outsiders when he taught him at that time.

Perhaps Elder Su didn’t consider Patriarch Lu an outsider…

Or, he just wanted to boast a bit about Ink Painting in front of Patriarch Lu to let Ink Painting gain some face, but he didn’t expect it to backfire.

Elder Su probably also didn’t think that Lu Chengyun is not a good person.

Ink Painting sighs slightly in his heart.

These insights related to array eyes are his comprehension from building the Five Elements Demon Slaying Grand Array.

Using the method of building a grand array’s array eye on a complex array is naturally more than enough.

It’s normal for Lu Chengyun to have this kind of thought.

He tried to overestimate Ink Painting’s array level.

But in fact, his “overestimation” is still a kind of underestimation.

Ink Painting thinks for a moment, then shows a difficult expression again:

“I’m just talking theoretically, I may not be able to really build it…”

Lu Chengyun appears very tolerant: “No harm, little mister just try. Arrays always require trial and error. I believe that with little mister’s wisdom, you will definitely not disappoint me…”

The implication is that if he is disappointed, Ink Painting will have no good fruit to eat…

Ink Painting understands Lu Chengyun’s intention, sighs, and says helplessly:

“Alright, I’ll give it a try.”

(End of this chapter)