This was not Sterl's intention to deceive Licitris.
By utilizing the Blood Sacrifice Swallowing God Array, he could selectively draw in countless sacrificial bloods. Although this would waste the formation's potential to enhance power, it could dilute the Blood of Contamination.
Indeed, it could allow the Succubus Queen to linger for a few more days. However, the divine-level formation could only withstand the calamity from the upper realms for a few days at most.
This was primarily because the Blood Sacrifice Swallowing God Array could counter the Blood of Contamination, while a standard formation would have little to no effect.
The only issue was that it was certainly too late to set up this formation now; they could only make use of the successfully established Heavenly Locking Formation in hell.
However, the Heavenly Locking Formation concealed the Archduke of Blood!