Shi Xuan and Lu Shenzhi were not within the formation. If they were to participate, it would hinder their combat effectiveness and be a waste of resources.
Therefore, when the Hongmeng team attacked, they found that the best squad had spontaneously split into three parts without any command: Shi Xuan, Lu Shenzhi, and other small groups.
They initially chose to attack the group with the most people, but then discovered that this small group was well-trained, with flexible and skillful formation changes, making it extremely difficult to break through.
Moreover, while they were dealing with this small group, Shi Xuan and Lu Shenzhi would roam around the perimeter attacking them, which was extremely annoying. But if they turned to attack Shi Xuan or Lu Shenzhi, the small group's formation would switch from defense to offense.
The feeling was that no matter which direction they attacked, someone would sneak up on them from behind.
The Harmony team had never seen such a style of play before. In this outer arena, everyone respected strength. The general consensus was that putting the strongest people together would naturally create the strongest team.
However, this best team, whose members were clearly not as skilled as the Hongmeng team, was able to unleash strength far exceeding their cultivation levels.
The members of the Harmony team are all the chosen ones of the Ten Continents, the most talented group of people on their continent.
They were initially at odds with each other, but with Yan Lingyi, who was also exceptionally outstanding to them, keeping them in check, they were able to come together as a group.
In the past, whenever they fought against their opponents, they fought individually. In some cases, the opponents were defeated without them even having to lift a finger.
Over time, this fostered their arrogance, and they never believed that any team in the outer arena could surpass them in strength.
As for the loss they suffered at Shi Xuan's hands last time, they attributed it to luck. Shi Xuan was just lucky; he had made preparations in advance, which is why he trapped them in the formation.
This time, however, the HarmonyOS team clearly sensed that something was wrong.
This squad, named "Best Not to Team With Us," was such an arrogant and irreverent name that I initially thought they were just a bunch of boastful rookies. But once the fight started, I discovered that these guys might actually have some impressive, albeit arrogant, skills.
Yan Lingyi's expression was rather unpleasant. These ants had wasted far too much of their time.
He could see that many of his teammates were impatient, wanting to defeat their opponents quickly but unable to find the right method. Despite each player being quite skilled, they simply couldn't defeat the newcomers who were inferior to them in every aspect.
They felt a sense of frustration, like punching cotton – it didn't hurt, but it was upsetting.
If this continues, they'll probably become even more impatient.
Yan Lingyi said in a deep voice: "Li An, Chen Lixie, you two attack Shi Xuan."
This was a very rare instance of the Hongmeng team having their captain give commands during a battle. Just one sentence, yet it was enough to show how difficult this battle had been.
Li An and Chen Lixie, who were called out, glanced at their captain and followed his orders, then turned and attacked Shi Xuan.
Both of them were at the Nascent Soul stage. Two Nascent Soul cultivators joining forces to attack a Golden Core cultivator—no one would believe it if this were told.
Yan Lingyi, on the other hand, focused on dealing with Lu Shenzhi.
After the three strongest fighters were sent out, the remaining group was even more at a loss when facing the best squad's attack and defense formation trained by Shi Xuan. They were repeatedly defeated by the well-organized group and found it difficult to hold on.
The three who attacked Shi Xuan and Lu Shenzhi soon discovered that they had fallen into a strange cycle.
Although Shi Xuan and Lu Shenzhi seemed to be completely overwhelmed and were running away, strangely enough, the three attackers who had the upper hand felt even more frustrated than before.
It's a feeling of having a clear advantage but not being able to harm the other party in the slightest.
How to put it... it just felt like they were escaping with ease... it seemed like every time they were about to unleash their ultimate move, these two would always manage to rush into the area where the other team members were, leaving them hesitant and afraid to act.
After a quarter of an hour, Yan Lingyi finally lost his patience. He shouted, "Fire Wall!"
As he spoke, a wall of fire, more than ten feet long, rose into the air along the area where Shi Xuan and Lu Shenzhi were active.
The flames shot up high, turning the entire sky a crimson red, making the already scorching volcano summit even more unbearable.
This place is supposed to be a paradise for fire-type cultivators, because fire spiritual energy is abundant here, while other spiritual energy is almost depleted, making it an area where the five elements are unbalanced.
Just like now, all cultivators who are not fire spirit roots need to take spirit-replenishing pills every once in a while, while cultivators with fire spirit roots are getting stronger and stronger in battle.
Yan Lingyi's powerful wall of fire suddenly surged into the crowd, attacking both friendly and enemy players.
In the best squad's defensive formation, the "eye" responsible for vigilance noticed Yan Lingyi's movements and immediately took action. The squad flexibly dispersed and then regrouped, minimizing the area affected by the fire wall.
The small affected area was blocked by shields erected by the team members in that position.
So after this wall of fire, Yan Lingyi was surprised to find that the only person who was injured was actually a member of their Hongmeng team!
"Useless!" Yan Lingyi was furious. Team battles were already affecting his performance. If it weren't for these members, he would have had a huge advantage in this place full of fire spiritual energy. How could he have played so restrainedly!
The members of their team all knew his moves, yet they were still injured. They were even worse off than those Golden Core stage opponents who were caught off guard upon first meeting him. It was truly infuriating.
They're all so arrogant and haughty, but when it comes to actually using them, they're all so incredibly vulnerable!
His temper flared up. He decided to disregard everything and unleashed a barrage of fireballs, fireballs, walls of fire, and rockets, one after another, regardless of whether they were friend or foe.
In an instant, the entire mountaintop was in chaos.
The attacks were too intense. Under the full force of a Nascent Soul cultivator at his peak, the best squad's defensive formation was struggling to hold up. Although they had practiced the changes in these formations until they became second nature in many battles, they were still outmatched by the overwhelming power.
But compared to them, the HarmonyOS team seems to be in a worse situation.
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