Although the best team's overall cultivation level is not as high as the Hongmeng team, they are well-trained in formation, advance and retreat properly, and their defense is also quite good.
The members of the HarmonyOS team were used to fighting alone and had no concept of teamwork. Caught off guard by their captain's fierce attack, they were far more likely to be hit than the best team.
Yan Lingyi roared, "Everyone, step back!"
If these people continue to mingle together, who knows how many of his own people will be injured in his subsequent attacks.
He was at his peak condition at this moment, and the fire elemental energy here was so strong that it was practically seeping into his body. Rather than having so many people blocking his way, he figured he might as well fight them all himself.
He could handle the rest of the Golden Core stage ants by himself, while others could hold off Shi Xuan and Lu Shenzhi.
But the moment he spoke, Shi Xuan issued his first order since the start of the war: "Close combat!"
What a joke! In this situation, it's natural to say, "We must oppose whatever the enemy approves of." Trying to create distance and let us wait to be attacked by your fireballs is certainly not an option.
The team members had already seen through Yan Lingyi's intentions. Even without Shi Xuan's orders, they wouldn't have let these members of the Hongmeng team go.
The situation on the field seems to have reversed, from the HarmonyOS team chasing the best team to the best team now having a bunch of people chasing the HarmonyOS team.
Creating distance between us is simply impossible! Especially when they are eager to create distance and attack, it's even more impossible.
Yan Lingyi was furious and increasingly dissatisfied with her team members. These idiots couldn't even fight, let alone stay away from their opponents!
He continued his indiscriminate attacks on the crowd, but while he claimed not to care about the lives of his team members, he inevitably showed some mercy to avoid causing unnecessary trouble. If he accidentally injured one of his own men, it would be a major problem back at the sect.
Meanwhile, the members of the best squad were also having a tough time. They were already struggling to cope with Yan Lingyi's relentless attacks, and now they had the added task of chasing after him. Gradually, their formation started to fall behind.
Their greatest strength lies in their teamwork; if their formation breaks down and they can't immediately regroup, it would be dangerous for them.
And now, they are on the verge of such a danger.
Yan Lingyi unleashed a fireball, injuring two team members.
Just as Yan Lingyi was about to break through their defensive formation, a faint light suddenly appeared around the arena.
The faint light wasn't very obvious, but it was definitely not one to be ignored. How similar it was to the last time they suffered a loss against the best squad!
"Oh no! There's a formation!" Qian Zheng shouted.
But it was too late to say all this now; when the light shone, the formation was already complete.
A trap was formed, instantly engulfing everyone inside.
Yan Lingyi, who was already preparing for his next attack, was suddenly interrupted.
He heard Qian Zheng's final shout, and his anger intensified. He was supposed to be a formation cultivator, yet he'd been set up with a formation during his own battle, and only realized the problem after it was complete!
What kind of array cultivator is this?! He's supposed to be quite famous among the younger generation of the Ten Continents, yet he's so utterly vulnerable!
Yan Lingyi didn't voice his thoughts, but if Qian Zheng knew what he was thinking, he would definitely cry out three times that he was wronged. He was running around in the middle of the team being indiscriminately bombarded by the captain; how could he possibly notice who was setting up the formation! That's asking too much!
At this moment, while everyone was trapped in the magic circle, Shi Xuan controlled the magic circle to release his own team members first.
The group breathed a sigh of relief, took out pills to replenish their energy, and even the spirit pets of the Yuxing Sect were given a separate boost of spiritual power and allowed to rest.
After such an intense battle, the newly enhanced cultivation levels of the group were consolidated. Now, having consumed the pills, their previous fatigue vanished, and they were all full of energy.
Lu Shenzhi continued to act, while Shi Xuan began to control the formation to break through the enemy's defenses one by one.
According to Shi Xuan's speculation, this formation won't be able to control them for long.
The main reason is that Yan Lingyi has too much of an advantage here. Seeing that he is trapped by the formation, he has begun to frantically attack a fixed point in the formation.
Even though that wasn't the core of the formation, it still couldn't withstand continuous, high-intensity attacks from a Nascent Soul cultivator.
With limited time, Shi Xuan seized the opportunity, using both the Spirit Binding Talisman and the Spirit Binding Rope to deal with the smiling tiger Dan Xiu Tan Longyun, and also binding the two cultivators Li An and Chen Lixie who had been initially named by Yan Lingyi.
Shi Xuan's main strategy was to defeat them one by one. Once trapped in the formation, he would first feed them some highly effective pills, then deal with them one by one.
Pills with negative effects were thrown into the magic array in heaps. The Nascent Soul stage cultivators here were okay, they could tolerate it to some extent, but the Golden Core stage cultivators were really uncomfortable all over their bodies due to the effects of the pills.
Suddenly, the long-lost sounds of crying and laughing echoed within the trapped formation.
However, without the captain's relentless barrage, Qian Zheng calmed down and began to demonstrate his strength as a leader of the formation cultivators among the younger generation of disciples in the Ten Continents, seeking a way to break the formation.
When she set up the formation, she was at the Golden Core stage, while Qian Zheng, who broke the formation, was at least at the Nascent Soul stage. At that time, she had set up the simplest trapping formation because the battle was too intense, leaving her with insufficient energy to set up a more complex formation.
Qian Zheng quickly found a way to break the trap, and with Yan Lingyi's continuous bombardment, Shi Xuan's formation was broken when she finished dealing with the fourth member of the Hongmeng team.
Shi Xuan was not surprised. She threw the four prisoners who had been bound by the spirit into a separate space that could hold living beings.
Seeing that the formation that had trapped them had been broken, Yan Lingyi sneered, looked at Shi Xuan, raised his hand and fired a rocket towards Shi Xuan.
However, at that very moment, just as the rocket had launched and had not gone far, an unusual phenomenon occurred, and the entire mountainside was once again illuminated by a faint light.
They were trapped by the formation once again!
Yan Lingyi!!!
We just broke one magic array, and now another one appears! These arrays are coming one after another, it's never going to end, is it?
For Yan Lingyi at this moment, there was nothing more infuriating than this.
They initially thought this small, inexperienced team, with only one member at the Nascent Soul stage, would be easy prey, but they suffered one defeat after another against them.
Now, recalling the time we first met when I was trapped in their formation, I suddenly realized that perhaps it wasn't all just luck...
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