Chapter 28: Breaking the Formation

More and more Wandering Hunters emerged from the darkness. Under their wave-like assaults, the defenses of the Settlement finally collapsed completely. The outer wooden fences were damaged beyond recognition, and the earthen walls inside were smashed into huge gaps by the ferocious horned horses. As large groups of Wandering Hunters poured in, the guards of the Settlement fell one by one. Cries shook the sky; looking out, one could see thick smoke rising everywhere and large patches of blood.

Protected by a squad of elite Knights, Elder Akashic led a group of Priests and Magicians to fight to the death against the rushing Wandering Hunters, doing their best to protect the many Nuns behind them who had no combat power . Every time they attacked, the Holy Bead above the Monastery transmitted a majestic surge of energy through the air, raising the lethality of large-scale Magic to the extreme. However, helplessly, more and more Wandering Hunters rushed over. Especially after the Dark Cross Commander led a squad of personal guards to join the battlefield, the situation became even worse. With one careless moment, even Elder Akashic himself was almost pierced through by a sharp crossbow bolt!

In contrast to the chaotic killing shouts outside, the interior of the eighth floor of the Crystal High Tower was terrifyingly quiet! Under the pressure of the Saintess’s projection, cold sweat dripped from the forehead of the Black Eagle Captain, and the Demon Hunters beside him all turned pale. They even couldn’t help but start trembling.

No matter how powerful a Demon Hunter was, facing a high and mighty Demi-god Stronger, they couldn’t help but feel a fear that went deep into their bones!

Unlike the Shadow Squad who didn’t dare to move an inch, Hu Feng slowly moved in the darkness. With the cover of the Ghost King Cloak, he silently stepped onto the passage leading to the last floor of the Crystal High Tower. As expected, the journey was unobstructed; the Saintess’s projection that originally guarded the passage to the ninth floor had been successfully lured away.

Hoo…

Stepping onto the towering top of the tower, the view suddenly opened up. Under the vast starry sky, the boundless Wasteland could not be seen at a glance. Looking down, the tiny Wuhai Town seemed like a matchbox, submerged by the tide of Wandering Hunters. In the center of the tower top, a massive and complex Magic Array was carved, and the energy-surging Holy Bead was pressing right in the center of the Magic Array.

“Is this… a Killing Formation?” After observing carefully for a moment, Hu Feng looked grave.

At first glance, it seemed like just an ordinary Spirit Gathering Formation, but focusing his senses to detect it, one could feel a strong danger. If an unknowing person stepped on it, they would probably die immediately without a burial place! The Holy Bead was the treasure of every Monastery; its defense was indeed not simple!

Even if an ordinary person broke through the guard of the Saintess’s projection and came here, facing such a terrifying Killing Formation, they would probably be helpless!

…

Hu Feng focused his mind, thinking hard about a way to break the Killing Formation. Meanwhile, the atmosphere inside the eighth floor of the Crystal High Tower became increasingly tense.

“This is just a phantom transformed from a thought. Brothers, kill!”

Seeing that holding out like this was not an option, the experienced Black Eagle Captain gritted his teeth and decisively took the lead to attack. For every bit of Magic Power absorbed from the air, the Saintess’s phantom became more real, and the pressure it emitted became more terrifying. If they waited like this, the entire Black Eagle Squad would probably be wiped out, and no one would survive!

“Kill!”

With the captain’s order, several pale-faced Demon Hunters forced themselves to charge forward. The Black Eagles beneath them almost dived straight in front of the Saintess in one swoop. The knights in front raised their sharp heavy swords and dispersed to stab at the Saintess’s vital points; the archers following behind shot an arrow at the Saintess’s glabella as they moved; two Magicians followed beside the captain, holding their Magic Staffs and chanting awkward spells, joining hands to prepare a large-scale Magic with astonishing lethality.

The experienced Black Eagle Squad had been through many battles and coordinated tacitly; as soon as they moved, they launched a fierce attack!

“God says, all Heretics originate from the sin in their hearts. Only by undergoing the baptism of the Angel Flame can the Soul enter heaven!”

Facing the menacing Demon Hunters, the Saintess had a calm expression, and her solemn voice resounded throughout the Crystal High Tower. In an instant, black flames suddenly emerged from the body of a heavy sword knight charging at the very front, and his whole person burned like a torch. In the blink of an eye, both the man and his mount were burned to ashes, leaving only a miserable scream.

“God says, all Heretics must repent in the endless Abyss until their Souls are sublimated!”

The resounding voice rang out again, and another knight suddenly grabbed his own neck and fell from his Black Eagle, his body twisting wildly on the ground. His face turned red, and his eyeballs bulged out, as if his neck was being strangled by a tough rope, or as if he had fallen into water, instantly unable to breathe at all. Soon, he lost consciousness.

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Every time the solemn voice rang out, a Demon Hunter would suddenly fall without warning. The holy Saintess floated quietly in the air, looking like a goddess looking down on all living beings—powerful, cold, without a trace of human emotion. For every Demon Hunter she killed, the phantom became a fraction more real, and the vast pressure spread far away.

Great Prophecy Technique?

Looking at the increasingly real phantom in the air, the Black Eagle Captain was greatly shocked in his heart.

The Great Prophecy Technique was rumored to be a top-tier technique passed down from the Divine Kingdom, and only the high-level members of the Divine Court were qualified to cultivate it. Cultivation was extremely difficult, but once one succeeded, it could break through anything. Tens of thousands of years ago, Liuying, ranked eighteenth on the overall Demon Hunter Ranking, in a fit of rage, killed his way up to the Bright Summit. As a result, under the Pope’s Great Prophecy Technique, his Soul Scattered and Spirit Dissipated in just one move!

Who could be a match for a Demi-god Stronger who had comprehended the Great Prophecy Technique?

The Black Eagle Captain’s hands and feet turned cold. He pushed the two Magicians beside him out as shields, turned his mount Black Eagle around, and tried to leave. Unfortunately, just as he was about to fly out of the Crystal High Tower, he was suddenly blocked by an invisible energy barrier. He dashed left and right but couldn’t get out. Turning his head, he saw the Saintess’s phantom looking over coldly, and the resounding voice was about to ring out. The two pitiful Magicians had already turned into a pile of ashes.

“You forced me to do this, let’s die together!”

Seeing there was no way out, the Black Eagle Captain simply gave it his all. He took out a blood-red crystal core from his space ring, swallowed it in one gulp, and disregarded the terrible backlash to forcefully fuse with the energy of the crystal core. After a roar, an indescribably violent power surged in his body. His already developed muscles bulged high, and the bones all over his body crackled. His body quickly went through a berserk mutation.

He was over three meters tall, with a pair of pitch-black sharp curved horns growing on his head. His muscles were powerful, and his originally slender and strong fingers turned into a pair of eight-inch-long claws. He roared loudly like a bloodthirsty beast. With a strong kick of his legs, his whole body swooped toward the Saintess’s phantom in mid-air with a ‘whoosh’. His speed was not inferior to Hu Feng’s teleportation at all!

Komodo War Beast Crystal Core?

The Saintess, who had a calm expression, was also surprised. Facing the fierce Black Eagle Captain, she didn’t even have time to cast the Great Prophecy Technique. She pressed her right hand into the void, and a long spear overflowing with Killing Intent suddenly appeared, directly piercing through the Black Eagle Captain’s chest. At the same time, the Black Eagle Captain, whose body had gone beastly, slammed into her fiercely, causing the phantom to fade a bit, almost being directly shattered.

Having swallowed the Komodo War Beast Crystal Core, the Black Eagle Captain instantly erupted with terrifying speed and power!

It was the crystal core of a Fourteenth Step Komodo War Beast; the Magic Power contained within was enough to make a person rise three levels in a row. The Black Eagle Captain was already powerful and had cultivated to the Grand Swordsman realm. After forcefully fusing with the crystal core of the Komodo War Beast, his strength instantly skyrocketed by more than two times. The Saintess’s phantom, formed by a thought, was powerful, but she also suffered a hidden loss in that instant.

Roar…

The bloodthirsty and berserk Black Eagle Captain seemed to have lost his mind. After a roar, he pulled out the spear from his chest and pounced on the Saintess not far away again. With a ‘bang’, they collided fiercely like Mars hitting Earth, and both let out a muffled grunt. The Black Eagle Captain spat out a mouthful of blood, while the Saintess’s phantom in white became even dimmer, seeming to be injured quite badly and likely to dissipate at any time. Before she could counterattack, the blood-stained Black Eagle Captain pounced madly again.

“Good, now is the time, break for me!”

Seeing that the Black Eagle Captain and the Saintess’s phantom were both injured, Hu Feng no longer hesitated. He surged the Magic Crystal and Soul Crystal within his body to draw a large character for ‘Break’ in the air. In an instant, the world changed color, and a menacing snake-shaped lightning appeared in the Void, striking fiercely onto the Killing Formation at the top of the Crystal Tower with a ‘boom’.

Opportunity knocks but once; Hu Feng chose the most crude and simple method to forcefully break the formation!