As soon as Shi Feng's words fell on the battlefield, Shui Se Qiang Wei and her team, who had been holding back until now, all nodded. Their gazes toward Yu Mo and the others carried a hint of excitement as they charged forward en masse.
Lu Xingluo, standing amid the Star Ring army, watched Shui Se Qiang Wei's group rush forward and glanced over at Shi Feng. A cold smirk crept across his lips.
"You think you can pit these people against the Beast Legion in a chaotic melee and pick us off one by one, Black Flame?" Lu Xingluo looked at Shui Se Qiang Wei and the others with amusement. "Too bad you're just throwing your lives away!"
Battle formations were indeed powerful in that they allowed players to band together and challenge higher-tier opponents. But their true strength lay in large-scale battlefield slaughter — compared to fighting a single player, they were far more effective against a group.
Shi Feng fighting the battle formation alone earlier had actually been the smartest move. These people charging in wouldn't help at all; they'd become liabilities. In a chaotic melee like this, large-scale magical attacks were impossible — one wrong move and you'd take out your own allies.
And without large-scale magic to pressure the Beast Legion, the stat and physique boosts the battle formation provided its members meant that even a top-tier expert would struggle to take down a single one of them in a one-on-one fight, let alone Shui Se Qiang Wei and the others who had only just entered the Perceptive Realm.
However, Hui Mang, who was within the battle formation, felt something was off about the situation.
"What's going on with these people?" Hui Mang watched the Zero Wing members charging toward them, a strange feeling creeping into his heart.
The way Shui Se Qiang Wei and the others looked at them was all wrong. It didn't feel like they were facing a powerful enemy — it felt more like they were eyeing practice targets.
"Whatever they're planning, trying to fight us inside our battle formation is just suicide!" Yu Mo, standing nearby, wore a nonchalant expression. Her gaze quickly locked onto Huo Wu among the Zero Wing crowd, and a few extra degrees of killing intent flickered in her eyes before she launched herself forward.
Her last encounter with Huo Wu was still burned into her memory.
As the Beast Legion's top fighter after the Commander and Vice Commander, she had actually lost to someone whose combat level was far below her own. That was something she could never forget no matter how hard she tried.
Huo Wu's life force had been inexplicably strong, making it impossible for Yu Mo to win against her. But this time, with the battle formation's boost, she was going to give Huo Wu a proper thrashing.
Yu Mo's speed was staggering — she was essentially a ghostly blur that the eye could barely track. In the blink of an eye, she appeared at the very front line where the two sides were about to collide, thrusting straight at Huo Wu, who was leading the charge.
The instant the thrust descended, Yu Mo split into nine figures, each one appearing completely real. It was impossible to tell which was genuine and which was illusion.
Seeing this, Yi Yun, watching from the VIP box, drew a sharp breath.
"That's… Nine Shadows, One Kill!" Yi Yun stared in disbelief at the nine figures emanating from Yu Mo.
Nine Shadows, One Kill was a Bronze Rank combat technique — one of the devastatingly powerful close-combat skills the Thirteen Royal Courts had learned about from the Bronze Stone Slabs. Mastering even a fraction of it would supposedly make a top-tier expert virtually unbeatable within the Vacuum Realm. If one could master it completely, Yi Yun was confident she could hold her own against Sha Gu, one of the Seven Deadly Sins Flowers' senior executives, even in the Thunder Shrine.
But despite practicing for a long time, she hadn't even been able to produce the slightest flicker of it. Its complexity was simply beyond her capability — even an expert who had grasped the Domain would likely fail.
Yet here was Yu Mo, executing it. How could she not be shocked?
What Yi Yun didn't know was that Yu Mo could only use a Bronze Rank technique like Nine Shadows One Kill thanks to the battle formation's amplification. Without it, the move would have been completely out of her reach.
"Yu Mo's being far too serious — she's even pulling out a forbidden technique like that." Vice Commander Yun Man Shan, standing within the Star Ring army, furrowed his brows slightly.
Nine Shadows One Kill was Yu Mo's ultimate trump card. It had originally been reserved for use against an expert who had grasped the Domain. Using it here meant it would be exposed.
"Let her be. Once she gets her revenge, maybe she'll be able to take that next step." Jing Feng smiled and said.
Yu Mo was a talent he had high expectations for. He'd been just as surprised when she had suddenly lost to Huo Wu, but later learned that Huo Wu had used some unknown method to boost her life force, which was what allowed her to win.