159: Tie Shengnan, a born strategist

The deafening roars seemed to tear apart the mist-shrouded sky of the Fengdu Ghost Domain.

Countless Ghost Souls stacked together, forming a massive, nearly materialized shadow, carrying monstrous resentment and icy death energy, rushing toward the Forbidden City Circular Formation like a breaching flood.

"Fire! Thunder! Poison!"

Before the Ghost Souls could approach, Tie Shengnan roared twice.

Immediately, a tremendous blast sounded.

What appeared first were countless Five Thunders Orthodox Laws stacked together.

The dense thunder strikes instantly formed a blue waterfall dozens of meters wide right in front of the Forbidden City formation.

Following that, orange-red fire rocks above the thunder zone trailed long tails, falling like a meteor shower, instantly turning the ground in the thunder zone into a lava purgatory.

Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!!!

An indescribable loud noise exploded in the center of the Ghost Domain.

The aggregated shadow twisted and boiled violently, like water poured into hot oil.

Terrifying shrieks mixed with the ear-piercing wails of the Ghost Souls filled people's ears.

Damage numbers scrolled wildly across the screen like a waterfall, instantly overwhelming the peripheral vision of the Forbidden City members.

Even with Halos and guild buffs applied, the natural suppression caused by the Ghost Souls' inherent level and quality prevented Forbidden City's initial focused fire from depleting about 50% of the enemy's HP in a very short time.

"Roar~"

For Level 80 Diamond Monsters, a distance of dozens of meters meant they reached the front of the formation in less than a second.

When the two sides were about ten meters apart, Tie Shengnan immediately issued an order via the control panel.

"Group One...! Go!"

In front of the Forbidden City formation, everyone in the first row suddenly rushed outwards like an expanding smoke ring.

These people were primarily Metal Element Users and Water Element users.

"Roar!"

As they clashed, blue light lit up on the countless sharp claws of the Ghost Souls at the forefront, transforming into razor blades that slashed towards the Forbidden City Legion blocking their path.

Ghost Souls are in a spectral state, so logically, they should all be ranged spellcaster monsters.

But on the contrary, all their attacks are close combat.

The moment they launch an attack, Water Elementals condense in the Ghost Souls' hands, transforming into an Ice Blade that slashes at the opponent.

Huang Chen had the idea of farming the Ghost Domain precisely because he noticed this point.

Otherwise, if they were all ranged area attacks.

They wouldn't even need to fight.

A single area strike from stacked Ghost Souls would be unbearable, even if you were Level 200.

Countless Ice Blades fiercely slashed onto the Trial Takers rushing out from Forbidden City.

Dull impact sounds were accompanied by the appearance of dense damage figures.

Even with Halos like Lotus and Northern Darkness, as well as their own substantial HP and defense, the HP bars of this group plummeted like an avalanche the instant contact was made!

In an instant, half the people in Group One were forced out of their Protective Shields.

Simultaneously, under the dual burst of skills and reflection, the first wave of Ghost Souls that entered the attack range also wailed and fell one after another.

Without needing Tie Shengnan's command, the moment they were forced out of their Protective Shields, these individuals simultaneously activated Teleportation, returning to the center of the circular formation to recuperate and wait for their protective shield's CD.

The momentary burst cleared the Ghost Souls dozens of meters ahead.

With the super high density combined with the bonus experience from fighting higher-level enemies.

In that single second, the experience bars of almost all Inner Circle Members jumped up a small notch.

However, behind them, endless Ghost Souls continued to surge from all directions like a tide.

They lacked physical bodies; as soon as they made contact, they would stack together, arriving at the front of the formation as a superposition of hundreds or thousands of entities.

"Group Two... Go!"

"Shield broken, Teleport!"

"Water Element users, use the cooldown time for free attacks!"

"Group Three... Group Four... Group Eighty..."

Tie Shengnan's voice was frighteningly calm as she issued precise commands.

Since Metal Element Users are all melee fighters, they could not advance during the waiting period.

But Water Element users still have many area attack skills.

The main goal was maximizing output.

Almost every second, a group from the Forbidden City Legion charged outward.

No healing was arranged.

Under this intensity of attack, the lifesteal provided by the Northern Darkness Aura and Bai Zhaoning's Life Link had long surpassed anyone's maximum HP.

Besides, would healing even help?

Hundreds or thousands of stacked Ghost Souls needed only one attack to take down even Huang Chen.

Tie Shengnan's strategy was simple.

It was to utilize the one-second HP lock of the Guardian Domain, divide the Forbidden City Legion into hundreds of batches, and use their physical bodies to intercept the Ghost Souls within the skills' range.

Fortunately, Chen Yichun's Frost Domain was also extremely useful for limiting the Ghost Souls' speed.

This significantly slowed down the speed at which the Ghost Souls gathered.

The two sides remained locked in a stalemate!

Meanwhile, Huang Chen was flying rapidly dozens of meters high, circling the outermost perimeter of the Forbidden City formation.

Almost every second, four area attacks were thrown from his hands, exploding behind the Ghost Souls.

How high was Huang Chen's attack power?

Even Level 80 Epic Bosses couldn't withstand it, let alone these Ghost Souls.

Every time a skill landed, it blasted out a huge vacuum zone.

However, although the visual effect of Huang Chen's bombardment was explosive.

The number of Ghost Souls he killed was probably less than one percent of what the Forbidden City Legion killed.

After all, this was a circular formation with a radius of nearly a kilometer, composed of two hundred thousand people.

Two and a half minutes later, all 150 designated Assault Squads had completed one round of charge.

However, at this moment, there were still 30 seconds left until Group One's skill CD finished.

At this point, nervous expressions began to appear on the faces of the Fire and Earth Element Users standing closer to the front.

If the Assault Squads couldn't completely block the Ghost Souls' impact.

Once the Ghost Souls rushed into their formation, these people would definitely be scattered in a short time.

"Wood Elementals... Group One, go... Water Element users, continue free attacks during cooldown."

Tie Shengnan's voice was still so calm.

Last night, Tie Shengnan had already anticipated the scenario where the Metal and Water Element users couldn't hold out for three minutes.

The Assault Teams had completed one round of impact, but the Protective Shield CD wasn't ready yet, so now the Wood Elementals would take over.

After all, Fire and Earth Element Users have damage bonuses against entities like Ghost Souls.

Upon receiving Tie Shengnan's command, the circle of people in the front row of Wood Elementals immediately stopped their attacks and resolutely charged into the skill bombardment zone.

Still at the rate of one group per second.

With the loss of a large number of Wood Elementals' attacks, the Ghost Souls temporarily pushed the frontline forward by more than ten meters.

Cold sweat began to drip like broken strings of pearls from the faces of the Fire and Earth Element Users in the front row.

Normally, even if they were ten against one, they probably wouldn't be a match for these Ghost Souls.

Moreover, standing at the front, the innate chill carried by the Ghost Souls had already invaded their bodies, making them tremble slightly.

Fortunately, just as only about ten groups of Wood Elementals remained.

The skills of Group One of the Assault Teams were off CD, and these people instantly formed a steel Great Wall and charged outwards again as soon as the CD finished.

Repeating in this cycle, every three minutes, the Ghost Souls' frontline would advance by more than ten meters.

After just twenty minutes, the Ghost Souls had advanced to about 30 meters in front of the Fire and Earth Element Users' formation.

However, according to Huang Chen's observation, the Ghost Souls surging from the periphery were still endless.

Anxious expressions began to surface on everyone's faces.

Including Huang Chen, who was in the sky, his expression was also solemn at this time.

If the Ghost Souls advanced another dozen meters, he might have to take everyone and run.

However, at this moment, Tie Shengnan suddenly gave another order.

[Front row, maintain a one-meter distance front to back, contract the formation.]

As the command was issued, Huang Chen, observing from the sky, saw the distance between every two members of the Forbidden City Legion shrink from 1.2 meters to 1 meter.

The entire formation suddenly compressed, shrinking inward by nearly 50 meters from its original radius of over a thousand meters.

Instantly, the distance between Forbidden City and the Ghost Souls' front line was once again stretched to about 80 meters.

"Tsk tsk! She can actually do that!!"

Huang Chen looked at Tie Shengnan, clicking his tongue,

"She truly is a born strategist!!"