160: gate of hell

As the formation compressed, the pressure on the Forbidden City members drastically decreased.

And as the density of attacking personnel increased, the number of stacked skills within a unit area also grew.

More skills meant higher damage.

Therefore, in the next rotation, the Ghost Souls only advanced about ten meters.

The situation was once again stabilized.

"Report casualties!" Tie Shengnan's voice broke the silence.

"Reporting, Commander! Fatalities... zero! All personnel are in good spirits and are expected to continue fighting for another hour and a half."

During combat, Lan Ling's report was extremely concise.

"Good!"

Tie Shengnan's eyes gleamed. "Everyone, pay attention to reporting your mental state to your respective captains at all times."

With the current stalemate, the most crucial thing to monitor was mental state.

Star Abyss was just like reality; if you 'worked' at high intensity for too long, your reaction speed would slow down, your work efficiency would decrease, until you couldn't even lift your hands.

"Yes!"

Two hundred thousand people responded in an excited chorus, their booming voices briefly dispelling the eternal gloom of the Fengdu Ghost Domain.

At this moment, everyone felt a sense of pride, more or less.

They were performing the magnificent feat of fighting millions of Ghost Souls with bodies only around level forty.

If this were told, who would believe it?

After giving her orders, Tie Shengnan looked up at Huang Chen, who was faintly visible in the thin mist above.

"Chairman, report the Ghost Soul density!"

Huang Chen paused when he heard Tie Shengnan's command.

This was Tie Shengnan.

In the previous life, it was rumored that if you handed command to her, she would even dare to send Tie Weiguo to charge when needed.

For victory, this woman didn't care about your status.

Huang Chen squinted and looked around, then responded in the panel:

"Reporting, Commander! The Ghost Soul encirclement extends about one hundred kilometers at its furthest."

Tie Shengnan nodded secretly after reading the information.

At the Ghost Souls' speed, they should be able to eliminate all of them in another half an hour.

Currently, all original 100,000 inner disciples of Forbidden City were nearly level 50, and those who joined later had also reached level 48.

Half an hour's worth of experience would be enough for everyone to reach level 50.

With the combat experience from the first half-hour, the Forbidden City Legion's response to the Ghost Soul siege slowly became more composed.

Of course, many elite monsters were also mixed in with the Ghost Souls.

But a small gathering of two or three elite monsters posed no threat to Forbidden City's defense line.

Only when dozens of them gathered would it cause some pressure.

However, as soon as a gathering of elite monsters was discovered, the information would quickly be relayed to Tie Shengnan.

Then, Forbidden City's biggest workhorse, Chairman Huang, would instantly teleport over... Soon, half an hour passed. In this hour, the Forbidden City Legion, under Tie Shengnan's command, completed more than ten contractions of their formation.

And the entire central area of the Fengdu Ghost Domain, in this hour, was like a giant, efficiently operating meat grinder.

Ghost Souls surged forward like moths to a flame, only to fall in droves under the dense firepower and terrifying rebound damage. Experience points, like a golden torrent, surged madly into the experience bar of every Forbidden City member.

The light of leveling up never stopped from beginning to end.

Until the battle finally ended, the thirty members of the Harem, including Da Mimi, all reached level 51 under the massive influx of experience.

As for Huang Chen, he was temporarily 30% away from level 52.

Looking at the countless layers of silver coins and equipment piled up before them, everyone couldn't help but swallow.

These were all level 65 Diamond-rank equipment.

While other races were still desperately fighting for level 55 Silver-rank equipment.

Their Forbidden City already had hundreds of thousands of level 65 Diamond-rank equipment.

What an enormous leading advantage this was.

And all of this,

Was all thanks to that god-like man.

Huang Chen felt the fervent gazes around him, especially from the women.

He rubbed the tip of his nose, quite pleased.

It's not like I can only wield one weapon; at least a thousand of you would be startled!

He walked over to Tie Shengnan, who was still in shock, and the two silently watched the logistics team clear the battlefield.

"How does it feel?" Huang Chen asked.

"Incredible!"

Tie Shengnan's voice was hoarse with excitement. "I never imagined leveling could be like this."

"This speed is even more astonishing than when you led people in the Gold-attribute dungeon."

"And... there's too much loot! The logistics team can barely keep up!"

As Tie Shengnan said, the items dropped by the Ghost Souls were piled up like mountains. Large quantities of silver coins, Diamond-rank equipment around level 75, various strange materials, and a small number of skill books and rare materials... they covered their field of vision like a carpet.

Thousands of people in the logistics team were frantically sweeping the battlefield, barely touching the ground.

If Xie Chunyan hadn't specially equipped the logistics team with one-thousand-slot backpacks.

It would have taken who knows how many trips to clear all these spoils today.

Suddenly, an urgent voice from a scout came through the command channel: "Reporting, Commander! Northeast direction, 150 kilometers from the central area, a huge archway has been discovered. It reads 'Ghost Gate Pass'. The fog behind the archway is very thick, visibility is about 10 meters, and Ghost Souls are continuously emerging from the Ghost Gate Pass at a rate of about 100 per second."

"Ghost Gate Pass?" Tie Shengnan frowned and looked at Huang Chen.

This should be the boss's location, the 'Ghost Gate', that Huang Chen mentioned.

"Let's go take a look!"

Huang Chen said, then waved his hand, taking the thirty members of the Harem and directly teleporting to the scout's location.

The 'Ghost Gate Pass' archway was about 25 meters high. The fog inside the gate was almost black, and on both sides of the gate were statues of executioner evil spirits, looking incredibly eerie and terrifying.

As soon as Huang Chen arrived, he cast several Five Thunders Orthodox Laws directly in front of the gate, clearing all the Ghost Souls there in just a few seconds.

The subsequent Ghost Souls emerging from the gate didn't even have time to shriek before being turned into streaks of white light by the electricity.

"This is the Ghost Gate Pass?"

Sect Leader Bai Zhaoning shivered slightly as she looked at the towering gate.

Although she had just fought a great battle with Ghost Souls, women still had an instinctive fear of these unknown spirits and ghosts.

"I'll have my clone scout ahead first."

As soon as Huang Chen finished speaking, a figure identical to him instantly condensed beside him.

"Go!"

With a thought, the clone vanished behind the gate with a whoosh.

Huang Chen sensed that the clone did not dissipate after entering the Ghost Gate Pass.

This indicated that the map inside the Ghost Gate and the main map still existed within the same space.

As soon as the clone entered the Ghost Gate, it immediately flew up into the air.

Within its sight, there were Ghost Souls everywhere... or rather, incomplete Ghost Souls. These Ghost Souls were even more ethereal than the Ghost Souls in the Ghost Domain.

They were continuously absorbing the black mist within the Ghost Gate, and when their forms became sufficiently condensed, they would directly rush out of the Ghost Gate.

This seemed to be a production base for Ghost Souls.

The entry of Huang Chen's clone instantly caused all the Ghost Souls to riot; they shrieked and chased after Huang Chen in the sky.

The clone ignored these Ghost Souls and flew directly deeper inside.

Since he was here, he might as well take down the boss too.

It was just an 80-level Diamond-rank boss, roughly equivalent to a 70-level Epic-rank boss in strength.

With Huang Chen's current strength, taking it down should be no problem.

After flying for about 5 minutes, the dense fog below suddenly became extremely thin.

And a gigantic humanoid creature, about forty meters tall, appeared a few hundred meters in front of the clone.

It wore a black cloak, and the body hidden beneath the cloak seemed to be formed from countless black mists.

It looked terrifying, powerful, and horrifying!

"Wooo~ Aoo~ Hiss~ Roar~"

Seeing the opponent charging towards him, Huang Chen's clone quickly threw a detection spell at it, then blue light gathered in his hand, and a Five Thunders Orthodox Law formed on the monster's path.

[Underworld Ghost Servant Hades lv85 (Water Element users) Rank: Diamond-rank boss]