297: Five Elements Deceiving Heaven Formation

Since Soul Devouring Bees can only recover lost HP slowly on their own, ordinary healing cannot provide them with health.

So, at the Bee King's command, these Soul Devouring Bees, whose health was at rock bottom, instantly teleported back to the pet space to recuperate.

However, the addition of the Soul Devouring Bees had a significant effect. The monsters themselves had little Soul Power, and after being gnawed on by the Soul Devouring Bees, they almost became idiotic, throwing out skills like headless flies, without any strategy.

“Everyone, full advance! Squad focus fire!”

Seeing that the puppets had blocked the incoming horde of monsters, Tie Shengnan continued to give orders. Everything was proceeding in an orderly fashion according to plan.

Just as things were looking good, Zi Han's disdainful sneer came: “You're not using a great opportunity to improve your realm... it's useless even if you level up to 1000.”

Huang Chen frowned and looked at her: “What do you mean?”

Zi Han slowly tossed a grape into her mouth before saying: “The Mirror Shadow Tower you mentioned should be for improving skill realms by fighting simulated Mirror, right?”

“But these monsters right now, their levels and grades far surpass your subordinates. Fighting enemies much stronger than yourself is the fastest way to improve your realm, you should understand this, right? More importantly, only true life-and-death combat can hone higher combat awareness. In some aspects, combat awareness is sometimes much more important than the realm of skills.”

As she spoke, she couldn't help but glance at Huang Chen. The biggest drawback of life-and-death combat is that you might die if you're not careful, but this man in front of her was like the universe's own son. With those Halos, life-and-death combat directly became a struggle for life; it was hard for him to die.

Huang Chen listened, pondered for a moment, then shook his head and said: “Although I have the Guardian Domain and Teleportation Domain to ensure their safety, it's still unrealistic to truly achieve the effect of life-and-death combat. First, without the puppet army at the front, and without the Soul Devouring Bees gnawing at their souls to weaken them, each of my 110,000 people facing an ordinary Level 80 Epic monster would reach their limit just to last ten seconds. The level suppression is too severe, and the attribute gap is too large.”

“Ten seconds?” Zi Han scoffed, “That's because they haven't been beaten enough! If they get beaten more, they'll naturally know how to dodge. If one person can't handle it, then two; if two can't handle it, then four or eight... can't you just keep the numbers at a balance point?”

“But you've also seen the monster density around the Mirror Shadow Tower; one move affects the whole situation. That's hundreds of millions of monsters. If they really entered on a large scale, my few million people would be wiped out in an instant, not even a speck left,” Huang Chen pointed out the most critical problem.

Zi Han tossed the last grape into her mouth. The food in this world was truly delicious!

A meaningful arc appeared at the corner of her mouth: “What if... a grand array could be set up to isolate all auras inside and out? Even if the array was battling to the point of heaven and earth collapsing, the outside wouldn't perceive a single trace. Your people just need to lure the monsters in small groups, then close the door and slowly 'train' them. Wouldn't that work?”

“What array?” Huang Chen's eyes narrowed.

“Five Elements Deceiving Heaven Grand Array.”

Zi Han uttered five words, carrying an ancient charm, “It isolates the heavenly secrets and forms its own domain. Let alone energy fluctuations, even if Liu Ruyan unleashed a Guixu Strike inside, the outside wouldn't feel any ripple.”

“Then what do you want?” Huang Chen asked directly. He didn't believe this demoness would be so kind as to help him train his subordinates.

Zi Han's smile became brilliant, but her eyes held a hint of greed: “It's simple. I want the Soul Power from these monsters after they die in the grand array! Anyway, I help you set up the array to improve your strength, and you help me kill monsters to get Soul Power. Fair trade.”

She added, “This array itself consumes a lot, and I also have to spend a lot of materials containing the essence of the five elements.”

Huang Chen stared at Zi Han for a few seconds. Her eyes were frank, and this proposal was indeed hard for him to refuse.

Since establishing the Forbidden City Legion, he had always focused on letting Forbidden City members hone their skills and combat awareness by fighting monsters beyond their level, but recently, there had been too many things, and it gradually fell behind.

And now, Huang Chen directly accounted for 99.9% of the entire Huaxia's strength. In future wars between races, there might be dozens or even hundreds of battles happening simultaneously.

He couldn't always be the one putting out fires, could he? Huang Chen could lead them to fight higher-level monsters, obtain higher-level equipment, and achieve higher levels.

However, the improvement of skill realms and combat awareness cannot be replaced by equipment and levels.

And as Zi Han said, these monsters around the Mirror Shadow Tower were the best whetstones currently available. With the Guardian Domain and Teleportation Domain as backup, what else was there to worry about?

“Deal!” Huang Chen decisively made the decision. Anyway, he would at most let the Soul Devouring Bees convert some soul honey from these monsters' Soul Power. And now, he and Zi Han would either prosper or suffer together, so if her strength was greater, it would also be a great help to him.

“Straightforward.” Zi Han nodded in satisfaction. With a wave of her hand, four gems representing the five elements shot out from her, slowly landing after flying twenty kilometers. Then, together with the gem she held in her hand that hadn't been shot out, five beams of light soared into the sky, constructing a Five Elements Eight Trigrams array.

“Hide!” Zi Han whispered, forming a hand seal. The Five Elements Eight Trigrams diagram flashed with colorful light, then returned to calm, as if nothing had happened.

“That's it?” Huang Chen asked, puzzled.

“What did you think?” Zi Han didn't even turn her head, merely giving Tie Shengnan next to her a gentle push.

Tie Shengnan saw Zi Han's hand pushing towards her and instinctively tried to dodge. However, that hand, seemingly moving extremely slowly, directly pushed her waist before Tie Shengnan could even make a dodging motion.

Caught off guard, Tie Shengnan stumbled forward a few steps.

Just then, something that shocked Huang Chen happened.

As Tie Shengnan took her second step forward, ripples appeared in space, and then Tie Shengnan instantly vanished from everyone's sight. However, through the goddess record's perception, Tie Shengnan was clearly just a few meters in front of him.

One second later, space ripples appeared again, and Tie Shengnan's figure reappeared. Her face was filled with anger as she stared at Zi Han. Before she could speak, the exclamations of Xie Chunyan and All the women reached her ears,

“Shengnan!!”

“Shengnan, are you okay?”

“You suddenly disappeared just now, you scared me to death.”

...“I just disappeared?” Tie Shengnan asked, then turned her head to look at Zi Han again.

Zi Han chuckled, drew a line on the ground with her toe, and said: “You can experience it yourself. As long as you step over this line, you'll enter the array. Inside the array, you can see and hear what's happening outside, but it isolates all external prying.”

“Moreover, this Five Elements Deceiving Heaven Grand Array is also a trapping array. Once you enter, under my control, you can't get out... unless my Soul Power is exhausted.”