Chapter 654: The Perfect Eight Gates Golden Lock Formation

Attacks that cannot be seen, touched, or even sensed fly in from all directions; no one can do anything about them.

Of course, there is actually a way to break this move of Xun Yu's: large-scale area-of-effect attacks will suffice.

After all, no matter how well his soldiers hide, they are still within this valley; as long as one unleashes an ultra-wide-range attack, one can sweep through the entire army.

The problem is that the soldiers Xun Yu summons are merely summoned objects; they consume little soul power, and if they die, he can just summon more. Once the two Title Douluos, Qingluan and Guangling, unleash their ultimate moves in a place like this, the Spirit Hall would definitely suffer more casualties of its own. In truth, what Xun Yu has always needed to ensure is merely his own safety.

His torso bone is none other than the Death Spider Emperor Torso Bone that Bibi Dong brought out during the Soul Master Tournament to replace the Wisdom Spirit Bone she had given to Hu Liena in advance.

Its soul bone skill is also similar to Bibi Dong's Ninth Soul Skill; both are skills akin to an Undying Body.

It is just that this soul bone is only fifty thousand years old, so it cannot possibly have the powerful might of being truly undying and indestructible below the god level like Bibi Dong's.

Xun Yu's soul bone can only prevent attacks below Level 98 from harming him for a short time; a Limit Douluo could easily kill him.

However, this is enough for now; Qingling Douluo and Guangling Douluo are only Level 97 and Level 96 respectively.

And although Bibi Dong has sufficient strength, she is currently heavily injured by Lv Lingqi and cannot make a move at all.

Qingluan clenches his fists and gives an unwilling order: "The whole army, listen up: scatter and run! Escape this valley and leave the range covered by the mist."

He feels extremely stifled; as a dignified Offering of the Spirit Hall, leading a great army, he is actually being slaughtered by a mere Level 92 Title Douluo and is at his wit's end.

"Those Spirit Masters, even the Angel Legion, can leave if they wish, but Bibi Dong must stay." Xun Yu does not hold the so-called Angel Legion in his eyes at all.

It is only because Feihuang is not here; otherwise, he could clear the field of these seventy-plus Spirit Saints in a single move.

To the current Feihuang, Title Douluos below Level 95 are actually no different from newly awakened Level 1 Soul Scholars; they are all the type he can take out with one punch anyway.

Above Level 95, those with weak defenses are the same, and the strong ones just take an extra punch.

"Troop change, Ninth Soul Skill: Mythical Lion Iron Cavalry, Divine Spear Imperial Guard!"

The new troop types brought to him by Xun Yu's Ten-Thousand-Year Spirit Ring are precisely two of the strongest troop types from the *Three Kingdoms Heroes* series: the Mythical Lion Iron Cavalry, which excels at charging formations, and the Divine Spear Imperial Guard, a troop type with peerless close-combat ability.

Even though they are also cavalry and spearmen, the Mythical Lion Iron Cavalry and Divine Spear Imperial Guard are several times stronger than ordinary iron cavalry and long spear soldiers.

If one were to describe it using the strength of Spirit Masters.

Even among Spirit Masters of the same level, a Spirit Master with a top-level martial soul can easily defeat a Spirit Master with a medium-level martial soul.

If one says that ordinary cavalry and spearmen are equivalent to Spirit Masters with medium-level martial souls, then high-tier troop types like the Flying Blade Soldiers are equivalent to high-level martial souls.

Then the Mythical Lion Iron Cavalry and Divine Spear Imperial Guard are like those possessing top-level martial souls; in other words, every horse of the Mythical Lion Iron Cavalry is comparable to the Qingluan martial soul of Qingluan Douluo.

And as for the spears of the Divine Spear Imperial Guard, in terms of attack power, they can rival the Seven Kill Sword.

Being able to summon over a hundred Spirit Emperors and Spirit Saints equivalent to Qingluan or the Seven Kill Sword at will, it is no wonder Xun Yu does not put the Angel Legion in his eyes at all.

Within the thick fog, the sound of flying blades piercing the air has indeed vanished; replacing it is the sound of galloping horse hooves and the sound of long spears thrusting.

Xun Yu summoned a total of one hundred and forty Spirit Emperor-level Mythical Lion Iron Cavalry, forty Spirit Saint-level and six Spirit Douluo-level Divine Spear Imperial Guards. First, the Mythical Lion Iron Cavalry charged the formation, then the Divine Spear Imperial Guard arrived with a cold glint, followed by spears thrusting like dragons.

"Not good!" Guangling is startled; this guy Xun Yu has abandoned the soldiers and the entire army is charging toward Bibi Dong's side.

Now that Bibi Dong is heavily injured, relying solely on one Ghost Leopard Douluo and a Spirit Saint-level little fox, I fear it will be very difficult to protect her.

Although the Offerings of the Offering Hall do not like Bibi Dong as a person, she is, after all, the current Empress of the Spirit Empire and Qian Renxue's biological mother; they will not let her die here just like that.

"Hehe, the two of you seem to have fallen for the trap." Xun Yu smiles slightly, and suddenly, Xun Yu's hundred-man formation stops its advance.

The Mythical Lion Iron Cavalry no longer charge forward, but instead take up positions at the eight gates, forming the Eight Gates Golden Lock Array, surrounding Qingluan Douluo and the others and trapping them to death in the center of the formation.

Bibi Dong was merely a lure to draw these two into the formation, and then catching them all in one net is the true goal.

After many years, Xun Yu's Eight Gates Golden Lock Formation, through his constant trial, error, and refinement, has long since had no flaws, and perhaps its attainments are not inferior to those of Zhuge Kongming in this formation.

Perhaps its power is not stronger than Kongming's formation, but it excels in its myriad variations.

The Open Gate and Life Gate, which originally served as the flaws of the formation, are no longer fixed but are changing at every moment; Xun Yu simply needs to divide four Divine Spear Imperial Guards to stand at the View, Life, Open, and Rest gates—the four non-combat gates—to manage the changes.

Wanting to break the formation from these two gates as they did in the Soul Master Tournament, or to temporarily avoid the brunt of the attack at the other two gates, is already impossible.

However, Qingluan Douluo and the others do not know this.

They still think that this formation of Xun Yu's is the exact one he deployed at the Soul Master Tournament, so they immediately and self-righteously stepped into the Open Gate, then charged straight into the Life Gate.

Yet they never imagined that while the Open Gate they entered was correct, what they stepped into afterward was not the Life Gate, but the Death Gate that had already shifted.

All the power of the entire Eight Gates Golden Lock Formation is gathered within this one gate.

And those stationed at this gate are precisely the thirty-six Spirit Saints and six Spirit Douluos summoned by Xun Yu, all of whom are Divine Spear Imperial Guards.

Under the gathering of soul power from the one hundred and forty Mythical Lion Iron Cavalry in the outer formation, the Spirit Saints surpass Spirit Douluos, and the Spirit Douluos are elevated to the realm of Title Douluo.

In other words, these two Offerings are currently facing six Title Douluos and thirty-six Spirit Douluos as opponents.

"Damn it, how can Feihuang's subordinate have so many monsters!" Guangling Douluo complains bitterly; one Lv Lingqi is already terrifying enough, and this Xun Yu is completely no less so.

Even if he is alone, as long as he successfully sets up the formation, he is equivalent to a pile of Title Douluos.

He is currently only Level 92, so how strong will he become when he continues to improve? "Hehe, I thank Your Excellency 'Shorty' for the compliment, but this is still not my full strength. Your Excellency 'Shorty', how about I ask you a toddler's arithmetic problem? What is thirty-six plus six, and then divided equally by seven, what is that?" Xun Yu's voice rings out within the formation.

"Wait a second, let me calculate!" Guangling Douluo is stunned and actually starts counting on his fingers.

Qingluan Douluo has black lines all over his head. "Old Five, stop embarrassing yourself; the answer is six."

"This thirty-six plus six must refer to the forty-two spearmen in the formation, but why divide by seven? Oh no, could it be...!!!"

(End of chapter)