Chapter 2658 Red Female Guard's formation

While Ye Zhongming and Baliluwa fought fiercely, the Red Female Guard also faced their first battle since coming to the sky.

From the start, they faced great-expert level opponents!

And none of them had Furelai over ten thousand.

No—the highest, Xiao Min, Dai Zhi, and two others with exceptional talent, had only just broken past three thousand.

That was already a terrifying number, considering they'd only recently become nine-star evolved.

The reason the entire Red Female Guard's average Furelai reached around two thousand in such a short time was that Ye Zhongming gave them all the enhancement drugs and precious items he'd bought for himself.

Those drugs and rare treasures—like the Chuanpu Beast liver—Ye Zhongming had the Red Female Guard absorb collectively through various methods.

So their average Furelai reached two thousand—only slightly less than Earth's Demon Whale monster.

As for Ye Zhongming... he found that crafting equipment at full capacity, exhausting mental energy and physical stamina day and night, was itself a form of cultivation. His Furelai grew rapidly in this daily-limit state, increasing by two or three hundred per day.

By now, Ye Zhongming had silently reached the hundred-thousand Furelai threshold, so he no longer needed those drugs.

An average Furelai of two thousand was nothing before a great expert—they could kill you with a finger. But facts proved that not even an arm could kill a single Red Female Guard member.

Gehuobasi's strength was slightly inferior to Baliluwa's, but not by much. Hot-tempered, when Ye Zhongming and Baliluwa began fighting, he said nothing and attacked the Red Female Guard directly.

He understood: since these people dared challenge him and Baliluwa, they must have something to rely on. Gehuobasi decided not to care what it was—just kill them first. The best solution.

His two oddly shaped weapons immediately sent out air shadows like two pythons charging into the Red Female Guard's formation.

Dai Zhi had already positioned herself at the very front. The moment Ye Zhongming moved, she joined her two shields together. Behind her and on both sides, ten warriors each drew identical equipment and did the same.

The Red Female Guard's formation resembled the character umbrella. Facing Gehuobasi, they instantly formed layer upon layer of light walls. Each shield-bearing warrior contributed two, linked into a whole.

Gehuobasi's attack, which he thought fast enough, struck the light walls.

They didn't break.

This surprised both Gehuobasi and the onlookers.

This certainly wasn't Gehuobasi's strongest attack, but it shouldn't have been blocked by people with a few thousand Furelai—even with Red Condensation-grade equipment.

Gehuobasi and the sharp-eyed observers focused on the Red Female Guard's seemingly chaotic but actually highly regular formation.

The "Luoqi Zhenpeisi Ancient Link Formation"!

This was the defensive killing move Ye Zhongming taught the Red Female Guard.

This ancient formation's specialty was linking the entire team's defensive equipment and skills together when activated, to respond to attacks.

It seemed simple, but the special part was the ancient formation's own "calculation method."

When attacked, the linked defensive energy automatically estimated the attack's force, then used corresponding power to offset it.

If defensive power was sufficient, all well and good. If not, the remaining attack power after offsetting was distributed evenly across all equipment with defensive attributes.

That is, anything with defense became a recipient of the attack's force.

Across the hundreds-strong Red Female Guard, most wore standard nine-piece sets; a few had ten or more, with special abilities. Among the thousands of equipment pieces, only a few hundred lacked defensive attributes—even some weapons had durability. Distributing the remaining attack across all these pieces, how much per piece?

Even a great expert's attack, after weakening, wouldn't be much. Moreover, the formation's miraculous "self-calculation" could assess each defensive equipment's upper limit. When distributed damage exceeded a piece's limit, it reduced allocation to that piece, shifting the excess to stronger ones.

If all equipment limits were reached and attack power remained, only then would it be divided among the lifeforms composing the formation—again intelligently: stronger ones got more, weaker ones less.

After three such distributions, how much would each person bear? Not to mention—these pieces were Red Condensation-grade!

Premium!

Custom-made!

Sets!

Ye Zhongming, the top craftsman, had spared no effort for these loyal guards who'd fought alongside him—complete special treatment!

So when Gehuobasi's attack hit the light walls, the Red Female Guard's formation didn't even budge. The light walls only dimmed slightly—not even a tremble.

Dai Zhi handled defense; Xiao Min handled offense.

As the light walls blocked the attack, Xiao Min led the remaining warriors in their counterattack.

Each drew their weapon and simultaneously sent blade arcs toward the space above Gehuobasi.

Above the great expert, space was torn open by the concentrated blade arcs.

Many were puzzled—this should be a powerful attack, but it had no target, just tore a gash?

Gehuobasi looked up, feeling uneasy. He had two choices: attack the gash, or attack the main formation?

After two seconds of hesitation, the great expert made what might be the most regretful decision of his life.

He chose to attack the Red Female Guard's main formation—and unleashed his strongest attack skill to date.