Chapter 204 It's Really Close
Hao Chen managed to escape in time, but the same couldn't be said for everyone in his group. Two of his companions, unable to move fast enough, were struck by the queen's attack.
Their horrified expressions and running postures were frozen in place—forever.
Hao Chen's face darkened. A single attack had wiped out a third of his group!
While his team was reeling from the loss, Liu Boqin's group took advantage of the situation. Acting together, all six of them launched an assault, striking different parts of the queen and smashing her into pieces.
Her attacks were devastating, but her movements were much slower than the ice bears and knights, making her an easy target.
"That was easy! And that bastard Hao Chen even lost two men as a bonus, really not bad!" one of Liu Boqin's men said with a confident smirk.
But his smirk didn't last.
Before he could react, the shattered ice queen regenerated in an instant, her spear already aimed straight at him.
Boom!
Another beam fired, and the man who had just celebrated his victory was instantly turned into an ice statue.
"B-Brother Guo! H-How is that possible?!" a woman from Liu Boqin's group cried out as she backed away in fear. "We completely destroyed her; she should be dead!"
Seeing his teammate die so easily, Liu Boqin narrowed his eyes and quickly retreated with his group.
'As I thought… she's not that easy to kill.'
Realizing that taking down the queen with a single group would be nearly impossible, Feng Fan quickly raised his voice for everyone to hear.
"Listen up! There are exactly thirty cores empowering the queen. Fifteen inside her body and fifteen hidden throughout the room, embedded in the walls and ceiling. I'll pinpoint their locations. If we don't coordinate our attacks, we're all as good as dead!"
Liu Boqin's expression turned serious. He couldn't confirm whether Feng Fan was telling the truth, let alone locate the cores himself. But after witnessing the queen's regeneration, he knew at least some of them had to be hidden outside her body.
Hao Chen, however, scoffed. "And why should we believe you? You expect us to trust that you can see what none of us can?" His tone dripped with disdain as he glared at Feng Fan.
Feng Fan ignored Hao Chen's question and instead demonstrated proof that no one could deny.
He manipulated the heavenly laws, creating small-scale arrays with a single purpose: illuminating the exact locations of the hidden cores. Moving like a cheetah, he dashed across the chamber, placing the arrays where the cores were embedded.
"If you still don't believe me, just strike where you see the arrays. The cores are right beneath them," Feng Fan said, looking directly at Hao Chen.
"Hmph." Though skeptical, Hao Chen followed his instructions. To his surprise, there really was a core hidden beneath the marked spot.
The moment he touched it, the queen's spear immediately locked onto him. A powerful energy beam fired in his direction, but he managed to dodge just in time.@@novelbin@@
"Fine, I believe you," Hao Chen admitted grudgingly.
Feng Fan nodded and quickly assigned tasks. "Liu Boqin, you and your group take care of the cores on the left. Hao Chen, you handle the right. My group will destroy the cores inside the queen."
Liu Boqin raised an eyebrow, surprised. Feng Fan's group had the weakest cultivation among them, yet he had taken on the most dangerous task.
Feng Fan knew that if he had assigned the hardest job to anyone else, they would have protested. So he took it upon himself.
Liu Boqin's group had just lost a member to the queen, and they weren't eager to lose another. Hao Chen's group had suffered even worse, with two casualties of their own.
Before launching his attack, Feng Fan struck one of the cores, creating a small crater in the wall. The ice quickly regenerated, along with the core, but he had achieved his goal—the ice queen's attention was now on him.
She turned sharply, her spear aimed directly at him as she fired another deadly beam.
"Let's go!" Feng Fan shouted, moving without pause to dodge her attacks.
He knew he was the fastest in his group, so it was best to draw the queen's aggression onto himself. That way, the others could attack without worrying about being targeted.
When Feng Fan circled the queen and got into position, he shouted loud enough for everyone in the room to hear.
"Now! Don't hold back!"
The others nodded and sprang into action. Each unleashed their strongest attack on the queen, while the other groups targeted the scattered cores outside her body.
Spiritual qi surged through the chamber as dazzling energy waves filled the air. The once dimly lit room now glowed brightly under the combined power of fourteen Golden Core Formation cultivators attacking at the same time.
The ice queen shattered like glass, breaking into countless pieces along with her cores. As the spiritual qi in the air settled, the craters left by the attacks slowly regenerated—but this time, the queen didn't reform. Explore hidden tales at My Virtual Library Empire
A brief moment after her destruction, the ice on the opposite side of the chamber began to shift. Stairs leading upward emerged, inviting them forward.
"Haha! Good job, everyone! I'm going first!" Hao Chen laughed, dashing toward the stairs with his group right behind him. "The immortal legacy shall be mine!"
Liu Boqin gave Feng Fan a nod before following suit, leading his group toward the newly revealed path.
Feng Fan glanced at his companions, ensuring everyone was unharmed before moving toward the stairs. Once the last of those who had fought the ice queen stepped through, the stairs vanished without a trace, as if they had never existed.
Feng Fan and his group kept running up the stairs for five minutes, but the end seemed nowhere in sight. Just as impatience started to creep in, Su Xiaoli spoke, her voice laced with uncertainty.
"I… can feel something calling me. It's really close."
The voice that had led them here had returned!
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