Chapter Eleven: Ashen Formation

  Silver Snake Plucks Star!

  At the right moment, Chen Yuan, the leader of the formation, took the initiative to launch a surprise attack. His hands transformed into silver snakes, and with an overwhelming aura, he struck at some first-level demonic beasts that were off guard. The silver snake aura was extremely powerful, attacking their weak points and killing them instantly.

  Ashen Array is powerful, but its spiritual energy is limited and cannot be wasted.

  The tide of monsters has begun for five minutes, and Chen Yuan has already killed seven heads of monster beasts.

  Yin-yang Lian Yao Shen Gong, Ling Kong Xu Hua, Shen Miao Zhi Li, Ning Jie Yao Bo, Fei Ru Chen Yuan Ti Nei.

  During the tide of evil spirits, the ferocity of the evil beasts is fully activated, and the condensation rate of the evil spirits also increases greatly. If it weren't too dangerous, Chen Yuan would have liked to spend all his future tides in the wild.

  The death of their companions did nothing to stop the beasts' charge, trampling over their corpses as they crashed against the palisade's defenses.

  Chen Yun immediately activated his formation, drawing in even more of the power of wood.

  "Thorns of wood, add protection!"

  On the stake, thorny vines grew wildly, and in no time, a layer of poisonous thorns covered it.

  "Wow!"

  Sharp thorns pierced through bodies, and in an instant a large group of demonic beasts let out mournful howls.

  Chen Yuan took advantage of the opportunity, driving the Ash Dragon, the dragon swung its tail, fierce flames burning the sky, and in an instant, it took away the lives of several demonic beasts.

  The more he manipulated the Ashen Formation, the more it seemed to obey his will, and Chen Yuan's confidence grew stronger.

  Alone and surrounded by countless ferocious beasts.

  Solid wood thorns, red dragon running fire, silver snake picking stars, continuous attack, orderly and methodical, following the rules, no hurry or flurry.

  Chen Yuan raised his concentration to two hundred percent, not wasting a single thread of array spirit or consuming an extra bit of internal true energy.

  Wooden array defense, fire array offense. The subtlety of the superior formation method is fully revealed, hundreds of demons and beasts attack a single incense stick, splashing countless demonic blood, leaving behind a field of corpses.

  Chen Yuan also condensed one hundred and twenty low-grade demon souls at once.

  But this is just the first wave of the weakest attack, and a more ferocious attack will begin next.

  After the first round of fierce impact, the demonic beast began to slow down its attack speed. A few loud roars sounded like a general's command, and the demonic beasts started to move according to their respective attributes and strengths, forming a formation that seemed like a military deployment.

  "Is that the leader of the third wave of beast attacks? A level three beast, or a leader-level... Chen Yuan swallowed hard, now that all the arrays were deployed, the drawback of a one-time battle array was that it couldn't be moved. Even if a fourth-level beast came, Chen Yuan would only have to grit his teeth and fight to the end."

  The demon beast changed its formation, and Chen Yuan also began to adjust his formation. The Ash Dragon was still hovering above his head, but the Soul Refining Disk started to emit a faint red spiritual energy, and the Ash Dragon's body began to grow rapidly. In no time, it had grown to seven meters in length, and its majesty was even more awe-inspiring.

  Roar!

  With a deafening roar, the second wave of attack erupted once again.

  This time, the ones charging at the forefront were ten Earth-type First-rate Earth-type Demonic Beasts 'Rock Piercing Armadillos', these Earth-type Demonic Beasts wore a group of stone armors, ordinary swords and knives couldn't harm them, let alone thorns and spikes.

  The monster is also wise, Chen Yuan is not facing the tide of monsters for the first time, and naturally he is not intimidated by their formation.

  "Tree roots entwine!" The array method was activated, and the wood energy surged into the earth.

  The ground shook violently, and when the pangolin approached, several sturdy tree roots suddenly burst out of the ground, wrapping around the pangolin.

  "Breath of Ashes!" The array was activated again, and the ash dragon opened its mouth to breathe out flames, instantly igniting the tree roots on Cuī Shān Jiǎ's body, wrapping it in a blaze that left it completely unable to struggle free.

  After the earth-based spiritual beast, there was a group of extremely fast red small beasts.

  "Fire Cat!" Chen Yuan instantly recognized this group of small beasts, the most troublesome demons on the outskirts of the Youming Forest. They were not strong, but rather agile and nimble, with a ghostly presence, and could spit out fireballs. If one was slightly careless, they would be ambushed to death.

  "Meow! Meow!......"

  The cat's voice was loud and clear, the fire cat jumped up and down, they had short limbs, but their explosive power was sufficient, and they could jump three or four zhang in an instant. Their purpose was very clear, relying on their agile speed and jumping ability, they directly crossed over the obstacles of the wooden stakes, and attacked Chen Yuan himself.

  "If it were in a forest, I'd be afraid of you bunch. But there's no place for you to hide here."

  Chen Yuan was extremely calm, manipulating the formation, and the Wind Crystal continued to surge out, borrowing the wind's momentum, making it even more enormous.

  Ashen Dragon, soaring through the air, breathing and swinging its tail, transforms into a massive ring of fire, burning all the Fire Cats to ashes, despite them also being fire-attribute, they have no power to resist.

  "Ahhhroo!"

  Two waves of attacks were all dissolved. A yellow-haired ape burst out from the group of demonic beasts.

  This ape is more robust than a black bear. It pounds its chest with both arms, and the fierce flames are overwhelming.

  Earth-type second-tier peak demon beast, Gigantic Power Stone Monkey!

  Wow!

  Upon hearing the roar, Chen Yuan immediately noticed this guy. He suddenly gasped, as he had encountered this guy before when hunting demonic beasts with others. At that time, a team of five was directly scared off. His body is harder than rocks and his strength is boundless; even being tied up by tree roots may not be able to bind him!

  While thinking of a countermeasure, the giant stone monkey has already charged towards the ash array.

  The earth shook with each stride as he ran.

  "Dragon of Ashes, kill it!" This guy's destructive power is absolutely capable of punching through a three-foot thick city wall with one fist, Chen Yuan absolutely cannot let him get close.

  Ashen Dragon immediately roared out, the Gigantic Stone Monkey showed no fear at all, and welcomed the Ashen Dragon formed by fire-type spiritual energy with a punch.

  Boom!

  Fist wind shook the air burst, ash dragon whole body flames fluttered, dragon head was fragmented and shapeless, but the body did not disperse, scattered flames also gathered.

  "So strong!"

  Ashen Dragon suffered a backlash, Chen Yuandu, who was manipulating the formation, also suffered a counterattack, his body retreated two steps in a row. The Ashen Formation was slightly out of control and twisted, when suddenly a fire cat that had been hiding for unknown period of time jumped out fiercely.

  "Meow!" A fierce cry, a fireball shot straight at Chen Yuan's head.

  Silver Moon Plucks Stars!

  In shock, but also extremely quick in reaction.

  One hand reached out, a silver snake emerged from the cave, and the fireball was instantly destroyed.

  But the remaining force swept away, and Huo Mao avoided it nimbly. As soon as he landed, he rushed towards Chen Yuan again in an instant.

  In the blink of an eye, it pounced on Chen Yuan's feet and opened its sharp mouth, taking a big bite.

  Ouch! The sharp teeth sank into his flesh, causing Chen Yuan to inhale sharply. The Silver Snake's Star-Plucking Hand immediately slapped down with a palm.

  The silver snake's vigorous energy directly slapped the brain of this cute red cat demon into mush, splashing Chen Yuan all over his body.

  Kill the Fire Cat, Chen Yuan had no time to deal with the injury on his right leg and immediately shifted his attention to the Ash Dragon and the Giant Power Ape.

  Although the stone monkey is incredibly powerful and resistant to swords, the Ash Dragon is a fire-based spell that can melt rocks with its intense flames. No matter how strong the stone monkey's attacks are, it can only destroy the dragon's outer form.

  As long as the core of the ash array is not broken, it can instantly gather the scattered flames and reassemble its body.

  Although temporarily entangled, the ultimate victory belongs to the Ash Dragon.

  Chen Yuan finally put down the big stone in his heart and diverted his attention to deal with other harassing attacks.

  Tree roots entwined, thorns spread all over, wooden stakes pierced, and various wood-based spells were launched in the ash array.

  In the formation, Chen Yuan also began to frantically condense his demonic aura, and the amount of demonic aura accumulated rapidly.

  Each time the demon's soul enters the body, it brings some of the original demonic power from in front of the demon beast. This demonic power is filled with evil energy. Ordinary people who are stained by this evil energy will only be polluted and fall into demonization.

  Relying on the mystical power of yin and yang, Chen Yuan was able to slowly refine it, constantly recovering his depleted true energy during battle, using combat to nourish combat, with extremely low consumption of his own energy.

  The consumed wood energy and fire energy transformed back into their original form in the air, flowing back into Chen Yuan's body, absorbing the spiritual energy source. For Chen Yuan, this was extremely beneficial, slowly loosening the bottleneck that had been stuck in his actual cultivation mid-term...