Zheng Zhong carried Zhang Xiyue and retreated rapidly. The soldiers looked solemn and said, "Captain!"

"Let's go..."

"The Fallen Shadow Demon is lurking in the dark. Once our souls are invaded, we'll all be done for!"

The squad's soldiers spoke all at once. Tong Yunhai pushed forward hard with both hands, sending the bronze-colored square shield, originally blocking the enemy, flying out. Instantly, several soldiers with eerie white flames in their eyes were overturned.

"Go!" Tong Yunhai waved his hand, leading the squad's three members in retreat, following behind Zheng Zhong and Zhang Xiyue.

In the depths of the tunnel, several soldiers who had been knocked away and embedded in the walls grabbed the walls and jumped down, seemingly impervious to pain.

Even within the silence domain, they were unaffected.

The leading soldier, named "Su Ming," bounced the longsword in his hand and carried it on his back.

Then, Ghost Fire Su Ming squatted down, leaning his body slightly forward, placing his hands on the ground, and suddenly pushed off with his feet!

No Star Technique? No problem!

Whoosh...

Ghost Fire Su Ming's body was like a javelin, "flying" close to the ground diagonally upwards, the eerie white flames in his eyes drawing a trail of ghost fire in the dark tunnel, leaving behind sparks.

Tong Yunhai's expression changed drastically, and he said, "So fast!?"

Tong Yunhai's squad immediately turned to face the enemy, unleashing various offensive techniques.

Ghost Fire Su Ming, "flying" parallel to the ground like a javelin, slightly supported himself on the ground with his right hand, and his rapidly moving body suddenly tilted to the left, forcefully breaking through the four-man defense!

Incredible skill, unexpected!

Fast, simply too fast...

Zheng Zhong keenly sensed that something was wrong. He stopped and stomped his foot hard on the ground. The next moment, a stone wall rose from the ground, blocking his path.

Clang!

It was the sound of a longsword hacking at the stone wall, accompanied by the sound of rocks shattering.

Clang!

It was the sound of the stone wall being shattered, but it didn't come from Ghost Fire Su Ming, but from the delicate Zhang Xiyue.

Zhang Xiyue looked pained, and while smashing the stone wall with a punch, she also hit the longsword that Ghost Fire Su Ming was holding in front of his face.

Instantly, Ghost Fire Su Ming was blasted away.

"Damn, we're surrounded!" Zheng Zhong shouted loudly!

Tong Yunhai's four-man squad immediately joined up with Zheng Zhong, standing back to back.

On one side of the tunnel, there was the rustling footsteps of the Fallen Shadow Warriors, the sound suggesting there were no less than dozens.

On the other side were several soldiers with eerie white flames in their eyes.

Ghost Fire Su Ming, who had been blasted away, was caught around the waist by a soldier wielding a broadsword and placed on the ground.

The soldier wielding the broadsword, beneath his sword-like eyebrows, had ghost fire eyes burning fiercely, and a sinister smile appeared on his face: "Heh, hehehe..."

Zheng Zhong hurriedly shouted, "Be careful, Wu Yi has touched the threshold of Hua Xing Cheng Wu (Transforming Stars into Martial Prowess)."

Tong Yunhai cursed, "Damn it, how did they get controlled when they're all so strong?"

The next moment, the broadsword Star Chart lit up on Ghost Fire Wu Yi's body.

Ghost Fire Su Ming, whose jaw was shattered and bleeding, had a book-shaped Star Chart light up on his body.

To outsiders, it was an ordinary book, but Zheng Zhong and Zhang Xiyue knew that it was a *Jian Dian* (Sword Manual) unique to Su Ming.

Zheng Zhong's expression was a little awkward. How were they controlled?

Wasn't it because of rescuing people, one by one, that they were all dragged in...

Immediately, everyone's breathing paused slightly.

Behind those Ghost Fire soldiers, a semi-solid, semi-ghostly creature emerged from the ground, with the same ghost fire burning in its eyes, and a pair of hands that seemed real and illusory slowly raised.

Instantly, a wave of silence, from an unknown source, crashed over.

The cunning Fallen Shadow Demon had already disappeared into the ground.

As if its appearance was just mockery. This was another form of attack, an attack on the soldiers' minds.

The next moment, a unique, miserable cry of a soul echoed from the depths of the tunnel.

In everyone's sight, the souls of Wu Yi, Su Ming, and the other soldiers floated over from afar, wailing in pain, frantically grabbing their heads, but still unable to prevent their fate from being controlled.

In the blink of an eye, they had already arrived!

The soldiers broke out in cold sweat. Tong Yunhai shouted loudly, "Retreat! Retreat backwards! Silence to clear the way! Kill a path out! Don't engage the Fallen Shadow Demons head-on! Shi Lei! Cover the rear!"

As he spoke, Tong Yunhai led the soldiers forward in large strides. In less than 10 seconds, they clashed head-on with a group of Fallen Shadow Warriors!

The squad soldier named Shi Lei clearly understood what the captain meant. He ran at the very back of the team, reaching out a hand behind him. The underground tunnel suddenly trembled, and rocks fell from the walls on both sides, as if the tunnel was collapsing, directly blocking the pursuit of the people behind!

The six soldiers with ghost fire burning in their eyes, led by Ghost Fire Wu Yi wielding a broadsword and Ghost Fire Su Ming wielding a longsword, were all intercepted by the rolling stones, using the weapons in their hands to bomb the obstructing rocks.

Shi Lei plunged forward with the squad, suddenly shouting, "Sorry, brothers!"

At the front line, the soldiers who were engaging the Fallen Shadow Warrior horde head-on felt a pang in their hearts. They knew what Shi Lei's words meant.

The congested falling rocks blocked the physical road, but could not stop the souls from charging.

Wu Yi's soul, wielding a blade in one hand and painfully covering his burning pupils with the other, rushed out directly, but waiting for him was a series of sharp Shadow Blades!

The road of rolling stones blocked the path of the corpses, and obviously, it also blocked the Fallen Shadow Demon's line of sight, allowing it to send the soul in its hand to Shi Lei's mouth.

Gold Tier Star Technique - Shadow Blade's Fury!

Shi Lei stopped abruptly, falling far behind the team, but saw that with him as the center point, a large number of dark Shadow Blades were frantically flung out in all directions!

Ordinary soldiers' conventional Star Techniques could not harm those souls at all. Whether it was wind, fire, thunder, electricity, or ice, stone, and sand, these conventional Star Techniques were in a completely different category from soul-based Star Techniques, and could not cause any harm to soul-based creatures.

And there were too few magic-type users with Star Techniques that absorbed soul-based Star Techniques, and the requirements for their Star Charts were too high.

The Warrior-type Star Charts, however, were in line with Star Techniques such as Shadow Blade's Fury, such as Shi Lei in front of him.

"Hiss..."

"Ah!!!"

"Wuwuwu..." The six soul soldiers were all hit, and their bodies, which could not be harmed by conventional Star Techniques, were poked with hole after hole by sharp Shadow Blades!

Moreover, they were unhealable holes. Instantly, there was a chorus of wails, and the souls' shrill screams seemed like a heavy hammer hitting the soldiers' hearts.

Shi Lei clenched his fists, frantically emitting Shadow Blade's Fury in all directions.

For the soldier Shi Lei, rationality was always greater than sensibility. There were still living people here, people who wanted to get out, and a group of people carrying out a mission.

"Boom! Boom! Boom!"

The sounds of bombardment were like muffled thunder.

Just as Shi Lei attempted to completely destroy those tortured souls, Ghost Fire Wu Yi finally killed his way out of the pile of rolling stones, and with a casual flick, arcs of scorching flames slashed towards him.

Shi Lei's expression changed in shock, and he hurriedly dodged, quickly turning and leaving.

And those souls whose movements were stiffened by the attack finally regained their freedom, dragging their tattered bodies, like vengeful spirits, frantically chasing Shi Lei, trying to retaliate for what he had done to them.

But then he saw Tong Yunhai suddenly retreat from the front line. As the captain, he was constantly monitoring the situation at the front and back.

Tong Yunhai retreated from the front line, suddenly turned around, and pressed down hard with both hands, shouting madly in the air, "Aaaah!"

The next moment, a bronze-colored tripod Star Chart appeared on his body, and a giant tripod fell from the top of the tunnel!

Clang!

The souls of the six soldiers, including the corporeal Ghost Fire Wu Yi, were all suppressed within the bronze giant tripod.

"Ah..."

"Wuwuwu..." They roared miserably and crashed into the bronze tripod everywhere, but were unable to escape from it.

The giant tripod was originally open, and from the outside, it seemed easy to float out from above, but there seemed to be an invisible lid above, taking the souls into its pocket, preventing them from escaping...

Next, something unexpected happened. The broadsword Star Chart suddenly lit up on Ghost Fire Wu Yi's body, and the blade emitted a dazzling light. Then, Ghost Fire Wu Yi pulled out the broadsword from the Star Chart in front of his chest and heavily slashed down on the bronze giant tripod.

Crack! Crack!

The illusory bronze giant tripod was actually slashed with cracks.

Tong Yunhai's eyes were gloomy, and he clenched his hands hard.

And the illusory bronze tripod actually began to gradually shrink, gradually shrink...

Whoosh!

A flash of sword light, and the ghost shadow followed!

Ghost Shadow Ghost Fire Su Ming had the Sword Manual Star Chart floating on his body, and the longsword in his hand carried his body, pulling out a chillingly cold sword light, directly pointing at the cracks in the bronze tripod, forcefully tearing apart Tong Yunhai's Transforming Stars into Martial Prowess bronze tripod!

The next moment, everyone, soul, was free.

Ghost Fire Su Ming's shattered jaw was still dripping blood. He flicked the sword in his hand, aimed it at Tong Yunhai from afar, and the ghost fire eyes burned violently!

The field suddenly fell silent!

Making Tong Yunhai's heart sink.

Not because of the enemy in front whose tripod was broken and regained freedom, but because there was no sound from the soldiers on the breakout front line at the same time!?

Why didn't the soldiers use Silence to prevent Wu Yi from Transforming Stars into Martial Prowess? To prevent Su Ming from shattering the tripod?

Was it because the battle on the front line was too chaotic?

No...

Tong Yunhai's team had been using Silence to clear the way. For breakthroughs, the Silence Domain certainly had its shortcomings. After all, they would eventually have to pass through the silenced area, so they had to grasp the time gaps very strictly.

But they couldn't do without Silence. Once the Fallen Shadow Witches succeeded, this squad would probably really die here.

The scene that Tong Yunhai was most unwilling to see appeared.

The soldiers who had been charging at the front line were all silent, what did this represent?

Without a doubt! The soldiers breaking through at the front were silenced!

"Hehe." Ghost Fire Wu Yi smiled sinisterly, and exchanged a glance with Ghost Fire Su Ming beside him.

Drip... drip...

The blood dripped from Ghost Fire Su Ming's shattered jaw, very quickly. The moment the third drop of blood fell to the ground, his figure instantly pulled out a sword light, shuttling rapidly, approaching Tong Yunhai.

Almost at the same time, Ghost Fire Wu Yi's Star Chart broadsword also pulled out a swath of knife light, killing towards the lagging Shi Lei.

Just as Tong Yunhai and Shi Lei were about to move, they discovered that a figure had flashed past them, and another figure appeared in front of their eyes.

Clang!

Clang!

Broadsword against giant blade!

Longsword against giant sword!

In the distant depths of the tunnel, there was also a beautiful figure, like a ghost, a tall and slender figure drawing a sword light, knocking over a group of Fallen Shadow Warriors!

Although her figure was fleeting in the Silence Domain, the greatsword had already shattered, but she was prepared, and had already drawn the greatsword behind her, taking advantage of the unparalleled momentum, arriving first, and colliding heavily with Ghost Fire Su Ming's longsword.

At the same time, a figure appeared quietly, from nowhere, forcefully blocking the charging Ghost Fire Wu Yi, and the steel giant blade collided with the broadsword in his hand with a bang!

Shi Lei: !!!

Tong Yunhai: !!!

Thud!

Xia Yan, relying on her extremely powerful momentum, directly split Ghost Fire Su Ming, who was unprepared, with the greatsword in both hands, and stood in front of Tong Yunhai.

Thud!

The giant blade with a cyan glow was even more decisive and neat, instantly blasting away Ghost Fire Wu Yi.

Jiang Xiao stood with his giant blade, standing in front of Shi Lei.

He frowned slightly, looking up at the souls running around and wailing in pain. He saw as many as six tortured souls, six crying soldiers.

Jiang Xiao clenched the giant blade, looked up at the crying souls, his expression extremely ugly.

Damn it,

Fallen Shadow Demon!