Global Demon Transformation.

Chapter 313 Lin Feng's Astonishment

Before the match began, both teams entered the preparation phase and started to set up their formations.

For Team Hongyun, the same 3-2 formation as in the previous match.

Lin Feng stood in the middle in front, with Yun Kai and Yu Qiao on his left and right sides, two meters apart.

The formation of the Demon Star team, however, was somewhat strange.

The formation was completely different from the previous match; this time it was a 4-1 formation.

The strongest player, Huang Tianze, who was also the team captain, was standing behind his four teammates, and the distance between them was very close.

Having learned from the previous match against Central South University, they seemed unfazed by Lin Feng's suicidal attack.

The audience was abuzz with discussion, and Song Xiangrong also expressed his confusion, unable to guess the reason, but it was foreseeable that this would be a new tactical combination.

"Be careful, something's fishy!"

Lin Feng glanced at Huang Tianze, who was hiding behind his teammates and almost out of sight, and whispered a reminder.

"Does this require me to summon something? A tentacle monster or something else?"

Yue Mingming asked from behind Lin Feng.

At this moment, he was holding four ropes in his right hand, with four silver swords tied to the ropes. He also carried five swords on his back. He was still a tool, but compared to before, Yue Mingming had become more confident.

"Not for now, we'll save our trump card for Great Wall."

Yu Qiao looked at the Demon Star team, his brows furrowing slightly:
"During the previous match between Demon Star and Mingzhi University, they didn't show any tactical coordination at all; they just fought individually. Their goal was obviously the same as ours. Did you notice that two of their main players were replaced?"

"Substitution?"

Lin Feng didn't notice this, but upon closer inspection, he realized that the two main players had indeed been replaced by substitutes.

This is a little strange.

The distinction between starters and substitutes is not only a symbol of status and position, but also represents the gap in ability.

In the semifinals, substitutes generally don't get a chance to play, and they're not much different from the audience.

Unless a key player is injured and unable to play, a substitute will have a chance to play.

In the previous match, no one on the Demon Star team was injured. Moreover, as long as it wasn't a serious injury like losing an arm or a leg, various high-level healers and advanced healing techniques were available to heal injuries, restore soul power, and restore blood and qi, giving you a full recovery.

In other words, these two substitutes were prepared specifically for them.

Lin Feng recalled the information and slowly said:

"Among the five members of the Demon Star, Huang Tianze's profession is Controller. Combat power is not his advantage; his professional characteristics are control and support."

The remaining four are: Chen Zhijun, who uses thunder magic; Huang Chongtian, the strongest among them, who has refined the Earthly Ranking Emperor Demon Bear; and two substitutes, Yu Yongjun, who has refined a ninth-tier Earth Demon Bear, and Guo Zhi, who has refined an eighth-tier Golden Armor-Piercing Bear. All three have refined earth-attribute demon spirits; although their combat power is not as strong as the main force, their defense and control are excellent.

The two substitutes were brought in temporarily, and they both possessed similar demonic attributes and abilities. At this point, Lin Feng had a pretty good idea of ​​what the role of these two substitutes was.

"Abandon all plans. Once the match starts, follow me and launch a full-scale attack. It would be best to disrupt their formation," Lin Feng said.

The other team members also guessed something and nodded in agreement.

The preparation time passed quickly, and as the whistle blew, Lin Feng and his group of five rushed toward their opponents, while simultaneously possessing their demonic spirits and entering a demonic transformation state.

The Demon Star team, however, acted somewhat strangely. Faced with Lin Feng's attack, everyone remained motionless, seemingly unconcerned, and directly entered their demonic transformation state.

In just two or three seconds, the five members of the Demon Star Team completed their transformation. Just as Lin Feng and his group appeared in front of them, the three members of the Demon Star Team suddenly squatted down and supported themselves with their right hands on the ground.

When Lin Feng appeared in front of his opponents, before he could attack, a five-meter-high stone wall suddenly appeared in front of him, blocking everyone's view. Before he could attack, the ground beneath his feet surged like waves, quickly moving them backward thirty or forty meters.

Silver Soul Skill 'Earth Wave'.

A silver-level soul skill that has little offensive power but strong support capabilities.

Before they could even stand up straight...

"Boom!"

With a deafening roar, the audience could clearly feel the earth tremble violently. Amid the shaking, thick stone pillars rose from the ground as debris flew through the arena.

These earthen-yellow stone pillars are two meters in diameter and thirty to forty meters high. In less than ten seconds, they occupied most of the competition venue, turning it into a sea of ​​stone pillars.

"incredible."

Although he was prepared, the scene before him was still beyond Lin Feng's expectations.

"Don't get lost, stay with me!"

As Lin Feng dodged, he shouted loudly. As soon as he finished speaking, the ground churned like waves again. When he regained his footing, Lin Feng turned around sharply. Apart from Yu Qiao still following behind him, Dong Yunan and the other two had disappeared.

At the same time, fog began to rise from the left front, and it was feared that it would soon spread throughout the entire area.

"Stop looking, we didn't catch up." Seeing Lin Feng turn around, Yu Qiao frowned slightly.

Faced with the continuous emergence of stone pillars, he could only dodge. In addition, the rolling [earth waves] made it difficult even for him to keep up, let alone Dong Yunan and the others.

Their tactical coordination was completely ineffective in this sea of ​​stone pillars. With three players already lost, there was no tactical coordination left to speak of.

Lin Feng looked around, but couldn't find anyone. He could only vaguely hear Yun Kai's shouts, but for some reason, he couldn't pinpoint the direction.

"Golden Soul Skill [Earth Core Pillar]!"

Looking at the densely packed stone pillars around him, Lin Feng couldn't hide his amazement despite some worry.

What a big deal!

This wide-ranging soul skill effect is the first of its kind to appear in the semi-finals.

Even Lin Feng had to sigh in admiration.

None of the five of them had wings in the demon spirits they had refined, and their martial arts realm had not reached the seventh-grade flying realm. Therefore, they could not condense spiritual power wings and were completely helpless against this stone pillar formation.

Circulating the "Fish-Dragon Transformation" technique can indeed generate dragon wings, but in order to conceal his strength, Lin Feng cannot use it.

Even in such a special setting, it had no effect.

This sea of ​​stone pillars has occupied the entire competition area. Crossing the boundary means elimination, so they cannot escape.

At this moment, Lin Feng dared not release the bubble attack. One attack would break the stone pillar, and a boulder thirty or forty meters high, weighing tens of thousands of kilograms, would fall down, impossible to resist. If he was not careful, it would cause a chain reaction, leaving nowhere to hide.

According to the player information provided by Coach Zhou before the match, no one on the Demon Star team absorbed the [Earth Core Pillar]. Either they were deliberately hiding it, or they absorbed it temporarily.

In Lin Feng's view, the second possibility is more likely.

In order to defeat them, the Demon Star team had one main player and two substitutes who deliberately chose to absorb the same soul skill.

These are soul skills and tactics specially prepared for them.

It has to be said, the Demon Star team is indeed ruthless.

Although this soul skill is a gold-level soul skill, it doesn't actually have much offensive power; its main function is to surround and assist.

In order to win, these three team members also sacrificed themselves, one of whom was Huang Chongtian, who had refined the demon spirits on the Earth Ranking.

However, it's understandable that the rewards for the runner-up and third place are a level apart, and the champion receives a diamond soul skill, which is dozens of times more valuable.

Many demon spirit masters never obtain a diamond-level soul skill in their entire lives.

Diamond-level soul skills are not something that ordinary people can afford, nor are they something that everyone has the talent to absorb.

Furthermore, the fact that this soul skill can be specifically selected makes it even more precious.

Even the purple-gold soul skills are extremely precious.

"The Demon Star team is obviously deliberately spreading us out, intending to eliminate us one by one. Yun Kai doesn't need to worry too much. We need to find Dong Xiaomei and Yue Mingming as soon as possible. They won't be able to resist much if they are alone."

Lin Feng ran for a while, but still couldn't find his teammates or see the five members of the Demon Star team. However, he began to encounter various dense spider webs.

Semi-transparent, silken spiderwebs crisscrossed between the stone pillars, blocking their path.

Lin Feng flipped his hand, and a dagger appeared.

Sparks flew everywhere, accompanied by the sound of metal cutting. The spider silk swayed slightly, but remained intact.

This spider silk is harder and stickier than steel wire; it cannot be torn by hand, and even a dagger is useless against it.

Yu Qiao came to Lin Feng's side, and with a wave of his right hand, a crimson dagger appeared out of thin air in his right hand. He slashed the spider silk and cut it in half. After a few more swings, the spider silk in front of him disappeared completely.

Lin Feng moved, constantly changing direction, but he was like a headless fly.

Seeing Lin Feng turn left and right, Yu Qiao asked from behind, puzzled, "Where are they going? I can't sense them."

The golden soul skill he absorbed, [Eye of Peeping], has the effect of seeing through fog and illusions. Compared to Lin Feng, he can see further. Even he can't find it. What can Lin Feng find by running around like this?
The connection he made with Lin Feng was the effect of "heart-to-heart" communication.

However, this sensing distance is only fifty meters, which also means that the distance between them and Yun Kai and the other two is more than fifty meters.

"Don't run too fast. You haven't used the 'Fish-Dragon Transformation' yet. The fog is getting thicker and thicker, and you can't see clearly. Don't get cut by the spider silk!"

Yu Qiao quickly reminded him loudly.

"Start running, don't stay still. Huang Tianze can sense our distance through the vibrations of the spider silk," Lin Feng said.

As the absorber of the "Heart Contract" soul skill, his sensing range was twice that of Yu Qiao, which was a hundred meters. But he still couldn't sense anyone else.

"They're everywhere, they're hurting my hands from all the chopping!"

Along the way, Yu Qiao occasionally slashed at the spider silk, but it kept increasing in number and density.
"Huang Tianze was just showing weakness, but he's so ruthless now! He wants to turn the competition venue into his lair, and we're all prey in his lair!"

"Find the person as soon as possible, whether it's an opponent or a teammate."

Looking at the spider webs scattered all around, Lin Feng's expression became serious.

These spider silk threads connect the two sides of the stone pillar. They look messy, but they are not randomly distributed. On the contrary, they are very regular.

The [Earth Core Pillar] soul skill can control the rotation of stone pillars. If Huang Tianze is ready, the stone pillars will rotate rapidly, and they will have nowhere to escape when faced with such a dense encirclement of spider silk.

Even with Lin Feng's defensive capabilities, he couldn't withstand it and was cut into pieces.

This soul skill is not only specifically designed to deal with them, but also to assist Huang Tianze.

Those who are trapped in this lair and cannot escape by flying, no matter how many there are, will only face death.

This is what makes Huang Tianze truly terrifying.

In a one-on-one situation, Huang Tianze would not be a match for Zhan Tianyu, Yun Kai, or Ye Qiu.

With good teammates to support him, his lethality will increase to a terrifying level, far beyond what others can match.

Back then, at the Jade Seal Space Gate, Huang Tianze's spider silk instantly dismembered dozens of superhumans, instilling fear in many superhumans.

Not only Lin Feng noticed this, but the audience did as well.

The camera's view gave both the live audience and those watching on television a god-like perspective, making the experience even more breathtaking.

At this point, half of the competition venue was covered by spider silk.

Of the five members of the Red Cloud Team, only Lin Feng and Yu Qiao remained together; the other three were separated.

On the screen, Huang Tianze's original short, choppy hair grew longer, his jet-black eyes turned gray, his chest was covered with jet-black back armor, and his body surface had patterns like spider webs.

He kept shooting out spider silk.

The translucent spider silk is so fine that it is difficult to see with the naked eye unless you look closely, but when it is shot from your hand, it has unimaginable speed and penetrating power.

He moved swiftly between the stone pillars, like a ghost, without making a sound, leaving only strands of spider silk covering the pillars.

As he wove the net, he drew closer and closer to a solitary figure—Dong Yunan, who was crouching and cautiously hiding behind a stone pillar. The two were less than a hundred meters apart in a straight line.

"Haha, even though Dong Xiaomei was so careful hiding behind the pillar, she still got discovered. What bad luck! Run, Dong Yunan!"

"Dong Xiaomei is finished, she's already on the plate."

"Poor baby."

Amidst the audience's amused and slightly tense murmurs, the two had closed to within fifty meters. One was hiding on the ground, while the other clung to a ten-meter-high stone pillar. Almost simultaneously, they sensed each other, one looking up and the other looking down, exchanging a glance.

On the screen, Dong Yunan was slightly stunned, her body trembled, and she let out a "Ya!" A look of surprise flashed across her cute chubby face. Without any hesitation, she turned and ran.

When Huang Tianze saw Dong Xiaomei, a smile appeared on his handsome face, revealing a hint of ill intent. He slightly reached out, and a spider silk shot towards Dong Yunan's back.

(End of this chapter)