The star beast that had fought with Xia Ruofei was also trapped in the formation. Because it was the one who called its companions over to seek revenge, it was also the one who charged the most fiercely. Correspondingly, it was also the one who fell the deepest into the formation.
This Astral Beast had been accidentally injured by its companion and was caught off guard by the other Astral Beast's claw. Although Astral Beasts had thick skin and thick flesh, Astral Beasts' attacks were also very heavy. Therefore, this Astral Beast suffered quite a bit. The softest part of its waist was scratched open and blood immediately gushed out.
This star beast roared angrily. It stomped its two hooves on the ground and rushed into the fog as fast as lightning.
At this time, it had already lost some of its rationality and wanted to break the formation with brute force.
At this time, Xia Ruofei used a seal to activate part of the formation's function. A black light flashed through the fog and shot straight at the star beast.
In a situation where the star beast had lost its rationality and was in the fog with extremely low visibility, its perception of danger was greatly reduced. In addition, this black light was silent, so it didn't notice it at all and was directly hit by this black light from the side.
With a "bang", the black light disappeared into the star beast's body.
The star beast that was charging forward suddenly froze. Then, it let out a mournful scream as a finger-sized hole appeared on its body.
The formation's attack didn't stop there. After the black light hit the star beast's body, the star beast's glossy fur suddenly burned. It rolled on the ground in pain, causing the nearby weeds and shrubs to fall.
Although the star beast kept rolling on the ground, the flames were like maggots. Not only did they not extinguish, but they burned even more fiercely. The air even filled with the fragrance of barbecued meat …
Xia Ruofei, who was outside the formation, clicked his tongue in wonder. He could basically determine that these star beasts were man-made puppets, but the degree of simulation was obviously very high. The materials used to make these star beasts actually had the smell of barbecued meat after burning …
After a while, the screams of the star beast gradually weakened, and finally, there was no more sound.
Never in its wildest dreams would it have thought that after aggressively leading its companions to encircle Xia Ruofei, it would only catch a glimpse of Xia Ruofei's back and then inexplicably lose its life in this formation.
When the star beast finally fell silent, Xia Ruofei's Perceptive Mirror finally showed a change in the mission progress. It showed that it was 1/100.
Xia Ruofei was delighted. Although it took so long to open after entering the second floor of the Tower of Trials, it was still a good start.
Moreover, the remaining 15 star beasts in the formation were in deep trouble. It was only a matter of time before they became the numbers on Xia Ruofei's mission progress.
Almost at the same time as the first Star Beast was attacked, the other Star Beasts were also attacked by the same terrifying black light.
Some of the star beasts were lucky enough to avoid the attack, but most of them were not. The only difference was that some of the star beasts' bodies were directly penetrated by the black light, while others only had minor scratches.
Of course, the result was the same. This was because the most terrifying attack of the black light was not penetrating the star beasts' bodies. Instead, after coming into contact with the star beasts, it would directly erupt into terrifying flames that could not be extinguished.
Therefore, even if the star beasts had minor scratches, their bodies would ignite in flames after a short period of time.
The flames looked a little pale, but they were extremely hot. Most importantly, no matter how the star beasts rolled on the ground or frantically rubbed themselves against the tree stumps, it was completely useless. One of the star beasts was even lucky enough to roll directly into a small pool of water. However, it still could not escape its fate of being burned to death.
The star beast's body had already dived into the water. Even so, the flames were still burning fiercely under the water, as if they did not need the support of any oxygen at all.
After this round, a total of 10 star beasts were hit by this sudden attack. The mission progress in Xia Ruofei's Perceptive Mirror became 10/100.
The remaining 6 star beasts were already frightened by the mere twang of a bowstring, and they were running around in circles like headless flies in the formation.
This formation only blocked the line of sight. At the same time, it used some mysterious formation patterns to make the targets in the formation have the illusion that they were advancing in a straight line, but they were actually running around in circles outside.
However, the formation did not block out sound.
Therefore, the 6 star beasts that were lucky enough to survive heard the horrifying screams of the other star beasts in the formation very clearly.
As a result, they were naturally even more nervous because they did not know when a disaster would suddenly befall them. Then, they would die while screaming like their companions before them.
Nevertheless, they did not dare to charge out forcefully. Moreover, they were worried that if they triggered an even more powerful formation, it would be even more difficult for them to escape.
Fortunately, Xia Ruofei did not let them be conflicted for too long. He immediately made a hand sign and controlled the formation again.
The formation's attack was so powerful because, on one hand, it was very exquisitely designed. On the other hand, it was supported by enough spirit Qi — Xia Ruofei had paid the price of 100 Spirit Stones to kill 10 star beasts.
However, considering how difficult it was to deal with star beasts, and how important the mission was, the 100 Spirit Stones could be said to be more than worth it.
Xia Ruofei piled up a large pile of Spirit Stones at the core of the formation. As long as there was a shortage of energy, the spirit Qi in the Spirit Stones would be absorbed by the formation.
Therefore, the Spirit Stones at the core of the formation were piled up into a small mountain.
A mere 100 Spirit Stones were used up, and the small mountain of Spirit Stones did not change at all. If Xia Ruofei had not used his mental power to accurately sense the consumption of the Spirit Stones, there would not have been any changes at all from the outside.
Therefore, in order to save time, Xia Ruofei simply increased the strength of the formation's attack when he faced the 6 star beasts that had escaped the net.
However, these 6 star beasts were unlucky.
Previously, the black rays of light only attacked one star beast. After Xia Ruofei made a hand seal, the black rays of light in the formation suddenly appeared densely and rapidly attacked the 6 mid-level star beasts.
When the 6 star beasts saw the black rays of light that were like fine raindrops, their eyes were filled with despair. They even forgot to dodge — in fact, under such a blanket attack, dodging was meaningless.
Puchi sounds were incessant, and the bodies of these star beasts were directly penetrated by the rays of light. Several finger-sized wounds appeared on their bodies, and blood spurted out in an instant.
Immediately after, their bodies started to ignite with flames.
After a short while, the 6 star beasts stopped moving — in fact, 3 of the star beasts had already died after being penetrated by the black rays of light. This was because there were really too many rays of light this time, and these 3 star beasts were unlucky enough to be directly hit in their vitals.
Of course, from another perspective, they should be even luckier because they did not suffer before dying. They died almost instantly.
As for the remaining 3 star beasts, they had to endure being roasted by the flames for a long time before dying in pain.
Xia Ruofei looked through the Perceptive Mirror and saw that the mission progress had become 16/100.
He couldn't help but reveal a satisfied smile and even snapped his fingers.
He was very satisfied with the power of the formation, even though the consumption was slightly higher — in addition to the consumption after increasing the power of the formation by several times, Xia Ruofei had used up 500 spirit stones in just a few minutes.
In order to deal with the remaining star beasts as quickly as possible, in less than a minute, the consumption of spirit stones was almost 4 times the consumption of spirit stones compared to the previous 10 star beasts.
However, Xia Ruofei had nothing else but a lot of spirit stones — the spirit stones he obtained from the folded space in Practitioner Yuntai's storage ring could be piled up into a mountain. He didn't even bat an eyelid at the consumption of a mere 500 spirit stones. He didn't feel anything at all.
After dealing with these 16 star beasts, Xia Ruofei didn't delay any longer because if he wanted to break the record, he had to kill at least 84 mid-level star beasts in the remaining hour or so. Time was very tight.
Therefore, when the last star beast became a number in his mission progress, he immediately waved his hand and put away the formation materials and spirit stones. Then, his figure flashed, and he flew close to the ground on his flying sword, quickly escaping into the dense forest.
It should be said that this Trap and Kill Formation was very effective against star beasts.
Xia Ruofei also discovered that fire attacks seemed to be especially effective against star beasts. He didn't know if it was because of the formation materials, but the black and fierce light produced by the formation would quickly ignite the star beasts' bodies after coming into contact with them even if only a spark was produced. It was almost a one-hit kill.
However, the weakness of the formation was also very obvious.
That was, it had to be set up in advance.
This Trap and Kill Formation was still a little complicated. Even though Xia Ruofei was very familiar with it, he still needed a few minutes to set up the formation.
This determined that he couldn't set up the formation temporarily after encountering a star beast. He could only set it up in advance and wait for the star beasts to enter the trap.
In this vast dense forest, Xia Ruofei didn't know where there were star beasts. Moreover, even if there were stupid star beasts that crashed into the formation, there was a small probability of that happening. It was impossible for 84 such stupid star beasts to appear consecutively, right?
Therefore, Xia Ruofei definitely had to take the initiative to attack. It would be best if he could do what he did just now and chase away one star beast. Then, he would attract a large group of star beasts. He would just have to wait and harvest the mission progress.
Xia Ruofei's figure was faintly discernible in the dense forest, advancing at a very fast speed.
Of course, he still maintained a state of high alert — this dense forest could be said to be full of danger. Not to mention the terrifying high-level star beasts, even if it was a mid-level star beast, Xia Ruofei would very likely suffer a great loss if he wasn't careful enough.
After about three minutes, Xia Ruofei suddenly stopped.
He was now more and more familiar with the control of the Qu Shuang Flying Sword. It only took him about two seconds to go from a state of extreme speed to a state of extreme stillness. It was completely seamless.
Within the range of Xia Ruofei's Spiritual Power perception, a stupid star beast appeared.
This star beast sniffed the surrounding wild grass in the forest while looking left and right as it advanced.
Xia Ruofei didn't know what level this star beast was, but from the looks of it, the possibility of this fellow being a high-level star beast wasn't high.
Sure enough, when Xia Ruofei approached a certain distance, an introduction of this star beast appeared in the Perception Mirror.
This was indeed a mid-level star beast.
Xia Ruofei was slightly delighted and immediately sped up — in fact, even if it was only a low-level star beast, Xia Ruofei wouldn't hesitate to approach it. His goal was, of course, not to kill this star beast, but to use force to make this star beast flee. If it was only a low-level star beast, he would definitely deliberately go easy on it and give it a chance to escape.
But if it was a high-level star beast, then what else did Xia Ruofei have to think about? He just had to quickly run away.
Xia Ruofei's luck was not bad. This was a mid-level star beast.
As the two of them got closer and closer, Xia Ruofei also summoned the Green Touring Immortal Sword and directly used his Spiritual Power to grab it, continuing to advance in the direction of the mid-level star beast.
Soon, the mid-level star beast also discovered Xia Ruofei.
It let out a low roar and then rushed toward Xia Ruofei.
Xia Ruofei jumped off the flying sword and then stretched out his hand slightly. The Curved Frost Flying Sword and the Green Touring Immortal Sword simultaneously let out a dragon-like roar and whizzed toward the mid-level star beast.
At the same time, a trembling flame appeared in the center of Xia Ruofei's palm — controlling fire was not a high-end ability, and Xia Ruofei had long been able to do this skillfully.
Xia Ruofei waved his hand, and the flame flew toward the star beast.
Compared to the speed of the flying sword, the flame was simply the speed of a turtle.
Of course, Xia Ruofei didn't want to take the star beast's life at once, so he wasn't in a hurry.
The Curved Frost Flying Sword was the fastest and directly attacked the star beast from the front. The Green Touring Immortal Sword followed closely behind, but it made a beautiful arc and attacked from the right rear of the star beast.
The star beast didn't have the slightest fear, and Xia Ruofei even felt that the star beast seemed to be mocking him.
Xia Ruofei saw this and became even angrier — he was actually despised by a puppet star beast.
The star beast nimbly dodged the Curved Frost Flying Sword and the Green Touring Immortal Sword. Just as it was about to attack Xia Ruofei, the flame also arrived.
A trace of fear appeared in the star beast's eyes, but it didn't escape immediately. After hesitating for a moment, it dodged to the side.
Xia Ruofei saw all of this and was even more certain of his judgment — this star beast seemed to be naturally afraid of fire.
Xia Ruofei didn't delve into the reason. Instead, he concentrated on using his spiritual power to control the two flying swords and the flame, attacking the star beast at the same time.
In fact, the flame was much weaker than the black light of the array, but the star beast still seemed to be very afraid of the flame. There were several times when it had the opportunity to break through the lines of attack and directly attack Xia Ruofei, but it seemed to be frightened by this small flame and was somewhat timid.
Xia Ruofei naturally wouldn't let go of this opportunity, and his attacks became fiercer and fiercer …
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