On the field.
Boom boom boom boom!
Whoosh whoosh whoosh!
With Ning Xi at the absolute peak of her condition, her staff sweeping through the air to pour down ranged fire, backed by the melee harvesting of the Ancestral Immortal-tier Heavenly Bewitchment Fox Clan Empress Ahri.
The Holy Hall Guild's players had no way to stand against them.
Amid the nonstop screams, flashes of white light rose one after another!
The sight sent a chill down the backs of the people inside the Divine Temple.
"This Liuli is a freak!"
"She's way too strong!"
Only Liu Kai couldn't hold back, bursting into laughter:
"Dang it!"
"For once, it's not us Genesis guys being the cannon fodder!"
"Hahahaha!"
...
Seeing that the Holy Hall Guild's pack of small fry outside the Divine Temple couldn't withstand Ning Xi at all.
Right then, something even worse arrived.
"Leader! The enemy's reinforcements are charging in from behind!"
When this news came.
The Holy Hall Guild players all blew up at once:
"Why are we the only guild holding the line even now?"
"Where are our allies? Where are the people from Genesis, Divine Nation and Mortal Dust? Where did all those other guilds go?"
"Damn it! They're obviously using the Holy Hall Guild as cannon fodder!"
Meanwhile.
Just as Ning Xi, alone, was giving everything to hold off the entire Holy Hall Guild.
A roar of battle cries suddenly rang out from behind!
She looked back.
Several waves of players were sweeping in like a flood:
The Iron Blood Guild!
The Golden Age Guild!
The Chaotic World Guild!
No surprise.
It was these same few rock-solid allies again!
As the saying goes, hard times reveal true friends.
No matter how the situation in Inferno City changed.
Their stance had always stayed firm!
The heads of the three great guilds.
The three leaders all gave their orders in turn.
Ruthless Iron Blood: "Brothers, kill for me! Cover Liuli into the Divine Temple!"
Cold at the Top: "All forces, attack!"
Wang Junjie: "Brothers! Get me @#$*..."
"Charge!"
Amid battle cries that shook the sky, tens of thousands of players from the three great guilds, Iron Blood, Golden Age and Chaotic World, launched their attack toward the Divine Temple like a tide that blotted out sky and earth!
Meanwhile, not far from the battlefield.
Zhao Lingyun said with relief, "Thank goodness! The support from Iron Blood and Golden Age came just in time!"
It turned out that after following Ji Ningshuang to the Divine Temple, Ning Fei and Zhao Lingyun had immediately notified the Iron Blood and Golden Age guilds to come to the rescue.
But the situation on the field left Ning Fei feeling uneasy and suspicious.
'Why do I keep feeling something's off?'
'Lonely Island has so many guilds under him. Why would he send only the Holy Hall Guild, a second-rate guild, to guard this place?'
'Judging by how things look, even if Iron Blood and Golden Age didn't come, my sister alone could break through the Holy Hall Guild's encirclement.'
'If Lonely Island already knew in advance that my sister would come to the Divine Temple, and had already prepared for it, why is the preparation so inadequate?'
'Wait!'
'It's a trap!'
Ning Fei reacted quickly.
He hurried to send an emergency retreat message to Ruthless Iron Blood, Cold at the Top and Wang Junjie.
But by now, the battlefield was already in full heat.
Wang Junjie and the others had no time to notice Ning Fei's messages at all.
The Iron Blood, Golden Age and Chaotic World guilds had already clashed with the Holy Hall Guild's players!
Meanwhile, inside the Divine Temple.
Seeing the rival guilds, Iron Blood, Golden Age and Chaotic World, come pouring in one after another.
A chilly gleam rose in Ji Ningshuang's cold eyes.
"I knew you'd come!"
"Now that you've all walked into the net."
"It's time to pull it shut!"
As she spoke, Ji Ningshuang opened WeChat.
In a WeChat group with the note [Divine Temple Operation Code Name], she tagged all members and sent a message: "Everyone, begin the operation."
The moment she finished.
A wave of replies filled the group at once.
"Overlord Guild, received!"
"Clear Water Pavilion, received!"
"Drifting Rain Guild, received!"
...
The next moment.
Around the outskirts of the Divine Temple.
Slash!
Just as the last Berserker of the Holy Hall Guild was cut down by Wang Junjie himself with a single sword stroke.
With the whole Holy Hall Guild wiped out.
Wang Junjie hoisted his sword onto his shoulder and said smugly, "With this little strength, they're not even enough for me to fight!"
"Too weak!"
"Can we turn the difficulty up a little?"
The moment Wang Junjie finished speaking.
"Kill!!!"
Suddenly, a sky-covering roar of battle cries rose.
From every direction, about half a mile from the Divine Temple, countless players surged toward it like a tide!
Seeing this, Wang Junjie froze. "Holy shit!"
"I told you to turn up the difficulty, and you fucking did it?"
Gao Han, leader of the Golden Age Guild and a Level 78 Sword and Shield Warrior, looked around and said gravely, "This is bad! An ambush!"
"We walked into a trap!"
Ruthless Iron Blood had also been slow to see it: "They threw out the Holy Hall Guild as bait on purpose, when in fact they'd already set up a full ambush around here!"
"Damn! Why are there so many of them!"
On the field, the players of the three great guilds looked around at the players coming in like a tide, and all were horrified.
"How many people is that? Oh my god!"
"Surely all the guilds under Lonely Island haven't come out in full force?"
"They say the ones who've been carrying out the massacre in Inferno City these two days are all Lonely Island's people, at least fifty guilds, nearly a hundred thousand players! If they all came, we're done for!"
"Looking at this scale, it looks like they really all came!"
...
Inside the Divine Temple.
Chen Feng, who had been itching to act all along, saw the reinforcements sweeping in from every direction and only now understood Ji Ningshuang's intention.
"So our target isn't Liuli, it's these few guilds?"
Ji Ningshuang's eyes were cold. "Our target is Liuli."
"But they have to be wiped out too!"
"This is just a good chance to do it."
"Again and again, they've helped Mo Shouchenggu and Liuli and gotten in the way of Godfather's plan."
"So let's use this chance to deal with all of them, flatten every obstacle for Godfather, and end the trouble for good!"
"That way, when the Ghost Royal Guard is revived, Mo Shouchenggu and Liuli will completely lose every means they have of standing up to the Ghost Royal Guard!"
Originally, Chen Feng had only been respectful to Ji Ningshuang because of her standing as the boss's goddaughter.
But at this moment, Chen Feng found himself looking at Ji Ningshuang with real, heartfelt new respect!
Because he knew this operation wasn't part of Lonely Island's plan.
It was Ji Ningshuang's own scheme!
On the field.
Facing countless enemy troops pouring in from every direction.
The players of the three great guilds, Iron Blood, Golden Age and Chaotic World, caught in the encirclement, were shaken but kept their order.
Ruthless Iron Blood and Gao Han stayed calm, with clear heads.
Ruthless Iron Blood: "Everyone, defensive formation!"
Gao Han: "Cover Liuli into the Divine Temple to get the Holy Wings!"
Wang Junjie: "I'm in!"
The players of the three great guilds quickly formed a defensive line.
And pressed toward the Divine Temple in a concentrated push.