Simultaneous travel: City, infinite evolution

Chapter 346 Eight Gates Golden Lock Formation [Request for Recommendation Votes]

Guan Yu made a demand: the school must not expel the three of them.

Upon hearing that the conditions were so simple, Wang Yun readily agreed.

But Zhao Yun arrived, saying he had promised Diao Chan he would go out and tell Hua Xiong to stop arguing.

So Guan Yu tentatively kicked out, and the two roughly estimated each other's strength, showing a certain mutual respect.

Guan Yu went into battle with incredible speed. He grabbed Hua Xiong's underwear and returned to Wang Yun and the others in less than three seconds.

The successful completion of the mission made Cao Cao's eyes light up.

Talent.

Liu Bei and his two companions were invited by Cao Cao and stayed at his house for free.

Cao Cao was very wealthy and extravagant. He liked to recruit heroes and powerful figures to help him dominate the world.

As for Chen Hong and his wife, they naturally had access to the top-tier teacher dormitory at Dong Han Academy, and they were a married couple.

Chen Hong also liked to use the Dong Han Academy as a way to freeload off the Dong Han Academy's library and the vast amount of materials and knowledge base of the national collection.

The next day, Li Ru and Mei Niang from Hedong High School brought the Eight Gates Golden Lock Formation to block the gate of Donghan Academy.

Looking at the Qimen formation created by Zuo Ci, Chen Hong's eyes flashed with golden light. He activated his supernatural ability of seeing through walls and observed the formation, trying to understand and learn it.

"Does anyone know what Zhao Yun did at the Hedong Affiliated Primary School?" Wang Yun asked curiously.

Jiang Gan, Jin Baosan's time-traveling clone, still served as the head of intelligence.

Jiang Gan recounted the story with great enthusiasm, his vivid description making the listener feel as if they were there.

Cao Cao's expression grew increasingly strange as he listened.

"The incident you just mentioned, did it happen at Changbanpo?"

"Oh, President, you are indeed a hero of unparalleled renown. Zhao Yun entered Changban Slope to rescue A Dou as if entering an empty land."

President, my admiration for you is immense…

Jiang Gan showered him with compliments, perfectly embodying the qualities of a sycophant.

Cao Cao looked at Liu Bei, because Liu Bei had inadvertently let slip that Zhao Yun had saved A Dou at Changban Slope, which Cao Cao remembered.

"We really need to be careful of Liu Bei; he seems to be hiding a tremendous amount of power within him."

Will he be a stumbling block or a stepping stone for me?

Cao Cao became wary.

Chen Hong and his companion watched all this calmly without interfering.

Cao Cao thought to himself, "These two are both very talented. When I conquer the world in the future, I will definitely need such people to be in charge of education."

We should still try to win him over and treat him as a national hero.

"If we could gain their assistance, it would be better than an army of 100,000."

Cao Cao was already thinking about how to give gifts and benefits to Chen Hong and his wife.

This is completely different from the wariness towards Liu Bei.

In his mind, Liu Bei was a cunning man who could potentially threaten him.

Chen Hong, on the other hand, was a talented advisor who posed no threat and had no ambition.

Because someone with Chen Hong's high level of academic achievement must have devoted his entire life to academic pursuits; otherwise, how could he have reached such a level?

Since he has spent all his time on academics, he must be mediocre in martial arts, or even have no martial arts skills at all, and have no ambition to dominate the world.

Zhao Yun, Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, and Liu Bei went to break the formation one after another, but they all foolishly went in circles, entering and leaving the formation, which drew merciless ridicule from Li Ru and his wife.

In the end, Liu Bei was trapped in the formation and could not get out, and even Xiao Qiao was trapped after entering.

Another old man came out and said that he entered the battle when he was fifteen years old, got lost, and only managed to get out when he was in his eighties.

Now no one dared to venture into the formation.

Guan Yu and Zhang Fei had no choice but to make a strategic retreat and return to Cao Cao's residence to discuss countermeasures.

Cao Cao began to analyze the Eight Gates Golden Lock Formation.

"The Eight Gates Golden Lock Formation is a military formation that can lock up thousands of troops."

Taiji gives rise to Yin and Yang, Yin and Yang give rise to the Four Symbols, and the Four Symbols give rise to the Eight Trigrams.

I think it would take at least eight people to break the formation.

However, our Dong Han Academy simply cannot produce eight masters.

Now we have three masters: Zhao Yun, Guan Yu, and Zhang Fei.

"If we can find two more experts, making a total of five, we should be able to barely break the formation."

So Cao Cao provided information on a master, Ma Chao.

Ma Chao comes from a family of martial arts practitioners. His grandfather was the founder of the National Martial Arts Archives, and his mother was the author of the best-selling book "Harlequin and the Kung Fu Prince". Therefore, Ma Chao has been practicing orthodox kung fu since childhood and has solid skills.

Guan Yu and Zhang Fei went to see Ma Chao and asked him to join them in breaking the formation.

However, Ma Chao disliked fighting and was unwilling to go.

Even if Zhang Fei punched him twice, and Ma Chao didn't fight back at all, he still couldn't defeat Mac.

It turns out that Ma Chao practiced the "Sweet Cotton Fist," so hitting him felt like hitting cotton, with no force whatsoever.

The Cotton Sweet Fist is the best counter to fierce attacks.

Zhao Yun also arrived and defeated Ma Chao using a more flexible dragon-shaped Tai Chi.

Ma Chao went to break through the enemy lines after winning the battle, and also brought along his good friend Huang Zhong.

Huang Zhong was a master archer, and his arrows were Ice Soul Silver Needles, so once they hit the target, they would disappear without a trace.

So, the five tiger generals gathered together and prepared to break the Eight Gates Golden Lock Formation.

The Eight Gates Golden Lock Formation is a large maze composed of eight gates: Rest Gate, Life Gate, Injury Gate, Block Gate, View Gate, Death Gate, Shock Gate, and Open Gate.

Zuo Ci is the most powerful magician in the Silver Dimension. He looks exactly like Qian Laiye, has a childlike heart, and uses nonsensical methods to create many of his contraptions.

After discussing with Cao Cao, the Five Tiger Generals devised a method to break the formation, and they came to break it early the next morning.

Chen Hong naturally followed along.

He still needs to figure out how this formation works.

So when the Five Tiger Generals went in to break the formation, Chen Hong followed them in.

He wanted to experience the Eight Gates Golden Lock Formation firsthand to speed up the analysis process.

Cao Cao was somewhat surprised, but it was too late to stop it.

Just as Cao Cao said, the eight gates have been unified into one. Everyone has arrived at the same place.

Guan Yu suddenly caught sight of Chen Hong: "???"

"Teacher Chen, what brings you here too?"

"I'll come in and take a look at that old man Zuo Ci's formation, is that not allowed?"

Zhao Yun was speechless. "Teacher, the Eight Gates Golden Lock Formation is very dangerous. You should take advantage of the first stage and get out of here as soon as possible."

Chen Hong shook his head. "You bunch of brats, go and break the formation yourselves."

This little formation can't trap me. I just came in out of curiosity to see just how skilled Old Man Zuo Ci was at formations.

Hearing Chen Hong's arrogant words, even Ma Chao and Huang Zhong looked at him with curiosity. Guan Yu, however, was somewhat worried and advised, "Teacher, you should go back. What if something happens to you? How will we explain it to the school?"

Chen Hong teleported and flicked Guan Yu on the head.

"You brat, how dare you look down on your teacher."

Guan Yu clutched his head in pain.

"Such speed." Zhao Yun squinted his eyes.

Ma Chao and Huang Zhong both looked surprised and shocked.

Guan Yu was secretly shocked. "So strong! I was completely powerless to resist and couldn't even react."

After realizing that Chen Hong was a highly skilled person, they were no longer worried.

"Next, one door will break through five doors, and each person will enter one door."

The five generals each chose a door to enter.

After pondering for a while, Chen Hong also chose a door and went inside.

Then the Shock Gate connects to the View Gate, and the Rest Gate connects to the Open Gate.

The group gathered together again.

There were also people from Hedong High School who, using the illusion of the formation, impersonated Zhang Fei and attempted to launch a sneak attack.

Chen Hong saw through his disguise at a glance and kicked him away, revealing his true form.

The group continued their journey, reaching the next level.

It was a fake Diao Chan who was setting the questions.

When Guan Yu saw Diao Chan, his face turned as red as hellfire; even a monkey's butt wasn't as red as his.

This stage tests your math skills.

Guan Yu and his two companions were all novices. They made mistakes on simple addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division problems one after another, and were punished by being beaten up by several guards.

Chen Hong shook his head repeatedly at this sight.

"I didn't expect that even after my instruction, you guys are still so bad."

It seems I still need to give you guys a lot of practice problems to hone your skills.

"No, teacher!"

Guan Yu, Zhao Yun, and the others clung to Chen Hong's legs, wailing in pain.

"It's not that we haven't made progress, it's just that we didn't have enough time for this level. We need to do mental calculations."

Chen Hong nodded, "Then I'll arrange a mental arithmetic course for you tomorrow and teach you some methods for quick mental arithmetic."

Make sure you can mentally solve an addition, subtraction, multiplication, or division problem within three seconds.

Guan Yu and the others immediately sensed something was wrong, feeling that a dark future awaited them.

Given this academic master's consistent style, he might really be going to resort to some kind of hellish, sea of ​​questions strategy, right?

This is really scary.

They are not afraid of fighting, or even death, but they are afraid of the teacher's endless cramming of questions.

Even when listening to this teacher's lectures, I sometimes feel that they are too profound and I can't keep up with the teacher's train of thought at all.

This teacher is incredibly intelligent; his thinking speed far surpasses theirs.

Teacher Chen Hong could see the answer to a question at a glance, but it would take them an hour to explain it, and they still might not understand.

Soon, Chen Hong personally mounted the horse and easily passed Diao Chan's test.

Proceed to the next level.

After passing each level, Chen Hong used his divine sense to refine each node of the Eight Gates Golden Lock Formation.

With each challenge he overcame, Chen Hong's mastery of the Eight Gates Golden Lock Formation improved, and his understanding of the formation's mysteries deepened.

The next level is even more insane.

They had to recite an extremely long rap called "The Song of Ma Chao," and the rap speed was so fast that it was impossible to understand.

After the rapper finished singing, Zhang Fei and the others were stunned, their mouths agape and their jaws nearly dropping.

He tried to imitate it haltingly several times, but he couldn't sing the rap smoothly.

They even came up with a method where each person would memorize a section, but it still failed.

That rapper was singing so fast, I couldn't understand him at all.

This is something that cannot be compensated for by simply increasing numbers of people.

Just as they were about to attack the guards and force their way through,

However, doing so will cause the Eight Gates Golden Lock Formation to close, leaving only five minutes for the challenge.

So Chen Hong had no choice but to personally demonstrate to them what it meant for a genius to crush 100,000 mediocre people.

Chen Hong sang the entire rap smoothly in just one take, without any hesitation.

Successfully passed the level and proceeded to the next level.

There was only a raised platform and a wine glass inside.

Everyone thought it was poisoned wine and that someone had to be sacrificed to pass the test, but Chen Hong shook his head.

"This is not poisoned wine, it's just ordinary wine."

Taking advantage of everyone's inattention, Guan Yu drank it down in one gulp, and it was indeed not poisoned.

"Watch out, the poisoned arrow is coming!" Chen Hong warned.

Sure enough, the next second, a whole bunch of poisoned arrows came flying at them.

Everyone used their own methods to dodge the poisoned arrows.

Chen Hong immediately activated the Golden Light Spell, and the golden light transformed into countless threads that precisely wrapped around and caught each poisoned arrow.

Everyone was dumbfounded. What was this guy, a golden-haired immortal, with a body covered in tentacles?

And the handling is just too amazing!
That's incredible! They actually caught all the arrows that kept coming.
Zhao Yun, Guan Yu, Huang Zhong, and others all admired Chen Hong immensely.

"Our teacher is so powerful! Could he be a great magician like Zuo Ci?"

"The teacher is absolutely amazing!"

Having passed this test, Chen Hong completely understood the profound mystery of the Eight Gates Golden Lock Formation.

The Eight Gates Golden Lock Formation has been initially refined.

Chen Hong and the others walked through the last door.

When everyone had completely stepped out of the open door, the Eight Gates Golden Lock Formation was broken.

Liu Bei, Xiao Qiao, and the others who were trapped were all released.

Originally, the Eight Gates Golden Lock Formation should have disappeared completely, but because it was refined by Chen Hong, it turned into eight streams of light.

The cloth doors transformed into eight small cloth doors that swirled in Chen Hong's hands, emitting eight-colored light and resembling array flags.

After completely refining the Eight Gates Golden Lock Formation in an instant, Chen Hong put it away.

(End of this chapter)