Upon seeing this, Zhou Huai wanted to laugh.

These guys looked formidable, but apart from the burly man who had fought him at the start, who was a genuine SSS-rank, the five who had just appeared didn't even have an Aura that reached SSS-rank!

At most, they were at the Peak of SS-rank.

In front of him, the gap between SS-rank and a half-step Transcendent was an unbridgeable chasm.

Therefore, Zhou Huai didn't take them to heart at all; he just boredly tapped the armor on his shoulder with his abyssal blood dragon spear.

"It seems The Seventh World is truly out of people, since they have to drag out such losers to make up the numbers."

Hearing Zhou Huai's mockery, the old woman leaning on a bone cane laughed in extreme anger, her withered lips moving up and down as she emitted a screeching sound like a night owl: "Arrogant ant of the current world! Do you think you can run wild in Castlantis just by relying on some brute force?"

She slammed her cane heavily against the Void Realm, her gaze venomous: "I'll give you one last chance: get out of these ruins! Otherwise, today will be your burial ground, and you will ✧ NоvеIight ✧ (Original source) have no choice but to stay here as a sacrifice!"

These words were extremely arrogant, carrying the imperious air of a powerhouse from the old era.

Zhou Huai picked his ear, as if he had heard some huge joke.

He leaned forward slightly, looking down at the group, his tone filled with confusion and mockery: "I really don't understand, is the threshold for The Seventh World too low? A few pieces of trash who haven't even touched the SSS-rank, who gave you the courage to stand here and shout at me?" 𝕗𝗿𝕖𝐞𝐰𝗲𝕓𝐧𝕠𝕧𝗲𝐥.𝚌𝐨𝚖

"Did you sleep in the deep sea for too long and get water in your brains?"

"You're courting death!"

The twin burly men were furious. Being the most hot-tempered, they stepped forward, their muscles bulging, and roared like beasts: "Since you refuse a toast only to drink a forfeit, then try and see if we have the qualifications!"

The burly man who hadn't spoken yet also snorted coldly, stood his harpoon beside him, and said in a deep voice: "Form the Formation!"

As soon as his voice fell, the six people moved in unison, extending their right hands at the same time to pull an item from their respective storage spaces.

They were six chains, as thick as a child's arm, pitch-black throughout, with dark red runes flowing across their surfaces!

As soon as these six chains appeared, the surrounding space let out a groan of unbearable strain, and an extremely ancient, forbidden Aura specifically designed to suppress the Law of all living beings permeated the entire sea area.

Seeing this, Zhou Huai, who had been looking relaxed, couldn't help but narrow his eyes slightly.

"This thing..."

Zhou Huai looked at the pitch-black chains emitting an eerie Aura, and a memory surfaced in his mind.

These chains looked way too familiar!

Weren't these the very same mysterious chains used to Seal the Divine Artifact, the Pendulum of Life, inside the belly of that mutated marine giant beast when he was seizing the Pendulum of Life back then?

The material of these pitch-black chains was extremely special; not only were they indestructible, but they could also ignore and break through the vast majority of imprisonment Laws, and could even Seal Divine Artifacts recognized by the System!

In Zhou Huai's own Storage Ring, one of them, which he had obtained from a draw, was still lying quietly, kept as a trump card.

"Good grief, is Castlantis a wholesale market for these chains? Does everyone have one?" Zhou Huai muttered to himself.

No wonder these SS-rank guys dared to jump out and challenge him so arrogantly; it turned out they were relying on these special items in their hands.

However, surprise was surprise, but Zhou Huai felt not the slightest bit of fear.

"The items are good, but while this thing is strong, do you few who are operating it have the qualifications to challenge me?"

Zhou Huai was unprecedentedly confident. The confidence of a half-step Transcendent made him fear no threats from external forces at all.

"Do it!"

The burly man shouted sharply, and the six of them simultaneously threw the pitch-black chains in their hands into the air.

"Hum—!"

The six chains rapidly wove and intertwined in the air like living creatures, and in the blink of an eye, they formed a massive, black, six-pointed star Formation, completely enveloping the area where Zhou Huai was located.

When the Formation took shape, those dark red runes on the chains erupted with blinding light, and a substantial pressure of Law, like an invisible mountain, slammed heavily onto Zhou Huai's shoulders!

The mechanical prompt of the System sounded in Zhou Huai's ear.

"It can weaken skill power?"

Zhou Huai tentatively raised his abyssal blood dragon spear and casually slashed out a dark golden thunder blade.

The thunder blade, which was originally capable of cutting through the Void Realm, had its power drained as if it were being sucked dry the moment it touched the edge of the black six-pointed star Formation. Its light dimmed rapidly, and in the end, it only left a shallow white mark on the chain, failing to even spark.

"Hahahaha! Are you feeling despair?"

The old woman let out a triumphant, wild laugh, "Inside this Formation, your power will be infinitely suppressed! No matter how deep your foundation is, you will be exhausted to death by us today!"

The six of them exerted force together, controlling the Formation to begin shrinking, attempting to lock Zhou Huai completely in the center of the Formation.

"Despair? Do you have some misunderstanding of this word?"

Zhou Huai did not choose to force his way out of the Formation; instead, he stood quietly in place, letting those pitch-black chains roam and tighten around his body.

He didn't even activate Xiang Yu's 【Indestructible Demon God】, relying solely on the physical defense of the abyssal blood battle armor to withstand the pressure brought by the chains.

"Since you are so confident in this shitty Formation, I'll play along with you."

Zhou Huai decided to hold back his strength to properly test the limits of this Formation, and incidentally see if he could steal a few tricks from it.

In the following few minutes, the battle in the sky presented a bizarre scene.

The six powerhouses of the old era frantically drove their mana, and the pitch-black chains whipped toward Zhou Huai from all directions like a rainstorm.

The forbidden Laws attached to the chains scraped against the abyssal blood battle armor, creating blinding sparks.

Zhou Huai, on the other hand, was like a leisurely person walking in a rainstorm.

He held his dragon spear, his figure moving calmly through the gaps of the chains.

Occasionally, when he couldn't avoid one, he would simply take it head-on with his armor.

His skill power was significantly weakened, but thanks to Viktor's 【Void Omniscience】, the attack trajectory of every chain was within his prediction.

The twin burly men roared repeatedly, their giant hammers smashing down wildly in coordination with the chains; the enchanting woman's eyes shot out pale beams of light, attempting to interfere with Zhou Huai's nerves; the burly man's harpoon waited for an opportunity in the dark like a venomous snake.

The six of them cooperated tacitly, the Formation transformed by the chains was endless, cycling back and forth.

But the more they fought, the uglier the expressions of the burly man and the others became.

No matter how they tightened the Formation or increased the intensity of their attacks, the man in the center of the Formation didn't even have the slightest disorder in his breathing!

"Just how perverted is this guy's Physical Body defense?!"

The old woman gritted her teeth, the hand holding her cane trembling slightly.

"Have you played enough?"

Just then, Zhou Huai, who had been in a defensive posture, suddenly stopped moving.

He hovered in mid-air, lifted his head, and through the intertwined chains, his gaze swept over the six people on the periphery.

After experiencing this probing, Zhou Huai had completely figured out the ins and outs of this Formation.

The chains were top-tier items, and the Formation was indeed profound.

If these six people were all SSS-rank, or if they were of the same origin and shared a single mind, Zhou Huai would indeed have to put in more effort.

But unfortunately, the strength of these six people was uneven.