Hearing Chen Cheng's weak, nearly dying voice, Crimson Ray had no time to ask questions. She could only carry Chen Cheng into the formation in the direction he indicated.
Crimson Ray was incredibly fast. In the blink of an eye, she had brought Chen Cheng before the formation's blockade.
Meanwhile, the four squads of captains were still wondering why Crimson Ray, who had clearly been surrounded and was about to be captured, had suddenly vanished.
When Annam, who controlled the main formation from within, saw Crimson Ray suddenly disappear and reappear before charging straight at the formation with Chen Cheng, he immediately sensed that something was wrong and roared:
"Bunch of idiots, all of you get back here!"
He then ordered the messenger captain beside him:
"Cut off the formation connection of those four squads. At the same time, activate the backup formation shift immediately. Get the entire army moving."
Naturally, the messenger captain could see the purpose behind Annam's series of orders. This was clearly an emergency measure activated only when the formation was about to be broken. The disturbance caused by shifting the formation was meant to buy the controller of the main formation more time to organize a response.
But how was that possible? Not only had their Vermilion Bird Formation never been broken in a thousand years, even when it had suffered several head-on, devastating enemy assaults throughout history, this final emergency plan had never been used.
Not to mention that there were only two people on the other side now, and one of them had a strangely unstable Legendary level of strength.
Though he did not understand, the messenger captain did not hesitate in the slightest. This was a military order. Before a military order, no matter how many doubts filled his heart, the first