Chapter 188 Plan (1/2)

Liu Feng and Qian Lei nodded their heads at the same time. Only by making calm, sound analyses could they make better judgements to face further challenges.

“Then what do we do now?” Liu Feng asked.

Lan Xuanyu smiled. “Wait. There’s no rush.”

“Wait?” Liu Feng questioned him in puzzlement.

Lan Xuanyu nodded. “After all, we are supposed to fight and battle each other. Every battle brings exhaustion, not only in terms of strength but also in terms of mentality. So, we wait. We wait until they have fought and then we’ll make further plans. We will wait here and go nowhere else.”

While saying that, he searched for a bit and quickly found a large, tall tree before turning to Liu Feng. “Use your white dragon spear to carve a cave inside the trunk of that tree top. We can rest there.”

He then turned to Qian Lei. “Get the Gold Silk Ape to search around, the further the better. If it encounters another human Soul Master, get it to return and inform us of their location. Do not, under any circumstances, engage in battle with them.”

Qian Lei’s eyes lit up. “You want us to hone our strength and bide our time, then wait until they’re exhausted before we appear? Then do the dirty on the villain?” This was roughly the same as in the maze. If not for the coincidental encounter with Lu Qianxun’s team, they would have lasted all the way.

“In fact, many of the other contestants might not know this,” Lan Xuanyu said. “The most important thing is not to seize from others, but to protect oneself. That is because as long as we are alive, the points we bring out will be complete. But once we fail through our inattentiveness or miscalculation and get killed, our accumulated points will be halved. We have our accumulated points, and adding the points from both Li Yaoming and Ye Lingtong’s team, our overall score should be high. As long as we do not die, I believe that our accumulated points will allow us to get into the top 10. Naturally, we should maintain our steadiness and wait. After the other teams slaughter each other, we can go out to look for opportunities and dredge up a bit more points. With the Gold Silk Ape’s help and your summoned soul beasts, we can still escape if we can’t beat them.”

Qian Lei laughed out loud. “You really are devious and crafty, but I like it.”

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Using the silver moon blades to carve out a cave was an excellent idea. Lan Xuanyu had the 1,000-year Gold Silk Ape carefully scoop up the wood shavings and transport them away.

Very quickly, the three sat cross legged inside the tree cave. The canopy was a perfect cover and protection; even their auras could not be sensed. The three gradually dove into meditation and rest.

By relying on its familiarity with the Star Dou Forest, the Gold Silk Ape was able to observe the situation outside with ease.

As expected, Lan Xuanyu’s judgement was accurate. At about evening time, the Gold Silk Ape returned and reported how it encountered six waves of human Soul Masters. There were even three cases in which they fought against each other. The Gold Silk Ape observed from afar and did not close in.

Wait. They had to continue waiting.

Lan Xuanyu knew that his judgement was correct. The battles during the last two days would be even more intense.

Sure enough, on the sixth day of the competition, which was also the second to last day, the Gold Silk Ape returned with news after an hour of scouting. There were Soul Masters fighting with injuries and casualties.

There were already more than 10 battles.

What captured Lan Xuanyu’s attention was the description of a particular group of people. There were nine of them, which meant they comprised three groups. They had formed an alliance, and adopted ambush and control tactics. They were focused on hunting other groups. Because they had the numbers, the Gold Silk Ape had focused its attention on them. It watched as four or five groups were cut down by them, and they continued on their spree.

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The three group alliance would in no way be easy to deal with. There were too many of them together, totalling to nine. In other words, their degree of exhaustion while killing other teams would be greatly lessened. Further, if they took turns to rest, it was not impossible for them to maintain their peak states. So long as the three groups were equal in distribution, they would be able to last till the end of the competition. It was not impossible for them to work together.

There was obviously an organised system. The Heaven Luo Academy had a total of five groups and Lan Xuanyu was unaware of the other three teams’ situations; however, he was certain that they were not from Heaven Luo Academy. The other three groups didn’t have a prior agreement, and they were not strong enough.