Chapter 1339 - Setting Off (2/2)

“Vice-City Masters? It shouldn’t be easy for any of the two Vice-City Masters to accept me right?” Xue Ying chuckled.

“You have to have sufficiently formidable techniques.” Daoist Hidden Horizon answered.

The three City Masters were all powerful.

They would rarely leave the city. But the moment they did so, they would reap a frighteningly huge harvest.

Because their teams were powerful! Not only were they powerful, the team they created was powerful too. They would either invite the other experts ranked at the top few dozens, or they would ask some lone experts within Scarlet Cloud City. When the entire team worked together… it would naturally be terrifying. If Xue Ying were to join this team, Xie Fan would naturally be helpless against him.

“Many thanks Brother Hidden Horizon.” Xue Ying said.

“Admirable. In a while when we leave the city, I suggest for you to stay closer to my people.” Daoist Hidden Horizon immediately said when he saw that, “These cultivators are my comrades. So it’ll be best if you get along well with them now.”

Xue Ying thus went to introduce himself to those cultivators.

Since Daoist Hidden Horizon could rank in the top few dozens, he would naturally have a team of cultivators under him. Adding Daoist Hidden Horizon, he had a total of 22 cultivators with him.

Actually…

When recruiting a regular team, one had to consider the strengths of the experts and how well they could coordinate with one another, as well as on how to provide large amounts of food for so many experts. According to the history of Scarlet Cloud City, a regular team could be maintained at around 20 cultivators, and few would rarely exceed 30.

Soon, the other 35 members who applied to join this hunting team arrived.

The final 16 people led by Xie Fan were also the final group of people to join them.

“Hu.” The short and small old man Xie Fan had droopy eyelids. His eerie eyes swept across the palace. The moment he saw Xue Ying, Xie Fan began grinning even more terrifyingly.

“Flying Snow Brat.” Xie Fan looked at Xue Ying.

“Alright, everyone is here.” Daoist Hidden Horizon interrupted, “Also Xie Fan, this time, our final goal is to kill a Mount Primal Chaos Serpent. The journey is quite far so I hope for us to work together. If someone in the team were to fall, it’ll be a humiliation to the rest of us.”

Xie Fan chuckled: “Rest assured. I’ll definitely take the big picture into consideration.”

“Remember the old rules of our Scarlet Cloud City. It is forbidden for one to kill other team members.” Daoist Hidden Horizon reminded. The hunting team would be leaving the Scarlet Cloud City. Outside the city, danger existed everywhere. If there were inter-team conflicts… it would be even more dangerous.

“I understand. I’ll definitely not kill other members of the team.” Xie Fan acknowledged.

“Mn.” Daoist Hidden Horizon nodded slightly.

This was what he could do.

According to the history of cultivators hunting outside the Scarlet Cloud City, even though it was forbidden for cultivators to kill one another! It was still especially possible for team members to not help one another during ‘critical moments’ when they were surrounded by large groups of Chaotic Origin Lifeforms. It was entirely possible for members of the team to fall!

Even though Xie Fan and the others did not dare to attack Xue YIng directly, they had a total of 16 people. As long as they chose to ‘watch by the side’, they could very well create a vile situation for Xue Ying.

And by relying on the ‘Chaotic Origin Lifeforms’ to kill Xue Ying!

Xue Ying watched silently by the side: ‘Plotting against me?’

This team was split into three factions.

The first belonged to the 22 experts led by Daoist Hidden Horizon. Daoist Hidden Horizon treated Xue Ying amiably and was willing to help him too. The second faction included Xie Fan and his group of 15 experts. They would most likely deliberately force Xue Ying into a ‘predicament’ during critical moments. The final faction included others with Xue Ying inside––they were the factionless cultivators.

Some of the factionless cultivators were aloof and felt disdain of joining any experts. Many more were already exquisitely chosen by the strongest of experts.

“This team actually contains both Daoist Hidden Horizon and Xie Fan. We should have an easy time now.”

“That’s right, with the two of them around, the team has become very much stronger.”

“Xie Fan is here? Is it because of that Flying Snow?”

“Who cares about him! How would it matter if Flying Snow lives or dies?”

Those factionless cultivators began conversing between one another.

Two of the strongest few dozens experts in the Scarlet Cloud City actually joined this hunting team… that was quite rarely seen. Usually, one hunting team would only consist of a peak expert.

“Set off!” Being the creator of the team, Daoist Hidden Horizon had also become the leader.

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“Sou sou sou…”

Inclusive of Xue Ying, the group of 51 figures immediately turned into shadows and left the city.