250 Gathering Poin (1/2)

They sat up camp for the rest of the night. Lin Xiao was, surprisingly, the one who needed the most time to heal.

Xue Wei and Bai Tianyi were on high alert all night. They spread out their spiritual sense to keep watch for enemies in the darkness.

Hei Gou spent the night to improve his Soul Guard skill, and Lin Xiao was healing his soul while also cultivating the Soul Guard skill.

The time went by slowly. The night was black as ink before, slowly, the sun started rising in the east.

With the rising sun, there was a beautiful display of crimson colors on the sky, looking so beautiful that even Xue Wei could not drag his eyes away from the wonders of nature.

Lin Xiao was the first to stand up. He released a breath of foul air and looked at the others with gratitude. He knew that his wounds had caused them to spend more time recuperating than what they had wanted, but they were a team. No one was left behind.

”Let us advance again,” Xue Wei said. Together, the quartet moved deeper into the grasslands once more.

On the way, they saw signs of a furious battle; corpses were left on the ground, some complete with only their souls missing, others with incomplete bodies, having been ripped to shreds by the attacks.

Of the ones they saw, the bandits were not the only ones that had lost their lives. They also came across corpses with the black wristband on their arms, and when they saw this, their mood turned somber.

This could have been them, had they not been extra careful. Even now, if they were not careful, it was obvious that they would end up dead.

Xue Wei and the others advanced carefully. The energy in Yan Dalu was different from the energy back in Chang'an. Where his spiritual energy had been capable of extending more than a hundred kilometers for surveillance back in Chang'an, he could only reach one kilometer in range here, making it much easier to just look with the eyes.

Feeling that he could no longer scan a large expanse of land around him, Xue Wei felt slightly weakened, but he understood that the other members of Yan Dalu were in the same position as himself.

Although they cultivated spiritual energy, Xue Wei understood that they had the same suppression on their spiritual energy as he had. They could not see much further than him unless their rank was much higher than his.

”Oh look,” Hei Gou was the first to talk while they were walking, and he pointed into the distance. ”A group is coming towards us.”

Although he spoke casually, Xue Wei and the others tensed up right away. If someone was coming towards them, there was a fifty percent chance that they were enemies.

Knowing this, they all prepared for battle. However, a few moments later they noticed the black wristbands on the arms of the advancing group.

Although the advancing group should have seen that Xue Wei and his friends were wearing black wristbands, they were not stopping and continued towards them, causing Xue Wei to frown.

”Hello, fellow students,” someone from the group said with a cheerful voice. It was a three-eyed expert with spiritual energy at the Earth Knight rank.

”Hello,” Xue Wei greeted them with a nod. He was slightly apprehensive and unsure of what exactly they wanted, but he did not feel any hostility so he was also rather polite.

”We are gathering all the students into a large group now,” the leader said. ”We are going to start the final push on the bandits, but to do so we need everyone who can participate in the battle.”

Xue Wei was surprised, but he quickly nodded his head. It made sense.

”So where do we meet?” He was not against teaming up with the others. There were a few things he had yet to fully understand, but a free for all melee would be ideal to him and his friends.

In a free for all melee, everything would descend into chaos, allowing Xue Wei and his friends to inch close to people and execute them with their superior physical strength.

As long as they did not encounter too many Primordial Beasts specializing in Qi, they should be fine.

”How do we split the points?” Xue Wei asked. The one who had taken the initiative to greet them flashed him a great smile as he answered, ”Don't worry, anyone who gets the killing blow will get the points. That is how the black wristbands are made to work.”

Xue Wei nodded his head, but then he frowned. ”Won't that mean that many will try to steal the final blows?”

”No, although there might be one or two trying to do so, the majority won't. We of the Garden of Shadows are righteous people,” the man declared with a grin, not insulted in the least.

”I see, well in that case it is great for us,” Xue Wei agreed readily. ”We are on our way to the gathering point now,” the man who had spoken before said with his friendly voice. ”Why not follow us? We will help you find the others and then we can set out all together.”

Xue Wei was not very used to people being this friendly towards him. He had been told that they would be looked at with disdain, and although some did look down upon them, the majority of the people he had interacted with so far had been very friendly and open.

It was in complete contrast to how people had been behaving towards him back in Chang'an. The feeling of being accepted was truly great.