Chapter 93 93 – Danger Incoming



The group remained in that cave until the 2 weeks they agreed upon have ended. They had on average 3 groups visiting them every day, providing them with 10-12 victims every day.

They could easily tell apart the real members of the Four Seasons Sect from the ones from weaker sects. They figured that the Divine Sword Sect even knew what sects were involved, but as long as everything was done under the surface, they wouldn't seek them out for revenge.

While the real members of the Four Seasons Sect used only perfect pills and their storage rings had fortunes worth plenty of Qi Stones, the ones from the other sects had much less than that.

Some might have been exceptions from this rule, as the elite families from the weaker sects, but overall, it was a good way to determine the origins of the victims.

"Haha, I'm rich!"

Diana laughed merrily with Miles and Jane as the three counted their money every morning and every night.

"I know! I think that everything I looted combined makes at least 3 million medium Qi Stones!"

Over the past 10 days they hunted around 115 people, and with her 15% cut, she looted 17 of them. Other than Ken who made more, the rest of the group made around 3 million medium Qi Stones each from this trap.

Ken was also commissioned by the monk to make pills to feed the wolves. As pups, they didn't need anything beyond the first grade, but Ken let the monk choose whether he wants to feed them with normal food or with self-invented pills that will make their bloodlines get purer.

Henry chose the second option, and Ken charged him 500 Qi Stones per pill, an outrageous price for first-grade pills. However, Henry found it fair if those pills will really make the pups grow stronger like Ken described. 

With 5 pups eating 5 pills each every day to maintain themselves, the monk had to pay 12,500 Qi Stones worth of resources every day.

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"It should be this area, let's go. Everyone, be alerted and be ready for any type of attack. Bruce and Jackie, let us know if you sense anything."

A group of 20 disciples wearing black robes walked toward the mountain where Ken and the rest have been lurking the past 2 weeks.

"Team Leader, do you think the disciples from the Divine Sword Sect really set an ambush there?"

"I think it makes sense. We lost over a hundred disciples in this area, and anyone that went there didn't make it back."

They received news lately about this area. It said that many disciples died there and that whenever an elder was sent to investigate, he'd be intercepted by an elder from the Divine Sword Sect.

Although the elders couldn't find out the exact plot, they were sure there was a group of disciples lurking inside the mountain and ambushing the disciples from the Four Seasons Sect.

To their dismay, this group didn't include anyone above the Nascent Soul Stage, so they were sure the rules of war weren't broken. After seeing this should be resolved by the juniors, they sent a group of 8 intermediate Nascent Soul cultivators led by two disciples in the high phase of the same stage.

"According to the elder, they are only 5, and only two of them should be at the fifth stage. I feel ashamed that we need to gang up on them like that."

Unless the two were peak Nascent Soul Stage, it would be overdoing it, and there shouldn't be anyone in this stage in the Outer Ring of the central zone.

"You guys know the plan. If there are two peak Nascent Soul cultivators, we split into 2 groups. One group will be under me along with 3 disciples from the intermediate phase, and the other group will be under Ethan, consisting of 5 disciples from the intermediate phase."

The plan was to overwhelm one of the enemies while the other group keeps the other at bay, and then gang up on the one remaining. If the two enemies weren't at the peak phase, there wouldn't be any problems at all.

"As for the 3 at the fourth stage, I'm leaving them to you guys."

The team leader looked at the group of peak fourth-stage disciples walking behind them. By the rules of war, they couldn't attack the ones at the fourth stage, hence, they brought 10 disciples that could.

"Yes, Senior Brother."

The group got closer to the mountain and soon the two scouts sensed the treasures.

"Team Leader, I think we found their location. I can sense some fifth-grade treasures in the distance, that's probably what lured everyone to the trap."

"I sense the same, it should be it."

Bruce and Jackie reported and brought a smile to their leader's face.

"Good. Time for the hunters to become prey."

The group jogged together in that direction and got closer quickly.

"Do you sense anyone?"

"No, I sense only a few weak beings."

"Those are wolf pups."

The leader frowned, but they kept advancing in that direction. When they got close enough to look inside the cave, they stopped and carefully observed every detail they could see.

"Be careful. You probably can't see it, but there's a formation inside that hides many details of the cave from our eyes. We can assume there's a suppression formation inside as well."

"What should we do? Should we retreat?"

The other disciples asked nervously. They didn't want to enter an enemy formation; it was too dangerous.

"No. I have a fifth-rank scroll with me. It should be able to disable a formation of the fifth rank for 30 minutes until it runs out of power. If there are more formations, the time will split between them, so don't take your time in killing them."

While talismans were a way to inscribe runes as one-time weapons, scrolls were a way to inscribe runes to create portable formations. They were significantly weaker than the ones inscribed on the ground, but they were a good solution for situations like this.

"The good news is that they are most likely only at the intermediate phase and relied on those hidden formations to kill our fellow disciples."