LWGP - Chapter 193

Chapter 193: The Ground is Cool

Xiao Jue thought he would be able to see, and he did, but he felt like something was different.

She was indeed different from before.

Before he saw the person, he saw a blade.

The blade's edge was as fierce as a gale, its lethality erasing the line between life and death.

A single blade, a streak of light, tore through the wind and arrived in a shower of brilliance.

Bang! It pierced straight through his defensive armor, forcing wind into the penetrated chest and drawing blood from his vibrant, strong body. In that same instant, Guan Ze's pupils filled with blood. He fell, and just as he was about to land on Wang Shu, Wang Shu took a step to the side… Plop. The corpse hit the ground, landing prone at his feet.

The entire scene fell deathly silent. Weeping Blood, having instantly killed Guan Ze—a man with average attributes over nine thousand—was already flying back across the wide surface of the lake.

In the dead silence, only Wang Shu broke the tension, shouting with excitement and glee, "Master! Master!!"

There was no response from the opposite shore, but everyone had superb vision. They could vaguely see, amidst the mist and vapor rising from the lake, a slender, elegant, and aloof figure standing alone on the graceful shore. The blade returned, sliding into its sheath with a clang. Then, the person's voice drifted across the lake, light and casual, "Still not calling for help? Did you grow your brain in a dog's belly?"

It was impossible to tell if she was angry or not.

She had always been someone who didn't care about personal emotions but focused on the bigger picture. Wang Shu didn't even know if his previous actions had been right or wrong.

His Master's words were always hard to decipher, her emotions unreadable. Just like now, after instantly killing the lord of a provincial-level territory, she didn't mention it, nor did she seem to care about anyone else's reaction.

Her voice seemed to be tinged by the lake's mist, yet warmed by its jade-green waters.

Wang Shu's eyes turned red, and a subconscious fear crept in. He habitually whined and pledged his loyalty to the powerful figure he had so wisely latched onto. "I… I was just afraid of causing you trouble! They're so mean, ganging up on me, and you didn't even come."

"Trouble?" The female voice seemed to chuckle lightly, crisp and pleasant, as if amused.

This time, Wang Shu finally understood. He had heard this kind of laughter many times before. In the past, when they were running dungeons and fighting bosses, she would never run her mouth before finishing off those self-proclaimed cunning bosses. Instead, she would always end it with such a faint smile.

She found you hilarious but was too lazy to explain why. In short—she thought that you, with all your scheming, were like a little idiot.

Here, Wang Shu could interpret that smile as—Trouble? This guy even qualifies?

The others were also snapped back to reality by this laugh, suddenly realizing something.

Guan Ze hadn't gotten up.

Even if he was killed…

"Lord?"

"Lord?"

The people from Jade Dragon Snow Mountain were dumbfounded. They sent all sorts of private messages, only to be met with a system prompt. They were all stunned.

At the same time, everyone saw the corpse on the ground turn ethereal and vanish into nothingness.

Wang Shu understood. The lord, who had made such a cool and domineering entrance, had been one-shotted. The kind of one-shot where his HP was completely depleted.

My Master… is probably strong enough to wipe the floor with many of the experts here.

He just didn't know if that included the person in front of him.

Wang Shu immediately gained confidence. "I-I-I understand, Master. I'll call for people right away."

His summons was like a signal arrow piercing the clouds, calling forth a vast army.

Light flashed. Xiao Jue and the others, the people from the many territories here, as well as several experts from large territories who had just arrived, all saw the people from Gobi arrive.

At least the main members had arrived.

Xie Lu, Qiao Xuejing, Liao Luo, Mei Qingshu, Dao Dao, Lin Guiwan, Zhao Si, Liu Guang, Fang Cun, Xu Baiyan, Leng Rong, and others.

The main elite team of about thirty people.

As soon as they arrived, Xie Lu looked at the battered, injured, and bleeding Wang Shu, then at Bai Bai, whose fur was singed from being hit, and then looked toward Wang Jiu on the opposite shore.

He didn't ask anything, just waited for Wang Jiu to speak.

As for the others, they naturally didn't ask either, just waited. Especially Zhao Si, whose eyes were filled with glee.

They didn't wait long.

"Bashu is a bit hot this time of year. The ground is cool, so let's not have the little friends from Jade Dragon Snow Mountain get up."

What did that mean? It was obvious.

After saying this, Wang Jiu seemed to glance somewhere across the wide lake, then walked along the shore. Soon, her figure became indistinct and could no longer be seen clearly.

They had thought she would fly over on a flying device, cool and domineering, to intimidate everyone. But she didn't. She just walked off on her own.

Wang Shu and the others didn't mind for the moment, because whether Wang Jiu came over or not, she had already suppressed the scene with missile-level destructive power.

Then… kill!

Xie Lu and his group made their move. This time, many people finally got a direct understanding of Gobi's current strength.

Without Wang Jiu, even the weakest, Dao Dao, had average attributes of four thousand. Its stats had actually surpassed Wang Shu's?

And its survivability was so high that even someone with five thousand average attributes couldn't hurt it—because all its skills were subterranean, thus negating 80% of attack methods.

As for the others… Xie Lu's average attributes were already at seven thousand. With a single Homing Bird Sword Art, he instantly killed a guy with six thousand average attributes. Then he returned, drew his sword to summon a small sword formation, and helped tie down another six-thousand-stat person and a five-thousand-stat one. Once they were entangled, the stealthy Liao Luo appeared. Using an assassination combo from his talent, he one-shotted the five-thousand-stat person, then threw a nasty assassin skill that caused continuous blood loss on the six-thousand-stat one. The opponent used an Exemption, but seeing Xie Lu approach, immediately raised his blade to block and used Charge…

He charged in front of Xie Lu and attacked with all his might. Xie Lu countered with a high-level skill, Hexagonal Ice Shield + Level 7 Heavy Strike, blocking the attack. He retreated two steps and activated the shield's reflective damage shockwave. The opponent was pushed back four steps, and Xie Lu suddenly looked up at him.

Ocular Stun.

The opponent was shocked and activated immunity in time! But in that instant, he felt a chill on his back.

Not good!

A Sirius Armor-Piercing Arrow tore through the air, instantly piercing him as he was weakened from the reflective damage. Mei Qingshu had bought this skill book from Wang Jiu. It was a high-level archer skill for high burst, single-target damage, and she had spent a lot of resources on it.

After killing this person, Mei Qingshu didn't even look, turning to fire several more armor-piercing arrows, frantically reaping the lives of those with low health.

People like Zhao Si, Liu Guang, and Fang Cun were basically all high-damage experts. Even if they couldn't one-shot their opponents, they could definitely inflict heavy damage in the first round. Mei Qingshu was the strongest ranged attacker for picking off low-health targets because her attack frequency was the fastest, and the burst damage she had stacked was second only to Xie Lu's.

But they were powerful, and logically, the people from Jade Dragon Snow Mountain should have been very strong too. They had ten or twenty people with average attributes in the four, five, and six thousand range, yet they were being completely dominated like this?

For one simple reason: they didn't have three key people.

Lin Guiwan. This was a top-tier player that many top teams like Cai Market, Shenzhen, Hong Kong, and Shanghai wanted to recruit. If the Mist Town dungeon had cemented Wang Jiu's glory as a cross-realm dominator, then Lin Guiwan was the undisputed number one healer among priests.

Group immunity, group's strongest armor for fifteen seconds, group speed boost, group burst damage boost… and several high-level skills like Grand Radiance. Don't ask how powerful these skills were; even her Holy Light was level four.

Also, as a top healer, her most terrifying ability was being able to make herself invincible for fifteen seconds.

For these fifteen seconds, she didn't need anyone to protect her, unless the opponent was strong enough to unleash a burst of damage equivalent to thirteen thousand average attributes, high enough to break through this thirty-second defense.

But obviously, if Guan Ze hadn't died, he might have been able to unleash such damage with the help of various skill buffs. But he was already dead.

Lin Guiwan was invincible for fifteen seconds. She raised her hand and cast four or five consecutive group skills, and while she was at it, she inflicted Chaos on the people from Jade Dragon Snow Mountain.

Chaos wasn't a very strong debuff, but it could be coordinated with one person.

Qiao Xuejing.

A healer's role is usually self-contained, but the reason Xie Lu and the others could finish off their opponents so quickly wasn't just because of their own buffs, but also because of Qiao Xuejing's formations.

From traps to formations, Qiao Xuejing had finally passed the novice stage of a formation master. Having accumulated enough resources in the early stages, she had become a true formation master—she was promoted after the Mist Town dungeon.

Therefore, in the very first round, the people from Jade Dragon Snow Mountain entered a rotating, eight-ringed, spiral spirit-draining formation. It was draining their stamina, making them weaker, and continuously applying a dazing effect.

Hmm, this strategy had the distinct flavor of the Mist Town dungeon. It seemed Qiao Xuejing had been inspired by it.

Of course, the extreme support from these two was obvious, but there was another reason: Liao Luo.

Before Lin Guiwan and Qiao Xuejing even made their first moves, he had already infiltrated the ranks of the Jade Dragon Snow Mountain people and instantly killed their priest.

Don't ask how he did it. In Gobi, besides Wang Jiu, if he wanted to hide, no one could detect him, not even Bai Bai, because his assassination talent was triple-layered.

Actually, many people had investigated Gobi. Its characteristics were very clear, and its weaknesses were also obvious—its leader didn't fulfill the most important duty of a captain. She didn't coordinate the team's strength or organize its teamwork.

Logically, such a team should be a disorganized mess.

But they overlooked one thing.

"Human nature, and the drive for personal gain."

"The people in the Gobi team have a very obvious characteristic—they're all very sharp. Having benefited from her, cleared one high-difficulty dungeon after another, and won war after war, they stand in awe of her abilities. To ensure they'll be chosen to join her team next time, they must constantly ensure their strength is up to par and infinitely prove their importance to the team. They even subconsciously follow the path she needs them to."

"Subjective willingness is far more effective than any means of control."

"So she never puts any thought into management, because everyone is supposed to be a pawn in her hand. If one day a pawn becomes useless, she'll just replace it. After all, many people are fighting to become that pawn."

In the Cai Market's channel, everyone was analyzing the situation.

Xie Jiang: "There's another characteristic. Many people don't like to find smart subordinates, nor do they like those with strong personalities, fearing they'll be hard to control and might become disloyal. But not her. She loves finding smart people. It saves trouble."

And once smart, trouble-saving people see the benefits and the future, they become more steadfast than anyone.

Qingcheng Sword Cultivator: "What's the use of analyzing so clearly now? I'll bet you a cart of cucumbers that when she comes over later, she'll definitely ignore Lao Xie."

Lin Xiaoniang: "I won't allow you to humiliate my Darling Xie like that! Doesn't he have any pride?"

Jiangdong Ergouzi: "Xie Heavenly King doesn't need it."

Xie Jiang: "I'm planning to switch teams, to leave this filthy, degenerate place that is Cai Market."

Boss Cai: "Whether you switch teams or not is a separate issue from her not thinking much of you. It's a matter of logic."

Xie Lu: "…"

The group chat suddenly went quiet.

Maybe it was because the master of pouring cold water, Boss Cai, had surfaced. Or maybe it was because the Gobi people had already beaten the Jade Dragon Snow Mountain people to the ground. Or maybe it was because the master of the great Bashu Territory, Liu Wuren, as well as experts from Snow Sea Forest Stream and Chongqing's Nine Palaces, had all arrived.

Xie Lu and the others, covered in blood, repeatedly killed the people from Jade Dragon Snow Mountain who had revived on the spot once or twice. Realizing they truly couldn't win, these people finally lay quietly.

The grand and tranquil meeting place was unusual. The fragrance of flowers and plants could still be detected on the trellises and bushes, but it couldn't overpower the stench of blood flowing on the ground.

Liu Wuren nodded toward the people from Cai Market standing by the tree platform and also glanced at the people from Nine Palaces and Snow Sea Forest Stream. With his keen mind, he sensitively noticed a strange gaze. He followed the person's line of sight and looked over to a small path running alongside the lake.

He heard footsteps.

Wang Jiu was walking over.

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