Over the following days, Houde Realm's divinations targeting the Baiyou Merchant Alliance suddenly increased by a great deal.
There were at least two or three every day, and when there were many, seven or eight was normal.
Such a frequency of divination clearly left the Merchant Alliance somewhat unused to it.
They were accustomed to throwing their weight around, so they counterattacked more than a dozen times in succession, hoping to intimidate Houde's True Venerables.
However, it was useless. Their counterattacks instead made Houde's True Venerables increase the frequency of their divinations.
Divination did indeed consume a great deal of vital energy, but as long as it was arranged reasonably, it did not matter.
As for the counterattacks they encountered, as long as they were prepared and willing to spend some methods, the problem really was not that serious.
In extreme cases, even if they could not withstand it, being able to dodge was fine too, as long as there was a plan in place beforehand...
The real point was that everyone did not need to show themselves at all to make the other side run itself ragged. Opportunities for such easy attacks were not many.
Previously, the True Venerables had not forced themselves to the front partly because there had been no clear plan or methods for counterattack, and partly because the intensity of the battle could not be controlled.
Now, this way of operating not only kept the intensity under control, it even spared them the travel. It was truly too convenient.
Most importantly, this kind of gang-up could accommodate many participants.
Even True Venerables inevitably had a mischievous streak. Upon learning that others had all begun joining in, quite a few even deliberately increased the number of divinations they performed.
As for possibly being sensed by the