Piercing Through the Battlefield

"What happened to that old Sky Eye Master?"

"Tut, tut, just look at how miserable he is. He probably ran into bugs, right? I heard from Class Four that giant swamp-devouring earthworms sometimes follow the rear of the migration convoy. When the inheritors aren't paying attention, they can swallow a person in one bite!"

"They're that powerful?"

"Of course. Those giant swamp-devouring earthworms are among the best when it comes to burrowing underground. If we were traveling along the highway, we probably wouldn't run into one."

"I heard there's a Bug Nest near the highway."

"Exactly. Otherwise, after traveling all this way, we would've..."

"Stop talking, Commander Li is here!"

Several Second Order Low-level inheritors followed the stern-faced Commander Li. They stepped forward, took the Sky Eye Master from You Li's back, swiftly carried him indoors, and went to find an inheritor with healing abilities.

Commander Li had You Li follow him inside as well. Before the soldier could catch his breath, he asked, "What happened?"

"Reporting! Xijiang University... Xijiang University..."

Commander Li frowned. Ever since the extermination of the mutated black threadworms, he had seen Xijiang University's true strength.

It was truly packed with inheritors, with a relatively balanced spread of every type. No internal strife had emerged yet, either.

The army had gone to recruit people, yet failed to recruit even one. It was utterly baffling.

Could the army's benefits really be worse than Xijiang University's?

How could that be?!

Could it be that Xijiang University's inheritors had grown bold enough to break away from the army's control and strike out on their own?

Or perhaps... they wanted to replace the army?

That did not make sense either.

While You Li gasped for breath, Commander Li ran through every possibility in his mind. These past few days, he