We finally managed to fool them!
Le Yu rode the Ferocious Jackal Leopard Cat away from the area at a brisk pace. After that performance, the goblins should have been fooled for the time being. At the very least, they wouldn't suspect that they weren't Le Yu's only allies.
That night when he received visitors one after another, Le Yu hadn't chosen corruption on a whim or out of some twisted amusement, secretly forming an alliance with each of the five Sword Sheaths. Although it had indeed been quite interesting, he had also given the matter much deeper consideration.
Le Yu didn't know how effective the other Sword Sheaths' cheating methods were, but it was easy to imagine that, aside from the Sword Sheath who hadn't sought him out, the other five Sword Sheaths were all uncertain whether they could cheat their way to first place in the All-Knowing Eye.
The proof was that Le Yu hadn't had any intention of joining forces with others to sabotage anyone at the start.
Why hadn't he?
Because he believed that, with Shi Wen, the library's tool-man, helping them, they had a one-hundred-percent chance of getting full marks. In other words, no matter how the others took the exam, they couldn't outscore Ming Shuiyun. Why would Le Yu need to sabotage them?
Putting himself in their shoes and thinking about it the other way around, they would only need to sabotage other people's cheating plans if they weren't confident of coming in first. It was a perfectly normal line of thought. Le Yu hadn't actively sought out allies because he was naive, but because he had been considering the problem from the perspective of first place.
So what exactly should Le Yu do to maximize his side's interests?
The answer was obvious—prevent a