Naturally, no one objected. Once they realized that uniting around Xu Yi and following his orders was the best course of action for the moment, everyone quickly changed tack.
Yang Wufang said, "Since my lord can command the alien beasts, the key now is how to capture them. I think fighting them head-on won't work. We should set an ambush and find a way to capture them all in one net."
Liu Yaoshun said, "And what then, once we've caught them? We'll still have to kill them. These things are incredibly tough, each one as hard as iron. Once there are enough of them, they'll be a huge problem."
Xu Yi said, "What if we simply capture them and let them starve to death? These alien beasts aren't immortals who can go without food or water. We only need to keep them trapped."
His words sparked everyone's interest.
A red-faced man said, "That makes sense, but who knows how long the things can last? If they take a year or six months to die, we'll be worn out first. Besides, what sort of enormous cage could withstand these stubborn creatures battering it for a year or six months without breaking?"
"Fifteen days," Xu Yi said. "Fifteen days at most."
He had already conducted experiments and knew the answer. He had gathered large numbers of alien beasts, most of them coreless. These coreless beasts were so numerous that, when gathered together, their attacks were terrifying.
The might of the beast tide didn't lie in how ferocious the core-bearing beasts were. It lay in the sheer number of coreless ones. Once they piled up, every cultivator dreaded having to face them.
Once the vast numbers of coreless beasts were dead, the remaining core-bearing beasts wouldn't amount to much, given how few there