Meng Jingzhou, Swing Into Action!

"Twelve Spirit Transformation cultivators. This is going to be a little difficult." Lu Yang said it would be difficult, but the smile on his face was impossible to hide.

In Great Xia, he rarely met anyone willing to fight him, especially in a fight to the death.

It meant he couldn't put his cultivation to use, which was a real pity.

He missed fighting his peers at the Qingzhou Grand Ceremony, when he'd been at the Golden Core Realm and fought above his station against Foundation Establishment Realm cultivators.

The East Sea was too backward for him to find any Foundation Establishment cultivators. He'd have to make do with Spirit Transformation cultivators.

Meng Jingzhou and the others were all excited. It wasn't every day they got to enjoy a good, hearty fight.

"I thought they'd call in Nascent Soul cultivators too." Tao Yaoye was confused. This was different from what she'd expected.

Lu Yang explained, "This is a covert operation. The fewer people involved, the better. Besides, anyone who takes part gets a share of the spoils—that's the price of their silence. If the Spirit Transformation cultivators can handle it, why bring in Nascent Soul cultivators just to pad the numbers?"

Lu Yang had never done anything like this before, but that didn't stop him from seeing things from their perspective.

Among the twelve Spirit Transformation cultivators were several at the middle and late stages. Some were probably humans, and others sea folk. Lu Yang guessed that Gao Feng wasn't the one behind this; he couldn't boss around this many Spirit Transformation cultivators.

The treasure had probably drawn cultivators from farther afield. They simply hadn't arrived right away. Once they finally got here and heard from Gao Feng that the Five Elements Sect was on the island, they'd organized this