There was still an hour left before the competition ended.
Yue Wen hid behind the stone steps beside the teleportation array in the eastern ancient-city area, taking a brief rest and regulating his breathing.
He had just completed another ambush and made a handsome haul. The mountain of backpacks piled beside him kept growing taller. Just now, he had paid the first batch of extras their initial wages, so their backpacks were no longer empty. That made the setup look a little more credible.
Yue Wen had never intended to deceive them in the first place. How many points did those seven people need to qualify? Two thousand points per person came to just over ten thousand.
During the hour he had spent lying in wait by the teleportation array, they had intercepted more than a dozen unaffiliated cultivators, and their newly acquired points totaled over sixty thousand!
Those rat-like people who had watched for so long had good reason to be cautious. Each one looked utterly inconspicuous, yet their backpacks often held tens of thousands of points' worth of treasure!
These people had either gotten lucky and picked up an Immortal Material worth a great many points, or had painstakingly killed quite a few people before continuing to avoid the teleportation arrays.
After wandering around for a long time, they had all been drawn over by the "Eastern Film City" Yue Wen had built.
Seeing so many people pass through safely without hearing any sounds of fighting, they all assumed they had arrived during a gap when no one was guarding the teleportation array. The moment they landed, however, a surprise awaited them.
Several hours of hard work had all turned into nothing. One could imagine the unforgettable agony these unaffiliated cultivators would suffer after realizing they had been