Only the Nine-Pattern Battle Qi and Ten-Pattern Battle Qi remained. Stabilizing these two levels would probably take as long as all the previous ones combined, or even longer.
Just two days after Lu Yin stabilized his Eight-pattern Battle Qi, a spacecraft arrived above Sword Mountain. The other nine members of the ten-person squad had arrived.
One after another, figures leaped from the spacecraft and landed in the Sword Formation Plaza.
The plaza was surrounded by members of the Yi Team's affiliated squads. Up front stood the two Yi Team members and Lu Yin.
Lu Yin looked at the nine who had landed in surprise. This was something else—most of them were familiar faces.
First was Wang Yi, wearing his usual cold expression and regarding everyone with an air of arrogance. He had previously practiced the Four Absolute Loose Hands and hadn't cultivated Battle Qi, so he met the conditions for having only just started cultivating it after the wager.
Not far from Wang Yi stood two experts from the Xia family's Lin generation: Xia Lin Yue and Shan Lin Gui. Lu Yin hadn't interacted with them much, but he knew who they were. He'd known about them back in Tree Starry Sky.
The Lin generation ranked just below the Tai generation. They were second only to Wu Taibai and Xia Tai Li in status, while Xia Shen Fei naturally held the highest position of all.
Lu Yin hadn't expected these two to have never cultivated Battle Qi either.
Behind them, Hei Xu stood quietly, making no effort to draw attention. Lu Yin hadn't expected him to be here, too.
Many of Lu Yin's former classmates from Starry Sky Tenth Academy had long since lost touch with him. Hei Xu, however, was a hidden seed of the Three Leaf Clover Company,