The assailants had not been gone long, and with nearly two hundred of them, such a large group was bound to be an extremely conspicuous target.
Zhou Heng carried Jiang Zishuang in his arms, while Yueji followed closely behind Qi Yuan, faithfully playing the role of bodyguard. The four of them alone set out on the road to revenge.
Qi Yuan naturally had absolute faith in Zhou Heng's combat strength. That was why he had insisted on coming along despite Yueji's objections. He was the eldest young master of the Qi Family—if someone bullied him to his face and he still hid his head like a turtle, how could he ever face anyone again?
Along the way, Qi Yuan blamed himself somewhat, believing that he bore the greatest responsibility for this ambush.
According to the original plan, he had intended to gather all his subordinates' points onto himself only on the tenth day of the assessment.
—And that was precisely what he had done. He had sent over a hundred subordinates out to collect recruitment plaques from others at high prices, or purchase dying demon beasts. Those willing to sell their recruitment plaques were certainly not very strong; believing themselves unable to emerge victorious in the end, they had chosen this path, so their points definitely would not be many. But numbers could make up for that!
At first, Qi Yuan had planned to gather all those points onto himself on the tenth day, allowing him to soar straight to the throne of first place in an instant.
The benefit of doing so was that it would keep him from becoming too conspicuous, preventing him from becoming a target after entering the top ten, since the locations of the top ten were announced every day.
Moreover, by keeping a low