Hearing Steward Li's confident words, Xu Yuan felt a headache coming on.
Wait?
Wait for what?
Wait for the protagonist to come out of the Rainbow Valley dungeon and kill you all?
Xu Yuan felt helpless again.
It wasn't that these subordinates were brainless fools. After all, they didn't have the all-seeing perspective he'd once possessed.
With too little information, rules to follow, and some assumptions taken for granted, it was perfectly normal for them to reach this conclusion.
Xu Yuan didn't yet know how great the gap was between seventh and eighth rank, but he had a general idea of the difference between ninth and eighth rank.
Ignoring improvements to the body, a ninth-rank cultivator had only a third of an eighth-rank cultivator's Source Qi reserves, and their cultivation technique circulated at half the speed.
For two seventh-rank cultivators leading a group of eighth-rankers to be wiped out despite that difference could only mean that Qin Mo truly lived up to his status as the protagonist.
Still, Qin Mo's trip to Rainbow Valley made it possible to figure out which route he was following.
The old-man-in-a-ring route.
Murphy's Law never lied.
Xu Yuan sighed softly.
The protagonist's reason for heading to Rainbow Valley this time was simple:
Guidance from the old man in the ring.
A secret realm lay hidden within Rainbow Valley, and it contained a spirit herb that could help the old man recover his soul power.
Of course,
Aside from helping the old man who lived in his ring, Qin Mo also followed the protagonist's golden rule of never leaving a dungeon empty-handed. After fighting monsters, downing pills, and leveling up in the secret realm, he would emerge with a dramatic boost in strength.
According to the Cangyuan storyline, that would put him at just the