After dealing with Han Feng, Xiao Wujiu created several more Rune Puppets to stand guard, then found a quiet room for cultivation in the bamboo building and prepared to make his pre-battle arrangements there.
Xiao Wujiu sat cross-legged in the center of the quiet room, pondering the deployment and arrangements of the Ancient Clan members that he had learned from Qin Tian and Qing Hai.
According to what they knew, the Ancient Clan had dispatched four Dou Zuns and quite a few Dou Zongs this time.
Of those four, aside from Gu Qian, an Eight-Star Dou Zun and an elder of the Ancient Clan, and Gu Xu, a Seven-Star Dou Zun, there were also Elder Lin, a Five-Star Dou Zun and one of Gu Xuner's guards, as well as Yang Hao, a Five-Star Dou Zun and the third commander of the Black Annihilation Army.
There were more than a dozen other Dou Zongs, too many to list individually. And these were merely the people openly dispatched—the intelligence that the Soul Hall had been allowed to learn. No one knew how many experts were hidden in the shadows or how powerful they were.
So he made his preparations on the assumption that there was also a Half-Saint concealed in the dark.
Looking at it this way, Gu Yuan was not entirely without merit. At the very least, his operations were far better than the Soul Hall's outsourced jobs. With such strength, capturing members of the Xiao Clan, who did not even have a Dou Zun, would be ridiculously easy.
Moreover, they were all spread throughout the Black-Corner Region. With their strength, rushing to reinforce one another would be effortless. And with the Black-Corner Region bordering Jia Nan Academy, it was an excellent place to keep watch.
By forbidding the Ancient Clan