Discipline! Where was your discipline? You were about to fight as a team. How could you not need to know what was happening on the battlefield? Ma Xiaotao and the Inner Academy disciples thought there was no need to bring Huo Yuhao because, even in their previous battles, they had never considered what would happen if their spiritual power was suppressed.
A battle? Wasn't that just two groups meeting head-on and throwing Soul Skills at each other? At heart, they were treating their Oversight Mission like a Soul Fighting match. Their raw strength was more than enough, after all.
"When large forces fight, discipline must be strict!" That applied just as much to a battle like this small-scale encounter. If you couldn't get a clear picture of the battlefield, you either covered it with ranged fire or stayed put until you could.
Now that the first team had charged in, Wang Yan and the reserve team heard nothing more. Wang Yan concluded that the enemies they had met were weak and that the team had won. "Children, let's go too! Don't forget, this place is dangerous. Martial Soul Possession!"
"Yes, Teacher Wang!"
The reserve team members activated Martial Soul Possession as well and followed Wang Yan down the slope. They soon saw a cavern screened by a curtain of vines. Cut marks showed that the vines had clearly been arranged by hand. This must be one of the Death's Hand Bandit Group's hideouts. The entrance was narrow, and five or six bandits lay dead outside it, each killed in a single blow.
"Let's go in," Wang Yan said. "Yuhao, release Spiritual Detection at full range. Everyone, be careful."
They entered the cavern, which opened into a vast space. Fifty meters farther in, they found more "Gundams." Huo Yuhao vomited the