With Fang Qianyuan lending his strength, their party now had the equivalent of another tenth transformation fighter. Their guard Li Yan was also a tenth transformation expert. The Wen siblings were at the ninth and fourth transformations respectively, but according to Li Yan, the second young master Wen's strength was unremarkable. He relied more on spirit medicine and various secret arts to supplement it and could not withstand the test of actual combat, so his fighting strength only matched the seventh transformation. The other four Wen guards were battle-hardened veterans ranging from the seventh to ninth transformations, experts comparable to the Wang Household's elite in Xuanyue City.
The number of enemies in One Nest of Bees was uncertain. Outlaws of the Greenwood often gathered and scattered, with losses and new recruits inevitably changing their ranks. Their cultivation, however, had always ranged between the fourth and ninth transformations, with no tenth transformation experts among them.
This was because their chief was a Greenwood expert called Tigerhead Bee, himself a ninth transformation expert. As chief, he had no reason to recruit a tenth transformation expert and hand over his position for nothing.
One Nest of Bees should also have fewer than ten members in total. Greenwood outlaws prized coming and going like the wind; this was the limit before they raised a banner, gathered followers, and established a mountain stronghold. Besides, recruiting trustworthy experts was no easy matter. If they took people in indiscriminately, even if it did not end in infighting, everyone's share of the profits would shrink.
Since they could roughly establish both the enemies' cultivation and their numbers, everyone could easily reach one conclusion: they would not be difficult to deal with.
What surprised Fang Qianyuan somewhat was that only half of this information came from the Earth Baleful