Meng Lan's highest score in testing had been two hundred.
But he had left himself a fairly generous margin for error. If necessary, he felt he could challenge two hundred and twenty without a problem.
That would put the team's total between six hundred and fifty and six hundred and seventy, which he felt should be enough to advance from Group Eighteen. Thus, he had asked every teammate who went before him to aim for a safe score rather than attempt a risky challenge.
All those judgments had been based on having only Guyán Team as a competitor.
Copper Well Team only needed safe scores. Whether they finished first or second, securing advancement was best.
But the situation was entirely different now.
With a towering seven hundred points hanging over his head and Guyán Team's unfathomable strength pressing from behind, Meng Lan suddenly found himself caught in a dilemma.
If he pushed hard for seven hundred, he would need to score two hundred and fifty. One mistake, and everything would be over.
But if he did not reach seven hundred, and Guyán Team's remaining competitor could score over two hundred and forty, then Guyán Team would advance alongside the Meijiang Team.
Copper Well Team would suffer a humiliating elimination!
Meng Lan glanced at Guyán Team's remaining competitor, the tall woman from the Wuteng Tribe. She was also watching him with her amber eyes.
The two gifted cultivators' gazes collided for an instant.
The other woman seemed to be posing a question to Meng Lan... Captain Meng, what are you going to do?
By normal logic, since this woman from the Wuteng Tribe was competing after Wu Liegang, she was most likely stronger than Wu Liegang, who had scored two hundred. If her safe score was two hundred and twenty, she