Fuck, I thought this would be a cushy job. Kill Xiang Chong, let the five of us enjoy Xiang Bing, then leave their corpses in the wilderness and head back...
But now the script was going in the wrong direction!
They were over there feasting, and on top of the hill at that, looking down from above, in full view of everyone...
There was no way to make a move!
The five of us could only eat dirt in this pit. How was that fair?!
After a while, they heard the three above talking loudly without a care, their voices drifting over one after another.
"How many, exactly?" Xiang Chong asked.
"Me? I must have at least five or six thousand to my name by now." Zuo Xiaoduo laughed heartily, actually understating his tally.
"Impressive. I'm still a little short of three thousand."
"I'm only just over twenty-seven hundred," Xiang Bing said.
"Keep it up, keep it up. There's always a gap between people. Wahahahaha..." Zuo Xiaoduo laughed smugly.
"But don't get careless, either."
Unconvinced, Xiang Bing said, "Your haul must all be Star Beasts in the embryonic breath realm. I reckon that by tonight at the latest, the Spirit Beasts in the embryonic breathing realm will all have been wiped out... That's when the real contest begins."
"No matter how many you have, quantity can't crush an advantage in quality."
Xiang Bing said, "As long as the others catch enough dan origin realm Star Beasts, your score still won't beat theirs."
Zuo Xiaoduo waved a hand. "If they can catch them, can't I keep catching them too? Surely they won't be the only ones hunting while we laze around sleeping?"
"That's true."
"What do we do next?" Xiang Chong asked.
"Ice Egg made a good point just now. There