Chapter 712 - 638: Stepping onto the Peak 47 (4,000 Words)_2
Qian Mu saw that he had gathered everyone’s attention and continued, "Things haven’t gotten that bad yet. Next, we just need to knock out and capture the disciples in the Secret Realm one by one, then let Young Sect Master Murong distinguish between the real and fake. Tie up the fake ones and the real ones will become our companions. In this way, our number of companions will grow. As long as we unite and find these cunning people, it won’t be difficult. The situation now is much better than when it was just Senior Sister Tan, Fei Hu, Ling Zhan, and me."
Qian Mu’s words were effective. Mu Lisheng and Wan Yuan, who had been in a bad mood due to lingering fear, felt reassured by what he said.
In fact, Ling Zhan and Qian Mu themselves were unsettled before, and while they were saying these words to others, they were also saying them to themselves. Now that there were responders, the two felt much more at ease.
As for Shuangshuang, she remained calm and composed from beginning to end, without any sign of fear. Her combat power and attitude were actually the reason Ling Zhan and Qian Mu could quickly calm down. Shuangshuang gave them a very reliable feeling.
As for Murong Huating, as the person in this group with the combat power second only to Shuangshuang, his attitude was even calmer than hers, as if he wasn’t the one previously in a state of dishevelment while being chased.
To lighten the mood and feel a bit more at ease, everyone divided into two groups, taking turns for night watch and rest. Whether they fell asleep or not, closing their eyes to rest for half the night was better than suffering through it entirely awake. As a result, early the next morning, everyone was in decent spirits.
There was still plenty of roasted meat and fish left from last night. Mu Lisheng started a fire and roasted them again. Everyone hastily ate a few bites to fill their stomachs and then got up to set off, heading to find the others in the Secret Realm.
At this point, Shuangshuang discovered that besides being good at cooking, Mu Lisheng was surprisingly skilled at locating people. She had cultivated a martial technique for tracking, which made her exceptionally efficient in finding others.
Even though Mu Lisheng was a girl, she had always aspired to join the Law Enforcement Hall of the Li Tian Sect. The Law Enforcement Hall often had arrest missions, so this martial technique was one Mu Lisheng specifically cultivated to enter the Law Enforcement Hall, and now it was coming in handy for finding people.
The first group they found consisted of people from the Wuji Sect. There were quite a few of them, five men and four women, a total of nine people gathered together, seemingly harvesting spiritual medicine, appearing without any signs of suspicion.
The number of people was a bit too much, and Shuangshuang was alone. While she wasn’t worried about fighting, she was concerned that during the confrontation someone might take the opportunity to escape. This action needed to be a clean sweep, because if anyone got away and alerted the others, it would be a big problem. Going forward
This problem was ultimately solved by Murong Huating. Having a protective mother, Murong Huating carried with him not only an array plate that could penetrate all illusion realms but also many array plates for self-defense, attack, and entrapment.
Even though these array plates were limited by the cultivation of the user and were ineffective against enemies of the Great Martial Artist Level, which was why Murong Huating, despite having many protective array plates, ended up so disheveled while being chased before.
Arrays can sometimes be like cheats, as array masters often use arrays to kill enemies across levels. However, the premise is that the array master sets up the array on-site and can command and reconfigure the array placement at any time to achieve that.
But array plates are inanimate, the arrays within are fixed and cannot be changed. When activating an array plate, regardless of the level of the array within, they can only exert the power at the level equivalent to the power input by the user.
That means, in the hands of a cultivator of a certain level, the array plate can at most trap or kill enemies of the same level, but cannot kill enemies across levels because the power input by the user is insufficient to support the array within the array plate to kill across levels.
Of course, if the array master is skilled enough, they can refine array plates that allow the holder to kill enemies across levels. However, such array masters are rare, and clearly, Murong Huating’s array plates were not made by such an array master.
Basically, no one expected there to be outsiders in the Secret Realm when they came, so Murong Huating brought these array plates purely out of caution, not expecting to use them, and naturally didn’t prepare any array plates that could be considered as treasures to defend the sect.
However, while these array plates were not sufficient to kill enemies at the Great Martial Artist Level, they were still capable of trapping enemies of that level for a few breaths. Previously, Murong Huating relied on these array plates to continuously fend off the Great Martial Artist pursuing him, allowing him to escape for such a long time.