Chapter 168: Counterattack

In the forest, two Jin Hui squads were retreating in haste.

"Let's go, the situation has already turned chaotic. That Li Luo used some method to scatter phantoms everywhere, we can't catch him at all."

"Once we're out of the mountain, leave this place immediately, so we don't get revenge-taken by Li Luo."

The members of the two Jin Hui squads exchanged words, then all fled at full speed with panicked faces.

And just at this moment, they suddenly saw three figures appear ahead — it was precisely Li Luo, Student Xin Fu, and Bai Bai Mengmeng.

However, upon seeing these three figures, the two Jin Hui squads did not feel any fear at all; instead, their faces showed some impatience.

"This Li Luo is so annoying. We've run into these phantoms four or five times already."

"Yeah, the worst part is we actually confronted the phantoms for several minutes, only to watch helplessly as they dissolved."

"Feel like we're a bunch of idiots."

The captain of one Jin Hui squad said helplessly: "Don't bother with it, just charge straight through and get out of this forest first."

The others all nodded, then sped up, the whole group about to pass right in front of Li Luo's three.

And this scene left the three of Li Luo a bit dumbfounded — what the hell, are the Jin Hui squads this arrogant now? Walking away brazenly right in front of us?

At this moment, Li Luo felt the other side seemed to be humiliating him.

So, when the opponents walked up to him, he directly let out a great roar: "Take them down!"

Before the roar had even faded, Li Luo had already struck first. Green phase force brimming with vitality burst forth from his palm: "Jade Coiling Hand!"

The giant green-wood python formed by the phase force roared out, immediately enveloping the two captains of the Jin Hui squads, coiling around all four of their limbs.

At the same time, the green wood rolled, sweeping several nearby Jin Hui students and sending them flying backward.

And bound by the green wood, the two Jin Hui squad captains only then came back to their senses from their shock. They stared at Li Luo before them in disbelief, then shrieked: "Holy shit, they're real?!"

Before they could keep shouting, green wood was stuffed directly into their mouths, and their voices immediately turned into muffled whimpers.

While Li Luo struck to take down the two captains, Student Xin Fu also suddenly attacked. Shadow phase force swept horizontally, leaping between several figures in the field as fast as lightning. As the short blade swung, screams rang out one after another — all clutching their legs and collapsing, their combat power completely gone.

Bai Bai Mengmeng, meanwhile, activated her own phase force. A fluorescent light swept past, and three Jin Hui students seemed to see some kind of hallucination, their faces filled with terror as they hacked wildly at the space in front of them.

Soon, as Student Xin Fu swept past, these three Jin Hui students also collapsed to the ground.

In just two short minutes, the two Jin Hui squads were completely wiped out.

Li Luo watched this scene with a smile, then the green wood dragged the two captains before him, and he reached out to tear the Jin Se Hui Zhang from their chests.

"Two hundred academy points secured." He grinned.

"Congratulations, you're eliminated." Li Luo casually released them. Having lost the Jin Se Hui Zhang, they would be forbidden from moving and could not interfere with the match.

The two captains' faces turned ashen, and they snarled: "Li Luo, you're too despicable!"

"Where is it despicable? You swaggered right past me as if I didn't exist — I was about to say you were discriminating against me!" Li Luo said.

The two captains were at a loss for tears. Your damn phantoms kept fooling us before — who knew this time it would actually be real.

Li Luo smiled, tucked away the Jin Se Hui Zhang, and without paying any more attention to the two Jin Hui squads who looked as if their parents had died, he directly led Student Xin Fu and Bai Bai Mengmeng to relocate quickly.

After all, there were still other Jin Hui squads waiting for them — they couldn't let them get away easily, or it would be too unfair to all the fleeing they'd done along the way.

Over the next stretch of time, Li Luo's three took advantage of the chaos among these Jin Hui squads and began striking like lightning.

And once these Jin Hui squads lost their absolute numerical advantage, they finally began to experience the ferocity of the Zi Hui squad. As long as they didn't have three squads gathered together, then when facing Li Luo's three, the battle was almost always a crushing result.

Almost no Jin Hui squad was able to retreat unscathed after being cornered by the three.

So, in just twenty short minutes, of the dozen-plus Jin Hui squads that had come to surround Li Luo's three, nine squads had already been eliminated.

Nine hundred academy points thus landed in the bag.

"Li Luo's side is beginning to counterattack."

Somewhere in the forest, Ye Hua listened to the occasional phase-force fluctuations coming from the woods, sighed with a complicated expression. Originally, he had calculated everything well — as long as they maintained formation and didn't give Li Luo the chance to pick them off one by one, once the encirclement took shape, Li Luo's side would have no choice but to face head-on the joint attack of their dozen-plus Jin Hui squads.

By then, even if the opponent could fight most of their squads to a standstill, the final probability of victory would most likely belong to them.

But he hadn't expected Li Luo to be so cunning — using some phantoms to directly disrupt his formation deployment, while also causing the other squads to panic and lose their rhythm.

The current situation, even if he tried hard to maintain it, was already impossible.

This long-planned scheme could be considered a failure.

He looked around him. Now only their own squad remained here; the other Jin Hui squads had either been dealt with by Li Luo's side or had taken the chance to flee.

The temporary alliance had already fallen apart.

"Forget it, let's go, leave this place."

Ye Hua shook his head, turned, and headed toward the outside of this stretch of forest. They were already at the edge of the woods now, so they should be able to leave this place very soon.

Ye Hua sped up. At the forest entrance ahead, sunlight was already pouring down.

However, just as the exit drew closer, the footsteps of Ye Hua's Jin Hui squad gradually slowed. They stared ahead with some fear in their expressions, and saw Li Luo leaning against a tree trunk there, smiling at them.

"Leaving already?" he asked with a smile.

Behind Li Luo was also Bai Bai Mengmeng; as for Student Xin Fu, his figure was nowhere to be seen — presumably already lurking in the shadows, waiting to strike at any moment.

"Stone Brat, I really underestimated you. This time I almost got screwed by you."

Ye Hua's forehead twitched with veins: "Don't go giving people random nicknames. My name is Ye Hua, not Stone Brat!"

Li Luo waved his hand dismissively: "What do you plan to do next?"

Ye Hua snorted coldly: "If we lose, we lose — nothing to say. But even if you're strong, don't expect us to hand over our badges easily."

He took a step forward, and phase force rose from his body. His skin rapidly turned a pale gray, like a layer of stone skin.

Although his teammates also wore expressions of despair, they had no thought of surrender either, and prepared to fight with everything they had.

Li Luo looked at the four of them radiating a tragic-heroic air, and laughed helplessly: "It's just snatching a badge — why act like your lives are on the line?"

His eyes flickered for several breaths, then he suddenly said: "Stone Brat, want to avoid being eliminated?"

Ye Hua was stunned. He didn't even mind the Stone Brat nickname anymore, and asked in surprise and suspicion: "What do you mean?"

"I can let you go this time, and even give you two Jin Se Hui Zhang, but afterward I have a task for you — you need to carry it out properly for me."

"How about it?" Li Luo said with a smile.

Yeh Hua exchanged glances with his teammates, somewhat not understanding what Li Luo was up about, but if they could avoid being eliminated, then naturally that would be for the best.

"Can we know what it is?" Yeh Hua asked cautiously.

"Can't tell you, but at worst, isn't it just being eliminated? Could it possibly cost you your lives?" Li Luo shook his head.

Yeh Hua faltered — that reasoning did hold, but still...

He thought for a moment, then said: "Can you give us four Jin Se Hui Zhang?"

Li Luo wore a faint smile and directly drew the twin blades at his waist.

"Stone Brat, if your head can be harder than my blades, I'll give you four Mei Hui Zhang — how about it?"