Chapter 346: Wolves Tear at Each Other

When Li Luo's playful words fell, in this stretch of mountain forest, Zhao Zhao Jieyang and several other captains whose strength was likewise no weak, their eyes all narrowed slightly at this moment.

Right now, no fewer than twenty or thirty squads had gathered here, adding up to nearly a hundred people; if they all came to take a bite of the Golden Dragon Qi, then in the end there would be no point to it.

Just as Li Luo had said, they couldn't afford to feed them.

"What do you want?" Zhao Zhao Jieyang said slowly.

Under the gaze of everyone, Li Luo sat down atop a boulder, extended four fingers, and said: "Four squads. I'm only willing to share the Golden Dragon Qi with four squads. Any more, and the Golden Dragon Qi might as well not exist."

His gaze swept indifferently over the wolves in the forest watching with ill intent, and he said: "As for how to pick these four squads, I don't care. I only want the result."

His voice was flat and even, but when it landed in the ears of the many squads present, it made a chill rise in their hearts.

This kid is ruthless.

He actually wanted the squads present to tear each other apart, and in the end have four squads emerge to share the benefits brought by the Golden Dragon Qi?

"This friend from the Great Xia Kingdom certainly has impressive methods."

A cold laugh rang out at this moment. Li Luo looked over and saw a tall, slender, graceful figure step out — a girl with an exceptionally fiery figure, her skin a faint bronze, brimming with a wild, feral air, like a lithe female leopard of the forest.

Fierce, cold, and vicious all at once.

She had short hair, her features somewhat frosty, and now her gaze carried a hint of mockery toward Li Luo: "Are you trying to use this to stir up fighting among us, and then slip away in the chaos?"

"And even if you carry dual phases, you yourself are only at the Birth Mark Stage. You can hold your own against Zhao Zhao Jieyang for a bit, but do you really think you can beat him?"

"Perhaps you'd like me to try?" Her footsteps shifted lightly, and surging phase power rose up, faintly forming the shadow of a green leopard behind her.

Li Luo's gaze swept over this short-haired girl, then paused on the badge on her chest: "Green Forest Wang Chao?"

"Green Forest Wang Chao, Gu Ying," the short-haired girl said flatly.

Li Luo nodded. This girl named Gu Ying was also very strong, in no way weaker than Zhao Zhao Jieyang. In his current state, before he could replenish four phase-power bubbles, if he fought her, the odds were he'd be at a disadvantage.

"This Miss, if you have no interest in my proposal, you don't have to take part," Li Luo said with a smile.

"Does the fish on the cutting board get to pick the knife? Little brother, this place was never somewhere you Birth Mark Stage folks should have come to," Gu Ying said with a curl of her lip.

Li Luo was about to speak when Lü Qing'er let out a cold laugh, stepped forward, her pretty face covered in frost as she stared at Gu Ying, and said: "Although we are the fish on the block, there's also such a thing as the fish dying and the net breaking. Although we don't want to give up this opportunity at the Golden Dragon Dojo, if we're truly pushed to the wall, then perhaps we can only withdraw on our own."

She extended her palm, and ice-phase power condensed in her palm into a sharp ice shuttle.

Lü Qing'er's eyes were icy.

"If I wound myself, I should be able to activate the Golden Dragon secret key and withdraw directly, right?"

There was some commotion in the forest. Zhao Zhao Jieyang and Gu Ying's expressions also shifted slightly — they had traveled all this way not to force the Golden Dragon Qi off the field; wouldn't that be a wasted trip?

They hadn't expected that this cold girl who carried the Golden Dragon Qi would have such a fierce temper.

Li Luo was also taken aback by Lü Qing'er's action, then his brow slowly furrowed as he said: "What are you doing?"

Lü Qing'er sensed the low, displeased note in Li Luo's voice, and her heart tightened; she looked at him somewhat at a loss.

"Put it down," Li Luo said calmly.

"I promised President Yu I'd protect you, so before I fall, I don't want to see you use a method like this. If you trust me..."

Lü Qing'er hurriedly said: "I didn't say I don't trust you."

She hesitated a moment, then dispersed the ice shuttle in her hand after all.

Li Luo then stepped forward, his gaze carrying a hint of indifference as it fixed on Zhao Zhao Jieyang, Gu Ying, and the others, and he said flatly: "What I said before won't change in the slightest. Four squads is the limit I can bear. If you can't accept it, then there's nothing more to discuss. Whatever you want to try, I'll take it."

His words were calm, but his expression held a rare, grim coldness. Although the situation was extremely difficult right now, if they truly pushed him to the wall, he wasn't entirely without the means to respond.

He slowly raised his hand, his sleeve slid down, revealing the crimson seal bracelet.

Zhao Zhao Jieyang's gaze shifted slightly. He wasn't angered by Li Luo's hard-edged words, only somewhat curious — curious why Li Luo could still have such confidence in a predicament surrounded by so many strong foes.

Was it the power of dual phases?

But that wasn't enough to change the overall situation much, after all Li Luo's own Birth Mark Stage strength imposed too many limits on him.

Although he didn't know where Li Luo's confidence came from, regarding Lü Qing'er's earlier words, he rather agreed — even if they had no way to break the deadlock, at the very least, right now they could drag everyone down with them.

This was the drawback of not having captured the other party from the very start.

Gu Ying said nothing either, her willow brows tightly knit, her gaze flickering.

The atmosphere across the entire mountain forest grew quiet again, though this time the mood gradually grew taut and oppressive.

Some of the weaker squads' gazes turned unfriendly, because once things really went as Li Luo said, the first to suffer would be them.

This bastard really knows how to stir up trouble.

The oppressive atmosphere lasted for a moment.

Suddenly someone couldn't hold back any longer. Phase power erupted, and his figure shot straight toward where Lü Qing'er stood — intending to seize her first, so the other squads would have to think twice.

The sudden turn of events startled many in the field, who then began to stir restlessly.

But Li Luo's expression remained calm, as if he had no intention of intercepting.

And in that split second, that figure was already about to reach Lü Qing'er.

That figure bared a vicious grin and reached out to grab her.

Boom!

At that very moment, suddenly a surge of scorching, violent magma-phase power came crashing down from above, like a giant boulder of magma, slamming heavily into that figure's body.

The earth shook, and that figure was stomped straight into the ground, blood spraying wildly.

Whoosh!

The many restless squads in the forest turned pale with shock. Their gazes turned, and they saw Zhao Zhao Jieyang, his face grim, stepping on that ambusher's head.

He raised his head, deep-red, scorching phase power flowing ceaselessly across the surface of his body, and a low voice laden with killing intent echoed through the forest.

"Unrelated people, get out of here!"

Many squads' expressions changed drastically, because they knew Zhao Zhao Jieyang's strike meant he had chosen Li Luo's way.

The Golden Dragon Qi, that delicious cake, only four squads were qualified to eat.

And to become one of those four squads... then they could only see who, in the end, was left standing.

In the mountain forest, the silence lasted for several breaths, and then bursts of phase force fluctuations erupted violently, sweeping the entire mountain forest into the fray.

At this moment, what had been a pack of wolves surrounding their prey became a pack of wolves tearing each other apart.