Chapter 355: Plan

Faced with Lv Qing'er's sudden, dramatically opposite response, Li Luo was stunned for two seconds, then said shamefacedly: "Inside this Golden Dragon Arena, chopping him up to feed to dogs is still pretty difficult."

Lv Qing'er rolled her eyes at him and said: "I was only speaking metaphorically."

"But there's one thing I don't understand... This Lin Suo came from the Great Xia Golden Dragon Treasure House, and once the arena here ends, he'll be teleported back too. Isn't he afraid of facing your mother's wrath when he returns?" Li Luo asked, somewhat puzzled.

Lv Qing'er smiled faintly and said: "That's exactly why he went to Golden Dragon Peak. If my guess is right, his goal is to obtain a Mountain-Worship Token."

"As long as he obtains a Mountain-Worship Token, and someone on the outside has already prepared a rendezvous point in advance, then he'll be teleported to a designated location rather than back to our Great Xia Golden Dragon Treasure House headquarters."

"Clearly, this Lin Suo lurking in the Tianzang Prefecture branch of the Great Xia Golden Dragon Treasure House was a long-planned affair. He... came for me, and his plan is very thorough."

Li Luo was taken aback and said: "To know the Golden Dragon Arena this well..."

Lv Qing'er gave a slight nod and said: "It should be someone inside the Golden Dragon Treasure House. Of course, this Golden Dragon Treasure House might not be our Great Xia headquarters, but the headquarters of another country, or another Outer Shenzhou..."

"Going through all this trouble just to deal with you? Or to deal with your mother?" Li Luo frowned.

It wasn't that he felt Lv Qing'er wasn't worthy of it, but right now she was, after all, still just a young girl. Her strength shouldn't be enough to make someone plot so far ahead, right?

"That's not quite clear."

Lv Qing'er hesitated for a moment before finally saying so. In truth, she had some guesses inside. Although her mother was in charge of the Great Xia Golden Dragon Treasure House, it wasn't really likely that she drew too much attention. Lin Suo's mission this time was clearly to sabotage her acquisition of the Golden Dragon Qi, and there was undoubtedly deeper entanglement behind it.

Perhaps... it had something to do with her father, whom she hadn't seen in many years.

But the connections this matter involved ran too deep; there was no need to tell Li Luo everything, since knowing wouldn't exactly be a good thing.

Li Luo didn't press further, just nodded and said: "Whatever Lin Suo's purpose is, the Golden Dragon Qi must be taken back. I promised your mother I'd protect you in the Golden Dragon Arena. If we just got schemed against like this, I really wouldn't dare face your mother in the future."

Lv Qing'er said with a light smile: "Not only must we snatch back the Golden Dragon Qi, we can't let that guy get a Mountain-Worship Token either. I hope he gets teleported back to the Great Xia headquarters completely intact. Although our Golden Dragon Treasure House is kind to others, Buddhas lower their brows and Vajras show wrath. Besides our gentle ways, our Golden Dragon Treasure House has some other methods too."

"If Lin Suo falls into our hands, I think no matter how tough his bones are, we should be able to pry some useful information out of him."

Lv Qing'er's words were gentle, yet the cold ruthlessness contained within them made Li Luo stare at her somewhat stunned.

This was the first time he had seen this side of Lv Qing'er. That usually somewhat tsundere and pretty girl actually had, deep in her bones, inherited Yu Yu Hongxi's cold ruthlessness at critical moments—it was just that normally, it had never shown.

Seeing Li Luo's gaze, Lv Qing'er suddenly came to her senses, hurriedly reined in her emotions, and said awkwardly: "Lin Suo was the one with ill intentions first. I... I think wanting to kill him is pretty reasonable, right?"

Li Luo swallowed and nodded with a dry laugh: "Actually... it's pretty reasonable."

Lv Qing'er suddenly sighed and said: "But the problem now is, even with the three of us together, we're probably no match for Lin Suo, right?"

Li Luo nodded and said: "Be confident. You can drop the 'probably.'"

Lv Qing'er punched Li Luo. Still messing around at a time like this. Then she asked: "So we're looking for reinforcements?"

Li Luo tilted his chin, gesturing for Lv Qing'er to look around. Her gaze swept the area, and she saw that many of the teams that had previously gathered here had now quietly departed.

Those teams had originally gathered because of Lv Qing'er's Golden Dragon Qi. Now that the Golden Dragon Qi had been sabotaged, who would still be willing to stay? As for offending a powerful enemy at the Transformation Phase, Third Transformation for her sake—even Zhao Zhao Jieyang and Gu Ying weren't willing, let alone anyone else?

After all, there wasn't any deep relationship between them; they could even be considered competitors.

As they watched the surroundings gradually grow empty, Qin Qin Zhulu also came over dragging his heavy spear. His appearance was rather tragic at this moment, his body covered in bloody wounds, looking very miserable, but there wasn't the slightest trace of pain in his eyes. Instead, they were filled with excitement and fervor, which left Li Luo a bit speechless. Could it be that this guy had been beaten up so badly he'd gotten worked up over it?

Were most Ten Thousand Beasts Phase users masochists?

"That Ning Zhao and Senior Zhu Zhu Xuan also slipped away. Looks like they don't plan to help us deal with Lin Suo," Qin Qin Zhulu said as he walked over, wiping the blood from the corner of his mouth.

Li Luo wasn't surprised by this. If those two had any sense of responsibility, they wouldn't have sent Lin Suo to tail them in the first place.

"Those two bastards caused all of this. If they hadn't stirred up this mess, Lin Suo wouldn't have had a chance to act." Lv Qing'er clenched her silver teeth, her little face covered in frost.

Originally, things had been fine on their side. Under Li Luo's control, they already had the attentive protection of four teams including Zhao Zhao Jieyang and Gu Ying. If Senior Zhu Zhu Xuan and the others hadn't come to provoke conflict, even though Lin Suo was at the Transformation Phase, Third Transformation, it would have been very hard for him to succeed.

"When we get back, I'll definitely have my mother deal with them!" she said resentfully.

"Let's leave those two losers aside for now. With one of their three missing, they'll probably have a hard time competing for the Mountain-Worship Token. It's a case of trying to steal a chicken and losing the rice." Li Luo shook his head and said.

"Then what do we do? Are we really going to settle accounts with Lin Suo with just the three of us?" Lv Qing'er said, somewhat worried.

The three of them—Li Luo and Qin Qin Zhulu were at the Pattern Weaving Phase, Third Pattern, while she was only at First Pattern. No matter who it was, there was a huge gap between them and Lin Suo. If they met him alone, she probably couldn't last even a single exchange, and even Li Luo and Qin Qin Zhulu would struggle to last five.

No way around it—their strength was a full phase apart.

Facing such a powerful enemy, Lv Qing'er really didn't know what chance they had of winning.

"Indeed very difficult." Qin Qin Zhulu also said in a muffled voice. Although he wasn't afraid of fighting, and wasn't afraid of Lin Suo either, being unafraid was one thing; being able to win was another.

Li Luo was silent for a moment, then said: "Do you trust me?"

Lv Qing'er said with a beaming smile: "Of course I trust the treasure boy who can even deal with Great Heavenly Calamity-level anomalies."

Qin Qin Zhulu snorted and said nothing, just gave a heavy wave of his hand, then turned and sat down to rest nearby. This conversation really gave him goosebumps. Good thing no girl had ever said that to him, otherwise his fist the size of a sand bowl would definitely have swung over.

This Li Luo really was pitiful.

But who told him to grow up looking like that without reason? He deserved it.

Li Luo looked somewhat displeased at Qin Qin Zhulu walking off to the side. What was that look? I hadn't even sympathized with you yet—how dare you cast a gaze of pity at me?

He shook his head and ignored this brute. Although Lv Qing'er and Qin Qin Zhulu had reacted differently, their answers were completely consistent.

Besides, the Golden Dragon Arena had near-death protection, so no matter how wild they went it didn't matter—they couldn't die anyway.

"I need to do some preparation these next few days."

Li Luo's fingers touched the dark red bracelet on his other wrist. If he still had any trump cards, it was the power of the Three-Tailed Heavenly Wolf inside this bracelet. However, this power was too dangerous, so he had to make some preparations.

"Next, we'll continue advancing toward the Treasure Pool, because the Treasure Pool is also a very important part of improving our overall strength. If we can obtain some powerful treasures there, it'll give us a bit more chance of winning against Lin Suo."

As Li Luo spoke, he glanced at the twin blades at his waist. These twin blades had been used for so long that they were about to reach their limit, so he urgently needed to replace them.

So he hoped to find treasures suited to him in the Treasure Pool, in preparation for the upcoming fierce battle across an entire phase gap.