Chapter 565: Plan

"What plan?" Jiang Shishi was curious. The rules were so transparent; was there still a plan to speak of?

And how long had it been since they entered, and you already thought of a plan?

"It's simple to say. Just now, through the battle, we determined that the demon beasts in the first layer are just ordinary Nascent Soul stage, within the handling range of you demon prodigies."

"So if you want to pass the first level, as long as you honestly hunt demon beasts, everyone can save up enough demon spirits."

"If you want to get more demon spirits and get a better evaluation, you have to use some extraordinary means."

"Three people in a group to speed up the hunting progress?"

Meng Jingzhou shook his head, denying Jiang Shishi's method: "The efficiency is too low. And did you notice the map shown at the beginning? The first layer is ridiculously large. It takes a day to run from the entrance to the Heavenly Ladder entrance at the diagonal corner. Relying on just the three of us to hunt, finding demon beasts would take several hours."

"Then what should we do?" Jiang Shishi lacked experience and didn't observe as meticulously as Meng Jingzhou.

Meng Jingzhou didn't answer but asked back: "You already know the combat power of our two brothers; how do you evaluate it?"

Jiang Shishi looked at the two blankly and gave a pertinent evaluation: "Not below me and Ao Yue."

Ao Yue is the prodigy of the Dragon tribe of this generation.

Jiang Shishi and Ao Yue are known as the two great prodigies of the Demon Domain, having the potential of Immortals.

This is the highest evaluation in the Demon Domain. Among the demons who entered the Ancient Realm, only the two of them received this evaluation.

"That's it. If the three of us join forces, the plan will be foolproof."

To ensure the plan was foolproof, the three decided to spend eight days killing thirty demon beasts first to save up enough quantity to pass the level. In this way, even if the plan failed, they could guarantee passing the level.

It just so happened that while hunting demon beasts, the three had a period of grinding, and the success rate would be higher when implementing the plan.

Eight days passed in a flash, and the process of Lu Yang and the other two killing demon beasts became more and more handy. Even the demon beasts at the late Nascent Soul stage couldn't last two rounds in their hands.

Lu Yang looked up at the hourglass.

"Killed a few more, passed the plan time a bit, no big problem. Let's go to the Heavenly Ladder entrance first."

"Okay."

Jiang Shishi was a little excited, having long been prepared to implement the plan.

The three accelerated their pace and rushed to the Heavenly Ladder entrance at high speed.

But when they arrived at the Heavenly Ladder entrance, they couldn't help but stop their steps, looking at the scene in front of them in disbelief.

The plan Lu Yang formulated was a door-blocking plan. With the combat power of the three, it was enough to make anyone unable to reach the Heavenly Ladder entrance.

The prodigies would arrive on the last day, and they only needed to block the door one day in advance.

But now the Heavenly Ladder entrance had already been blocked by someone.

They were the ones who needed to obediently hand over the essence souls!

"Haha, didn't expect it, did you? Your plan was heard by me long ago!" Qin Feng, the young master of the Jiuying tribe, saw the wonderful expressions of the three and laughed loudly.

"As early as when you first entered the first layer and formulated the plan, I heard the whole process of your plan from the side!"

Qin Feng looked at Lu Yang's ugly face, his joy overflowing: "Although I don't know who you are, thank you for the plan you formulated."

"Blocking the door? It really is a good plan, but in terms of power in the Ancient Realm, who can compare to our Demon Alliance? Even the Dragon and Phoenix tribes are not as good as us."

The Demon Alliance is a concept proposed by the ancient Di Jiang. Before establishing the Demon Kingdom, the demon tribes commanded by the ancient Di Jiang were collectively referred to as the Demon Alliance.

The Di Jiang tribe prodigies were personally cultivated by the ancient Di Jiang and did not enter the Ancient Realm.

The Demon Alliance was headed by the Di Jiang tribe. Without the Di Jiang tribe, the remaining tribes all wanted to obtain the command of this Ancient Realm operation.

Qin Feng was worried about not having a way to get the command; this was a pillow delivered to his door.

If he proposed the door-blocking plan, wouldn't the command of the Demon Alliance for this operation definitely belong to him?

The facts were just as he expected. When the prodigies of the Demon Alliance were still thinking about whether to kill demon beasts to get essence souls or grab them from others, Qin Feng proposed his plan, winning everyone's approval, and they all praised Qin Feng's plan as good.

Qin Feng naturally became the commander of this operation.

Qin Feng was smug. Standing behind him were the White Tiger tribe prodigy, the Taowu tribe prodigy, and so on, a full dozens of people.

Even if Lu Yang and the other two could fight, they couldn't beat all the prodigies of the Demon Alliance!

Lu Yang's face was livid, thinking fast about a solution.

When the situation was in a stalemate, Jiang Shishi's followers arrived one after another, not expecting to be blocked by the Demon Alliance.

Immediately after, Ao Yue and the Nine Sons prodigies also came. Seeing this scene, they frowned and said nothing.

Then came the Qiongqi tribe prodigies and some other prodigies who had not joined forces.

The Heavenly Ladder entrance was so narrow and blocked by the people of the Demon Alliance; it wasn't something that could be rushed through just by having more people.

Ao Yue gritted his teeth: "How do you know it won't work if you don't try?"

Ao Yue had great appeal among the prodigies. He turned into a green dragon dancing in the air, and the Nine Sons such as the Baxia tribe revealed their original forms, wanting to fight with Ao Yue.

Seeing this, other prodigies turned into their original forms one after another: the Jade Rabbit with soft fur, the black Heavenly Dog the size of a hill, the Qiongqi with a tiger body and wings on its back...

"Fight!"

With a dragon roar from Ao Yue, space shook, Dragon tribe essence blood burned, dragon claws pinched the dragon ball, turning into a green streak, rushing toward the Demon Alliance.

With him alone, it was enough to fight a late Nascent Soul stage demon beast!

"Fight!"

The prodigies erupted with unprecedented power, condensing into a rope, determined to break through the blockade.

It was a pity that the Demon Alliance had long anticipated this situation. Under Qin Feng's command, they advanced and retreated in an orderly manner, not something Ao Yue and the others could break through with just a burst of hot blood.

The two sides fought for a full half-day. The Demon Alliance was like an iron wall, never breaking through.

In the end, Ao Yue's side was exhausted and defeated.

Qin Feng walked proudly to Ao Yue: "Fellow Daoist Ao Yue, I don't want to make our relationship so stiff either. When the Demon Kingdom is established in the future, we will still have to exchange insights and progress together."

"How about this, you leave ten essence souls, and give the rest to me, and I will let you pass here, how about it?"

Ao Yue raised his head suddenly, staring at Qin Feng, his dragon eyes bloodshot, which gave Qin Feng a big fright.

But he quickly reacted: what's the use of staring at him? It's just incompetent rage.

After much hesitation, Ao Yue, under the pressure of facts, handed over the essence souls.

There were twenty of them.

"As expected of Fellow Daoist Ao Yue, being able to kill so many demon beasts." Qin Feng took the essence souls with a grin.

Seeing Ao Yue yield, other prodigies also handed over their essence souls, leaving only their own ten.

If there were only ten, Qin Feng simply wouldn't let them pass.

Seeing the mountain of essence souls, Qin Feng laughed from ear to ear and distributed them to all the prodigies of the Demon Alliance according to the pre-planned ratio.

Qin Feng occupied the highest ratio and received fifty-three.

Behind the Demon Alliance was a huge box with the words "Essence Soul" pasted on it.

Qin Feng poured all fifty-three essence souls into the box.

It was still that emotionless voice.

"Qin Feng, fifty-three essence souls, please proceed to the second layer."

Seeing that the time was almost up, the prodigies of the Demon Alliance also handed over their essence souls to the Ancient Realm and obtained the qualification to pass the level.

Then it was Ao Yue and the others.

"Ao Yue, ten essence souls, please proceed to the second layer."

"Dong Shu, ten essence souls, please proceed to the second layer."

Seeing that there was still some time, Qin Feng walked slowly to Lu Yang and the other two.

He directly ignored Lu Yang and Meng Jingzhou, not intending to let these two eyesores enter the second layer at all.

Qin Feng walked to Jiang Shishi, who was lowering her head, and smiled: "Shishi, I told you long ago that these two followers you recruited are useless. Look, now they can't even pass the level."

"As long as you agree to be my fiancée, I will make the decision; you don't have to hand over the essence souls, and I will let you pass the level, how about it?"

Jiang Shishi suddenly raised her head and smiled: "Qin Feng, do you really think you've got everything figured out?"

"What do you mean!" Seeing Jiang Shishi's smile, Qin Feng panicked inexplicably.

Lu Yang on the side smiled lazily: "Fellow Daoist Qin Feng's eyesight is not good; you didn't even see my clone."

And on the other side, Meng Jingzhou had turned into Lu Yang's appearance.

Wood Clone!

Suddenly, a voice came from behind Qin Feng.

"Thank you, Fellow Daoist Qin Feng, for collecting so many essence souls for us."

Qin Feng turned around suddenly, his eyes splitting, looking at this scene in disbelief.

Meng Jingzhou actually drilled out of the box, holding a long string of essence souls in both hands!

"We knew you were listening on the side at that time. You didn't really think we could block the exit with just the three of us, did you?"

"The door-blocking plan was just said for you to hear."

The rules didn't specify how to hand over the essence souls. Anyone who saw a box labeled "Essence Soul" at the Heavenly Ladder entrance would think this was the place to hand over the essence souls.

Plus, everyone's attention was focused on the Demon Alliance, so no one would notice the strangeness of the box.

In fact, this box was temporarily built by Meng Jingzhou.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 566 =====