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"Something big?" Luo Chen raised an eyebrow.
His sharp eyes swept over the man before him. He could tell that Chu Kui had recently cleansed himself with spells, yet a strong stench of blood and killing intent still lingered around him like smoke clinging to burned silk. Clearly, he had been on quite a killing spree lately. For someone like him to describe something as "big" meant it was indeed far from trivial.
"Go on, I'm listening," Luo Chen said evenly.
Chu Kui visibly relaxed. If Luo Chen was willing to hear him out, there was hope. He didn't bother with subtleties and said directly, "I'm thinking that you and I join forces to hunt down Sword Sect cultivators and the opposing alliance to claim the Upper Path Core Formation secret art offered by the Falling Cloud Sect!"
At that, Luo Chen's response came with a soft laugh and a shake of the head. "Do you even know how many merit points that requires?"
"I do," Chu Kui answered with confidence. "A thousand Qi Refinement cultivators, or a hundred Foundation Establishment ones. If we focus on late-stage targets, it'll go even faster. Pretty simple, I'd say."
"Simple, huh?" Luo Chen laughed harder, pointing at him. "If it's so simple, why come to me?"
Helplessness flashed in Chu Kui's eyes. Of course, it was easy to speak of such things but to accomplish them was another matter entirely. Even within the chaos of battle, there were unspoken rules that every sect understood: king against king, general against general, soldier against soldier.[1] High-tier cultivators were simply too destructive. The difference in cultivation realms wasn't something that could simply be bridged; it was a vast and uncrossable chasm.
If a late-stage Initiate truly abandoned restraint...
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