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  "Hmm!?"

  After cautiously making his way through the forest for nearly ten kilometers, Wang Ting suddenly furrowed his brow, his keen senses picking up on a faint scent of blood wafting through the woods.

  Following the direction of the bloody smell, he soon found three human swordsmen's corpses 100 meters away.

  These three human swordsmen, the first of whom has the cultivation of a high-ranking swordsman and is considered a major figure anywhere, even those two swordsmen are mid-ranking swordsmen who have tempered their inner energy into their bones. However, they all died here now. From the wounds on their bodies, it's not hard to see that the one who killed them was that elf archer who mastered the mysterious archery skills.

  "This spirit tribe doesn't seem weak at all."

  Wang Ting muttered to himself, and his heart became even more cautious.

  At this time, relying on the spiritual sense of the past, a burst of scolding voices suddenly echoed in his mind. With a thought, his body had quietly floated away to a distant place. When he felt that those scolding voices were getting closer and closer, Linglong Jiubian was instantly displayed, and in an instant, it had hidden itself at the top of an ancient tree.

  From this ancient tree, he soon became aware of a battle taking place not far away.

  A clash between thirty-four elf swordsmen and thirteen human swordsmen.

  Even on the top of the tree, after observing the battle from a distance, he could also see that in the far distance behind those elves, a small tribe had already appeared. The houses in the tribe were built among the branches and leaves of ancient trees. Due to the great distance and the obstruction of the ancient trees, Wang Ting was unable to judge the size of this tribe.

  "Information is scarce, acting rashly would be too dangerous."

  Once an elf reaches adulthood, it has a combat power that is not inferior to that of a human formal swordsman. Relying on its exquisite swordsmanship and innate agility, adult elves are stronger than formal swordsmen. Heaven knows how many adult elves there are in this tribe.

  Once the number of adult spirits exceeds one hundred, let alone a great swordsman, even a human swordsmanship master would have no way out but death if surrounded.

  "Fall back! Fall back! Retreat!"

  At this time, the battle below had already decided the outcome. The thirteen human swordsmen finally showed signs of collapse after paying the price of two more lives. The first great swordsman let out a loud roar and led his team to quickly retreat to the rear.

  Thirty-four spirits pursued relentlessly, with a strong tendency to wipe out all eleven formal swordsmen.

  Fortunately, the thirty-four elves didn't chase for much longer. They seemed to have received some urgent message and hastily divided into fifteen people, quickly returning to their tribe. Standing on the ancient tree, Wang Ting could only vaguely sense some chaos within the elf tribe, but couldn't see what had happened.

  Just by looking at these sprites' anxious expressions, it's probably that a new human swordsmen team has appeared again, forcing them to retreat and defend.

  "Of the thirty-four elf archers, most were equivalent to formal swordsmen, and the arrows they shot posed little threat to me. However, seven of them had abilities that surpassed those of the elf I encountered earlier. Archers of this level would pose a significant threat even to high-ranking human swordsmen. Moreover, among these elves was a leader whose physical abilities were on par with those of a high-ranking human swordsman. In the forest, even great swordsmen would have to be extremely cautious around her. It was she who shot and killed one of the retreating mid-ranking swordsmen earlier, and the sword net of the high-ranking swordsman beside him couldn't even intercept her swift arrow."

  Wang Ting took a look and slowly backed away.

  Such a powerful tribe, unless the human side has hundreds of mid-tier swordsmen, more than ten high-tier swordsmen, and three or four great swordsmen, it is impossible to take them down. Otherwise, wave after wave of people will come to raid, and it's just sending themselves to death.

  No wonder this task is a group task, one person wants to complete the task, it's too difficult.

  "It's likely that those two groups will also think of forming an alliance after understanding the strength of this tribe."

  Wang Ting was lost in thought, but at this moment, he didn't rush. Soon, based on the growth of the trees, he arrived at a pile of rocks on the outskirts of the forest. Through standing still, he quietly recovered his physical strength.

  He didn't know much about elves, but he believed that some veteran mercenaries who had done several temple tasks would deliberately collect information on this aspect.

  In less than an hour, the four of them arrived at this pile of rocks and saw Wang Ting, who had arrived earlier. The four of them were slightly taken aback, but didn't cause any trouble and occupied a spot to start eating.

  There is no conflict of interest and they don't have any intention to provoke.

  Like Wang Ting, those who come to accept the temple's task at a young age, eight or nine out of ten, are just trying their luck, and in the end, they will only become cannon fodder.

  Not long after the four people arrived, three more came. The arrival of these three people attracted a lot of attention, because all three were women, and their ages were between twenty-five and thirty.

  The woman who was in charge of the three was a high-ranking swordsman, and such a strong combination didn't have many people dare to mess with them.

  Two hours later, two more people arrived at the rock pile. They were a man and a woman, both around thirty years old, with cultivation as high-ranking swordsmen. Their expressions suggested a close relationship between them.

  The two saw the three women and those four people, and actively nodded to both parties. The woman even said: "Since you appear here, you should have some understanding of the elf tribe not far away."

  "There should be over a hundred formal swordsmen-level spirit archers."

  The one who spoke was the leader of the four men, all of whom were mid-tier swordsmen. They appeared to be either four brothers or a small group. Faced with questioning from a high-tier swordsman, they didn't dare not speak up.

  "Not bad, it's indeed over a hundred elf archers. I have some understanding of these creatures. The forest is their main battlefield, and an elf archer in the forest poses no less threat than a mid-tier swordsman. Over a hundred elf archers, including more than twenty mid-tier elves, four or five high-tier elves... If we don't cooperate, it's impossible to break through this tribe. I've already investigated before, there are three teams of people who have their sights on this elf tribe: the Haydon family, the Broken Evil Mercenary Group, and core students from the ancient mountain high-level swordsman academy of the five major academies. Each team has tens or dozens of people, led by strong swordsmen at the great sword level... Then there are small teams like us, three to five people or solo operators. These three forces are enormous, if we don't unite, it's hard for us to even have the qualifications to compete with them. What do you think?"

  "Does it mean we're together?"

  "Not bad, we've formed a team."

  The female swordsman spoke bluntly, her eyes gazing at several people, as if waiting for their response.

  After a moment of silence, the four men replied in unison: "We have no objection."

  Seeing this, the first of the three women also smiled slightly: "Such a task is indeed not something that one person can complete alone, and our Blazing Fire team has no objections."

  "Alright."

  Before Wang Ting could even respond, she had already spoken again: "Since our little group has been formed, let's divide the benefits. The two of us high-ranking swordsmen will take 40%, the Blazing Fire team will take 30%, and the four of you will take 30%. As for what needs to be done, don't worry about us taking action."

  When she said the last sentence, her eyes had already fallen on Wang Ting.

  "40%?"

  Upon hearing this amount, the four men didn't say anything, but the high-ranking swordsman of the Blazing Fire Squad was somewhat dissatisfied: "Although you two are high-ranking swordsmen, our Blazing Fire Squad has been working together seamlessly over the years, and our combat strength is not necessarily inferior to that of the two high-ranking swordsmen. If we take 40%, it's a bit too much."

  "Not much."

  "Why?"

  "Because of this."

  The female high-ranking swordsman took out a book from her hand: "This is the data I bought at a great price from the mercenary guild, and this piece of regional data is just right here. Through it, we can know each other about these elf tribes."

  As soon as this was said, the female swordsman of the Blazing Fire squad fell silent, carefully weighing the pros and cons before finally nodding her head: "Alright."

  "It's settled then."

  Having said that, the female swordsman glanced at the four middle-aged men present: "The four of you have no objections, right?"

  The four mid-tier swordsmen slightly shook their heads, just about to speak, when Wang Ting, who had been silent all along, suddenly spoke up: "Leave the materials behind, you can leave now."

  "Huh?"

  The female high-ranking swordsman's face changed slightly, and a cold light burst out of her eyes. The killing intent on her body was like a sharp sword, pointing directly at Wang Ting: "What did you say? Say it again!"

  "Hiss!"

  Responding to her was Wang Ting's sudden drawing of his sword.

  Bang!

  In the instant when this female high-ranking swordsman had just reacted, the blade of the sword had already brought a shocking chill, deflecting the woman's sharp sword with one move, and then advancing straight in, steadily stopping at her throat.

  "I said, leave the materials behind, we can go now."

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