125: Chapter 125 With a pervert like this, I don't even know how I could lose.

Before Ming Kong spoke, he was feeling pretty good.

The atmosphere in the front cabin was strange, but surely they wouldn't make things difficult for a monk like himself, right?

But he realized he had been too naive.

Two distinct but equally terrifying gazes pressed down on his bald head like massive mountains.

At that moment, he felt as if he were seeing the Buddha's summons.

“The Enlightenment Field? Come, let's talk over here. Don't disturb everyone's rest.”

Lu Ming took the opportunity to stand up, slung an arm around Ming Kong's shoulder, and practically fled with him toward the rear cabin.

As he walked, he turned back with a serious-looking chuckle toward the two ladies: “Auntie, Aunt Bai, you two rest first. I'll be right back.”

Ming Kong was somewhat flattered by the enthusiasm Lu Ming was showing.

This god of slaughter... since when was he so easy to talk to?

Once they reached the rear cabin, Lu Ming let out a long sigh of relief, deflating like a punctured balloon as he leaned against the cabin wall without any regard for his image.

Seeing this, Ouyang Zhi, who was sitting in the back row, leaned over with a mischievous wink.

“Brother Lu, how was that? I’m pretty loyal, right?”

Ouyang Zhi lowered her voice, her tone full of teasing.

“Beat it!”

Lu Ming gave her an annoyed glare.

“Weren't you guys just talking about the Enlightenment Field? Tell me the details. How exactly does the teaming up work?”

To be honest, lately he had only been thinking about how to trick Aunt Bai into curing the poison once they returned to Jiang City; he had completely forgotten about the Enlightenment Field.

Though he didn't know exactly how many contribution points he had earned, it should be enough.

After this recent battle, Lu Ming had truly felt the pressure.

The entire Great Xia was facing external threats from alien races and internal threats from traitors with ulterior motives.

With his current Fourth Realm strength, he basically didn't even have a seat at the table.

As soon as the conversation turned to serious business, Ouyang Zhi also became solemn. She lowered her voice and said:

“Brother Lu, this opening of the Enlightenment Field is different from previous years. You should have felt it too; there's a sense that a storm is brewing in Great Xia recently.”

“Therefore, the Imperial Capital has taken the unprecedented step of opening the core area of the Enlightenment Field!”

“The core area?”

Lu Ming's eyes narrowed.

He had seen people online mention that the core area of the Enlightenment Field was called the 'Ancient Dao Plains.' Rumor had it that several broken ancestral veins from the founding of Great Xia were sealed there, containing the most primitive Origin Dao Marks.

In the past, that was a Forbidden Ground that only old fogies with immense contributions to Great Xia or those few top-tier prodigies from the Imperial Capital were qualified to enter.

“Exactly.”

Ouyang Zhi pursed her red lips, a hint of fanaticism flashing in her eyes.

“The Imperial Capital probably feels that chaotic times are coming. Instead of hoarding everything, it's better to take a gamble and force the growth of a batch of true monsters.”

Lu Ming was somewhat puzzled: “So, what benefit is there for me to team up?”

As soon as he said this, a flash of embarrassment appeared on both Ming Kong's and Ouyang Zhi's faces.

Naturally, they were too embarrassed to admit they wanted to ride his coattails.

“Brother Lu, you should know that Dao Marks can only be obtained by killing Dao Spirits, right?”

Ouyang Zhi cleared her throat and explained with a serious expression:

“Of course, ordinary Dao Spirits are nothing to a great deity like you, but the Dao Spirits in the core area of the Ancient Dao Plains are at least around the Sixth Realm, and there are even legendary Seventh Realm Dao Spirits.”

“Seventh Realm Dao Spirits?”

The corners of Lu Ming's eyes twitched violently, and he almost jumped up.

Good grief, he was only in the Fourth Realm right now. Although he could fight above his level, there was a limit.

A Sixth Realm would already be more than he could handle.

A Seventh Realm? Do you really think I'm a god?

“Brother Lu, don't get excited yet, let me finish.”

Ouyang Zhi quickly waved her hand and added, “Do you know the rules of the Enlightenment Field? The more Dao Marks you possess, the stronger your combat power. If you want to challenge a Seventh Realm Dao Spirit, the amount of Dao Marks required is no small sum.”

“So, if you don't team up with us and rely on solo hunting of low-level Dao Spirits to accumulate marks, the efficiency will be far too slow.”

Ouyang Zhi blinked her fox-like eyes, her voice dropping very low with a hint of persuasion:

“The biggest benefit of teaming up is aura sharing. Although Senior Brother Ming Kong and I aren't as good as you in direct combat, if we encounter Dao Spirits we can't handle, we can report their locations directly to you, saving you the trouble of searching.”

Ming Kong also nodded vigorously from the side, saying with a bitter face: “Brother Lu, to tell you the truth, the core area of the Ancient Dao Plains has already been monopolized by the major Ancient Martial Families of the Imperial Capital. The Wang family's 'Mad Thunder' Wang Zhan, the Xie family's 'Clear Wind' Xie Daoyun...”

“Every one of them enters the field with four top-tier death-sworn guards as support. If you don't team up, you won't even touch a hair of a Dao Spirit before being cleared out by those noble family scions.”

“Furthermore, according to insider info, those few freaks could have stepped into the Fifth Realm long ago. They've delayed their Breakthrough specifically to stay within the rule threshold of the Enlightenment Field so they can sweep the core area. They want to use the primitive Origin there to forge the strongest Foundation,” Ouyang Zhi added.

Lu Ming rubbed his chin.

He had previously only heard that the Enlightenment Field was a place for comprehension; he hadn't expected the competition in the core area to be so cutthroat.

It seemed that bringing these two human radars along wouldn't be a bad idea!

“Alright, I accept the team-up.”

Just as Lu Ming relented, before Ouyang Zhi and Ming Kong could show their joy, a magnetic, lazy voice rang out without warning from the shadows behind the three of them:

“Since you're forming a team, I don't think there's any need to look outside for the fourth person, is there?”

“Holy crap!”

Lu Ming was so startled he nearly jumped out of his skin. He turned around to see that Bai Qiuyue had, at some point, put down her battle reports and appeared silently by the rear cabin partition.

Her long, slender legs were slightly crossed as she leaned against the cabin wall. The curves of her white dress revealed a breathtaking tension in the dim light.

Her gaze first swept over Ouyang Zhi, then she looked at Lu Ming with a faint smile, her tone dignified and showing no flaws.

“Take Keke along with you too.”

Lu Ming asked, somewhat puzzled: “Keke? But isn't she...”

“Don't worry, she's special,” Bai Qiuyue interrupted him directly, even adding a meaningful sentence.

“That girl's potential is far beyond your imagination. At a critical moment, she might just give you a big surprise.”

As Bai Qiuyue spoke, an almost imperceptible trace of craftiness flickered in her beautiful eyes.

She knew all too well about Lu Ming's peach-blossom-attracting Physique.

Bringing Luo Keke along was to mark him as her own and prevent those old fogies in the Imperial Capital from getting any ideas.

Lu Ming didn't know what she was up to, but after doing some mental math, he nodded and agreed.

“Fine, then it's settled!”

Beside him, Ming Kong and Ouyang Zhi looked at each other, their faces beaming with joy.

Great, they'd successfully latched onto a powerhouse!

Teaming up with these two freaks, I don't even know how I could lose!

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