Those who came to participate in the assessment were not all lone wolves like Xu Guang; many were friends knowing each other well from the same Great State.
Small groups existed, even though the rules did not allow joint hunting, the cooperation did not necessarily have to be overt. They could collaborate with someone responsible for luring, someone for constraining, and someone for the frontal hunt.
At the same time, only one person fights the demon, thus eliminating the possibility of cooperation.
This was the real purpose behind Bai Xiaozhu seeking collaboration with Xu Guang.
Only now did she realize that the bug she'd painstakingly discovered seemed laughable compared to what Xu Guang was currently doing.
In the distant woods, four figures — men and women — were meditating and nurturing their bodies, with their breaths gently converging and dispersing as streams of Qi Force filled the air.
