Chapter 350: Luring the Snake Out of Its Hole

By the time Feng Wu Cai Yi and her group logged in, the area around the main hall was already filled with over two thousand people, all fully armed and tense, creating an atmosphere akin to the calm before a storm!
“What’s the situation now?”
Feng Wu Cai Yi looked grave as she, along with Yu Cha Zhe and Nu Mi, hurried outside. Seeing no members of Yipin Tang, and only brothers from Caiyi Men in the open area, she breathed a sigh of relief. She turned to ask the informed brothers about what had happened and Yipin Tang’s current movements.
A few who had clashed with Yipin Tang stepped forward:
“We were just practicing, living in peace. Those bastards from Yipin Tang were chatting nearby, calling us guys from Caiyi Men a bunch of… well, they said nasty things. We couldn’t help but argue with them…”
“Argue? With your temper? You probably started a fight, right?”
Those who knew them laughed.
“Yes,” the man, with his hot-headed nature flaring up, said, “I killed a few of them. Who gave them the right to talk about our leader and us… I just couldn’t stand it.”
Just as everyone was about to say something, Feng Wu Cai Yi raised her hand to stop the argument:
“Stop talking!”
“This time, it’s clear Yipin Tang has been planning this for a long time. There’s no one to blame. What we need to do now is defend our main hall! Defend our dignity with our lives!!”
“Mm.”
Everyone nodded in agreement.
Yu Cha Zhe spoke seriously:
“Everyone knows Yipin Tang’s strength. The people from Yuhu Palace are no weaker than us. More importantly, our situation is even more dangerous than Yuhu Palace’s. Yitong and those brothers won’t be able to return to help us for at least 24 hours!” His loud voice echoed inside and outside the main hall, making the students at Nanhua University realize the severity of their situation.
“No matter how strong the enemy is! The main hall… must not be lost!!” Feng Wu Cai Yi, full of determination, drew out her silver horn stick and stood at the entrance of the main hall like a female gate guardian, her tone resolute.
“Right!”
“Fight to the death!!”
“Thousands of us from Nanhua University are united. We’ll surely defeat those few hundred of them!!”
“Leader! Just give the order. What do you want us to do?”
Calls for battle rose one after another. Feng Wu Cai Yi and Yu Cha Zhe’s words not only didn’t fill everyone with despair but instead ignited an unyielding fighting spirit in them!
“Where are Yipin Tang’s people now?”

“About thirty li away, there are messages from a few friends in the same city. They’re currently following the Yipin Hall’s forces, and it’s said there are over four hundred of them.”
“Over four hundred?”
Feng Wu Caiyi was immediately intrigued, her eyes lighting up as she quickly exchanged a glance with Qi Ci.
The latter paused for a moment before quickly catching on, his face showing joy!
Because of their enthusiasm for countering Yipin Hall’s various tactics, the Lonely Three Wolves paid the most attention to Yipin Hall and had a thorough understanding of its information.
Even among the high-ranking members of Caiyi Sect, only a few were aware of this.
This included information about the various branches established by Yipin Hall.
Since the Wudu Sect collapsed and Luoyu Sect was severely weakened and withdrew from the competition, the local gangs under them hadn’t fared well. Starting a month ago, Yipin Hall began gradually setting up branches, establishing fourteen of them from north to south in a short time.
These branches served not only to provide a place for all Yipin Hall disciples to stay and various conveniences but mainly to seize resources.
Most of Yipin Hall’s branches were located in resource-rich areas.
Additionally, establishing branches also strengthened the foundation of the gang.
With each new branch, the strength of the gang’s foundation increased several times over, allowing them to face attacks from powerful enemies calmly, unlike ordinary gangs that were as fragile as paper in the face of top experts.
The Yipin Hall branch in Wengcheng, like many others, had a strength of over four hundred people (excluding workers and other support roles). Due to Yipin Hall’s strict recruitment standards for elite members, every member was an expert who had reached the Mysterious Realm in the early to middle stages, belonging to the top tier in terms of awareness and experience.
Although the number of people in such a branch wasn’t large, their strength was actually on par with that of a large gang deploying all its elites.
Moreover, those leading them were core members of Yipin Hall’s guild. Their combat prowess was unquestionable, and with the guild’s resource advantages, they could develop advanced equipment. Even if their strength wasn’t as great as that of the top-ranked figures on the Dragon List, it was still very close. Just this small group was enough to greatly narrow the gap in strength between a branch and a large gang.
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With over four hundred people mobilized, though formidable, it also gave Feng Wu Caiyi a glimmer of hope—the branch in Wengcheng must be unguarded and easy to take.
However, the brightness in Feng Wu Caiyi’s eyes quickly faded away.

Destroying the branch temples is indeed a way to vent anger, but the current situation clearly isn’t suitable for splitting forces to attack. Moreover, the importance of branch temples and the main temple is vastly different. Branch temples can be rebuilt if lost, but without the main temple, everything is lost, and it would take a long time to restore and get it functioning again. Feng Wu Cai Yi couldn’t help but consider whether this was a trap deliberately set by Yipin Tang. “Attack!” After much deliberation, Feng Wu Cai Yi resolutely decided that rather than staying inside the city and waiting for Yipin Tang’s men to come and slaughter them, it was better to stretch the battlefield and leverage Cai Yi Men’s numerical advantage and momentum. After all, the individual strength of Yipin Tang’s members was indeed greater than theirs. In such a confined area, a force of four hundred could easily break through Cai Yi Men’s defenses and take control of the situation. “Attack outside the city?!” Ji Mo Xiao Qi and Ji Mo Xiao Hei’s eyes lit up: “I’m in!” Nu Mi, Bao Long, Die Xue Fei Long, and the others quickly checked their medicinal pills: “Bring the Jade Dew Pills—they can save our lives at critical moments!” The members of Cai Yi Men were united and fully prepared for battle. At Feng Wu Cai Yi’s command, a group stayed behind to defend the home while the rest marched through the streets and alleys, heading out of the city… … Outside the city! Seeing the tide of Cai Yi Men’s members pouring out, several men revealed sinister smiles. “Master Yun Xiang, your trick of luring them out of their lair is truly remarkable—they really came out…” “Let’s fight them outside; we can even drag them down to death just by delaying!” In the woods, several men fawned over a man wearing a folding fan and a light-colored scholar’s robe. The latter remained expressionless, watching the movements of Cai Yi Men’s large force, before slowly saying, “I dare not claim this credit; it was all the sect leader’s orders.” Yun Nu’s face showed no emotion at all: “As per my original plan, we should silently surround the main temple and destroy its foundation. After all, Cai Yi Men doesn’t have many experts, and those from ‘Yi Tong’ are not here either—this is a perfect opportunity… But the sect leader’s strategy is even better. The disciples of Cai Yi Men all graduated from the same school, so they’re highly cohesive. Destroying their foundation won’t have the same effect as with other gangs… A direct battle in the open will weaken Cai Yi Men as a whole, making it easier to destroy their foundation afterward!” As he spoke, a cold glint appeared in Yun Nu’s eyes.