284: arrange

As soon as Huang Chen finished speaking, Tie Shengnan glanced around and spoke first: “The core of the rules lies in balance. Therefore, the competition will focus on the skill proficiency of each clan and their coordination during combat. According to Yang Nuo’s intelligence statistics, the current skill proficiency of most other clans should only have reached the basic Level 20 Proficiency, and those who have reached Minor Completion are extremely rare.”

“As for our Huaxia Clan, we started prioritizing Skill Realms several months ago. Therefore, many people currently have one or two offensive skills that have reached the Minor Completion realm. Within our Forbidden City, especially among the core personnel, it is not uncommon for two or three Skill Realms to have reached Minor Completion.”

“This is our advantage. Furthermore, I believe the Asura Battlefield should be similar to a grand melee centered around defending territories. Therefore, territorial defense is also extremely important. However, specific practical arrangements will have to wait until we enter the battlefield, as the information we have now is too limited.”

After Tie Shengnan finished speaking, she nodded to Huang Chen and sat back down.

Huang Chen looked at Xie Chunyan and asked, “Do you have anything to add?”

Xie Chunyan shook her head and said, “There’s too little information... Shengnan has basically said everything that needed to be said. I have nothing to add.”

Huang Chen looked at the others again.

Bai Zhaoning: “Me too!”

Chen Yichun: “Me too!”

Li Ruo: “Me...”

“Alright!” Huang Chen interrupted everyone with a dark expression and said, “The layout of the five Camps in the Asura Battlefield is the five vertices of a pentagram. Then, each Camp has a passage connecting it to the other Camps, making it look like a pentagon where the vertices of the pentagram are connected.”

“All clan territories are distributed beneath the vertices of their respective Camps. Through the connecting passages, the Camps can attack each other.”

“Confrontations between clans should not happen in the early stages. What we need to pay attention to is the Asura Field. After teleporting into the territory, you can choose to go Dajie, or enter the Asura Field.”

“If you choose Dajie, just leave the territory. Outside the territory is the Endless Wilderness, populated by various Level 60 monsters. Be aware that these monsters are much stronger than Trial Takers, so if you go Dajie early on, you need at least a hundred-person squad. Only then will it be relatively safe.”

“Entering the Asura Field, however, is much more dangerous. It is a massive, boundless map, and anyone who enters is randomly teleported to a location. As long as people from different Camps are there, they are all enemies... The Asura Field is the most brutal place for slaughter. If you temper yourself there, your improvement will be very fast. But if you are not strong or careful enough, you will only be someone else's score-boosting machine.”

“The situation in the Asura Battlefield is generally like this...”

Saying this, Huang Chen paused, his tone turning grim: “Once the main forces of the City of Dawn return and rest, issue the order: anyone who hasn't reached Minor Completion in two skills must spend the early stage Dajie around the territory to raise their Skill Realm.”

“Those whose Skill Realm has reached Minor Completion in two skills will all go to the Asura Field after entering the battlefield. Many clans' Trial Takers will likely go check out the Asura Field in the early stages, and that is our best opportunity to gain Points. Once they realize what's happening, the people entering the Asura Field later won't be so easy to chew on.”

“Yes!”

As soon as Huang Chen finished speaking, everyone immediately stood up and responded in unison.

Huang Chen turned his head to Tie Weiguo and said, “Old Tie, you will be responsible for notifying the other forces on the Huaxia side!”

“Yes!” Tie Weiguo nodded heavily: “Rest assured, the clans will definitely follow the Forbidden City's lead.”

Huang Chen nodded and said to Old Tie again, “Old Tie, one more thing: I have completely fallen out with the Twenty Clans. Recently, tell the clansmen who plan to go Dajie in Central City to be careful. Or, have them level up in our own cities or near the City of Dawn for now. The other side might make some moves soon. However, the time until our counterattack won't be long; I have already made arrangements here.”

“Understood!” Tie Weiguo replied.

“Meeting adjourned!” Huang Chen waved his hand. “In the early stage, earn more Points and Contribution Degrees. The Quartermaster has quite a few good items, and those things can be used on the battlefield and can also be taken out of the Star Abyss. Take this opportunity to get more.”

Everyone roared their assent, their eyes burning with Battle Intent.

After everyone left, Huang Chen opened his information panel and sent a copy of the meeting contents to Feng Wu and Shu Feimassuo, with the note: Huaxia Clan will choose the Golden Camp... Just as Huang Chen was deploying his strategy for the Asura Battlefield, the atmosphere in the conference room of the Hongmen Inn in Jinling City was as silent as before a storm.

Hao Tianyang, Cang Lan, and the Clan Leaders of the Twenty Clans sat in a circle, and everyone's face was shrouded in gloom and viciousness.

“The news has been confirmed,” a Titan Clan Elder responsible for intelligence reported in a deep voice. “Huang Chen has already handed the eight-branched mirror over to Liu Ruyan for use.”

“Hmph! Infatuated and foolish! Handing such a Divine Artifact to a woman of the Sakura Clan, isn't he afraid of backlash?” Cang Lan snorted coldly.

“It’s useless to talk about that now.” Hao Tianyang interrupted him, his eyes flashing with cold light. “Now the opponent has two Innate clan-protecting divine artifacts. As you all know, the power of Innate Divine Artifacts is much greater than the Main Divine Artifacts left to us by our ancestors. A full-powered strike might even instantly kill someone of the Main God level.”

He scanned the crowd, his voice extremely low, carrying a sense of desperate resolve: “Therefore, if we want to snipe Huang Chen in the wilderness, we need five people of the Divine Grade to operate the Spatial Imprisonment Divine Artifact. Furthermore, to kill Huang Chen, we must arrange for a Main God to take action.”

“Because I don't think a Divine-level NPC can necessarily kill him!”

“What?” He Yan, the Rock Armor Clan Leader, widened his eyes and said, “A Level 200 Divine-level NPC can't kill him? How is that possible?”

“Heh heh!” Hao Tianyang sneered and said, “Don’t forget he killed a Pseudo-God level monster before. Who knows what other trump cards he has?”

“Therefore, I suggest that four High Martial Clans each send one person of the Main God level, and the other 16 clans each send one person of the Divine-level.”

Hao Tianyang’s words were like cold awls, stabbing into everyone. The conference room was dead silent, with only the sound of heavy breathing.

After a long time, He Yan, the Rock Armor Clan Leader, slammed his fist heavily onto the stone table and roared, “Let’s do it! My Rock Armor Clan will provide one Main God level NPC.”

“My Canglan Clan can also do it!” Cang Lan gritted his teeth.

“Count my Pan Teng Clan in!”

“And my Hurricane Clan!”

...Finally, all the attending Clan Leaders agreed to Hao Tianyang's proposal.

Subsequently, the Twenty Clans began issuing orders to fully obstruct the Huaxia Clansmen in the wilderness, aiming to draw out Huang Chen.

A conspiracy targeting Huang Chen quietly unfolded in the Star Abyss.