The Legendary Man novel Chapter 1247

Jonathan’s and the others’ expressions turned grave as they looked up at the three rays of light in the sky.

“F*ck! What does he mean by our heads can be exchanged for nine positions? Have our values increased?” Stellario shouted at the sky.

Merilyn hurried over to Stellario’s side.

“Stellario, stop shouting, or more people will come.”

Merilyn was feeling conflicted at the moment.

She wasn’t from the outside world in the first place and was raised in the small world.

Based on that man’s explanation, cultivators from the small world can become an envoy of Yannopolis by chopping off an outsider cultivator’s head. Yet, bafflingly, my life is now worth three cultivators’ positions.

Merilyn was utterly bewildered, not knowing how to survive.

Should I hike to the top of Ascension Peak and search for the path to ascension? I’m not an outsider. But will I become an envoy of Yannopolis if I kill an outsider? That won’t work, either. Now, I’m stuck with Jonathan and Stellario. Even if I leave them, my life will still be the easiest and most efficient way to become a Yannopolis envoy as long as that man doesn’t amend my identity. I probably won’t even last an hour before the cultivators hunt me down.

Compared to the rest with a clear goal, Merilyn had it the worst.

Jonathan tossed a few Spirit Rejuvenating Pills into his mouth and crushed them. A flash of impatience crossed his eyes as he glanced at the corpse beside him.

It’s apparent that we’ve been singled out. From the moment that man changed the rules, a beacon appeared above our heads like a signal. So, the cultivators we’ve met along the way were the cultivators on this strip. For the sake of becoming an envoy, those cultivators, at most, formed a small team of three to stop our advancement. These kinds of cultivators aren’t a threat to us. However, now that our heads can be exchanged for nine spots, that allows the local cultivators to form larger teams. They might not be able to defeat us if it’s a three-on-three battle. Even if they do, Merilyn’s head can’t be exchanged for a spot, so they’ll still need to fight over the remaining positions. However, it’s nine against three now. With all of our opponents being God Realm cultivators, we can’t win them despite how powerful our abilities are.

It was almost like every local cultivator had come to a tacit agreement to band together and form a temporary kill squad if they had less than nine people on their team the minute Neil announced the amendment of the rules.

They had a clear target—the three people with a bright beacon shining over their heads.

That amendment had relieved immense pressure from the remaining six other cultivators within the teams.

After all, if they wanted to kill Hayden and the rest, the local cultivators needed to fight a one-on-one battle after searching for their target on a much larger scale.

However, if they chose Jonathan and the other two as their targets, they wouldn’t need to find the trio anymore and have a higher likelihood of winning with numbers in their favor.

Their numbers were the least of their worries. The closer they got to Jonathan, the more likely they would run into other cultivators. As long as they were close enough, forming a nine-member team wasn’t an issue.

Sensing the spiritual energy within his body being slowly replenished, Jonathan explained, “We definitely can’t escape with these things. Even if only half of the cultivators pursue us, there will be at least one to two thousand of them. With that amount, they can exhaust us to our deaths.”

“F*ck! What kind of formation is this? It even marks people! This is too much!” Stellario cussed before falling into silence briefly, shutting his eyes and forming a seal with his fingers.

A swarm of black beetles flowed from Stellario and quickly bundled together on the ground.

In a matter of seconds, those beetles had formed into the shape of three human figures.

“Blood essence!” Stellario demanded excitedly and bit hard on his tongue, spraying a mouthful of blood on a clump of beetles.

At that point, Jonathan knew Stellario’s plan.