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Chapter 772 - 772 0482 Maybe useful against others

Chapter 772: Chapter 0482: Maybe useful against others Chapter 772: Chapter 0482: Maybe useful against others Chapter 0482 Perhaps Useful Against Others

In the blink of an eye, the Gold Core strongman named Zhen was haUb killed by Gao Jinmei with a dagger across his throat.

The Northern Expedition Army cheered, while the morale of the royal army was severely frustrated. However, another Gold Core Realm practitioner immediately stood up, ready to launch an attack on the Northern Expedition Army.

Gao Shen watched it all with a frown. He found that the second Gold Core Realm practitioner who rushed out seemed not to be very useful either. Without requiring Qi Tian to make a move, he was slain by Jin Jin and Wang Youjun’s joint attack.

The morale of the royal army was once again debilitated, but none of the invited Gold Core Realm strongmen retreated. One by one, they were eager to have a go. Gao Shen quickly said, “Elders, please don’t be eager to fight, can you please come over here and let’s discuss it together?”

In fact, Gao Shen was a cultivator too, but he only had the cultivation level of the Qi Cultivation Period which was not seen worthy by any of the Gold Core Realm practitioners present. However, he was the Commander in chief appointed by the court. This position still held some deterrent power over these Gold Core Realm practitioners. Not to mention, the task of assessing merits in dealing with the Northern Expedition Army was in Gao Shen’s hands.

Soon, a dozen Gold Core Realm strongmen gathered around Gao Shen. One by one, they released their Gold Core Realm auras, showing off like peacocks fanning their beautiful tails.

Gao Shen felt their auras and shivered, fearing that if he were not careful, he would be crushed by these untamed Gold Core Realm practitioners. With courage, he said: “Elders, please put away your divine powers, this young man has a weak body, unable to withstand the test of your powers.”

The Gold Core Realm practitioners reluctantly retracted their auras, believing that Gao Shen had already felt their warning and dared not cheat them.

Gao Shen said, “Elders, could you please tell me about your cultivation realms? It would help me to estimate.”

The level of one’s cultivation realm is one of the greatest secrets of a cultivator, generally not shown lightly. Of course, there are some people who are more sensitive to aura, or who have practiced some secret method, or who have advantages brought by having a higher cultivation realm than others, and can see through others’ cultivation realms. But in general, a cultivator does not want his or her details to be seen through by others.

These Gold Core Realm practitioners, before coming, only let others know that they are Gold Core Realm practitioners, but did not tell the Crown Prince or Gao Shen their specific cultivation realm.

Gao Shen knew about this taboo, and if it wasn’t for the urgency, he wouldn’t rashly ask.

Those dozen or so Gold Core Realm practitioners looked at each other. In the end, only one of them, a Gold Core Realm practitioner, broke the silence and said, “I’m Zhao Haiying, Gold Core Stage 4th Level.”

After Zhao Haiying revealed his name, none of the other Gold Core Realm practitioners spoke up, but if anyone was keen enough, someone would notice that more than half of these Gold Core Realm practitioners showed a wary, even fearful expression.

Gao Shen waited for a while, seeing no Gold Core Realm practitioners intending to frankly state their cultivation realm, so he didn’t press further. He continued, “I may not have much talent in cultivation, and far less than you Elders, but when it comes to leading soldiers in battle, you may not be as good as me. Elders, we far outnumber the Northern Expedition Army, but the first two Elders who went out to challenge were defeated and lost their lives, damaging our morale. If this continues, even more casualties might occur.”

Zhao Haiying said, “So what? There are only a few people on Qi Tian’s side. If we use attrition warfare, and keep rotating, we can definitely exhaust their mana. At that time, capturing them will be easy.”

Gao Shen chuckled coldly, judging from the performance of the previous two Gold Core Realm practitioners, was this attrition warfare? It was clearly a ploy to exhaust their own forces.

“Elder, don’t blame me for rebutting your words, our current strategy is not attrition warfare, but a fueling tactic. We have the advantage in manpower, yet from the start we did not leverage it. Instead, we sent one person each time, giving Qi Tian the local advantage of many against a few, strong against weak. As a result, we suffered losses to our forces. In my opinion, we should go all in, all of the Gold Core Realm practitioners should act together, with the momentum of Mount Tai bearing down on them, forcefully crushing Qi Tian and the others. This way, I am sure we can achieve final victory.” Gao Shen put forward his plan.

Zhao Haiying said: “What you said is a good idea, but I don’t plan on participating, let the others do it.”

“I won’t participate either, let others do it.”

“Me neither.”

…

For a moment, everyone was refusing to execute Gao Shen’s battle plan. Their thoughts were simple: rush in, press the enemy with superior forces, perhaps they could really crush Qi Tian and his team, but then, it would be difficult to determine who made a bigger contribution and who made a smaller one. These people all make their move together, some will go against Gao Jinmei, Jin Jin and Wang Youjun, others will deal with Prince Zhao and Qi Tian.

Obviously, the credit for killing Gao Jinmei and the others is incomparable to the credit for killing Prince Zhao and Qi Tian. If it were an ordinary war, the size of the contribution would be insignificant, but the credit for this war is related to who can become the fourth National Master of the Great Zhao Nation, and even a slight possibility to unify the Cultivation World of the Great Zhao Nation in the future. The stakes are so high, who would willingly give credit to others?