Chapter 151: Unexpected Boredom

Seeing how irresponsible Bai Feiyu was being, the others were somewhat annoyed as well. Before long, however, they encountered their first problem.

How were they supposed to eat their fill?

All the disciples were dumbfounded. Noon was fast approaching, and when they had arrived that morning, they had made a point of checking the mess hall.

No one had prepared any food for them.

More precisely, the supplies here were pitifully scarce. Basically, no one was making meals for them at all.

The only cook was concerned solely with himself and a few wounded soldiers, while most of the troops were outside fighting.

Now, it seemed that everything had to depend on them.

But the mess hall was practically out of food. If things went on like this, were they really going to starve to death here?

Before coming, they had imagined countless ways they might die, but they had never once thought they would starve to death.

And on their very first day at that.

At that moment, one of the disciples slowly stood up. He then called over several other disciples, all of whom had arrived the day before.

Together, they headed up the mountain.

“What are you going to do?”

The disciples were bewildered as they watched the group make their way uphill, seemingly to get some fresh air.

Wasn’t this supposed to be the tense moment of a war? Was it really all right to be this leisurely?

“What am I going to do? Obviously, I’m going to find something to eat. Otherwise, do you want to starve to death here?”

The disciple rolled his eyes at them.

They were bored to the extreme. Ever since arriving, everyone had done nothing but waste time.

There was simply nothing to do.

They all belonged to the same sect, so they had already discussed most of the topics they could talk about back at the sect. There was hardly anything left to say.

In their current situation, all they could do was wait.

A few disciples refused to give up and followed the others up the mountain. Only after reaching the top did they realize that the group really had come to look for food.

The food, however, was not exactly appetizing. No wonder the dishes they had seen in the large pot that morning had looked so strange.

It turned out they were grass from the mountain.

“You’ve been eating this ever since you arrived?”

The newly arrived disciples were dumbfounded. If this was really what life here was like, then it was far too dull.

“Of course. If you can eat it, eat it. If you can’t, get lost. Either help out or go back down. You’ve already disturbed the field mice. If you keep this up, we won’t be able to catch any of them.”

One of the disciples snapped at them in exasperation.

Faced with this scene, quite a few disciples could only sigh before joining in to help.

It was not because they were all model youths overflowing with enthusiasm. It was simply because they were bored out of their minds.

They had to find something to do.

In the end, through everyone’s combined efforts, they brought back wild vegetables, firewood, and game. They then lit a fire below and continued preparing the meal.

Judging by the time, the third batch of disciples would probably arrive that evening.

Once the third batch arrived, all of Gui Xu Sect’s elite disciples would be gathered here. Apart from these three batches, the sect’s remaining disciples had been sent elsewhere, and they might not see one another again for quite some time.

But that was simply how war was.

By dusk, the third batch of disciples finally arrived. Quite a few among them had reached the Lock Realm, and the leaders of the various alliances had essentially all been sent here.

Bai Feiyu and the others waited eagerly for their arrival.

It was not because of the disciples themselves. The Inner Sect was only so large, and everyone had more or less met one another there.

What they were waiting for was an officer.

Only after the officer arrived could they meet him and ask when they would be organized and given something to do.

After all, they had been brought here for a purpose. It was hardly appropriate to leave them sitting idle forever.

This time, however, the officer seemed to be deliberately avoiding them. After the new batch of disciples came down, he simply told them where the camp was and ordered them to make their own way there. He also informed them that once they arrived, they could ask those who had come the previous day if they needed anything.

After the disciples arrived, they immediately began staring blankly at one another.

When they learned that the others had spent the entire day idling around without doing a thing, every one of them was dumbfounded.

This was not how the script was supposed to go.

Normally, after coming here, shouldn’t they have been thrown into a hail of bullets and fought bloody battles? How had the script changed the moment they arrived?

In truth, the fighting outside was simply too fierce. With the war pressing hard, the sudden declaration of open hostilities between the two sides had caused shortages in supplies and provisions.

The reinforcements had not yet arrived, and everyone was fighting on the front lines. No one had the time to concern themselves with these disciples.

Besides, they were all cultivators. Going hungry for a few days would not kill them.

It also served as a test of their attitudes, revealing how they would react after arriving here.

The leader of the Eagle Alliance came over with Liu Qing and several other members of the alliance to find Bai Feiyu. When the members of the Eagle Alliance appeared, the members of the Bai Alliance grew tense.

By now, everyone in the Bai Alliance knew that the Eagle Alliance wanted to recruit their leader.

What if their leader refused and the two sides ended up fighting?

Fortunately, Gu Tianxun was ultimately someone who knew how to consider the greater picture. He understood that this was not the time to clash with Bai Feiyu. He greeted him instead.

“Bai Feiyu!”

“What? Don’t tell me you still haven’t decided the winner at the sect tournament, and now that you have nothing better to do, you’ve come to challenge me to a duel?”

Bai Feiyu cast Gu Tianxun a sidelong glance, his expression saying that he understood him perfectly.

Gu Tianxun was speechless.

Was he really that hot-tempered?

To be honest, Bai Feiyu was indeed somewhat irritating to look at. But it did not matter. Gu Tianxun then turned to him and said,

“Bai Feiyu, you’re not seriously planning to stay here doing nothing, are you? We came here to fight a war.”

Bai Feiyu glanced at the muscle-bound man before replying, “On a battlefield, soldiers obey orders. If you act on your own, then even if you earn merit, you’ll probably still be punished.”

“We’re following orders right now. Don’t try to play clever. I know your Eagle Alliance is very powerful, but acting without orders can easily lead to trouble. If everyone followed their own ideas, wouldn’t the battlefield descend into chaos?”

With that, Bai Feiyu rolled his eyes at Gu Tianxun, as though he could barely be bothered to give the man any more attention.

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