in general, any expert who cultivated the death substitution technique would guarantee at least three chances to die in place of their target at any time, even though they had extremely strict requirements on the choice of their target.
Especially for an experienced conspirator like Xia Wenqing, who had deliberately created such a big battle this time, a key trump card like the death replacement technique was definitely the most important. It was definitely far more than three times.
five times, ten times, or even dozens of times was not impossible!
After all, other than the extremely high requirements of the scapegoat target, no one had ever heard of a limit to the number of scapegoats. In other words, as long as the resources were right, there could theoretically be countless chances for scapegoats!