Bai Yixue was filled with regret. He should have just started off brutally, killing one or two of them the moment he appeared or perhaps wound them heavily. If he had done so, he wouldn't have been in the situation he was in now.

With the tacit cooperation of these eight fighters, he might only have been able to incapacitate one or two of them after a long fight even if he was in superb fighting condition; fleeing at the earliest opportunity. It would have been impossible to kill all eight of them.

It was slowly turning into a disaster and he was slowly losing the upper hand.

While most of the eight were wounded, their coordination was so impeccable that he could not find a weak link in their chain.

"F*ck, I've been tricked again…" Bai Yixue grumbled in his heart resentfully as he countered a devastating attack. "That bastard said it was a simple mission, just kill an old, useless scholar…"

Yet this place was obviously more hazardous than all the dragon's lairs and tiger's dens he