Setting aside Ye Luo and his group continuing to lead teams through Nightmare Mode Instance Missions, let us turn to the situation on the Dongfang Family and other Guild Alliances' side.
Dongfang Shitian and his group had always placed great importance on the Ultimate Trial. Especially as the rewards became increasingly generous with each completed stage, and with Elf's Protection's Invincible State ensuring they did not have to worry about their alliance's guild territories being occupied, they could focus wholeheartedly on the mission. As a result, more players in their alliance were undertaking it.
However, due to a gap in equipment quality and average level compared to the Misty Pavilion alliance, especially since the latter had equipment such as belts that did not require an Equipment Slot, the Dongfang Family and other Guild Alliances did not have a particularly high success rate. Even more players failed during the seventh and eighth stages.
As more and more players failed the mission, Dongfang Mingxing and the others realized that completing it would not be so simple. They began racking their brains for ways to improve their alliance members' chances of passing, and soon came up with a solution—forming teams to unleash Combination Equipment Awakened Skills before attempting the mission.
That was right, Dongfang Mingxing and the others had come up with the same method as Yan Hua Yi Leng and her group, and perhaps not much later than Yan Hua Yi Leng herself. Moreover, the Dongfang Family and other Guild Alliances had an advantage in this regard: thanks to Elf's Protection, they did not need to worry about their guild territories being occupied, so they could use Combination Equipment Awakened Skills without restraint. Even if they used them all up, it would not matter.
They had believed this method would allow their