For now, the Dongfang Family and other Guild Alliances had only one way to contend with the Misty Pavilion alliance: sabotage the upcoming Mysterious Mission.
Dongfang Mingxing and Night Rain Misty were both smart women. They knew full well that a mission like the Mysterious Mission, with a difficulty rating even higher than the Ultimate Trial, would surely offer incredibly generous rewards upon completion. Of course, failure would also bring extremely severe punishment, perhaps even harsher than the penalties for missions like Exorcism or Demon God.
It was no exaggeration to say that even receiving the same punishment as failing an instance mission like Exorcism would practically cripple a player. Not to mention that failing the Mysterious Mission would likely result in even harsher consequences.
Only by failing the Mysterious Mission could the Dongfang Family and other Guild Alliances return to the same starting line as the Misty Pavilion alliance. After that, the former could use their remaining numerical advantage to defeat, or even utterly crush, the Misty Pavilion alliance.
More importantly, this was the only way for the Dongfang Family and other Guild Alliances to contend with the Misty Pavilion alliance, much less bring it down.
With only one option available, it was naturally the best option.
As for whether this would further worsen the civil war on the Chinese server, that was not something Dongfang Shitian and his group needed to consider right now. Besides, they believed that as long as they dealt with the Misty Pavilion alliance, they would have every confidence of swiftly ending the civil war and consolidating the Chinese server's strength to stand against the Major Servers.
"But can we hold on until the Mysterious Mission begins?" Dongfang Mingmou thought of this issue, her brows knitting together. "Even if we figured out how to