Over a hundred more players passed the ninth stage of the Ultimate Trial, while another thirty to forty cleared every stage. This greatly boosted the overall strength of the Misty Pavilion alliance, especially its top-tier experts, giving Ye Luo and his group even greater confidence in the upcoming city defense and their future harassment of the Dongfang Family and other Guild Alliances.
Ye Luo and his group did not idle around either. They led two ten-thousand-player teams through Nightmare Mode exorcism instances. At the moment, this was the best way to improve the alliance's strength aside from clearing the Ultimate Trial—since the Monster Siege would not begin until after noon, even if Ye Luo and his group gathered all their forces to run Nightmare Mode Instance Missions, they did not need to worry about the Dongfang Family and other Guild Alliances taking the opportunity to seize their guild strongholds.
Of course, the most important reason Ye Luo and his group could calmly run Instance Missions was that Dongfang Shitian and his group were also busy with Nightmare Mode Instance Missions. Under such circumstances, neither side needed to worry about their guild strongholds being captured while they were occupied.
Time passed quietly, and soon it was after eleven in the morning. Ye Luo and his group successfully completed the Instance Mission. Their luck was fairly good. Although they did not obtain a national weapon after killing the final BOSS, they received several rare Demon God Grade items such as the Chapter of Exorcism. This was enough to somewhat improve the equipment standards and overall strength of the Misty Pavilion alliance's players.
Since there was not much time left before noon, not enough for Ye Luo and his group to complete another Instance Mission, they decisively gave up on continuing the task.