I thought, Sure enough, good things never came easily. How could the core inner sect possibly give up the benefits so readily? After all, this was a mission assigned by the elite inner sect above them. Naturally, they would take the lion's share, leaving the other ordinary inner sect interfaces to sip at the leftover broth.
Still, if I were the head of the core inner sect, I definitely wouldn't give the ordinary inner sect a chance either. After all, the ordinary inner sect disciples had already received an immense favor by being allowed to come to the core inner sect to study. Did they really still want to go to the Heavenly Sword Immortal Sect? That would be far too greedy of them.
But that was their business. My task was to lead my people to victory. Naturally, it was best to bring familiar faces to the Heavenly Sword Immortal Sect—twenty-four of them. At the very least, I had to bring eight or ten. Things would be much easier if everyone helped one another.
Sun Yu was returning from the main hall, while I took advantage of the time remaining to prepare. I led all the disciples except Gu Fei and Yun Wei to a grassland outside the Central Dao Gate.
To ensure that everyone could qualify, I spared no effort in completing all the disciples' equipment. Since the use of tribulation lightning crystal runes was forbidden in the competition, equipment was especially important. Each disciple received an escape Magical Artifact better than anything they had possessed before. Naturally, they also received spells to go with those Magical Artifacts—some for restraining enemies, some for emergencies, and more for escaping after their Magical Artifacts were damaged. In short, most of them were auxiliary spells.
Besides, they weren't offensive spells, so