When Ability Users and Martial Artists met, it was like enemies meeting face-to-face.
Ever since the global environment changed, conflicts between the various transcendent factions had never ceased. The clashes between the East and the West in particular had been constant.
At the root of it all was competition for resources, along with ideological conflict.
Then there was the guidance of the upper level. The upper levels of both East and West guided their own transcendent factions into conflict with one another. That made it easier to manage the transcendent individuals within their own countries.
After all, once there were too many transcendent individuals, the upper level would find them difficult to manage. They could even become a destabilizing factor. That was why they encouraged such conflicts—not only could they bring certain benefits to their own countries, but they could also reduce the number of transcendent individuals through conflict and strengthen control over them.
Now that the two groups had encountered each other in the desert, hostility naturally filled the air.
The Ability User team had clearly followed the Martial Artist team here, using certain methods to track them down. That made the Zhou Family Martial Artists dislike them even more.
However, as a Xiantian Realm peak expert of the Zhou Family, Zhou Ziyun considered matters more comprehensively.
Although he also hated Ability Users, if a conflict broke out now, the people who would suffer losses would be members of the Zhou Family.
Moreover, after such a conflict, they could not tell anyone about it, not even the Special Affairs Administration. After all, the Zhou Family had brought people into the desert primarily to search for treasure.
So if a conflict broke out and the losses were all Zhou Family members, whether such losses were worthwhile was truly open to