How Arrogantly Confident Did They Have to Be to Do Something Like This?

Lin Tian watched the figures step forward.

His gaze shifted slightly.

He knew exactly who they were.

Every one of them was an elite of the Dao Origin Sect's True Essence Realm disciples.

Even among all the disciples in that realm, they belonged to the very top tier.

He even spotted Wu Tianze, the highest-ranked True Disciple, among them.

But were they sending out these powerful talents so soon?

Lin Tian had once led a group himself.

He knew the sect's arrangements and plans.

Take him, for example.

He was among the strongest disciples below the True Essence Realm.

His turn to enter the Secret Realm

would have come somewhere around the middle.

The Upper Sect Faction had planned to send other disciples into the Secret Realm first to pave the way.

That would minimize the danger to its top disciples.

And that plan

applied to the True Essence Realm disciples as well.

Mu Chunfeng's early entrance, however,

must have been part of a revised plan by the sect...

Lin Tian thought it over briefly.

He soon understood the purpose behind Mu Chunfeng's move.

The sect intended to use overwhelming force

to stop the Royal Court Faction's attacks outright...

If their disciples could gather together early,

the Royal Court Faction would no longer be able to surround and kill them at will...

It was a sound idea.

As Lin Tian thought this,

another Token belonging to the Upper Sect Faction shattered.

Another True Essence Realm disciple had fallen.

At the sight,

the disciples behind him began murmuring.

"What... what's going on?! How has another True Essence Realm expert died?!"

"How can the risk of dying in this Secret Realm be so high?!"

"Even True Essence Realm experts are dying. Are we still supposed to go in later?!"

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