Put that way, Shi Chun and Wu Jinliang understood. The Demonic Path really was unlikely to have sent too many people in. After all, the Cultivation World was so vast that they could hardly have devoted most of their efforts to establishing themselves in artifact refining beforehand.
Yet both men knew perfectly well that the Demonic Path members who had entered were far more than the people the other man had mentioned.
Wu Jinliang had disappeared earlier to find out which sects the other two Demonic Path teams belonged to.
Shi Chun asked again, "Could your superiors have arranged for other teams to come in without telling you?"
Xu Anchang waved a hand lightly. "Absolutely not. For something like this, we have to concentrate our strength on a single point and gather all the Divine Fire we find into one person. Only then can we compete with those top Artifact-Refining Schools and have a chance of taking first place. If we split our efforts, we won't stand a chance. There would be no point coming in to do this."
Shi Chun had to admit that his reasoning still made sense, but what his right-eye ability had seen could not be wrong. That left only two possibilities: either the man truly did not know, or he was lying.
Since the man flatly refused to admit it, there was little point arguing. Shi Chun immediately changed the subject. "You said just now that our main objective in coming here was the Desolate-Breaking Remnant Blade?"
Xu Anchang froze. "You didn't know?"
For a moment, he worried that he might have said too much.
Even Feng Chi and the others said they didn't know. Where was I supposed to find out? Shi Chun shook his head slightly. "Nobody told me. They only said we