"Hm? Even if the first group beat you to it, surely that couldn't happen every single time?" Li Xiaoya asked with a frown.
"Exactly!" Qiong Nanqi chimed in. "Later, we thought about that too..."
After everyone had failed several times...
They realized that, compared with the second group, their own experience on the Race Battlefield was woefully lacking. Unless they came up with something, they would never be a match for the second group. By then, however, the enmity between the two groups of cultivators had grown deeper and deeper...
After several failures, they were no longer reckless greenhorns. They gathered together and came up with quite a few ideas, finally deciding to accept several missions at once. That way, the second group would not know which mission they had gone to carry out, and their chances of success would rise considerably...
After that...
The first group did manage to complete a few missions...
But!
The good times did not last. They had only completed a handful of missions when, for some unknown reason, the Dragon Race began targeting Human Race cultivators-especially those from their batch...
"Dragon Race cultivators? What were they targeting you for?" Dong Santong cut in. He paused, then continued, "Could the second group have been pulling strings?"
"We don't know either!" If Dong Santong had not stood up for them and demonstrated such extraordinary divine abilities, Ailishan and the others would not have shown him much consideration. Naturally, things were different now. Ailishan hurriedly answered, then paused before continuing, "But it probably wasn't Dongyue Haku and his people, because the Dragon Race wasn't just targeting our group. They were targeting every Human Race team. Later, we lost several teammates, and we suspected the second group was behind it too! But..." At this point, a trace of