Two days flew by, and soon it was time for the tournament organizers' draw.
After returning, none of them brought up what the Xiao brothers had said. They had no intention of taking part, nor of reporting it.
Reporting it was not very realistic anyway. After all, the Puppet Sect was practically a co-organizer, and organizers took advantage of the event to make money every year. As long as they did not cross certain limits, neither the Five Great Immortal Sects nor the Supernatural Affairs Bureau would take too hard a line.
After all, these were only the group stages.
Truly strong teams could not be affected. Their overall advantage in strength could not be erased by a few extra tests against puppets.
At most, with a little luck, some weak teams already on the verge of elimination might beat another weak team on the verge of elimination, earning the chance to advance to the Elimination Tournament and lose two-zero.
It did no real harm to the Ascendant Dragon Assembly as a whole.
Only teams that had never advanced would consider the group stages important. When selecting candidates, the people from the Four Seas Dragon Palace would not even look at this stage. They would wait until at least the Elimination Tournament before paying attention to outstanding contestants.
Of course, even if Yue Wen understood the existence of such gray areas, there was no way he would participate.
Never mind whether it was necessary or ethical. Five million was far too expensive.
For Yue Wen as he was now, even if someone told him he had committed an offense and would be arrested and jailed unless he paid five million to settle it, he could only accept the jail time...
Putting all that behind them, the team rode together in