Their primary objective on this trip was to kill Shangguan Tianque. Thus, against a late-stage Nascent Soul grand cultivator, deploying two people with equally late-stage cultivation was naturally the most suitable arrangement.
As for the remaining two, they would be left to the last masked red-robed cultivator. He would lead the other three to swiftly kill them. That too was a relatively easy task, and they had to make sure no one was left alive.
Yet in the eyes of that masked red-robed cultivator, this was something he was extremely unwilling to accept. Whoever killed Shangguan Tianque would receive a different reward upon returning.
But in order to achieve their goal quickly, now was not the time to argue. He still followed the other's suggestion and brought this matter to a satisfactory conclusion.
However, he believed that as long as those three mid-stage Nascent Soul cultivators could casually hold one person back, he could first swiftly kill one, then go over and conveniently finish off the other.
Then he could immediately return, and the three of them could kill Shangguan Tianque together. That would actually make his contribution even greater.
He was somewhat closer to the gray-robed old man, but he had never spoken to the other man, much less communicated with him. Thus, by sheer coincidence, both he and the old man chose Li Yan at the same time.
With that, the situation across the entire battlefield immediately became clear.
Donglin Tingyue on the other side instantly saw everything, and joy surged in her heart. Things had truly unfolded just as she had expected.
The enemy sending two late-stage cultivators to deal with Shangguan Tianque did not surprise her. After all, Shangguan Tianque's cultivation was there for all to see.
What delighted her was that the final late-stage grand