They were desperately trying to secure the final, remaining Sovereign Tokens required to advance to the Grand Arena back in the real world.
Ji'an stood there, watching the chaos.
She saw Gu Zhiwei, the Golden Retriever, swinging his broadsword in a sweeping arc of holy light, inadvertently protecting a group of junior novices from a coordinated strike by the Crimson Blade Sect.
She saw Wen Shiru, leaning on his jade cane at the periphery of the brawl, casually tossing explosive, gold-plated merchant coins into the fray, manipulating the battlefield to eliminate his rivals without breaking a sweat.
Then she saw Hu Yanlie and Mo Wuchen, who had apparently recovered from Xie Wangchen's "therapeutic beatdown" in the tundra, fighting back-to-back, a whirlwind of beast-fire and shadow daggers carving through a squad of Azure Crane maidens.
