Their group continued to cultivate for a few more days before departing for another assault on one of the red crystals. However, there was a change this time. Roan expressed that they should aim to not kill anyone as much as possible. Naturally, it would make things even harder. However, with their recent breakthroughs, it shouldn't be impossible. Not to mention that this rule only applied as long as it didn't mean their own deaths.
Wano, Malaka, and Calina were obviously puzzled by that change, though.
"Why are you asking for something like this?"
Roan then explained without trying to hide anything.
"We met up with a few experts of the Lakure Race in the valley when we tried to investigate the place. It turned out that their ancestor ordered that their Nascent Soul Realm cultivators and above couldn't kill those at the Core and Soul Fusion realm and below. From the looks of it, that ancestor is planning something."
