We all started laughing at that. "In all seriousness, though," I said, "separating like you're proposing is quite risky, even compared to how things were arranged with our sects in the Mortal Heaven. We might be fairly capable of stopping clandestine attempts against us individually, since it's doubtful Lu Bao will act against us personally. But if they somehow manage to attack openly…well, arranging ourselves like this will mean they require less strength overall to feasibly do so."
"So it will be important to root out some Catspaws and get information from them," said Jue Zhu, "if my hunch is correct, the sects may even support our efforts. Besides, this way we may be able to hurt their efforts overall more than if we stayed together on the defensive."
"Greater risk, greater reward," said Jong, "that should practically be us Champions' code. So, who's going to which sect?"
