"How disgraceful," I mused, "but then again, why should anyone be willing to sacrifice themselves so that others can escape in a competition like this? There's such a thing as taking competitiveness too far, though. Clearly I can hardly trust the fellow members of my sect to have my back. I mean, they'll behave much the same way on actual missions because it's what they've learned, right?
I wonder if Jue Zhu is making similar discoveries about his new 'peers'...cultivators make enemies so much more easily than friends that I'd be shocked I have any if it wasn't for the fact they're from my old world in the first place..."