The group consisting of other superpowers of the same realm were doing alright. The clans and sects that had gathered together all had good relations with one another so it was easy for them to co-operate with each other. But the loose alliance of cultivators from various weaker sects were having a lot of trouble as the unity between them was non-existent.
But still there were a few people in the group of weaker powers who were vastly superior to the other participants. These genius disciples grouped up together and called themselves the elite of this group and decided to lead the other.
Obviously quite a few disciples were not happy with this arbitrary decision and they were also unwilling to be led by piers they did not know about. But those elite disciples took a ruthless course of action and decisively killed all the disciples who tried to go against them. This scared the other disciples and they did not try to resist this anymore.
This was definitely a crude plan to maintain the unity of the group but it actually worked. With proper leaders, this group of mismatched disciples finally started to work together and co-operated with each other to complete the trial. So even though there was some serious problem with this group, at the end they were able to work together. But the same could not be said for the next group of people.
This group was the group which was with the royal family. The people who had joined this group were all here because they wanted to butter up the royal family. Not all of them had good relations with each other and quite a few among them were even enemies.
This problem had a very easy solution and the key to that lies with the person who was the one and only leader of this group. It was obviously none other than the prince himself who was here to represent the royal family. If the prince took his leadership seriously and ordered the other disciples around, they would not be able to disobey him and a pseudo cooperation would be established.
But that did not happen here. The prince who was here was completely incapable of leading. He was quite a talented person and had reached the realm of Divine Palace at a very young age. At the same time he was not a very arrogant person and that was also a good point about him.
But even with all these good qualities, he was lacking a lot of things. Specially he was extremely naive and simple in his thinking. If anyone said anything that he felt like was even remotely disrespectful, he would punish the person thoroughly.
After clearing the first stage, the second stage started immediately for Rein's group. In this stage, they were told to go through a very difficult obstacle course and they had a limited amount of time to reach the next stage.
After clearing this round they all would be able to get a treasure and the quality of the treasure would depend on how quickly the disciples were able to finish the obstacle course.
Rein was the first to finish followed by Colinde and Lu Shi. Lan was obviously slower because of her limited cultivation base. The most amazing thing was that the disciples were not blinded by the greed of getting better treasure and helped each other out in the obstacle course even if it made their chance to get the best regards lower.
Rein was also happy after seeing how well this team was working together.
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The rewards they got turned out to be dependent on the time of the person who was the first to finish the race. And if that person's time was way superior to others then he would not be getting rewarded from the trail ground. So it looked like this trial ground really wanted the participants to have very good teamwork to take on the challenges.
After completing the second stage, Rein's team was advanced to the third stage. So far three more teams had qualified for the second round and they were notified about the success of Rein's team. The other four teams which included the royal team were still trying very hard to be qualified for the next stage.
The team of weaker power disciples had already managed to qualify with their significantly large numbers. The royal team did have even more members but their cooperation was way too poor. That was the reason why they had still not managed to qualify.
All in all, this trial was getting interesting.