"As I mentioned before, in the beginning, our focus was on the Chi family rather than the Ning family, even though they posed a greater threat," Xia Fang continued. "Even when they became the ones to spearhead the attack, we never considered them a real danger—because, on the surface, they never did anything to warrant that level of concern."
"Their uninjured palace realm expert never directly engaged the formation barrier, instead opting to use hit-and-run tactics against it. And when that proved not to be enough, they used a few talismans here and there, along with other measures which fell within the 'acceptable' range of what we would expect a family with a foundation like theirs to have.
They never did anything that seemed out of place," Xia Fang explained.
