The three of us—yes, including Qiang Jun, who had finally deigned to join the chat group what with these concerns—would stay together from the very start of the exam, and Jingjing and I would have Chen Huan and Ezuna with us in their accessory forms to guard against the possibility of a Heaven Rank elder spy going after us directly.
When I brought up the possibility of poisons being used on us in some way, Qiang surprised me a little by volunteering to use a fair portion of his Contribution Points to purchase powerful antivenoms for the three of us. He turned out to have a vehement loathing of poisoners in general, even going so far as to say he thought it a very high likelihood that a vile group like the Cat's Cradle would use such a method. Also, he'd apparently hardly spent Contribution Points at all since arriving to the sect, not seeing the need to acquire anything they had to offer.
