When Liu Bai and Ding Xuan entered the Great Thousand Tower, Ding Xuan suddenly realized that the branch of the greatest faction in the Great Thousand World that Liu Bai had mentioned actually resembled a tavern.
The only difference was that deep within the Great Thousand Tower stood a massive counter, and behind it was an enormous spiritual energy light screen on the wall. The screen continuously flickered, with numerous names appearing from time to time, clearly synchronized with the Demon Slaying Ranking outside.
Aside from the Demon Slaying Ranking, various missions and information regarding the appearance of Fiend Clans would occasionally appear on it as well. However, the latter was relatively rare, and the moment such information appeared, large numbers of Demon Slayers would swarm toward it, so it never remained for long.
As for the missions that remained displayed for a long time without being removed, it meant the difficulty was extremely high and the enemies were very powerful, so everyone treated them cautiously.
"Do you see that area that looks like a tavern?" Liu Bai gestured toward it while speaking to Ding Xuan. "That is the recruitment area..."
"Generally, those who wish to search for treasures or hunt Fiend Clans within the surrounding void continent fragments move in teams. If they act alone, their survival rate is not high."
"This so called recruitment area is where people waiting to form teams or be recruited by others gather together..."
"If we want to recruit people later, we can simply head over there."
Ding Xuan silently nodded, his gaze toward those people filled with solemnity.
He could sense that the vast majority of people in that area emitted powerful spiritual energy fluctuations, and within those fluctuations was a dense baleful aura. Clearly, they were ruthless individuals who constantly experienced life and death battles.
"Come, let us first obtain our Demon Slayer Tokens."
The manager of the Great Thousand Tower branch on Abyss Continent was not the sleepy old man hidden behind a counter that one might imagine. Instead, it was a beautiful middle aged woman seated cross legged behind the counter in cultivation.
A look of surprise flashed through Liu Bai's eyes. If he remembered correctly, branch managers of this level were all Heavenly Sovereign experts, and among experts of that level, men were still the majority.
Of course, regardless of whether the other party was male or female, Liu Bai had no interest. What he needed now was simply a Demon Slayer Token.
"Greetings, Senior!"
Liu Bai and Ding Xuan bowed respectfully toward the middle aged woman.
The latter slowly opened her eyes and glanced at the two of them. Her gaze was calm and emotionless.
"What is it?"
Those simple two words already proved that this senior was not someone who enjoyed talking.
Of course, it was also possible that small fry like Liu Bai and Ding Xuan were simply not worthy of her enthusiasm.
"We have come to obtain Demon Slayer Tokens. We ask Senior for your assistance," Liu Bai said directly without wasting words.
The middle aged woman nodded upon hearing this.
"Our Great Thousand Tower has no additional requirements for issuing Demon Slayer Tokens. Have the two of you already made your decision?"
Liu Bai and Ding Xuan nodded simultaneously.
Seeing this, the middle aged woman wasted no more words. With a wave of her hand, Liu Bai suddenly felt a slight pain at his fingertip. Then he saw two drops of blood fly out from himself and Ding Xuan before floating in front of the woman.
This move shocked Ding Xuan somewhat.
He had not even had time to react before the other party had already taken a drop of his blood. Such methods were truly domineering.
Previously, when he heard from Liu Bai that every Great Thousand Tower had a Heavenly Sovereign expert guarding it, he had still found it difficult to believe. Now it seemed that he was simply ignorant.
The process of creating the Demon Slayer Tokens appeared extremely simple. The middle aged woman flicked out two rays of spiritual light, wrapping around Liu Bai and Ding Xuan's blood. Then the spiritual light solidified and transformed into two tokens that flew toward them.
Liu Bai reached out and caught his token. It was black in color, with the blood red words "Demon Slayer" engraved upon it. At the bottom of the token were the words Low Rank Demon Slayer.
"If you kill a Fiend Clan member, simply shatter a strand of its fiend soul and pour it into the Demon Slayer Token. You will then receive the corresponding Demon Slaying Points. Furthermore, the Demon Slayer Token is refined using your essence blood, so only you yourself can inspect the Demon Slaying Points within it. Even if others obtain it, it is useless to them," the middle aged woman explained.
Liu Bai examined the Demon Slayer Token in his hand before clasping his fists toward the woman.
"Many thanks, Senior."
Unfortunately, the woman had already closed her eyes and returned to meditation, completely ignoring Liu Bai's thanks.
Liu Bai naturally did not care.
The other party was a Heavenly Sovereign expert and naturally possessed her own pride. A mere Earth Sovereign like himself was not qualified to become angry.
However, recalling the scene in the original story where Mu Chen and the others followed the Heavenly Sovereign expert Crimson Flame Old Immortal at the Great Thousand Tower branch in the Saint Abyss Continent once again proved the correctness of the phrase "strength is supreme."
"Come, let us head to the recruitment area." After obtaining the Demon Slayer Tokens, Liu Bai directly turned and walked toward the tavern like section.
The arrival of the two also attracted the attention of many people.
However, in their eyes, Liu Bai was merely a Lesser Earth Sovereign. Though handsome, he lacked any bloody or baleful aura around him, looking exactly like an inexperienced rookie.
Ding Xuan's sharp saber intent did give off some bearing of an expert, but he had lost an arm. A half crippled Greater Earth Sovereign clearly would not possess much capability.
For Earth Sovereigns, losing an arm was originally not considered a severe injury. Regrowing severed limbs was not difficult. Thus, one almost never saw disabled people within the Great Thousand World.
As for someone like Ding Xuan, it usually meant they had suffered some especially severe injury that left behind lingering aftereffects, forcing them to endure bodily mutilation.
No matter which case it was, it proved that Ding Xuan's combat strength would not be very powerful.
Therefore, after only a single glance, these people had already judged the strength of the two and shifted their gazes away, directly ignoring them.
Liu Bai did not mind. He understood clearly how arrogant these people were. However, as long as there were sufficient benefits, their arrogance would naturally disappear.
"Everyone, the two of us wish to form a Demon Slaying squad to eliminate some fiends. Is anyone interested in joining?"
Liu Bai spoke with a smile on his face.
"Hunting Fiend Clans? Boy, have you even seen what those fiends from outside the domain look like before daring to speak of exterminating them?" While most people chose to ignore Liu Bai, a giant man whose seated height was almost equal to the standing height of normal people looked over coldly and spoke.
The upper half of the giant man's body was bare, while the lower half wore black scale armor. On the table beside him rested a bronze giant axe as large as a carriage wheel. With Liu Bai's eyesight, he could tell that this giant axe was likely a Quasi Saint Artifact and should be the giant man's weapon.
"I was fortunate enough to encounter one once and even exchanged blows with it. Unfortunately, I was not its match and could not kill it."
Liu Bai sighed while shaking his head.
Naturally, he was referring to the Sky Swallowing Demon Emperor. He truly had exchanged blows with the other party once. It could be considered an evenly matched battle. After all, even after the other party sacrificed one of his lives, he still failed to kill Liu Bai, so there was certainly nothing wrong with saying it that way.
A trace of surprise flashed through the giant man's eyes.
"Oh? Then your luck is rather good."
"However, how many fiends are you talking about exterminating, and what level of strength do they possess? If it is only one, then I have no interest in wasting my time."
Liu Bai looked at the man, knowing he had become interested, and replied,
"As many as you want in terms of quantity. Their strength should be decent enough. Five Demon Kings and dozens of Demon Generals. That should satisfy your appetite, right?"
The giant man's eyes widened as he spoke in a deep voice,
"Boy, are you trying to fool me? Five Demon Kings, dozens of Demon Generals, and unlimited numbers? Do you intend to wipe out an entire Fiend Clan or something?!"
"You guessed correctly. It truly is a small Fiend Clan..."
Before Liu Bai could even finish speaking, the entire area instantly erupted into an uproar.
Even the middle aged beautiful woman who had been meditating behind the counter opened her eyes without anyone noticing. Her eyes, resembling a deep and boundless starry sky, looked over toward them.
"Do you understand the consequences of speaking nonsense here?" The giant man directly stood up. Standing over two and a half meters tall and possessing an enormous physique, he gave off an overwhelming sense of oppression!
"I am not so bored that I would come all the way to Abyss Continent just to play around with all of you," Liu Bai replied calmly, completely indifferent to the killing intent radiating from the giant man.
The expressions with which the crowd looked at Liu Bai immediately changed slightly.
One had to know that this giant man was not some nobody.
The giant man was named Chu Xiong. Although he was currently only a Low Rank Demon Slayer, his combat strength was absolutely among the very best within the Low Rank Demon Slayer ranks, and he was extremely famous throughout the entire Abyss Continent branch.
It was only because the Fiend Clans appearing within the Abyss Continent region had become fewer and fewer in recent years, making it increasingly difficult to accumulate Demon Slaying Points, that he had not advanced his Demon Slayer rank.
"I want to know the exact situation. If what you say is true, then I can accompany you on this trip."
Chu Xiong casually picked up the exaggerated giant axe resting on the table and stared at Liu Bai while speaking in a deep voice.
"A Lower Plane invaded by a Fiend Clan. A small clan known as the Blackstone Devil Clan."
Liu Bai's simple sentence directly caused another uproar among everyone present.
"What did you say? A Lower Plane invaded by a Fiend Clan? Could it be your home plane?" Chu Xiong's expression changed as he asked.
Liu Bai shook his head.
"Not mine. His..."
As he spoke, he pointed toward the one armed Ding Xuan beside him.
Everyone knew that Great Thousand World experts could not enter Lower Planes freely. Forcefully entering could easily cause the plane to collapse, or the plane's power would reject them and injure them instead.
Only people who originally came from that plane could return easily. Alternatively, carrying spiritual objects born from that particular plane as a key would also allow entry.
In the original story, Mu Chen had entered White Dragon Continent using the White Dragon Spiritual Pearl.
The crowd turned their gazes toward Ding Xuan. Looking again at his severed arm, they immediately understood.
That injury was most likely caused by those Fiend Clan members. If the wound had been corrupted by demonic aura, then it truly would not recover within a short period of time.
Perhaps because Liu Bai's words had sparked the interest of these previously indifferent Demon Slayers, another person stepped forward at this moment.
"Even if what you say is true and it really is a Lower Plane occupied by a Fiend Clan, what qualifications do you have to exterminate them? From my perspective, you are simply going there to die..."
Liu Bai looked over and saw that the speaker wore green robes and carried a rust covered iron sword on his back. However, the sword intent emanating from his body was even stronger than Ding Xuan's saber intent.
Another Greater Earth Sovereign not inferior to Chu Xiong. He was clearly another rather famous Demon Slayer.
"May I ask for this brother's name?" Liu Bai cupped his fists politely.
"She Ming!" the sword carrying man replied in a deep voice.
"So it is Brother She. Then what advice does Brother She have?"
The man named She Ming did not waste words and directly replied,
"Let me see your strength..."
In truth, he simply looked down on the combat abilities of Liu Bai and Ding Xuan. If the two of them became liabilities later, would they not end up dragging everyone down?
Such matters were fatal to Demon Slayers, which was why She Ming spoke up.
"So that is how it is..." Liu Bai glanced around before saying, "This is not the place to fight. How about Brother She accompanying me outside for a moment?"
She Ming directly stood up from his seat and replied concisely with a single word.
"Alright!"
Afterward, the two directly headed outside the Great Thousand Tower.
The surrounding spectators hurriedly followed behind. Even those who previously appeared uninterested could no longer suppress their curiosity.
They truly wanted to know what methods this young man possessed that made him so confident even when facing an expert like She Ming.
The middle aged beautiful woman behind the counter looked at the crowd leaving the building, and even she felt somewhat curious.
However, with her status, naturally there was no need for her to follow them outside to watch. A simple sweep of her spiritual sense allowed her to observe everything outside clearly, and there was no need to worry about those youngsters discovering it.
After finding a relatively remote area within the city, Liu Bai and She Ming stood facing each other.
Before the latter could speak, Liu Bai directly flicked his finger, and a golden grand array instantly appeared within the area. Spiritual energy gathered together, and dragon roars immediately echoed throughout the formation.
Gigantic dragons completely condensed from the purest spiritual energy coiled within the formation, glaring fiercely at She Ming as they locked onto him. A terrifying pressure directly descended upon his body.
The Nine Dragons Slaughtering Immortal Array!
And it was the complete version of the Nine Dragons Slaughtering Immortal Array!
This was an array diagram Liu Bai had obtained from the Ancient Heavenly Palace. The complete Nine Dragons Slaughtering Immortal Array was a Mid Rank Grandmaster Spiritual Array, but when all nine dragons gathered together, the power of the array could approach Great Perfection Earth Sovereign infinitely closely. Against ordinary Greater Earth Sovereigns, it was absolutely capable of instant annihilation.
Because of this array, Ling Xi had specifically exchanged with Liu Bai previously, willing to trade a High Rank Grandmaster Spiritual Array for this array diagram.
Of course, the reason Ling Xi was willing to suffer such a disadvantage was not because she wanted to complete the incomplete Nine Dragons Slaughtering Immortal Array for Mu Chen. Rather, it was because neither she nor her brother currently possessed even a single Grandmaster level array diagram in their possession.
Ling Xi's promise to Liu Bai was essentially equivalent to writing an empty check.
Even though that empty check would definitely be honored eventually, in their current situation where they possessed nothing, they could only raise their bargaining chips in advance in order to obtain the other party's item first.
It was somewhat similar to taking a loan to buy a house.
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