Bonus chapter one: Chapter 940! 1/6! Remaining owed chapters: 2!
Xu Kun's scalp tingled!
He did not know how many Devil Fruit users existed among the myriad races, but there were certainly quite a few!
Just as Dao Thunder Celestial Venerable had said, an SSS-tier Devil Fruit like the Dao Thunder Fruit would inevitably spark a frenzy the moment it appeared!
In the end, there was a high chance it would be acquired by someone who already possessed a Tier-SSS Bloodline or talent!
And they had to be among the best of the best, with both family standing and background indispensable!
Even some holders of SS-tier Devil Fruits were possessors of Tier-SSS Bloodlines or talents!
After all, who could refuse an additional SS-tier talent when they already possessed a Tier-SSS Bloodline or talent?
Devil Fruits were extremely scarce treasures among the myriad races. At the Asura Race's auction, held once every fifty years, only one SS-tier Devil Fruit would be put up for sale. Even so, the Three Saint Races would still enter the bidding!
By that logic, every Fruit user's innate quality was exceptional. They truly deserved to be called fertile soil!
Yet unbeknownst to them, every Fruit user, Xu Kun included, had become lambs awaiting slaughter beneath the Devil Pact!
"That's not right!" Xu Kun frowned. "Since the Devil Fruit Tree used Devil Fruits to entice the geniuses of the myriad races into signing Devil Pacts in order to help It become a god one day, then why did the Demon Race..."
The Demon Race had already come into contact with that ominous force!
It had even fallen from being one of the Seven Royal Races, had its royal sequence taken away, and seen its surviving members abandon even their race's name, declining into a