East Sea City!
A year ago, Tianshui Sect began spreading word that it would hold an Apprenticeship Assembly and openly recruit disciples.
From that moment on, martial artists from throughout the Chu Kingdom and beyond had streamed toward Tianshui Sect without end.
For an entire year, the four cities to the southeast, southwest, northeast, and northwest of Sea Heart Island had been packed to bursting. Several million people had come to participate in Tianshui Sect's disciple examinations.
Were several million people a lot?
For a sect like Tianshui Sect, they were.
But for the vast human race of the Devil Realm, several million was an extremely small number.
For a major sect like the Seven Nights Divine Sect, the moment it announced that it was recruiting disciples, tens of millions would head to the Seven Nights Divine Sect to seek instruction almost instantly.
After enduring the journey by land and water, Lin Bai and Yi Gu sat down and drank for a while before returning to their rooms to rest.
Back in his room, Lin Bai asked the crow perched on his shoulder, "What kind of treasure is that Demon Cloud? A Grand Yi Divine Weapon?"
"Do you think Grand Yi Divine Weapons are cabbages?" the crow said irritably. A mass of dark cloud flew out from the ring around his ankle and hovered before Lin Bai.
The cloud was not large, only about the size of a fist. It was vortex-shaped and pitch-black all over. The naked eye could not see through it, and no one could tell what was hidden inside.
Lin Bai extended his divine sense to investigate, only for an invisible force to shred it into pieces.
This Demon Cloud possessed extremely powerful self-protection. It could block and retaliate against any probing divine sense.
"It counts