Even as Xu Yi worked, nearly every cultivator was rushing to exchange their merit points.
At a glance, Xu Yi saw that even the least successful had harvested three azure heterocores. Among them, a few cultivators at the peak of the Human Immortal Realm had harvested a dozen or more, and some over twenty. One blue-faced cultivator had even obtained a white-grade heterocore.
It could be said that the number of heterocores harvested and their quality were, to some extent, enough to represent a cultivator's strength.
When Xu Yi revealed his haul, everyone immediately looked down on him to the very core.
There was nothing he could do. He couldn't even explain himself. He could hardly tell everyone that he had a wondrous power of perception and hadn't fought his way here at all—he had fled all the way here.
Being looked down on at a time like this was truly no good thing, but what was done was done. Xu Yi could only accept it.
"Fellow Daoist Wu, since things have come to this, the map on the light panel shows that our next step is to pass through Purple Luo Gorge and reach the Heavenly Demon Domain. Do you have any advice?"
The speaker was a middle-aged Taoist nun, dignified and imposing. She was one of the seven cultivators at the peak of the Human Immortal Realm present.
Everyone knew what the middle-aged Taoist nun was referring to: the route marked on the light panel in their sea of consciousness.
Clearly, if they wanted to keep searching for opportunities under the rules of the Imperial Decree Platform, they could only follow the light panel's instructions.
By asking Wu Fazhu, the middle-aged Taoist nun was effectively handing him the power to make decisions.
Xu Yi saw it clearly. From