A Place Where Great Peril and Great Opportunity Coexist

With two hundred thousand massive merit points and the authority of a Pacification Commissioner, Lu Chen moved through the Merit Pavilion and the Division's treasury almost without hindrance.

He first exchanged for the more than ten relatively common supplementary ingredients recorded in the Life Creation Pill formula, spending around thirty thousand merit points.

The main ingredients, such as the Life Creation Fruit and Ten-Thousand-Year Jade Marrow, were not in stock even in the treasury, so he could only keep an eye out for them in the future.

Next, following the list Yun Qingyue had drawn up, he exchanged for a batch of precious materials used for purification, soul calming, and array formation, spending another twenty thousand merit points.

After that, Lu Chen used fifty thousand merit points to exchange for a large quantity of high-grade pills that advanced cultivation, tempered the body, and nourished the soul, as well as some advanced materials for refining magical artifacts and talismans.

He temporarily kept the remaining one hundred thousand merit points in reserve for unforeseen needs.

When he left the treasury, Lu Chen's spatial ring had become much fuller.

"Next, we wait for the Evil-Quelling Guard roster," Lu Chen said. "Let's return to the residence first. You can begin researching a method to remove the mark, while I make plans for investigating the nodes."

Not long after the two returned to the residence, the Demon Suppression Division sent someone over with a thick stack of dossiers.

The first contained the list of one hundred candidates for the first batch of the Evil-Quelling Guard, along with detailed information on each of them.

It included not only skilled fighters transferred from within the Demon Suppression Division, but also capable Rogue Cultivators recruited from the military and among the common folk, as well as several disciples