Ugou Mirai was the Proof, but the Iron-Cast Palace still had no idea what the Proof actually was.
Why would Ugou Mirai—a grown woman... a grown dog—be the Proof?
Were the other competitors' Proofs alive too?
At first, the Iron-Cast Palace and Fang Cheng had both thought the Proofs were made by the survivors of the first competition for the Lord of Ten Thousand Monsters, to weed out anyone unqualified.
But from what the Nine-Tailed Fox had just said, the Proofs had already appeared during the first competition for the Lord of Ten Thousand Monsters.
"The Proof is a special object. You'll only find out exactly what it is after becoming the Lord of Ten Thousand Monsters."
The Nine-Tailed Fox explained, "It can turn into anything. Only after its holder is completely defeated will the Proof reveal its true form."
After hearing the Nine-Tailed Fox's explanation, Fang Cheng finally understood what was going on.
The competition for the Lord of Ten Thousand Monsters was like a battle royale. Every qualified competitor received a Proof.
The Proof's true form was unknown. It could turn into anything, and only after a competitor holding one was defeated or killed would the Proof reveal its true form.
The Proofs attracted one another, like Stand users, so there was no escaping them.
This forced every competitor to rely on their strength to defeat their opponents. Scheming, deception, and theft were useless, too.
After the first competition for the Lord of Ten Thousand Monsters ended, the survivors had treated the Proof as a qualification to compete.
They had really just wanted to form a little clique: on the one hand, to weed out unqualified monsters, and on the other, to mislead the Great Demons around the world who didn't know the truth.
The fewer monsters who