After choosing their faction, Yue Yang and Ika turned toward the passage on the left.
From this moment onward, everyone they encountered from the dark faction would be enemies locked in a fight to the death, even if they were their closest friends or family. Of course, Yue Yang had no such heart-wrenching trouble. He had no friends in the Heaven Realm who had entered the Trial Grounds, and as for family, they were all staying in his Tome World. Whatever enemies he encountered, he could simply kill them—there was no need to agonize over whether to show mercy...
Apart from the great hall at its entrance, Demon Valley opened out into a battlefield divided between two factions.
This enormous battlefield was even more vast than the Dragon Soaring Continent.
A boundary ran through its center.
Ten fortresses stood along that boundary, with the Angel Alliance and the dark faction each holding five.
The fortresses could only prevent the native inhabitants of the opposing sides from crossing the border to fight. True challengers could not possibly be stopped. If they possessed enough strength, challengers could storm into the opposing camp and unleash a massacre, becoming a murderous maniac like Ji Wuri and making the native inhabitants turn pale at the mere mention of their name.
"Are you certain you wish to join our Angel Alliance?" At the end of the left passage stood a kindly old man beneath a gigantic angel statue, smiling as he asked.
"If they replaced you with a beautiful woman to welcome and guide newcomers here, I believe the number of people joining the Angel Alliance would increase dramatically." Yue Yang raised an issue that no one had ever objected to before. The kindly old man froze for a moment, then burst into hearty laughter.
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