Elsewhere, a figure in black robes stood there.
A Black Cat with glossy jet-black fur perched on his shoulder, yet it was difficult for others to see it.
The black-robed man was tall and slender, a faint trace of Dao Rhyme passing through his pupils.
Compared to before, his aura still carried a hint of gloom, but now it also held the steadfastness forged through trials and hardship.
It was Zhou Shenlong and the great demon Black Cat.
Ever since becoming a Dao Sect Dao Child, Zhou Shenlong's cultivation had advanced by leaps and bounds. Even Black Cat had undergone some kind of improvement, successfully recovering its former strength and continuing toward the Demon Race's next stage of cultivation—Ancient Demon.
Their appearance here had not been sudden.
The Dao Sect's resources were vast beyond measure. The resources within the Dao Sect Treasury were so abundant that they made one's heart tremble.
Yet no matter how plentiful cultivation resources were, they had little to do with Zhou Shenlong, who possessed little Dao Merit on his Dao Sect Token.
Dao Children could enjoy resources far more heavily allocated by the Dao Sect than those given to ordinary disciples. However, certain cultivation resources required even elders to exchange Dao Merit for them; they were not Dao Sect benefits available to everyone.
They were clearly extraordinarily scarce.
The more Dao Merit one obtained, the more one needed to spend.
Not to mention exchanges involving Providence. Though he had also cultivated a technique in that regard, it was difficult even for the Dao Sect to interfere when it came to obtaining Heaven's Way Providence.
After all, this was already considered the Era of Great Contention. The providence of the Six Paths competed against one another; to gain something, one had to give something.
Heaven's Way