The Army at the Border

The words "Literary Ranking" on the Ding Ranking had also been changed to "Ten-Kingdom Spring Hunt Ranking."

Along one side of the Spring Hunt Ranking, it clearly stated: "Demon Soldier: one. Demon General: five. Demon Marshal: one hundred. Demon Marquis: one thousand. Demon Token: fifty thousand."

The Spring Hunt Ranking was brutally straightforward, determined entirely by the number of demons slain by the Ten Kingdoms' Metropolitan Graduates. The higher the ranking value, the higher the rank.

Within the Metropolitan Graduate Hunting Ground stood three Demon Mountains. Each Demon Mountain had at least three Demon Marquises commanding tens of thousands of Demon Barbarians, and at the summit of every mountain was a Demon Token.

Anyone who obtained a Demon Token would gain fifty thousand ranking points.

There were two ways to acquire a Demon Token. One was to kill one's way up the mountain; the other was to use military stratagems to infiltrate the mountain and seize it. But after a quarter of an hour, every Demon Barbarian on the entire Demon Mountain would pour out of its nest to hunt the thief down.

The Metropolitan Graduate Spring Hunt had been held for many years, yet no one had ever kept a Demon Token to the end. Either no one managed to reach a Demon Mountain at all, or they were forced to abandon the token after being hunted down.

Fang Yun stared without blinking at the words "Demon Token."

Hunting Ground Island was enormous. Since Zhuangyuan were forbidden from using Walking the Blue Clouds, and the Demon Barbarians would flee when attacked, the area that could actually be hunted in three days was limited.

Last year, Jing Kingdom had ranked eighth among the Ten Kingdoms, above Gu Kingdom and Shen Kingdom. Jing Kingdom's national strength was comparable to theirs, but