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"A contest? There's such a thing?" Er Dongsheng kept his eyes on the Time and Space Crystal before him while listening to the two female demons chatter away, each trying to win him over.
Their pitches amounted to promises, benefits, and talk of joining forces.
As he mulled over what they said and searched through his memories, he gradually pieced together the situation in the Abyssal Layers.
The Abyssal Layers were in the midst of a contest for promotion to Third-Level Demon!
What was this contest for promotion to Third-Level Demon?
First, one had to understand what a Third-Level Demon was.
What was a Greater Demon?
Advancing from a Second-Level Demon to a Greater Demon required two things.
First, one's physical strength and stored energy had to meet the threshold. Anyone capable of becoming a Greater Demon was formidable in some respect, so this requirement was indispensable.
Second, one had to grasp enough Laws, drawing on past experiences to comprehend and condense Rule Patterns of one's own. Upon reaching the limit of that comprehension and forming a single complete Rule Pattern unique to oneself, one would naturally become a Greater Demon.
It sounded simple, but doing it was extraordinarily difficult.
The first requirement was manageable. Every demon lived forever, so they could meet it by investing enough time.
Trading time for strength was almost unimaginable on the Sunlight Plane, but among the long-lived demons of the Abyss, it was commonplace.
The second requirement, however, was exceptionally hard to meet!
The demons of the Abyss were as countless as grains of sand.
In just the First Abyssal Layer, each of the Nine Great Hells held