Demon-Slaying City, registration office.
Ji Yuan stood where he was.
His gaze fell on the woman who had just emerged from the inner room.
Dark red leather armor hugged her shapely figure. Her hair was tied in a high ponytail, neat and practical, and her features were strikingly delicate.
None of that caught Ji Yuan's attention.
What truly drew his eye was the furnace-like vitality coursing through her.
The Five Viscera Furnace Realm.
Even without deliberately sensing it, Ji Yuan felt the solid pressure of her immense vitality.
It was the pressure of a body cultivator whose organs had become furnaces, whose blood and energy flowed without end.
In the spell cultivators' system, she would be at the Spirit Transformation Stage.
Ji Yuan heard what the woman had said.
He did not move.
He hesitated.
His purpose in coming here was clear—a Fifth-Order Fire-Attribute Demon Core.
If he could exchange for the Demon Core, he would turn around and leave without lingering.
But this woman of the Five Viscera Furnace Realm clearly had not come to chat.
If he followed her, trouble would likely cling to him.
Several other body cultivators seemed to share Ji Yuan's thoughts. The fact that they had not left on the spot was already a show of respect to her.
Silence spread through the stone room.
The registration officer behind the stone desk looked up at Dugu Yan, then at the hesitant newcomers before him, and suddenly smiled.
"You lads are rather lucky."
He set down his carving knife and leaned back in his chair, a note of feeling entering his voice. "Do you know who's standing before you? She's a Martial—"
Before he could finish, Dugu Yan shot him a sidelong glance.
The officer opened his mouth, gave an awkward smile, and swallowed the