Everyone in the Merit Office was beside themselves with excitement.
"Heavens, fifty thousand merit points a day, and best of all, we get to keep the Soul Devourers we kill ourselves."
"Doesn't that mean we can earn tens of thousands more each day on top of the guaranteed merit points?"
"With my Hongmeng Realm strength, I can earn at least another hundred thousand merit points a day."
"I reckon I can earn a hundred and fifty thousand."
"Accept the mission, quick! There are only ten thousand spots."
"I'm in the Hongmeng Realm. I get priority."
As though they had spotted a fool with money to burn, everyone frantically clicked to accept the mission.
They could hardly be blamed for being so anxious.
The main reason was that the mission's requirements were far too low.
All they needed to do was hold the defensive line.
And it required only Hongmeng Realm or even Quasi-Hongmeng Realm strength.
The number of people clicking to accept the mission soon exceeded a hundred thousand.
Human Sovereign Fuxi, who was watching from behind, was also taken aback. It seemed there were more Hongmeng Realm experts here than he had imagined.
The main reason everyone had been unwilling to take on missions was that the rewards were not generous enough.
A newborn world like the Primordial World had little sense of the value of merit points, which was why it was willing to pay such a high price.
After screening the applicants, Human Sovereign Fuxi finally settled on ten thousand people.
With so many applicants, Hongmeng Realm experts received priority.
He selected more than seven thousand Hongmeng Realm experts alone.
After selecting these experts, he picked another three thousand people in the Quasi-Hongmeng Realm.
Only after confirming the numbers did Human Sovereign Fuxi contact them one by