But just as Fu Kui was overjoyed, Jiang Xuanfeng immediately added:
"But on one condition: you must exchange the military merits you earn in this Dragon-Slaying Assembly's dragon-slaying campaign."
"As for what counts as military merit, you will naturally find out once you enter the Immortal Burial Ruins."
Although he heard that taking these Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures required exchanging military merits, Fu Kui still said excitedly:
"With that assurance from you, Elder Jiang, I can rest easy!"
As he spoke, Fu Kui turned his gaze back to Li Sisi's face, then declared with a measure of arrogance in his voice:
"Our Fu Household is taking Li Sisi, and that's final!"
This time, the two clan elders, Fu De and Fu Wei, did not stop Fu Kui from calling out.
They even swept their gazes around as Fu Kui spoke, clearly seeming to lend him their backing.
"Buzzz..."
Just as everyone was discussing this, the painting scroll before Jiang Xuanfeng suddenly began to tremble and hum repeatedly.
Then everyone saw several scenes of deity-summoning appear in succession within the painting scroll.
Xu Taiping glanced over them and discovered that among these dozen or so deity summoners were members of merchant households like Li Sisi just now; a great Confucian scholar holding high office at court; a wandering swordsman who roamed the martial world righting wrongs; a gang leader who licked blood from the edge of a blade; people of every stripe who made their way through streets and alleys; a gambler who had just lost everything; a prostitute beaten black and blue by her madam; and a noble young master whose family had been destroyed by the Imperial Court, leaving him with nowhere to turn...
It had to be said that, despite their differing backgrounds, most of these people