Hearing this, Xiahou Qingyuan sneered and said:
"Do you two seniors truly believe this rabble can wrest the top spot from Nine Abysses?"
His question left Martial God Zhu Huai and Jiang Cuicui stunned.
In truth, although both were very glad to see the eighteen teams of cultivators from the Shangqing Realm united, it was hard to say who would win if they actually faced the Nine Abysses Team.
After all, in the cultivation world, the higher one climbed, the less strength could be measured by numbers.
A cultivator in the half-immortal realm, for instance, could annihilate tens of thousands of cultivators in body and soul in an instant, even alone, so long as they were not bound by a Heavenly Dao Edict.
So even with these seventeen teams joining forces, it was still hard to say who would ultimately take first place.
Just as those in the Spring Rain Pavilion were discussing this, a chorus of oaths suddenly rang out from the Moonshadow Stone Projection below.
Everyone looked closely and saw that, after swearing their oaths, the cultivators in the courtyard had indeed all agreed to the Chu Household and Fu Household's proposal. Led by the two households' Dragon-Slaying Persons, they began pressing their handprints onto the Soul Contract Talisman one after another.
"Boom!..."
Once the Dragon-Slaying Persons of all seventeen households had pressed their handprints onto it, a bolt of blood-colored lightning suddenly descended from the sky and plunged straight into the talisman on the table.
At the same time, a faint red mark appeared on the back of nearly every cultivator's hand, apart from the accompanying Dragon Catchers.
Then the Fu Household Clan Elder, Fu De, put away the soul contract and solemnly assured everyone:
"Whether this hunt for Yuanlingzi succeeds or not, this Talisman Contract will