Xu Taiping looked at the line of writing on the Battle Merit Ledger and frowned in puzzlement.
"Hm? The Dragon-Slaying Ranking... why issue a bounty all of a sudden, at a time like this?"
Dongfang Yuejian leaned her head over for a look, and her eyes immediately lit up.
"Thirty thousand military merit? Since when has the Dragon-Slaying Ranking been so generous?"
Xuanzhi also glanced at the Battle Merit Ledger in Xu Taiping's hand, a trace of confusion likewise entering his eyes.
"Wouldn't letting people watch our journey to the Southern Heavenly Gate mean showing the world what lies inside the Southern Heavenly Gate Ruins? Is that wise?"
Letting ordinary cultivators encounter such great secrets too early was no good thing.
If they saw certain beings that defied common sense, it might even cause some cultivators' Dao Hearts to collapse.
Dongfang Yuejian shook her head.
"But since the Dragon-Slaying Ranking dares to issue this bounty, that means there's no need to worry about that."
Master Xuanzhi nodded.
"Or perhaps the importance of showing the world what lies inside the Southern Heavenly Gate Ruins now already outweighs the harm of a small number of cultivators' Dao Hearts collapsing."
Xu Taiping, however, shook his head.
"Whatever the Dragon-Slaying Ranking's purpose may be, a mere thirty thousand merit cannot offset the disadvantages of letting outside cultivators watch our journey to the Southern Heavenly Gate."
Hearing this, Dongfang Yuejian agreed.
"This journey to the Southern Heavenly Gate is bound to expose our hidden cards. That's hardly a good thing."
Xuanzhi nodded as well.
"If we obtain some great fortuitous opportunity, I fear outside cultivators will set their sights on us too."
Although the Nine Abysses remained the great enemy of Shangqing's cultivators, the struggle for cultivation opportunities within the Shangqing Cultivation World had never