"The Dragon-Slaying Ranking is clearly favoring Xu Taiping's team!"
"Exactly! Why would an ordinary viewing warrant such a huge reward?"
"Thirty thousand battle merits, three million gold essence coins, Three Primordial Chaos Metal Essences, and now... now it's even offered to have the Dragon-Slaying Ranking personally protect their path! Has it gone mad?"
Once the bounty and rewards appeared on the Dragon-Slaying Ranking, the previously lifeless spectator seats abruptly burst into a frenzy again.
Most of the spectating cultivators, however, were condemning the Dragon-Slaying Ranking's unfairness.
Naturally, those watching inside Spring Rain Pavilion were the exception.
Little Commandery Princess Chu Xiaoxiao even said with undisguised delight:
"It's playing favorites, that's right! What are you going to do about it?"
But cultivators who knew the Dragon-Slaying Assembly well, such as the Xiahou siblings and Old Martial God Zhu Huai, wore expressions of bewilderment and confusion instead.
Old Martial God Zhu Huai tapped the table, his brows tightly furrowed.
"The Dragon-Slaying Ranking would never favor anyone. Or rather, it has no way to favor anyone."
Xiahou You agreed:
"That's right. Though the Dragon-Slaying Ranking has a Ranking Spirit, the rules of the Dragon-Slaying Assembly were set a million years ago."
"Moreover, those rules were established through a Heavenly Dao Edict jointly imposed by the First-Generation Great Emperors of the Five Heavens."
Xiahou Qingyuan also spoke with a cold expression:
"If the Dragon-Slaying Ranking truly had that ability, it would probably have issued a bounty for all the Dragon-Slaying Persons to join forces and slaughter the three demon cultivators from the Nine Abysses as soon as they entered the Immortal Burial Ruins."
Little Martial Aunt Lu Rushuang nodded as well.
"Supposedly, during each Dragon-Slaying Assembly, not only is the number of bounties the Dragon-Slaying Ranking can issue limited, but the rewards must also