The demons, monsters, and evil spirits imprisoned in the Demon Domain had all been transported from their respective cities' Demon-Locking Secret Realms.
Those confined there were exceptionally vicious evil spirits that had harmed countless people. These demons, monsters, and evil spirits should have been executed, but the Supernatural Affairs Bureau had deliberately sealed them away to save them for occasions like this.
Yue Wen and the others had previously trained in Jiangcheng City's Demon-Locking Secret Realm, where they had greatly refined their combat skills.
Hearing Yue Wen say he wanted to inspect the demon beasts, Perfected One Nagiko asked in puzzlement, "You're going to check even this personally?"
Normally, once the local Supernatural Affairs Bureau had constructed a secret realm, it simply informed the competitors which demons, monsters, and evil spirits had been placed in each Demon Domain. Who ever let the competitors pick them themselves?
"The demon beasts' strength is important," Yue Wen explained. "As I said earlier, our opponents' overall cultivation exceeds ours. If the demon beasts are too strong, we could end up in a situation where four of their members can enter the Demon Domain to search for Starfire Stones, while I'm the only one on our side who can. That would put us at an absolute disadvantage."
"That makes sense!" Perfected One Nagiko struck her left palm with her right fist. "Then we should put in the weakest monsters possible?"
"That won't work either, even setting aside how it would embarrass River City in front of people from other cities. If the monsters are too weak and the Starfire Stones too easy to obtain, the match will move faster. At a fast pace, we won't have much time to set ambushes and plot against our opponents," Yue Wen explained. "The ideal arrangement would be evil