Zhou Xiongba focused his gaze on the words on the scroll.
This Life-and-Death Contract had clearly been made by a high-rank spell cultivator, using the hide of a great demon as its material and invoking the power of gods and devils as witnesses.
In one corner of the scroll, there was even a stamp bearing the words "Great Ning Eastern Province Governor's Seal."
The scroll possessed supernatural power. Once he signed his name, his divine soul would fall under its control, and he could not go back on his word.
Thus, Zhou Xiongba had no choice but to exercise extra caution, making sure the Life-and-Death Contract contained nothing he could not accept.
A moment later, Zhou Xiongba and his wife both relaxed and stepped forward with the others.
Using blood as ink and their fingers as brushes, they each wrote their names on the scroll.
"All Ninth Rank martial cultivators participating in the contest for the secret realm, come forward and leave your fingerprints as well."
With his hands behind his back, the red-robed official swept a piercing gaze over everyone present.
"Some seven thousand nine hundred years ago, there was a contest for the Dragon Abyss Secret Realm. The participating parties quarreled endlessly, regarded one another as mortal enemies, and attacked and killed each other, causing one massacre after another. In the end, it even engulfed the entire world, bringing down the Great Song Dynasty at the height of its prosperity and giving the northern giant shamans an opening.
"Had Wulie Heavenly King Ming Qianqiu not burst onto the scene three hundred years later, our human Divine Land would almost have sunk beneath the waves, and you would still be pigs and dogs raised as food by those giant shamans! Thus, in every dynasty since the Great Song Dynasty,