Chapter 465: The Demon-Hunting Era Begins in Dongxuan City

Currently, the cultivators under Dongxuan City's command number in the tens of thousands.

Add to that the cultivators gathered in Dongxuan City who have not fully joined it, and there are at least over a hundred thousand cultivators.

How many Green Demon Clan members could possibly be invading the entire Xingluo Province while lingering around Dongxuan City?

Continuing like this would only create a situation of too few wolves for too much meat, which is detrimental to Dongxuan City's future development.

Facing this situation, channeling is better than blocking.

The grudge of blocking one's path is one that cannot be shared under the same sky.

Even Ye Qingxuan would not wish to see himself resented by too many of his subordinates.

Moreover, directly refusing the request from Dongxuan City's outer-circle members to form Demon-Hunting Armies and hunt the Green Demon Clan does not align with his interests.

Rather than forcibly rejecting their requests and restricting their independent hunting of the Green Demon Clan.

It is better to lift the restrictions and fully ignite the enthusiasm of Dongxuan City's cultivators to hunt the Green Demon Clan.

Thinking this, Ye Qingxuan unconsciously spoke:

"Perhaps I should make the chessboard even larger."

After making his decision.

Three days later, Ye Qingxuan issued another announcement.

This announcement.

Ye Qingxuan did not issue it through the Dongxuan Token.

Because the content of this announcement was not merely effective for cultivators affiliated with Dongxuan City.

It was directly aimed at all cultivators within Dongxuan City.

The specific content of the announcement includes the following points:

First point.

Henceforth, any Nascent Soul realm cultivator and above, regardless of whether they are affiliated with Dongxuan City.

After submitting a sum of spirit stones, may apply to form a Demon-Hunting Army within Dongxuan City.

In addition.

Cultivators who do not wish to form or join a Demon-Hunting Army, regardless of their cultivation base.

May register directly as Demon Hunters in Dongxuan City and participate in the hunt against the Green Demon Clan.

Second point.

All Demon Hunters will receive a Demon-Hunting Token.

All army commanders of registered Demon-Hunting Armies will receive a Demon-Hunting Army Command Token issued by Dongxuan City.

The Demon-Hunting Army Command Token can be split into multiple sub-tokens controlled by Demon-Hunting Army members.

Through the Demon-Hunting Army Command Token, members of the Demon-Hunting Army can record and tally their own Demon-Hunting Points data while hunting the Green Demon Clan.

The Demon-Hunting Token held by individual Demon Hunters possesses the same function.

The sub-command tokens held by Demon-Hunting Army members will only tally their own Demon-Hunting Points data.

Whereas the main command token held by the Demon-Hunting Army commander can consolidate the Demon-Hunting Points obtained by all members under his command.

Moreover, the Demon-Hunting Army Command Token possesses the function of a sound-transmission talisman.

Within the same Demon-Hunting Army, members can communicate and send messages to each other through the Demon-Hunting Army Command Token.

Third point.

Dongxuan City will establish two Demon-Hunting Rankings.

One is an individual Demon-Hunting Ranking, and the other is a Demon-Hunting Army group ranking.

The Demon-Hunting Rankings will rank individuals and Demon-Hunting Armies based on the Demon-Hunting Points they have obtained.

The term is set for ten years.

Any Demon Hunter or Demon-Hunting Army ranked in the top ten after ten years.

Regardless of whether they are affiliated with Dongxuan City.

Will receive substantial rewards from Dongxuan City, including spirit stones, high-grade magic treasures, talismans, array discs, elixirs, and various inheritances.

After the ten-year term, the Demon-Hunting Points will not be reset.

In Ye Qingxuan's view, resetting Demon-Hunting Points would erase the achievements of these powerful figures in hunting the Green Demon Clan.

Demon-Hunting Points are a symbol of glory obtained from hunting the Green Demon Clan.

The cultivation world is inherently survival of the fittest; the strong should naturally occupy more resources.

As long as enough Green Demon Clan members are hunted, the same cultivator or Demon-Hunting Army can remain at the top of the Demon-Hunting Ranking.

Every ten years, these Demon Hunters and Demon-Hunting Armies ranked at the front can receive a reward from Dongxuan City.

Continuously accumulating Demon-Hunting Points is the respect owed to these powerful figures, proclaiming the glory of their hunt against the Green Demon Clan.

To surpass them, one must simply strive to become stronger and hunt more, and stronger, members of the Green Demon Clan.

In addition.

Furthermore, Demon-Hunting Armies and Demon Hunters ranked in different tiers will receive corresponding title designations.

The top three will each receive a unique, one-of-a-kind title designation.

Those ranked from tenth to fourth will receive the same title designation.

Those ranked from twentieth to eleventh will receive the next-tier title designation.

Those ranked from thirtieth to twenty-ninth will receive the next-next-tier title designation.

Demon Hunters and Demon-Hunting Armies ranked outside the top thirty are not qualified to receive unique titles.

The specific title designations will be announced after ten years.

In the future, only Demon Hunters and Demon-Hunting Armies that have received title designations will be pursued by the entire Dongxuan City.

The fourth point.

After core members of Dongxuan City become Demon Hunters or form Demon Hunter Armies,

the Demon Hunter Points they earn can be directly exchanged for various inheritance resources within Dongxuan City.

The Green Demon Points earned by outer-circle members of Dongxuan City can also be exchanged for various inheritance resources, but the price is three times that for core members.

If one merely settles in Dongxuan City without joining it as a cultivator,

the Demon Hunter Points earned can only be used for ranking on the Demon Hunter List and cannot be directly exchanged for Dongxuan City's inheritance resources.

This final point.

Ye Qingxuan laid bare the differential treatment for core members, outer-circle members, and outsider members of Dongxuan City.

By doing so, Ye Qingxuan aimed to motivate outer-circle members of Dongxuan City to advance toward core membership and to encourage outsiders to join Dongxuan City more actively.

With this supportive measure in place,

Ye Qingxuan believed that most Demon Hunters or Demon Hunter Armies ranking high on the Demon Hunter List

would belong to Dongxuan City.

Once this announcement, directed at all cultivators gathered in Dongxuan City, was released, it immediately caused an uproar within the city.

In an instant,

cultivators who had long been tempted by the prospect of hunting the Green Demon Clan

rushed to register as Demon Hunters or form their own Demon Hunter Armies within Dongxuan City.

After registering as Demon Hunters or forming Demon Hunter Armies,

the cautious ones temporarily pursued the traces of the Green Demon Clan only within Xingluozhou to hunt them.

The bold ones went directly through the wormhole passages to the Green Demon Realm, waiting for opportunities to hunt the Green Demon Clan.

Among them, many cultivators,

having learned of Dongxuan City's differential treatment toward different cultivators,

who had not yet joined Dongxuan City, began registering for the city's assessments and resolved to join.

Among those who had long joined Dongxuan City but were still outer-circle members and not yet core members,

a small minority finally resolved to wholeheartedly submit to Ye Qingxuan.

They formally took Dao Vows, passed the assessment for core members of Dongxuan City, and became core members of Dongxuan City.

As time passed, a craze for hunting the Green Demon Clan swept through Dongxuan City.

Under the influence of Dongxuan City, many cultivators in the city who had first encountered the Green Demon Clan put aside their fear of them.

They began to voluntarily join the ranks hunting the Green Demon Clan.

Since the cost of registering as a Demon Hunter was not high,

almost all cultivators gathered in Dongxuan City registered as Demon Hunters of Dongxuan City.

It can be said that after Ye Qingxuan issued this announcement,

apart from mortal cultivators, the entire city of Dongxuan City became armed, officially entering the era of Demon Hunters and Demon Hunter Armies.

Under the influence of Dongxuan City,

other cities and powers in Xingluozhou followed Dongxuan City's model and opened systems for Demon Hunters and Demon Hunter Armies within their own territories.

Furthermore, as the fame of Demon Hunters and Demon Hunter Armies grew,

their system began to gradually influence powers outside Xingluozhou, spreading toward the prefectures surrounding Xingluozhou.

(End of this chapter)