"Alright!"

Shu Feng smiled faintly. With a quick slash, he pricked his fingertip. He then pointed, and a ray of bloody light condensed into an incredibly mysterious Curse Seal, which sank into the center of Su Mi’s brow.

A flicker of envy flashed through Hassina’s beautiful eyes as she walked over and said, "Shu Feng, I want your Blood Contract, too!"

Shu Feng said, "Hassina, if you form a Blood Contract with me, you’ll die if I die."

Hassina’s eyes lit up, a captivating ripple in their depths. She gave a faint smile. "Haven’t we already been bound by life and death? Besides, it’s not like I can ever leave you, right?"

From the moment Hassina saw the Base Space, Shu Feng could never let her leave his side. Otherwise, his life would be in danger, and his entire family could even face annihilation.

It was for this very reason that Shu Feng had never revealed his Ability or allowed even his closest friends—Li Xuan Yi, Zhao Zixing, Ding Xiaoxue, Ma Jue, and Luo Feng—to enter the Base Space.

"Alright!"

Shu Feng smiled faintly and pointed. A glob of blood flew from his finger, condensed into a Blood Contract Curse Seal, and sank into the center of Hassina’s brow.

With this, the Steel Beast, Hassina, and Su Mi were all bound to Shu Feng by a Blood Contract. He could summon the three of them to his side at any time. By the same token, he only had six lives left to squander. Upon his seventh death, the Steel Beast, Hassina, and Su Mi would die in his place.

Shu Feng left the room, taking Su Mi with him to the Dragon Pavilion in Flame Dragon Manor.

"What a beautiful, adorable little girl! Shu Feng, who is she? So cute, so beautiful!!"

The moment Shen Xuan saw Su Mi, her beautiful eyes lit up with excitement. She strode forward and exclaimed in admiration.

"Shu Feng, who is she?"

Ning Bufan’s eyes lit up when he saw Su Mi, and he asked curiously. He had never seen such a beautiful, adorable little girl with such a noble air.

When the other prodigies from Shuijing High School saw Su Mi, their eyes all lit up, and they couldn’t help but stare at her a little longer.

Shu Feng said, "This is Su Mi. I’m her guardian!"

Normally, someone with an unknown background like Su Mi would find it impossible to get by in the Qianyuan Republic. But with Shu Feng’s status, becoming her guardian couldn’t be simpler. After all, he was an officer of the Three Flames within the Guardian Flame, so he had at least that much privilege.

Fang Yao’s voice came from a study. "Shu Feng, Ning Bufan, you two, get in here!"

Shu Feng and Ning Bufan entered the study together.

Seated in a chair inside the study was an incomparably bewitching beauty dressed in black—it was Fang Yao.

Fang Yao said, "Spirit Saint Wu Zhongchao has been afflicted with the potent poison ’Fall of the Divine.’ He needs a Spiritual Medicine called Profound Spirit Red Jade Grass. This grass can only be found in the Void Demon Hunting Ground! The higher-ups intend to send people there to find it. Are you interested?"

The Void Demon Hunting Ground was a Little World belonging exclusively to the Hunting King of the Void Demon Clan. In that Little World, he cultivated countless priceless Treasures of Heaven and Earth and opened it up, allowing experts from any world to enter and compete for them.

The Hunting King would then dispatch his adopted sons and descendants to the Void Demon Hunting Ground to fight and kill the prodigies from different worlds for his own amusement.

Besides the Hunting King’s own adopted sons and descendants, many other powerful members of the Void Demon Clan—those of the same vile ilk who enjoyed hunting alien geniuses—would also throw their own descendants into this hunting ground. Some old monsters would even enter personally to enjoy the thrill of the hunt.

The Void Demon Hunting Ground contained many Top Level Treasures of Heaven and Earth, as well as powerful legacies thrown into the arena by the Hunting King for his amusement. Among them were even some Top Level legacies that could allow someone to advance to the Spirit Saint realm.

Blue Star Spirit Saints like Spirit Saint Wu Zhongchao and Primordial Daoist Cult Leader Ji Yuanshi had all entered the Void Demon Hunting Ground in their time, hunted many Void Demons, obtained countless Treasures of Heaven and Earth, and ultimately risen to power.

Likewise, countless geniuses had also died in the Void Demon Hunting Ground. Many exceptionally talented human geniuses, hailed as having the potential to become Spirit Saints, had met tragic ends there—including even some Heaven-level Spirit Ability Users.

Ning Bufan mulled it over for a moment before shaking his head decisively. "I won’t go to the Void Demon Hunting Ground until I’m a Grandmaster."

The Void Demon Hunting Ground prepared by the Hunting King was a Little World where any power could be used, but the maximum power level it could contain was the Spirit Sect Realm.

Experts who surpassed the Spirit Sect Realm could also enter the Void Demon Hunting Ground to hunt, but their power would be suppressed down to the Grandmaster Realm by that world’s Heart of the World. 𝘧𝓇𝑒𝑒𝑤ℯ𝑏𝓃𝘰𝑣ℯ𝘭.𝘤ℴ𝘮

Ning Bufan was very self-aware; he knew that if he entered the Void Demon Hunting Ground now, he would only become prey for those Void Demons, which was why he refused so decisively.

Shu Feng asked, "What’s the reward for getting the Profound Spirit Red Jade Grass?"

Fang Yao replied, "If Wu Zhongchao is cured, he can grant you one request, as long as it isn’t too excessive. For example, he could make you the Patriarch of an Eighth-Grade Noble Family!"

At these words, Ning Bufan couldn’t help but shoot a glance at Shu Feng.

In the Qianyuan Republic, establishing a Noble Family was extremely difficult. It required territory, a certain cultivation level, and great merit. Obtaining territory in the Erosion Realm was the most difficult part, followed by the need to accumulate a massive amount of merit to be promoted to a Noble Family.

The reason the scions of Noble Families were so arrogant, with their noses in the air, was because every one of their ancestors had fought against Void Demons and established immense merit, allowing them to become Noble Families that passed down glory and wealth through the generations.

Although the Patriarch of an Eighth-Grade Noble Family was still nothing in the eyes of a First-Grade Noble Family, they had still entered the circle of nobility, becoming an aristocrat of the Qianyuan Republic. They enjoyed various privileges and could even occupy one of the hundred-plus seats in the Congress, influencing the nation’s policies.

Once Shu Feng became the Patriarch of an Eighth-Grade Noble Family, even Ding Xiaoxue’s Ding Clan would have to look at him in a new light, rather than ignoring him completely.

Shu Feng continued to ask, "Are there a lot of Treasures of Heaven and Earth in the Void Demon Hunting Ground?"

"That’s right! According to the Qianyuan Republic’s classification, Treasures of Heaven and Earth are divided into four levels: Yellow, Profound, Earth, and Celestial. The Dragon Essence Pill you took was Yellow-level Middle Grade. The Giant Dragon Blood, which can completely transform a person’s body and drastically strengthen their constitution, is considered Profound-level Upper Grade. The Profound Spirit Red Jade Grass is an Earth-level Upper Grade Treasure of Heaven and Earth."

"On the Void Demon Battlefield, Yellow-level Treasures of Heaven and Earth can be obtained anywhere. Profound-level ones aren’t uncommon, either. There are over a hundred types of Earth-level Treasures of Heaven and Earth. As for Celestial-level Treasures of Heaven and Earth, there is only one: the fruit of the Flame Phoenix Tree."

"Anyone who eats the fruit of the Flame Phoenix Tree will gain the Extraordinary Ability to control flames, and their progress in practicing Flame Element Cultivation Techniques will be doubled."

"Every twenty years, that Flame Phoenix Tree produces eighty-one Flame Phoenix Fruits. Legend has it that if someone could eat all eighty-one of these Flame Phoenix Fruits in one go, they would even develop a trace of Phoenix Bloodline within their body."