472: Chapter 472 The Ultimate Demon Palace

Led by the family of three, Nie Ning and the others successfully entered the inner region.

It was still an expanse of floating islands, but compared to the outer layer, there were more buildings of various styles.

In the foremost area, an island, larger than Yishi Mansion, hung in the air, with buildings spread across it like a city.

At the same time, a translucent protective barrier stood around it, encompassing all the islands with buildings.

Besides this, it was bustling with people inside, as a large number of Transcendents and rare beasts swept through the sky.

Coupled with the surrounding environment, it had quite a fantastical feeling of a fairyland on earth.

"Boom!"

A sudden explosion rang out, startling Nie Ning, who had been admiring the environment.

Looking towards the sound, an island not far away was torn apart.

It seemed to be affected by gravity, as the erupting flames were confined within the explosion area.

The people around seemed accustomed to this, and not many people went over to gawk.

"Don't we need to go put out the fire?"

Nie Ning turned his head to ask the beautiful woman.

The beautiful woman was named Amala; Nie Ning didn't know her last name, but she was at least a powerful wizard above the peak of the seventh rank.

The burly man was named Mike Morse, a genuine eighth-rank Transcendent Knight.

As for the little girl who appeared to be part of the family of three, she was also the most dangerous person among this group.

Annie Stephen, a pharmacist with unknown age, unknown profession, unknown level, and unknown level of danger.

Along the way, the burly man and the beautiful young woman only ate what they brought with them, and they had to find a place to hide when they ate.

Even someone with high resistance like Nie Ning would have diarrhea from time to time on the road, and he didn't even know why.

Amala shook her head: "It can't be saved anyway, why should we go?"

"Just get used to it. I really don't understand why these people like doing dangerous experiments."

Mike, who was on the side, chimed in with a complaint.

Hearing this, Nie Ning rolled his eyes in his heart.

'You guys aren't any better.'

Annie, whose attributes were unknown, was one thing, but who could have guessed that a big man like Mike was someone who liked flowers, plants, and cute dolls, preferred the color pink, and had a childish side?

Although pink was very pretty and Nie Ning liked it himself, he rarely showed it in daily life.

As for dolls...

'Hmm? Something's not right!'

Nie Ning frowned slightly; why did it feel like their hobbies were similar?

Thinking of this, Nie Ning shook his head, dispelling this strange thought.

Amala was exactly as she appeared, one word: seductive!

She had seduced him more than once along the way, causing Amivika to hold onto him the whole time, fearing he would disappear in the blink of an eye.

Regarding this, Nie Ning really wanted to complain to Amivika; was he really that kind of person?

"Sigh~"

Nie Ning let out a long sigh.

"What are you doing? If you want to save someone, just go."

Amivika shook Nie Ning's arm, thinking Nie Ning couldn't stand seeing such a scene.

Nie Ning shook his head slightly and spouted nonsense: "It's nothing, just lamenting the fragility of life."

"Let's go. Once you finish your business, we can go back and get some good rest."

Mike interrupted them.

Afterwards, led by Mike, the group flew towards the central city.

...

An hour later.

The four of them stared blankly at the island in front of them.

"Did we..."

"...miss something?"

After a long silence, Nie Ning couldn't help but ask.

According to his understanding, shouldn't joining a sect involve first visiting various big shots, and then finally facing some test from the Palace Master or Elders?

But the problem was, they just registered, received some supplies, were given an island, and that was it?

In that hour, all the procedures were completed in just five minutes, and the remaining time was because the staff were on their lunch break...

What the heck kind of lunch break is that!

The only good thing was that the facilities were complete, and they even set up health insurance for them; in the future, a portion of the contribution points from their official employment would be deposited into their health insurance card.

Just now, when the staff brought them over, they even specifically took them to the Extreme Phase Demon Palace nursing home.

It must be said, the environment of the nursing home was quite good, with specialized nanny puppets to take care of things, so at least there was no need to worry about food and drink.

Moreover, the higher the contribution points, the better the treatment; as long as one had enough contribution points, catching a giant dragon to eat was no problem.

"We have a lot to do next."

Amivika said while flipping through the Extreme Phase Demon Palace Handbook.

The Extreme Phase Demon Palace was not a charity; after the three-year grace period, they would need to take a rating exam.

Those with poor ratings would either be sent out on official business or directly expelled from the Extreme Phase Demon Palace, with a small minority allowed to stay here to do odd jobs.

According to Amivika's own guess, to stay behind, one probably needed connections.

If one had outstanding scientific research achievements, including biotechnology, materials, medicine, techniques, etc., one could get extra points.

The good news was that this place favored those who specialized in one area.

One didn't need to know many things; mastering one was enough, and personal combat power was also within this scope.

Except for the basic techniques of the Extreme Phase Demon Palace, anything could be exchanged using contribution points here, even the sect-protecting techniques!

Although the price was indeed outrageously expensive, according to the handbook, thirteen people had actually exchanged for the sect-protecting ultimate techniques, and that was purely through contribution exchanges.

However, it was confidential material after all, so there would be many restrictions.

The first rule was that one could not betray the Extreme Phase Demon Palace, and one also needed to have the corresponding restrictions branded upon them for limitation.

There were also looser terms: if one's basic individual strength reached the seventh rank, and one paid the contribution points discounted according to their strength and the time spent in the Extreme Phase Demon Palace, the learned techniques would come with non-propagation restrictions.

Nie Ning listened to Amivika's narration and nodded thoughtfully.

Although the two seemed similar, the former's restrictions were the kind where one would kick the bucket immediately upon betrayal, so the difference was still very significant.

For a power like the Extreme Phase Demon Palace, the cost to remove such restrictions was unimaginable.

If one could remove the restrictions by sheer strength, then giving the sect-protecting ultimate techniques away for free would be no problem; conversely, the Extreme Phase Demon Palace would be honored to have one.

After all, to achieve this, apart from a very few special circumstances, it was probably only possible if one reached the realm of a deity.

Fortunately, Nie Ning himself didn't have a high demand for this, so naturally, he wouldn't let others have the opportunity to restrict him.

While high-level super cultivation techniques could increase his upper limit, he could still grow normally even without them, so there was no need to obsess over those things.

Nie Ning's goal was simple: use the cultivation resources here to arm himself, and as for things with restrictions, he wouldn't even look at them.

Having a little less combat power wouldn't necessarily kill him, but having his weaknesses held by others would really cause problems!