Jeff: "I really didn't know"

The sect leader seemed to be lost in thought for a while, and then he finally made a decision.

"We need to hold an internal meeting first before we can make a decision."

"You two should follow us back into the inner sect, this place is too low class to be accommodating our guests."

'What a polite way of saying "you will be under house arrest for now".'

Jeff spat in his mind, but he still maintained a polite smile on the surface, and he acted as though he was moved by the sect leader's kindness.

"Then I should thank you first, sect leader."

Tony rolled his eyes and remained silent.

'Hypocritical!'

As they made their way towards the inner sect, the second elder inquired more about the characteristics of demons.

"If we were to send people out to look for demons, what would we look for specifically?"

Jeff really didn't know, so he reiterated the fact that demons have a unique demonic nature that they adhere to.

"I told you that this guy is a liar, look, he's already hiding information from you guys."

"It is better to cooperate with me!"

"No, I'm just giving you a chance to perform."

Hearing this, Tony sneered and was about to continue arguing, but he was cut off by the second elder.

"Can you tell me what he is hiding from us?"

Tony thought for a while, and concluded that the information was not worth hiding, so he spilled the beans.

"Possessing a body is actually not an easy thing for us demons,"

"In order to increase the chance for successfully taking over a body, us demons will normally target, young people, old people, injured people, or sick people."

"If you want to search for a demon, you must check for abnormal behavior in people that fall under these categories."

Jeff was intrigued.

'Is that why I reincarnated in the body of an injured person?'

'What makes possessing a body difficult?'

He couldn't get the answer to this question for now, but he was sure that he would get the answer sooner or later.

…

Some time later.

Inner sect, sect leader's palace, in a meeting room.

The sect leader sat at the head of the rectangular table and looked at his colleagues.

"What do you guys think?"

There was silence in the room for two seconds before the fourth elder directly spoke his mind.

"This matter is too shady!"

"Not only do they take over people's bodies, but they also have weird powers that we don't understand."

"Using them is far too risky!"

"Not only do we not know the true extent of their weird powers, but we have far too little information about them!"

"Even if they say they will eventually leave, do we dare to believe them?"

"What if they made such a statement just to pacify us?"

"Those two seemed to have a conflict on the surface, but for all we know, they could have come to a cooperation agreement before coming to us!"

"We can't say for sure if they are colluding!"

"Either way, my opinion is to directly kill those two to avoid any potential mishaps."

The sect elder's expression changed subtly.

When he was at the scene, he had bought the conflict between the two, but looking back at it now…

'It might really be fake!'

Thinking so, he frowned slightly.

At this moment, the second elder who had been silent spoke:

"We shouldn't hastily make a decision on this matter."

As the oldest and the second strongest martial artist in the sect, the second elder's right to speak was very big.

Even the sect leader had to give him 3 points of respect.

So when he spoke, the elders and the sect leader listened attentively, and had to put more weight on his opinion.

"The most important thing now, is to send some people to Eagle city to check for the so called "demons "."

"This world is not big, since those two said that they are thousands of their kind who came with them, they must be at least one such person in Eagle city."

"If there is no such existence in Eagle city, although I don't personally advocate for it, we can consider killing them, but…"

After remaining silent for 5 seconds, he continued.

"There is a reason that the Fierce tiger sect has become more prosperous than our sect."

"Our sects were founded around the same time, with our sect being founded first."

"We competed with them over the control of the now, Eagle city, we won, and managed to drive them away."

"What about now?"

"Their sect is actually many times more prosperous than ours!"

"They didn't get there by being careful at every step, and being scared of taking risks!"

"I remember that back then, only two of their sect elder level power houses managed to escape."

"Those two risked their lives and fought many battles, robbing bandits, robbing small sects, robbing big sects, and doing all kinds of things that put their lives on the line."

"Back then, when the old sect leader heard about what they were doing, he sneered and said they wouldn't live long."

"But here we are twenty years later…"

"The Fierce Tiger sect is the most influential sect in the north quadrant!"

"They control one of the most prosperous cities in the world, the Tiger city, and their water transport business is booming."

"They killed all of our previous sect elders and the previous sect leader as revenge for the old feud,"

"Now we have to regularly pay tributes to them, just for them to allow our sect to exist!"

"Not only that, but their influence had started to penetrate into our Eagle city, and it won't be long before it is surnamed Tiger!"

"All I am saying is that wealth is sought in danger."

"If we want to the break status quo, then these demons might be our only way out,"

"Although it is true that we mustn't be reckless, but we must also be broad minded and take advantage of every opportunity to strengthen our selves!"

The audience was very moved by this speech.

Even the fourth elder who was clamoring to kill demons earlier felt his stance faltering.

Although the sect leader had already made a decision in his heart, he still looked towards the third elder to ask his opinion.

"I think that we should send some disciples to investigate."

The sect leader nodded in agreement, called for a sect deacon, and gave out detailed instructions.

After the sect deacon left, the meeting continued.

"How much of what those two said do you guys believe?"

…

Another place in the inner sect.

Jeff and Toby sat across each other with a small table between them, looking into each other's eyes.

At the door stood two sect deacons who were placed there to, "guarantee their safety".

Outside the house, there were more than a dozen sect disciples who stood guard with swords hanging on their waists.

The atmosphere was very tense, but the two people in the room seemed to be unable to feel it.

Seeing Tony looking at him resentfully, Jeff leaned in closer to Tony, stretched his hand to cover Tony's hand and spoke in a soft tone:

"I didn't mean to hurt you, I did it for us…"

"Fuck off!"

Tony looked disgusted and slapped Jeff's hand off.

"Pfft hahahaha!"

Seeing the look on Tony's face, Jeff couldn't help laughing.

"Bro, why are you looking at me like a betrayed girlfriend?"

"You are still alive aren't you?"

"On top of that, we are very likely to get the support of this sect."

"As long as we develop faster than the other contestants, top ten is definitely not impossible."

"You! Do you know what you have done?"

"The first guideline that our teachers taught us was literally, "Do not expose yourself to the natives!"."

"This is the wisdom accumulated by countless predecessors, do you think that you are better than them?"

Jeff's smile froze on his face.

'Eh?! There is such a thing? Then why didn't you tell me earlier?!'

'How was I supposed to know that there was such a thing?'

Considering that he couldn't show that he didn't know such a thing, Jeff pretended to be unfazed.

He sighed out loud, while adding a hint of melancholy to his expression.

"There is really nothing I can do, I was forced by the circumstances."

"As you know, my keyword is protection, if I don't take the initiative, then I won't be able to achieve anything!"

"As a demon born between the heaven and the earth, how can I resign myself to the destiny of being mediocre?"

"Even if I am going to fail, I must do so while fighting hard for my dreams!"

"To tell you the truth, when I came into this sim… When I entered this world, I had already decided in my heart that would become number 1."

"For this goal, I am willing to go all out, even if I have to subvert all the common sense I was taught!"

Listening to Jeff's speech, Tony felt moved.

'Such determination…'

But then he quickly shook his head.

'This is not determination, it is insanity!'

"Even if you want to join the elite class, this is not the way to go about it!"

"When the other contestants learn about the fact that you exposed them, we will become the public enemy!"

"Our chance of being eliminated was increased by 90 percent because of you!"

Jeff just smiled, seemingly not worried at all.

"As long as we develop at a faster speed than them and remain in the lead, we won't have to worry about them!"