“State your conditions,” Xu Yangyi interrupted Stanford and said straightforwardly.

Stanford seemed to laugh. “Mr. X, you are always so good at understanding people. If a Holy Shadow-ranked holy medicine can be scheduled in advance, I think that His Majesty the Elf King would be willing to sacrifice some spiritual force to personally draw the completed Demonic Mark for you.”

Xu Yangyi seemed to smile yet not smile. “So you were leaving something out, then? Waiting for me to watch the next fight?”

“Perhaps you can think of it in such a way that we only wanted to upgrade you with a more dependable method.”

Xu Yangyi didn’t want to haggle with this shrewd businessman. Who said that elves were pure and noble in the first place?

“When do we start.”

“At the soonest, you’ll still have to wait until the competition between the top six begins.” Stanford pondered to himself. “I believe as things stand thatI no longer have to hide anything from Mr. X. We call the power roused from a Sacred Spirit’s remnant power from its Demonic Mark a totem. The totem that any Sacred Spirit produces is in a sealed state. Only the knowledge originating from the Elves can completely awaken them. However, the preparation tools for this are very complex. In particular, there are a few things that require a blessing ceremony...