If Liam had been a random lone cultivator seeking a simple source of income, joining the battle cages would have only required him to knock on the door.
However, Liam's identity was a huge problem. Also, even if Grace refrained from pulling scams, using the battle cages as her shop's base of operation demanded the approval of the big players managing that system, or at least their willful ignorance.
Rooting experts couldn't achieve that. They would end up in one of the big players' clutches, if not many of those. There was no escaping that since the system belonged to those forces, so the best the couple could achieve was to choose their patron.
Ray would get a cut of whatever the couple earned, but such was the price of freedom, even one as limited as what awaited ahead.
Those shortcomings had been agreed-upon before leaving the underground hall, so Liam's thoughts never once went there while Ray led the way, focusing instead on his still-hissing mind.
