Chapter 263: The History of Demonic Cultivators
The female Demonic Cultivator’s gaze fixed on Song Jiulai for several seconds.
After a while, she licked her lips.
The Bone Cage Carriage moved away, and their line of sight was broken.
Their exchange of glances didn’t attract anyone else’s attention.
Song Jiulai observed that this female Demonic Cultivator didn’t seem as panicked as other Demonic Cultivators.
The people around were discussing excitedly.
“I heard the Demonic Beasts they sell are quite expensive.”
“This batch is of such good quality, did you see their appearances? Each one is top-tier. They’ll definitely be auctioned off, each one fetching a sky-high price!”
“That Blue Butterfly tribe member with wings is so beautiful! If I could own a slave like that, my life would be complete!”
“I prefer the one from the Sky Leopard tribe. Demonic Cultivators from the Sky Leopard tribe are not easy to capture!”
“Dream on, your wealth isn’t even enough to glance at them. If it weren’t for a major city like Xuanwu City, ordinary Sects wouldn’t be able to capture them!”
The slightly lewd voices of those discussing could be heard at any moment.
Song Jiulai bought some dried meat and touched the Felt Hat on her head.
She had just bought it, after all, she had just eliminated a few people and needed to keep a low profile.
She walked through the crowd of people discussing, their noisy voices seeming to come from another World.
She walked quickly, so fast that the sounds couldn’t catch up to her figure.
Her movement stirred up a gentle breeze, brushing past a Young Girl in a white dress.
The Young Girl smelled a faint, fresh scent of medicinal powder amidst the mixed odors.
The Young Girl looked up, her exquisite face seeing the carriage pulling the Bone Cage enter the massive Black Tortoise Tower and disappear.
She whispered, “Huo Yuan, the Divine Ancestor does not bestow grace upon you; it is your retribution.”
After speaking, she lowered her head, turned, and also disappeared into the crowd.
Song Jiulai sat on the Flying Magic Treasure back, murmuring, “Before, I thought Myriad Immortal Sect was one of the Five Great Sects, but now I think Myriad Immortal Sect is quite interesting.”
System: “Because Myriad Immortal Sect has no slaves?”
“Maintaining individuality in a world with a strict hierarchy is not easy. If what the Boss said earlier is correct, it means that Myriad Immortal Sect is the only one on the Yunzhou Continent that doesn’t have slaves, and it’s a consensus. Even our Players haven’t heard about slaves.”
Judging by Xuanwu City’s actions and the discussions of those people, slaves should be something popular only in Major Sects. After all, they implement strict appearance-based rules, and those captured as slaves wouldn’t be ordinary Demonic Cultivators.
People from Small Sects don’t have the ability to access these, but they understand them to varying degrees.
She hadn’t been in the Longshuang Great Marsh for long, so no one had casually brought up this matter, but she just happened to run into it today.
Only Myriad Immortal Sect had absolutely no information.
Either the Players’ activity range is still too small to gather much information.
Or Myriad Immortal Sect consciously prevents Small Sects from accessing these.
Because the Flying Sparrow Sect previously mentioned that Demonic Cultivators were feared, and killing Demonic Cultivators was a consensus.
But there was never any mention of capturing Demonic Cultivators as slaves.
The System proposed another Angle: “Another factor for Small Sects not having slaves might be – Demonic Cultivators retaliate.”
After all, super major Sects have enough power to protect themselves.
But Small Sects cannot.
It would be a life-threatening matter if even one Demonic Cultivator infiltrated the Human Race.
Song Jiulai nodded.
Based on the information currently understood, the structure of the Yunzhou Continent is beginning to emerge, but only the demons are too complex.
Honestly, even the Sacred Beasts from before should be considered demons in the cognition of Huaxia people.
After all, Huaxia has too many mythological systems, and the Yunzhou Continent is even more complex.
Sacred Beasts are super Spirit Beasts Pro versions that exist outside the Yunzhou Continent.
It is said that the existing Sacred Beast lineage are merely descendants of Divine Beast bloodlines.
The true ones that have left the Yunzhou Continent, perhaps left this World, are called Divine Beasts.
Including Azure Dragon, Vermilion Bird, Black Tortoise, and White Tiger, these are all confirmed, vanished Divine Beasts.
They should be the first Divine Beast Ancestors in the Yunzhou Continent’s heaven and earth.
That should be what Huaxia people recognize.
Spirit Beasts are just beasts; they cannot transform into human form but can, to a certain extent, undergo Ancestral Return and possess Sacred Beast bloodlines.
Demonic Beasts are even more pathetic; they are ugly and don’t possess either quality.
Demonic Cultivators can transform into human form, but they don’t have the innate advantage of Sacred Beasts, being powerful from birth. They must cultivate through the Tribulation Stage to succeed. Like the Human Race, it is more difficult, but also more powerful.
It was learned from the Secret Realm that Demonic Cultivators coexisted with the Human Race in the past.
The Wing Sect is a Demonic Cultivator Sect; this has been proven.
Forget the Wing Sect, that Wu Di Sect whose traces have been completely erased.
It’s quite subtle.
Song Jiulai’s mind was already contemplating many things.
But why is there such a big difference between Spirit Beasts, Demonic Beasts, and Demonic Cultivators?
They are all demons among themselves; these must have commonalities.
“Evolution, different branches.” Song Jiulai thought of a theory from Huaxia society: “The bloodlines left behind by Divine Beasts after they departed, evolved into different branches in different environments.”
System: “Very reasonable, but there isn’t enough evidence to prove they are essentially the same ancestor. At least, there’s no such saying on the current Yunzhou Continent. If they share the same ancestor, then Demonic Beasts are too shameless. In what kind of environment could they evolve like that?”
“But they were normal in the Secret Realm,” Song Jiulai recalled the majestic Black Blood Lion from before.
As soon as they arrived in Yunzhou, it was as if they were poisoned.
“At that time, Demonic Beasts looked similar to Spirit Beasts, just belonging to different species.”
After a while, both of them reached an unreliable conclusion.
Song Jiulai: “The air in Yunzhou is poisonous.”
System: “This air is poisonous.”
Of course, saying the air is poisonous is incorrect, because apart from Demonic Beasts, everything else is normal.
They enjoy the same heaven and earth.
However, Song Jiulai still insisted on a conjecture: “What if Demonic Beasts and Spirit Beasts are actually different species of Spirit Beasts, and the former species of Demonic Beasts were cursed?”
Curses and restrictions do exist on the Yunzhou Continent.
The System felt that what Song Jiulai said made sense, and these conjectures were not baseless thoughts. They were determined to become the number one Sect, and the main storyline of the Yunzhou Continent would eventually be slowly unearthed.
System: “Such a vicious curse doesn’t seem like something ordinary cultivators could achieve. To maintain such a state for a species for thousands of years, at least a batch of Tribulation Stage cultivators must have perished.”
The Tribulation Stage is already an unimaginable concept, cultivators who are only one step away from Ascension.
It’s still unknown how many Tribulation Stage cultivators exist on the Yunzhou Continent now.
A batch?
What kind of concept is that.
Song Jiulai thought: “It seems that super major Sects should have left traces of this great secret. Myriad Immortal Sect should be the most convenient for us.”
System: “Look at the present, we can’t even touch the hem of the gatekeeper’s robe at Myriad Immortal Sect.”
Song Jiulai clicked her tongue and suddenly thought: “Oh right, after talking so much, I forgot to notify the Players about the dried meat. Hurry up, I want the honey flavor!”
System: “…”
