The moon was as red as blood.
Under the red moon.
Mountains, rivers, and plains lined up neatly. It did not look much different from the Human Territory.
Other than the fact that it was dyed with a layer of dark red, it looked a little strange and sinister.
However, he was the only one who would find it strange.
The Demons who lived here had long been used to such a scene.
In their eyes, the world should be red.
Lu Qingshan looked into the distance and could vaguely see some very small, faintly discernible shadows in the distance.
It was the city of the Demons.
A rotten and strange smell wafted over with the wind.
This made Lu Qingshan frown slightly.
"How do you feel?" Lu Qingshan asked Yuluo behind him.
He did not turn around, so he could not see Yuluo's expression.
However, he could feel that Yuluo was hesitant.
After a while, Yuluo replied, "Your Highness, although I already knew that the Abyss had entered a period of decline, this situation is more serious than I imagined …"
The rotten smell in the air was caused by the world's decline.
This world was old and had entered its twilight years. It was extremely rotten.
"However," Yuluo quickly regained his spirits, "when we take down the Human Territory, we will have two worlds. As long as we extract half of the Demons in the Abyss and send them to the Human Territory, we should be able to stop the decline of the Abyss and let it regain its vitality."
"Perhaps." Lu Qingshan smiled, and a bright light flashed in his eyes.
The blood-stained warship streaked across the endless sky like a streak of starlight.
On the way here, Lu Qingshan had confirmed that the Senluo King Realm was one of the five King Realms connected to the spatial passage.
Therefore, he would be able to enter the Senluo King Realm's territory soon.
They were currently in the Yan Ridge King Realm.
Not long after.
The blurry outline of a huge city appeared in Lu Qingshan's eyes.
The city walls were dozens of feet high and stretched endlessly. It looked like a black mountain range.
This was the city gate set up by the Demons, Yama City.
Although the Demons were confident that their strength was enough to crush the Human Race, they were not arrogant.
Therefore, even though they had been suppressing the human race in the city for so many years, they could not even think about counterattacking the Abyss.
However, the Demons were still prepared. They set up a city gate near the spatial passage, sealing everything and monitoring the people who entered and exited.
The battleship quickly approached Yama City.
At this time, a group of burly devil cultivators flew out of Yan Mo City.
"Halt." These demonic cultivators all wore blood-red armor, and their eyes were blood-red. Their strength was extraordinary, and they directly blocked the battleship.
Lu Qingshan glanced over and once again could not help but sigh at the strength of the Demons.
This random group of demonic cultivators guarding the city were all at the Seventh Stage Realm.
On the battleship, a Seventh Stage demonic cultivator on Lu Qingshan's side immediately jumped out and flew in front of the demonic cultivators guarding the city. He handed over a token to show his identity. "We are subordinates of the Demonic Blade Venerable."
The leader of the demonic cultivators took the token and carefully inspected it before handing it back. He then waved his hand at his subordinates.
Everyone made way for him.
The battleship started moving again and flew past the group of demonic cultivators. It turned into a streak of light and flew into Yama City, heading toward the Yama King Realm.
Many demonic cultivators in Yama City saw the blood-stained battleship fly past and could not help but turn solemn.
They could feel that this battleship was extraordinary and were certain that its owner was not a simple person.
Another four hours passed.
The Abyss entered daytime, and the battleship finally entered the territory of the Yama King Realm.
The crimson moon slowly descended, followed by a blood-red sun.
Its color was even darker than the crimson moon.
Under the influence of the sun, the entire Abyss World was shrouded in an aura of impending doom.
"What an unbearable world," Lu Qingshan muttered.
The dark red world was indeed oppressive no matter how one looked at it.
He looked ahead. At this time, a huge open-air mineral vein came into view. From afar, there were countless black dots working in it.
It was one of the Demons' mineral veins.
For the Soldier Demon Clan, mineral ores were very important resources.
As he got closer, Lu Qingshan's pupils suddenly dilated.
It was as if he had seen something shocking.
This was because he saw some … people who should not have appeared in the Abyss.
On the exposed mineral vein, there were hundreds of thousands of people in ragged clothes. They had their heads lowered and were holding tools. They were like worker ants, busily digging for ores.
That's right, they were people, not Demons in human form.
They were living people.
Most of them were mortals, and a few were cultivators with some cultivation.
But in this situation, it did not make much of a difference whether they had cultivation or not. After all, they were all slaves.
Lu Qingshan looked at the scene in front of him, and his heart was filled with shock and disbelief.
How could it be?
There should not be any humans in the Abyss.
Heavenly Mountain was the only passage in and out of the Human Realm. The Jade Gate Pass had guarded the pass for 20,000 years, protecting the Human Realm behind them and preventing the Demons from entering.
The Jade Gate Pass had never fallen in the past 20,000 years.
If so, how could there be humans in the territory of the Soldier Demon Clan in the Abyss?
He could not understand.
He could not be sure of the specific situation, but he knew that there must be a huge secret hidden in it.
A secret that no one had ever discovered.
"Could it be that there are other unknown spatial passages that lead to the Human Realm other than the Jade Gate Pass?"
Lu Qingshan looked at the mineral vein in the distance and made judgments and speculations in his mind.
After a moment of thought, he asked, "Yuluo, do you know much about the Abyss?"
Yuluo, who was standing behind him, was startled and then said honestly, "Your Highness, I don't know much. I have been in the Extraterritorial Battlefield since I was young, so …"
Not far away, the Green Snake Demon Commander, who had been paying attention to the situation, sneered when he heard this.
He finally figured out Yuluo's background — — He was a "pariah" in the Extraterritorial Battlefield.
The Green Snake Demon Commander was disdainful.
These Abyss Demon Cultivators who thought of themselves as "superior" had always looked down on those "pariahs".
Here.
Lu Qingshan had a bored expression on his face as he casually pointed at a seventh-grade demonic cultivator and said, "Tell him about the situation in the Abyss so that he won't be treated as a country bumpkin when he returns to the Limitless King Realm and embarrasses me."
As soon as he finished speaking, the seventh-grade Demon Cultivator stepped forward, looked at Yuluo, and said in a deep voice, "What do you want to know?"
Yuluo's expression did not change much, but he was touched.
This was because he should have found a way to understand the Abyss by himself.
However, because Qing Ge's subordinates were secretly working together to ostracize him as an outsider, it made it difficult for him to move forward.
His Highness must have noticed this situation, so he personally called for a subordinate to explain it to him.
This showed how highly His Highness thought of him.
"What's the situation with these humans?" Yuluo asked in a neither servile nor overbearing manner. Like Lu Qingshan, he was also a newbie. "How can there be humans in the Abyss?"
Good fellow, I really didn't misjudge you.
Although Lu Qingshan wanted to use Yuluo's mouth to help him solve his doubts, Yuluo didn't say anything.
However, when he saw Yuluo ask him the question he was most concerned about, he couldn't help but praise him in his heart.
"You're asking about these people?" The Demon Cultivator casually glanced at the mineral vein in the distance with a habitual expression. "We spent a lot of money to buy it from the Liuli Region and the Tianmen Region.
In the Abyss, they are the only ones who have an endless supply of human resources to sell. "
"By selling human resources to the other six clans, these two clans have grown stronger over the years." At this point, the seventh-grade Demon Cultivator's tone revealed some envy.
Lu Qingshan's expression didn't change, but his heart was in turmoil.
The Liuli Region was the territory of the Inner Demons.
The Tianmen Region was the territory of the Giant Spirit Clan.
Naturally, there wouldn't be any humans in the Abyss. These humans must have been plundered from the Human Region by these two clans.
The Central Spirit Region bordered the Liuli Region, and the Tianmen Region bordered the Middle Heaven Region.
The problem was, there had never been news of a large number of humans disappearing in these two regions.
Unless there was a human mole helping to hide it …
To be able to hide this kind of thing, the mole's ability was evident.
Therefore, these mole had to be at least from a top sect, or even a Taoist sect …
As for the Central Spirit Region, after the incident with the Hundred Illusion Butterfly, Lu Qingshan was very suspicious of the Spirit Huan Sect. He immediately determined in his heart that if there was a mole, it was most likely from the Spirit Huan Sect.
The problem was, it even involved the Middle Heaven Region.
The Middle Heaven Region was the territory of the Tianji Temple.
How could there be a traitor in the Tianji Temple?
Lu Qingshan didn't believe it.
Moreover, with the Tianji Temple's monitoring ability, how could a large number of humans disappear in their territory without them knowing?
Lu Qingshan's doubts didn't get answered. Instead, they increased.
His mood became much heavier.
The implications were too great.
Not for anything else, but just to send this news back to the human race, he had to protect his own life on this trip.
"Over the years, due to the continuous increase in our population, we Demons have consumed too much. The Abyss has already reached a stage of exhaustion."
"Therefore, we can only send countless untouchables to the Extraterritorial Battlefield to consume the resources of the human race. Although this is a temporary solution, not a permanent solution," the seventh-grade Devil Cultivator continued to explain.
Yu Luo secretly clenched his fists, a sinister look flashing across his eyes.
This was because he was the "untouchable" that these people were talking about.
"But there's another problem. Although we can send untouchables to the Extraterritorial Battlefield, we can't send commoners there." On the other side, the seventh-grade Devil Cultivator didn't realize that he had misspoken and continued, "Besides, without these commoners, who will mine resources for us?"
"Although the lords have already tried their best to suppress the emergence of new high-grade Devil Cultivators, it's already too late. The number of high-grade Devil Cultivators has already accumulated too much, so we need countless commoners to work for us."
The social class was always in the shape of a pyramid. The large number of people at the bottom served the small number of people at the top.
"However, once the number of commoners increases, the consumption of resources will increase even further. This is like an endless cycle."
"Until ten thousand years ago, the Inner Demon Saint Clan of the Glaze Region, for some reason, brought in many humans."
Speaking of this, the Devil Cultivator smiled and said, "The human race may not be good at other things, but in terms of production and labor, they are much better than us Demons.
They only need to consume less than ten percent of the resources of our Demons' commoners, but they can do almost the same as them. "
To put it simply, in the eyes of the Demons, the human race was "cheap labor."
"Naturally, the human race became an extremely popular resource.
However, in these years, only the Glaze Region and the Tianmen Region have an endless supply of human resources for sale. This business has become a monopoly of the two regions. "
The Devil Cultivator clicked his tongue and said, "I don't know where they got these humans. Their region is clearly the same as ours, separated into two regions by the human race."
He didn't know the situation of the other two regions.
This was because the Eight Great Saint Demons of the Abyss had always been independent and didn't communicate with each other.
Even a long time ago, the Eight Great Saint Demons had been in a confrontation for a long time in order to compete for resources and territory. There had been many conflicts and friction between them.
It wasn't until later, when the resources of the Abyss were exhausted that they stopped fighting and turned their attention to other worlds.
Therefore, their information and resources were not in common, and they didn't understand each other's situation.
At this time, the battleship was already above the mine.
Lu Qingshan lowered his head and looked down.
He could clearly see tens of thousands of human males working on the mine.
And there was only a small team of about ten Demons in charge of patrolling and surveillance.
They brandished their barbed whips and whipped the humans nonstop.
The whips were like the tongue of a viper. Every time they were lashed out, they would leave a bloody wound on the bodies of these skinny, sallow men, breaking their skin and breaking their flesh.
These humans had to work for sixteen to eighteen hours every day in exchange for a small amount of food.
Once they were injured or physically weak, they would be cruelly killed by the Demons.
In the eyes of the Demons, they were not living beings, but simply expendable goods.
Human bones could be seen everywhere on the ground, and there was even a huge deep pit in the center of the mine. Tens of thousands of human corpses were piled up in it, some had already become white bones, and some had just rotted.
Seeing this scene, a huge wave of sorrow rose in Lu Qingshan's heart.
"Who is helping the evildoers?" He, who thought that his inner will was incomparably strong, still felt like his eyes were about to pop out at this time.
He could only clench his teeth and barely control the expression on his face.
According to the demonic cultivators, this situation had begun ten thousand years ago.
Then in these ten thousand years, how many humans had been buried in the Abyss?
Tens of millions, hundreds of millions, or even billions?
A chill rose spontaneously.
Although his heart was full of hatred, Lu Qingshan's mind was calmer at this time.
For the Demons to be able to silently plunder so many people from the Human Realm, there must be a high-level human cultivator secretly helping them.
This made Lu Qingshan's heart extremely cold.
Even though he already knew that people's hearts were like ghosts, he still couldn't accept this kind of thing happening.
The Inner Demon of the Glaze Region, the Giant Spirit of the Tianmen Region, the Middle Heaven Region, and the Middle Spirit Region.
Lu Qingshan engraved these names deeply in his mind.
… …
… …
On this side, Yuluo had already begun to change the topic and asked questions about other aspects.
Lu Qingshan adjusted his emotions slightly and listened carefully to the conversation between the two.
The battleship moved forward.
Along the way, Lu Qingshan saw one huge city after another, all of which were incomparably magnificent.
After another day and night, they finally arrived at the destination of this trip.
Senluo Capital City.
This was the largest city of Demons that Lu Qingshan had seen so far.
The majestic city walls were completely black and shrouded in a faint layer of black light, like metal, the luster was terrifying.
The blood-stained battleship flew straight into the city without any obstruction.
After all, it would be too ridiculous if the guards of Senluo Capital City couldn't even recognize His Highness Qing Ge's carriage.
The battleship passed through the city for a while and rushed all the way to a luxurious palace.
In front of the palace, there was a huge square.
The demonic cultivator controlled the battleship to stop in the square, then said respectfully, "Your Highness, we've arrived."
This was Qing Ge's mansion, Prince Qing's Mansion.
Lu Qingshan squeezed out a faint "mm" from his nose, then jumped down from the battleship.
Qing Ge's mansion was tall and majestic.
There were two sixth-grade demonic cultivators standing guard outside the door.
As soon as they saw Lu Qingshan appear, they immediately said loudly, "Greetings, Your Highness."
Lu Qingshan didn't respond, but led the team in.
As soon as they entered the door, a demonic cultivator who looked quite old came up to them with a smile. "Your Highness, you're back."
From the looks of it, he should be someone with a high status in the mansion.
Lu Qingshan glanced at him and guessed in his heart.
He didn't know the layout of Prince Qing's Mansion, and he didn't know anyone in the mansion.
This was very awkward, and it was also something that he could easily expose.
However, Lu Qingshan didn't panic.
Because he had already prepared a pretense.
He pointed at Yuluo and said to the old demonic cultivator, "This is Yuluo. He's new here, so introduce him to the layout of the mansion and introduce him to the people."
This made Yuluo feel touched by "Qing Ge's" thoughtful care.
The old man was stunned at first, but he quickly reacted and said politely, "I'm the butler of Prince Qing's Mansion. You can call me Butler Feng."
"Greetings, Butler Feng." Yuluo cupped his hands.
So it's the butler.
Lu Qingshan thought to himself.
.....
At the same time when Lu Qingshan entered the capital of Senluo.
Another palace that was equally majestic and tall.
Prince Chi's Mansion.
"Your Highness, Qing Ge is back." In the hall, a demonic cultivator with a deep and powerful aura reported to Chi Pu who was sitting on the main seat.
"He's finally back?" Chi Pu had a playful expression.
"Your Highness, we've received news that something happened to Pu Qu. It's most likely because His Highness Qing Ge discovered his identity."
"Will this cause any trouble? If Qing Ge finds the Demon Lord and complains about Your Highness … "
Chi Pu waved his hand and said nonchalantly, "So what if he's discovered? Do you think I'm afraid of him? "
"Besides, this time, he led the army to attack the human race's city pass. He was supposed to win, but in the end, he was defeated." Chi Pu said with a faint smile, "He should think about how to save his face.
It's good enough that I didn't hit him when he's down. Does he dare to provoke me?
If he really wants to do that, we'll see if he's the one who's embarrassed or me … "
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