Immortal Palace Longevity

"Gulu"

Trucks loaded with various resources, dragged by monks and mortals, slowly drove through the city gate into the city.

And everything was done under the watchful eyes of the supervisors and monsters.

Playing with the black whips covered with barbs, the supervisors looked at their fellows with cruelty and pleasure.

As long as someone slacked off, the black whip would immediately hit them.

"Snap" "Uh ah"

The black whip fell quickly, and screams sounded immediately, but the people being whipped did not dare to resist at all.

The Annan Protectorate has been occupied for six thousand years. For ordinary mortals, this is an extremely long time.

When the old people who witnessed that "dark history" died, the new mortals were born slaves.

From the beginning, they were instilled with the idea of ​​being slaves and taught how to please the monster "master".

Creating value for the master is regarded as the only mission and destination.

Passed down from generation to generation, most mortals have long been accustomed to the status of slaves and do not feel anything wrong.

The history of this land is no longer their history!

Only those who have learned to write by chance and know about that past will have a raging anger in their hearts when they suffer from suffering and torture!

There are few such people, but they still exist after all.

But at this time, facing the long whip on their bodies, the heart-wrenching pain, they can only bow their heads and remain silent.

These people understand that the outbreak at this time is meaningless, it is just a waste of life.

They have a more important mission, which is to tell more descendants about the past history and pass on the "fire" from generation to generation.

Many people believe that the long night will eventually pass, and the warm dawn will come one day!

"Snap"

The black whip fell again, and the supervisor had a happy smile on his face.

It seems that only the sound of the whip and the painful wailing of the slaves can make them find the pleasure of being superior to others to alleviate the slight sense of guilt in their hearts.

But when they turned around, facing the high-ranking demon beast "master", the supervisors' faces changed into flattering smiles, and they kowtowed to make reports.

They wanted to kneel down immediately and show their loyalty to the master.

"There is only one demon cultivator."

"At the beginning of the third level, it is not a problem to hide it."

Liu Yu lowered his head, and his spiritual sense swept silently, and instantly observed the situation of the city gate.

Among the "spiritual demons", the fire sparrow bloodline can only be ranked at the lower level.

With his current attainments in the Yuanshen, it is almost impossible to observe a third-level early fire sparrow.

And the "wall of spiritual consciousness" surrounds the two people, and it is easy to see through it with the cultivation of the third-level early stage.

Unless this demon happens to have an extremely special talent, or has practiced this secret technique.

But this is almost impossible, after all, Changnan City is not adjacent to Daqian.

It has not been attacked for too long, and the defense has begun to relax.

Even though they have advanced intelligence, the nature of demon cultivators means that they cannot be as patient as cultivators, at least most of them are like this.

Just like the demon cultivator who was responsible for guarding the city gate, he was being well served at this time, and only occasionally used his spiritual sense to quickly scan over, and did not find anything abnormal.

At the critical moment, Liu Yu was very calm in his heart, and his spiritual sense was always paying attention to the demon cultivator, step by step across the city gate.

After checking that the "forbidden spirit ring" was intact and verifying his identity, he successfully sneaked into Changnan City.

"Success."

Liu Yu and Zhuo Mengzhen looked at each other and continued to do their own things.

After entering the city, the two finally saw the situation in Changnan City with their own eyes. The number of cultivators and mortals was more than they had imagined.

Countless mortals and cultivators, under the supervision of demon beasts and supervisors, kept making various artifacts.

Liu Yu looked at it and saw the prototypes of more than a dozen palaces not far away, and there were more in the distance.

Countless mortals and a few monks were surrounding the construction sites, adding bricks and tiles bit by bit.

If there was a mistake, they would be taken away by the supervisor and become food for the monsters.

Seeing this, some doubts in Liu Yu's mind were solved. I guess the buildings he saw in the Spark Mountains before were built in this way.

They were built by monks and mortals in the cities, and then collected by the monsters into space instruments such as storage rings and sent to the residences of the monsters.

"But these are just the most basic projects, which do not require too complicated skills."

"In addition, there should be more advanced projects..."

With all kinds of thoughts flashing in his mind, Liu Yu glanced at the monsters monitoring around him.

Unlike many monsters in the Hengduan Mountains, a considerable number of these in front of him were wearing "clothes", which were "armor" of different colors.

It can be seen that they should be tailor-made to protect most of the monster body under the armor, and each piece fits well.

Under the armor flashing with cold light, there is a fierce look that wants to devour people, which brings a more direct sense of oppression.

People with weak wills may not even have the courage to look directly at it.

The body of the monster is already hard, and now with the armor with strong defensive power, even if the cultivators of the same realm use magic tools, it is difficult to cause effective damage.

It is not an exaggeration to describe it as adding wings to a tiger.

"The monster race is indeed not to be underestimated. Knowing that they are at a disadvantage in terms of skills, they have begun to learn to make up for it and enslave the cultivators to refine tools."

Seeing this scene, Liu Yu's heart was heavy and he thought of more things.

Fortunately, the output of this kind of armor-like magic weapon is not high, and it is far from being widely popularized. Only monsters with spirit demon blood are qualified to wear it.

Otherwise, if all monsters have another layer of defense, it will be a nightmare for most cultivators!

…

"Zizizi"

Under the calcination of the blue flame, the purple ore melted quickly.

The impurities inside were slowly separated bit by bit.

Only half a quarter of an hour later, a fist-sized ball of lavender liquid was extracted.

This spiritual material is called "purple gold stone".

Purple gold stone is a second-level spiritual material, often used to refine defensive magic weapons, such as spirit armor, shields, etc.

Its hardness is very good, enough to meet the requirements of top-grade magic weapons or even top-grade magic weapons, and compared with other second-level spiritual materials, the difficulty of refining and refining is slightly lower.

Therefore, it was adopted on a large scale by the Fire Sparrow Clan and handed over to the enslaved foundation-building cultivators for purification to equip the monster elites.

However, no matter how easy it is to refine, it usually takes three to five days for ordinary foundation-building cultivators.

Due to the strict precautions against cultivators, cultivators must go to designated locations when refining.

And under the dual supervision of monsters and supervisors, they can temporarily relax the suppression of the "forbidden spirit ring" and temporarily use a small part of their mana.

However, some cultivators with better "performance" have been recognized by the Fire Sparrow Clan, who believe that the threat level is much lower and can be taken back to their residences to work.

When the "forbidden spirit ring" is relaxed at a specific time, they can purify in their residences.

The two cultivators replaced by Liu Yu and Zhuo Mengzhen are people who are not considered to be a big threat by the Fire Sparrow Clan and have been enslaved for more than fifty years.

In order to survive, they work hard for the monster clan and have always performed very well.

However, what is a matter of all-out effort for foundation-building cultivators is easy for Jindan cultivators.

Under the calcination of Qingyang Magic Fire, Liu Yu only spent half a quarter of an hour to complete the workload of foundation-building cultivators for about seven days. ,

The rest of the time can be freely used.

"Puff"

After a while, Liu Yu stood up and put the Qingyang Demon Fire back into his Dantian.

It has been a month since he and Zhuo Mengzhen sneaked into Changnan City.

During this month, the two did not act rashly, but followed the trajectory of ordinary foundation-building cultivators, honestly completed the task, and tried to observe the situation inside Changnan City as much as possible.

"But things like moving ore seem to be completely handed over to Qi-refining cultivators or mortals."

"In that case, the energy of the foundation-building cultivators can be put on purifying the purple gold stone. Wouldn't it be possible to get more spiritual materials to refine the purple gold stone magic tools?"

Holding the purple ore in his hand, Liu Yu had this doubt in his mind.

But after thinking about it, he soon understood.

For monsters, cultivators can not only create value, but also enslave them to do various things, such as building palaces and refining magic tools.

More importantly, for all monsters, cultivators themselves are "magic medicine".

Just because they can create value, can they not enjoy the magic medicine?

Obviously impossible.

According to this line of thought, it is "reasonable" for the Fire Sparrow Clan demon cultivators to set such a special rule.

It can not only maximize the value created by the cultivators, but also eliminate some cultivators with lower value and enjoy them as "magic medicine".

"Almost."

Thinking in this way, Liu Yu went out.

Under the close supervision of the supervisors and demon beasts, he crossed the chaotic and dirty streets and came to a large-scale underground fire room.

This is where most cultivators refine ores.

At the same time, the refined spiritual materials must be handed over to the supervisors here every three days.

At a glance, opposite the continuous underground fire room, there are long queues in front of several strangely shaped rooms.

One by one, the cultivators with forbidden spirit rings on their necks, holding various refined ores in their hands, are coming forward in an orderly manner to submit their tasks.

These cultivators have different expressions on their faces.

Some were hesitant, some were full of relief, some were full of fear, and some were confident and proud.

Even though they were all slaves, the living standards of each other were quite different. Compared with the monks who tried their best to complete the task, the latter's sense of happiness was established all at once.

There was also a gap between slaves!

After Liu Yu walked to the team corresponding to the purple gold stone task, he quietly queued up to submit the task, while silently thinking about what to do next.

Staying in Changnan City all the time is not a solution.

Although the probability of a third-level demon cultivator seeing through his disguise is extremely small, don't forget that there is a fourth-level fire sparrow more than a hundred miles away from Changnan City.

What if he suddenly thinks of patrolling the city one day and happens to want to carefully check the monks, wouldn't he be exposed?

The biggest life-saving trump card "Instant Thousand Miles Talisman" has been consumed at this time. Liu Yu made up his mind to take as few risks as possible in the future.

Youth is capital. Anyway, he still has five or six hundred years of life. Everything can be planned slowly, and there is no rush.

If it doesn't work, you can also go to the wild mountains outside the city, train dead soldiers from scratch, and let the dead soldiers go to various cities to collect information.

Just as Liu Yu was thinking, a panicked voice suddenly sounded, interrupting his thoughts.

"Sir... Sir, please give me a break!"

"I just had bad luck and was just a little short of the quota, so I didn't complete the task."

"Next... Next time, I will definitely complete the task, hand in enough purple gold stones, and make up for the missing quota this time"

A male cultivator with a haggard face, his eyes full of fear of death, was begging for mercy in panic.

In order to survive, he even put aside his dignity as a cultivator of foundation building and kowtowed to the supervisor in charge of this matter at the window.

Because his head was in contact with the ground too hard, it even made a "dong dong" sound, like a heavy hammer hitting the ground.

"Please give me another chance, sir, I am grateful, I am willing to be a cow and a horse in the next life..."

The cultivator begged for mercy loudly, his voice full of panic, and some of his words were out of place.

But the supervisor behind the window saw this without any mercy, but sneered and activated the mechanism under the table.

"Roar"

After a few breaths, several mottled giant tigers pounced forward and bit the male cultivator of foundation building who was still begging for mercy.

However, they did not kill or swallow it, but just took it in their mouths and took it away.

Ordinary monsters like them are not qualified to enjoy the cultivators of foundation building, and finally have to be handed over to the "nobles".

Among the monsters, the hierarchy is strict.

More naked than the human race, most of the miraculous medicines for foundation-building cultivators went into the stomachs of the Fire Sparrow Clan, and a few were distributed to other monsters with spirit and demon bloodlines.

As for ordinary blood monsters, if they are not at the third level, they are only worthy of being eaten by Qi-refining cultivators and mortals at most.

This scene was seen by all the cultivators, but they were in danger at this time and did not dare to stand up for them. At most, they just had pity in their eyes.

For a while, no one wanted to communicate. The scene was very quiet for a while, and the atmosphere was extremely depressing.

It was like a big stone pressing on the chest, making many people breathless.

After the episode, other cultivators continued to submit tasks, and the example of the haggard male cultivator just now was repeated in the scene.

…

With Liu Yu's means, it was of course not a problem to complete the task of refining purple gold stone.

After submitting, he left the Earth Fire Room directly.

Under the rule of the demon race, compared with mortals, the treatment of cultivators is actually quite good.

On the premise of completing the task on time and in quantity.

There are several ways for cultivators to relieve stress and pass the time in the city, such as the "Tea House" composed of many beautiful mortal women.

In a limited number of areas, cultivators can enter and exit freely.

As long as they don't do something dangerous that violates the rules, such as trying to unlock the "Spirit Forbidden Ring" privately.

Maybe something happened in the past, and the demon cultivators knew that blindly suppressing and forcibly coercing with their lives may not achieve the best results.

Therefore, they gave the cultivators a little limited space.

After all, they still need cultivators to refine magic tools, magic treasures, elixirs, etc., not just as food.

The falling snowflakes caused the temperature to drop sharply, causing some mortals with poor health to fall down in groups.

The snowflakes fell on the hair and cheeks, bringing a hint of coolness.

Looking around, the earth and the city were all wearing a thick white coat.

In a month, Liu Yu had a basic understanding of the situation in Changnan City, and planned to go out to explore the way tonight.

See if you can contact the monks of Annan Protectorate, or the monks of the Zhang family.

As for Zhuo Mengzhen, he arranged for him to continue to collect intelligence, not only about Changnan, but also about other immortal cities in the six continents of Annan.

…

After wandering around for a few hours, the sky became completely dark.

"Jiren Study"

After confusing the spies all over the city and making sure that he was not noticed, Liu Yu stopped a dozen feet away from a study in the heavy snow.

－－－－－－Digression－－－－－－

PS: I am not in good condition, so I will update 4,000 words today, and make up for the remaining 2,000 words tomorrow or the day after tomorrow.

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