The Journey of Immortal Cultivation-Chapter 837 - 461: Living Captive (Part 2)

Changtian remarked: "He just told me that every capture by the Mingshui Sect is sent to the slave camp for training. Among them, the best are directly sent to the Sky Blue State slave camp, and after being properly tamed, they are sold at Heavenly Residence. You know, to conduct such a heinous trade, one must have backing; otherwise, it won’t be long before seekers of revenge would destroy them. The Mingshui Sect is just a medium-level Immortal Sect. How can they make this flesh trade ever more prosperous?"

"Can you guess who is backing the Mingshui Sect?"

Her heart stirred, and she furrowed her elegant brows: "Could it be... Heavenly Residence?"

"Correct, this is already a semi-open secret." He raised his hand and summoned a tea table, brewing a pot of Spiritual Tea with boiling water, "The largest auction at Heavenly Residence will be held again in a year and two months, and slaves are a major category there. That’s why the Mingshui Sect’s Beauty Collection Team came to take away the girls from the Huyan Tribe this time. After a year of training at the slave camp, they will be qualified auction items."

She pursed her lips, just feeling the flames of anger rising within her. No matter how many times she encountered slave capturing, she looked at it from a Huaxia perspective, genuinely outraged. But the high profits from the slave trade would only perpetuate this business eternally. She saved more than forty maids today, but what about in the future? With her lone power, how many women could she rescue from the fire pit?

Changtian pointed at Dou Er and said: "This person is not of great use, but he’s very familiar with the geography of the Northwest route. If you’re uneasy about the handling of the thieves, he might help you properly settle those dozens of maids."

Her eyes suddenly brightened. Changtian was right; she was fretting over how to settle the maids after rescuing them. The God Demon Prison is a place for holding serious offenders. How does it make sense to put a group of beautiful women here? Besides, this place is inherently extremely gloomy; these delicate mortal bodies residing here for ten days or half a month would inevitably fall ill, initially with dizziness, nausea, weakness of limbs, menstrual disorders, and if staying longer, it might endanger their lives.

She definitely couldn’t send them back to the Hulian Tribe; otherwise, it would bring disaster to this tribe, so if Dou Er had a good plan, she would be happy to adopt it.

Dou Er, being very astute, understood that life or death hung by her decision, and thus needed to prove his value urgently, saying: "Although I’m not daring enough to promise anything else, the matter of settling these forty maids is what I can handle most suitably. I guarantee they will disappear without a trace as if into the sea, leaving no ripple."

His idea was actually to scatter these dozens of maids, distribute some gold and silver to them, then settle them into other states and counties. The key was to separate any twins; this way, even if the Flower-picking Envoy found the elder sister one day, but couldn’t unite her with the younger one, they might not bother with further efforts to capture them. Although sisters had to be separated, it was better than suffering nightly abuses under unknown men’s bodies.

This was the best of bad options. She thought it over and agreed.

As for Dou Er, since he hadn’t died in the soil’s mouth, Ning Xiaoxian and Changtian intended to spare his life. Surviving disaster brings good fortune; this is not just a saying, but Heavenly Dao recognized luck. No matter how fierce Cultivators are, there’s no need to oppose God.

Thus Vice Steward Dou found a position in the God Demon Prison, settling down temporarily. The Beauty Judging Technique was a proud skill of the Mingshui Sect, yet less than twenty people in the sect mastered it. However, he had followed the seducing team for a long time. The successive Flower-picking Envoys sometimes spoke of insights after getting drunk, so Dou Er’s skill in the Beauty Judging Technique surprisingly had some level. After Ning Xiaoxian left the God Demon Prison, Dou Er still stared at her disappearing point, unable to avert his gaze.

Changtian naturally was displeased, snorted coldly, and was about to take action to punish him. He shivered immediately, hastily saying: "My lord has good fortune, the hostess possesses a unique gravel gold physique, if practicing Dual Cultivation Technique, it can yield twice the result with half the effort, yet outwardly she wouldn’t reveal seductive looks, not attracting bees or butterflies, which is good, however..." He had roved widely for most of his life, interacting with various people, how could he fail to see the affection between the hostess and the demon? Typically, a loving couple, even separated by several meters, the emotions in their brows and eyes could be discerned by a perceptive person at a glance. Hence, he instantly realized, these two were whom he needed to strive to please in the future.

Changtian instinctively clenched and sealed the Demon Eye on his chest, then asked: "However, what?"

Dou Er immediately lowered his volume, whispering two sentences. Changtian frowned after hearing, feeling very discontented.

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After a brief delay, Ning Xiaoxian and the others followed the clues left by Hu Huoer, catching up with the main force, which happened after almost an hour.

It was pitch black now. On the Forest Sea Snowfield, the night wind howls like Evil Ghosts, soon heavy snow began to pour down, everything was desolately bleak, luckily the signpost lantern left by Hu Huoer was exceptionally bright, always able to illuminate the path in the pitch darkness. This signpost lantern is actually just phosphorus fire, after being refined with Immortal techniques, it glows green and eerie like a lantern and remains solidly flickering despite the raging winds, extending out one by one, guiding the followers.

Among the Hidden Guard, there were those skilled in Abnormal Skills, and seeing this signpost lantern, they knew that there were indeed talented and adept people among the thieves. (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to vote recommendation tickets, monthly tickets at Qidian (qidian.com), your support is my greatest motivation. Mobile users please read at m.qidian.com.)