Chapter 1757: Realm Lord
The woman chuckled. "Even if I explained what I am, you wouldn't be able to understand anytime soon."
Ye Qingqiu's expression darkened. "How can you know we won't understand if you won't explain at all?"
The woman's gaze fell on her.
"This aura around you... You follow the path of the Blood Demon Immortal Path, don't you? Yet you're not of the Demonic Beast Race."
"Who says only the Demonic Beast Race can cultivate the Demon Immortal Path?"
Ye Qingqiu found this woman's lofty attitude deeply irritating.
"In a much earlier age, only the Demonic Beast Race could cultivate the Blood Demon Immortal Path, yes," explained the woman, sighing with emotion. "It seems the conservatives are not doing well these days. Even a core method like this have even been leaked to outsiders."
Wang Ye's expression shifted. "You're from the Demonic Beast Race?"
The woman glanced at her hand. "Is it really that hard to tell?"
Wang Ye asked, "We have not formally gone to war with the Demonic Beast Race yet. What is the meaning of your actions?"
"Go to war with the Demonic Beast Race? Do you think you're worthy?" The woman shook her head with a smile. "I'll ask you a few questions."
She glanced around at the surroundings and said lightly, "Which realm is this?"
Everyone was startled, and the same thought emerged in their minds.
She doesn't even know where this is? Is she an outsider?
At that realization, their expressions grew even more solemn.
Compared to demons or demonic beasts, the existence of outsiders posed an even greater hidden danger to the Nine Realms. Nowadays, every faction operated countless expedition teams within the Qingming void. Over the years, each had captured some lone outsiders. Even the fragmented information extracted from those outsiders was enough to reveal the terrifying threats that lay behind them. For that reason, all factions had long reached an unspoken agreement. Either kill such outsiders on the spot, or suppress them for eternity, never allowing them to see the light of day again.
Now, this woman before them was very likely an outsider, one who spoke the same language as them.
An ominous thought rose in everyone's minds.
"Demonic Beast Race... outsider..."
"This is the Taicang Realm," Wang Ye suddenly said. "You're not a cultivator from the Nine Mortal Realm?"
The woman smiled fairly. "Nine Mortal Realms? Long ago, this place was called the Nine Demonic Beast Realms. But it doesn't matter, whether Demonic Beasts or humans rule this place makes little difference to me."
Nine Demonic Beast Realms?
Everyone drew a sharp breath inward. Their earlier suspicion was likely true. The woman before them was most probably a descendant of the Demonic Beast Race that had left the Nine Realms in ancient times!
The gray-robed woman chuckled. "Regardless, although the transcendence here is fading, it was still once a star realm inhabited by living beings. If packaged and sold, there should still be buyers. Impure spiritual energy may be the lowest grade of power, but it's still enough to cultivate low-tier battle troops."
She took out an extremely pure crystal sphere. With a slight lift of her hand, it floated above the crowd. Light projected from within, forming a distorted figure whose appearance was impossible to discern. The figure was the first to speak. "Go on. What's the deal this time? If the profit is too low, don't come to me; go to my subordinates."
The gray-robed woman smiled. "I've found the realm where my people once lived. The transcendence here has faded and is slowly dying, but its vitality can still last for quite some time. Nine entire star realms, how much are you willing to pay?"
At first, everyone was stunned. Then realization hit, and they gasped.
This woman... intended to sell the Nine Mortal Realms to some unknown entity?
Xianyue Guan instinctively looked toward Wang Ye and the others. "She can just do that? She can just sell the Nine Mortal Realms like that? On what basis?"
That's right, on what basis?
After the initial shock came confusion. Did this woman not understand the true state of the Nine Realms today, or was she so arrogant that she believed she alone could package and sell it? What kind of existence could even afford to buy the Nine Realms? And wouldn't they fear being jointly annihilated by the nine-transformation immortals of all races?
Hidden in the shadows, Fang Chen was equally surprised by the gray-robed woman's actions. He had originally thought that she had come to assist the Demonic Beast faction of the Divine Dao Sect and help reclaim control over the Three Realms. But she clearly had no interest in that at all. Her only concern was exchanging the Nine Realms for profit.
Is that person she is contacting an outsider too? But if so, why is this outsider speaking the same language as us?
Fang Chen had initially planned to make a move, subdue the woman, and interrogate her thoroughly. But now, he wasn't in a hurry. He wanted to see just what exactly was going on.
"Nine star realms? What resources do they have?"
The other party was clearly taken aback, their tone becoming slightly urgent.
"There are plenty of resources. The lowest-grade spiritual energy alone is abundant."
The gray-robed woman snapped her fingers, and a vast surge of spiritual energy immediately swept through the surroundings.
"It is indeed the lowest-grade energy. What about higher grade ones?"
"None. Otherwise, why would I say this place is dying?"
"Then the price won't be very high..."
The gray-robed woman smiled and glanced at Wang Ye and the others. "And what about these humans? Aren't you interested? Add them in, and I think you should be able to offer me a reasonable price."
"Humans?"
The figure's attention shifted to them, seemingly examining them closely.
The gray-robed woman continued, "Yes. There are many humans here, and they all speak the common tongue. They can be converted into low-level battle troops and deployed into war. This place is a natural source of soldiers. Many empires would find it quite appealing."
Fang Chen's eyes narrowed. Common tongue?
Could it be that the language spoken by both the demonic beast race and the human race was considered a kind of standard universal language?
That would explain why they could understand this demonic beast ancestor and why the being she was contacting also spoke the same language, albeit with a slightly different accent.
"This will require my people to come over and assess the value before I can give an accurate price."
"I'll need coordinates."
The gray-robed woman rejected the request outright. "No. If I give you the coordinates, you'll control the deal. You could suppress the price or even refuse to pay me anything, and I'd have no way to stop you. If you truly want to do business, follow the established procedures. And let me tell you one more thing, cultivation methods here are still very primitive, which limits their ceiling. But that ceiling is quite special. In a place this vast, only one such being can exist at a time. The only reason you have a chance to buy this place now is because such a being no longer exists here. Otherwise, you wouldn't even be qualified to covet it."
"Ceiling?"
"I'm referring to the Heavenly Dao. You could also understand it as a Realm Lord."
Everyone gasped.
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