Chapter 2269: Chapter 2269 Indigenous Inhabitants
"With such low cultivation levels yourselves, what kind of valuable resources could you possibly offer us?"
Before Ye Liuyun could respond, the greedy Qiong Qi blurted out the question.
"After the war with the foreign races, we managed to store away numerous mineral veins and resources. Please take a look, esteemed seniors."
The old man humbly addressed Ye Liuyun and his companions as seniors and handed a Interspatial Ring to Qiong Qi.
"Mineral veins of alora crystal from the mortal realm? We’re not interested!" Qiong Qi scoffed, but he still took the ring and glanced inside. Immediately, he passed it to Ye Liuyun.
Ye Liuyun scanned the contents with his divine sense and was equally puzzled.
Inside the Interspatial Rings were mineral veins of spirit crystals and devil crystals.
"You have spirit and devil crystals, yet your cultivation levels are still so low?" Qiong Qi asked in baffle.
The old man explained, "Our human cultivation techniques are restricted by the devil clan. It’s nearly impossible for us to reach the immortal realm. Only the royal families of the devil clan have access to higher level techniques.
The resources here are also quite unique. Which is why the Devil Clan from the God realm has gone to great lengths to control this place."
Qiong Qi’s eyes gleamed with curiosity as he turned to the old man. "So, how many of these mineral veins do you have? How many people are you hoping we’ll take with us?"
Seeing an opportunity, the old man quickly summoned everyone from underground. Men and women, summing up over a thousand. They were all relatively young at around twenty years old.
He then took out over a hundred interspatial rings and laid them out in front of them.
"This is all the resources we have. We only ask that you, esteemed seniors, give these young ones a chance at survival."
"Aren’t you afraid we’ll just take the resources and leave you behind?" Qiong Qi said while scanning through the interspatial ring with his divine sense.
Upon seeing the treasures within the interspatial rings, Ye Liuyun’s heart raced with excitement. There were at least several hundred spirit crystal and devil crystal mineral veins.
It seemed they went on a frantic mining spree before their impending doom. Even with some losses, it was still better than leaving them for the foreign races.
However, apart from the mineral veins, nothing else caught his eye.
The old man spoke candidly, "If you two don’t save us, we’re doomed. We lack the cultivation techniques to reach the immortal realm. If noone lead us away from here, we’ll all perish here.
We only hope that you two can leave a legacy for the people of our world considering we are fellow human race as well."
Qiong Qi asked Ye Liuyun using telepathy, "You’re not going to pass up all these resources, are you?"
"Of course I’ll take them all!" Ye Liuyun replied immediately. "But what should we do with these people?"
"Send them to Celestrial Continent! With this many resources, you can easily activate the teleportation tower once." Qiong Qi suggested.
After a moment of thought, Ye Liuyun addressed the old man directly. "I can offer you two choices. The first is to send you to another mortal realm. However, there’s ongoing war there as well and they’ve only recently repelled the foreign races.
"The second option is to go to a brand-new world and become its indigenious inhabitants. That world isn’t fully developed yet, but it’s very safe. I can also provide you with cultivation techniques that will allow all of you to ascend to reach the immortal realm.
The choice is yours to make."
"You want them to become the indeginous inhabitants of your spatial world?" Qiong Qi quickly caught on.
Ye Liuyun nodded in confirmation. "There is a need of manpower for the spatial world to develop. But whether they want to go or not is entirely up to them."
After a brief consideration, the old man decided that they would go to Ye Liuyun’s spatial world.
Thus, Ye Liuyun accepted their interspatial rings and returned the unnecessary items to them. He then transported them directly into his spatial world.
However, he still needed to isolate a section within the spatial world. Otherwise, those whose cultivation levels had not reached the Immortal Realm would have their bodies crushed the moment they entered.
Afterward, Ye Liuyun helped them select cultivation techniques to quickly elevate their realms to the Immortal Realm. Once they reached that stage, they could move about freely and establish their own territories.
The clone immediately imprinted slaving seals on these individuals, not to enslave them but to ensure they did not act recklessly.
Only the elderly man was left outside by Ye Liuyun.
"You’ll take us to the Devil Clan’s palace. That new world isn’t suitable for someone of your age."
Ye Liuyun did not want the old man to continue managing the younger generation. Though the youth lacked experience, their creativity was boundless. Without the constraints of tradition, they might forge an entirely new way of living.
The old man, indifferent to his own fate and breathed a sigh of relief. "If these young ones can survive, I’ll have done right by the late king."
Hearing this, Ye Liuyun admired the old man’s spirit and decided that once everything was settled, he would use the Teleportation Black Tower to send him to the Celestrial Continent.
After dealing with the mortal realm martial cultivators, Ye Liuyun had the old man board the warship and they set off for the Devil Clan’s palace.
Before arriving, both Ye Liuyun and his clone began using their Golden Phantom Eyes to observe the palace from distance.
Sure enough, they detected foreign races hiding within the palace. But none of them had reached the Immortal Realm.
However, these foriegn races seemed to be scouts. Upon spotting Ye Liuyun’s warship, they hastily retreated into the palace, likely to report the situation.
Both inside and outside the city, corpse demons roamed aimlessly. The buildings within the city remained largely intact, indicating that the foreign races were still active there.
Instead of disembarking early, Ye Liuyun and his team flew the warship directly above the palace and made a swift aerial descent.
A low-level foreign race burst out from the palace, letting out a deafening roar.
In an instant, one of the soldiers beside Ye Liuyun blasted the foreign with a small gilded energy cannon mounted on his armor. These foreign races were of a lower cultivation level, making them easy targets even for such a small energy cannon.
However, the corpse demons from both inside and outside the city began to swarm toward the palace soon.
Ye Liuyun paid no heed to the corpse demons. Instead, he and Qiong Qi made their way into the palace, leaving only ten soldiers behind to deal with the incoming corpse demons horde.
Ye Liuyun’s clone had already pinpointed a hidden chamber where several foreign races of the first tier of Immortal Realm were hiding.
The chamber was protected by a defensive formation that also blocked divine sense detection. The foreign races had no idea they had already been exposed.
Qiong Qi quickly dismantled the formation. Ye Liuyun cleaved the chamber door in half with a single slash of his blade.
The three foreign races inside were immediately imprinted with slaving seals by Ye Liuyun.
Soul-searching was the most effective way to uncover the foreign races’ plans. Ye Liuyun swiftly learned the number and locations of the remaining foreign races.
What followed was a systematic purge. Even a sixth-tier foreign race hidden in a cave outside the palace was unearthed and dealt with.
This sixth-tier foreign race had been left behind by its kind, lying in wait for an opportunity to infiltrate the God Realm.
“There’s one more, near the foot of a mountain by the entrance to the passageway!”
Ye Liuyun immediately ordered Ye Tiandao to lead a team and eliminate the other hidden foreign race.
This foreign race was of the seventh tier. Though it had believed itself well-hidden, it was swiftly killed by the Blade Legion inside the cave, along with a significant amount of cultivation resources being seized in the process.
