Chapter 650: Young Demon Girls of Many Races

"The Three Kingdoms lands, after deducting administrative expenses and staff salaries, generated an annual income of sixty-five million two hundred and twenty-one thousand low-grade Spirit Stones."

Jiang Ding set down a financial report, combined it with intelligence from various sources including Li Li Qingyun, a Jin Dan cultivator of the Xiang Qiyu Sect, and silently calculated and cross-checked in his mind.

Although the current administration is run by Master Tushan handmaidens and the various systems are fairly well-established, necessary supervision must still exist; human nature is not worth testing, nor should it be tested.

"Slight flaws, but still within the margin of error."

Jiang Ding put down the financial report in his hand and picked up another report titled "New List of Master Tushan Candidate Handmaidens."

This is an extension of his military power, an extension of his rule, and requires greater attention.

In the lands of the Three Kingdoms, over the past seven years, the number of Master Tushan handmaidens has expanded rapidly due to various administrative and combat needs, as well as the expansion of territory.

To date, the number of candidate handmaidens has reached six hundred and seventy-four, all possessing exceptional talent and comprehension with two or three Spirit Roots, or four Spirit Roots whose comprehension overwhelms the land.

Among them, handmaidens of the Demon Race account for twenty percent.

They come from various races including the Rabbit Clan, the Three-Tailed Fox Clan, the Tiger Clan, the Snake Clan, the Horse Clan, and the Five-Colored Peacock; one by one, they flock to it, as the most outstanding female cultivators of the Demon Race long to enter.

The Master Tushan Handmaiden Corps.

This is the highest ruling authority in the lands of the Three Kingdoms!

The fate of the Three Kingdoms is dominated, controlled, and executed by them according to the orders of the Master Tushan Ancestor; this is power, and in terms of treatment, Gong Fa, pills, inheritances, and more are beyond imagination.

Even if the young girls of the Demon Race themselves are not enthusiastic, their elders and brothers will each strive to cultivate them, enabling them to qualify as members of the Master Tushan Handmaiden Corps.

"There are so many talents..."

Jiang Ding muttered to himself, examining every handmaiden one by one, their appearance, aptitude, comprehension, and so on.

The Demon Race has no concept of Spirit Roots, but rather bloodlines.

Mixed Blood, Pure Blood, Noble Blood, Earth Grade, Heaven Grade; roughly so, corresponding respectively to the human race's four Spirit Roots, three Spirit Roots, two Spirit Roots, and Heaven Spirit Root.

Heaven Grade is known as the Demon God Bloodline, equivalent to the human Dao Body.

There are no Heaven Grade bloodlines.

Earth Grade bloodlines, equivalent to the human Heaven Spirit Root, actually number three!

It is simply a great explosion of the Demon Race's fortune in the lands of the Three Kingdoms, as if they all sprang up at once, eager to seize this opportunity to grow wildly and recklessly and seize survival space.

Even Jiang Ding could not help but recall the theory of racial fortune often found within many native sects, which many senior cultivators of the Immortal Sects dismissed as superstition.

Truly a surprising coincidence.

The first person on the list of candidate Demon Race handmaidens is Bai Hua Ling, from the Three-Tailed Fox Clan, with superior comprehension.

Yes, it is the former ruler of the Master Tushan Demon Kingdom, the Three-Tailed Fox Clan.

There is a reason why the Demon Race respects bloodlines; the probability of producing talent from royal bloodlines or national lord bloodlines is far greater than that of ordinary Demon Race members.

"Investigate."

Jiang Ding casually ordered.

"Yes!"

Outside the palace, a handmaiden in a green skirt, at the peak of the Foundation Establishment realm, appeared, her hand resting on her sword hilt. She bowed slightly and flew out with others.

Jiang Ding does not discriminate based on origin.

However, he personally killed the Hundred Flowers Demon King, the Master Tushan National Lord, the Peacock Demon King, and others of the Master Tushan Demon Kingdom back then; if there is a blood feud, they cannot be cultivated, as his heart is not so broad.

Of course, he would not kill them either.

So many years have passed; those little girls were not even born back then. Involving such infants would be too petty.

The second is Kong Kong Yuling, from the Five-Colored Peacock Clan, with an Earth Grade bloodline and superior comprehension.

No surprise; it is the clan of the Great Peacock King from back then. This race's talent, known as the Five-Colored Divine Light, though perhaps boasting a bit, is indeed very strong. Back then, even at the early stage of Jin Dan, it nearly made him struggle and almost caused a crash; it is a quite mysterious racial talent.

Nothing to say; conduct an extra-ordinary investigation, with the same handling method.

Most noble breeds of the Demon Race are like this, possessing one or two very strong bloodline talents that make people envious.

In comparison, humans are very ordinary.

A large number of people have no Spirit Roots, and those who do mostly have three or four Spirit Roots; the remaining two Spirit Roots and Heaven Spirit Roots are often inferior to Earth Grade bloodlines of the same realm, whether in combat strength or advancement speed.

They look pitifully weak.

Beaten to a pulp by the vast Demon Race, delicious blood food, two-legged sheep.

But once a human genius appears, they will instantly make you know what it means to call someone "Father," crying out for your parents and cursing heaven for its unfairness.

So much territory was not given away as a free recharge bonus.

Bloodlines raise the lower limit of the Demon Race while also constraining their upper limit; even if a Demon Race genius is stunningly brilliant, they must often overcome this constraint of bloodline to reach a realm higher than their ancestors.

Humans are the opposite; they have no burdens, and while they start with nothing, climbing higher carries no shackles.

The two races' talents focus differently.

"The third Demon Race Earth Grade bloodline... interesting."

Jiang Ding's eyes flashed.

"Yu Bai, from the Rabbit Clan, a mutated Earth Grade bloodline in the direction of moonlight, or can be called the Moonlight Jade Rabbit Bloodline; her talent is also related to controlling moonlight, with top-tier comprehension."

"Mutated Moonlight Bloodline, future uncertain, not as promising as the Five-Colored Peacock Bloodline or the Three-Tailed Fox Clan Bloodline, thus ranked third."

"This one is very good."

Jiang Ding smiled.

Without investigation, he knew there was no blood feud between Yu Bai and himself; the Rabbit Clan has always been famous among the Demon Race for being weak and agile, known as "walking delicacies," and is also an oppressed existence within the Demon Race.

Even more marvelous is the mutated bloodline.

This means that with her rise, a powerful Demon Race clan will not emerge; objectively, there is a trend of moving closer to the human race.

Of course, it is only a trend.

Including the other two Demon Race handmaidens with Earth Grade bloodlines, they are all currently fine, simple-minded handmaidens; it is not that they harbor hidden malice or anything like that; such things do not exist, and no one would let a Demon Race girl with such talent become a spy.

How things will develop in the future depends on how they are cultivated and their growth process.

It's just that, compared to the other two maidservants, this rabbit-tribe maidservant had a somewhat higher starting point in terms of innate political standing.

"Political bonus, 30."

Jiang Ding wrote a note beside the name of the third rabbit-tribe maidservant.

This meant that this rabbit-tribe girl named Yu Bai would receive more cultivation; with the same natural talent and comprehension, she simply had a higher starting point than the other two.

If Kong Kong Yuling of the Five-Colored Peacock clan and Bai Bai Hualing of the Three-Tailed Fox tribe wished to match or even surpass her, they would need more effort, more destiny, and their own brilliance.

But it wasn't fixed in place after a single assessment.

If Yu Bai didn't work hard enough, or her talent fell short, a high starting point wouldn't be enough to change anything.

What the final outcome would be remained unknown.

"The demon race's talent is quite impressive… the path of embracing all is the correct one."

Jiang Ding continued reading.

There were many demon-race girls with noble bloodlines equivalent to a dual spiritual root: a Five-Colored Peacock girl with a pair of beautiful wings on her back, a Three-Tailed Fox-tribe girl with three fluffy crimson tails, a charming and adorable tiger-tribe girl, an icy and aloof snake-tribe girl, a dopey dairy-cow cow-tribe girl…

One could imagine what a tremendous force they would become once they grew up.

If confined to the human race alone, so many talented individuals would be wasted for nothing — not even worth a blade of grass — dying casually, unable to stir the slightest ripple.

(End of this chapter)