Chapter 982: Successfully Infiltrating the Alien Star Domain

Jiao Mo Gao Jie.

Near the realm passage lies a Minor Thousand Worlds named Mo Shi Xiao Gao Jie.

On this day, in this realm, a human slave with ragged clothes, an utterly ordinary appearance, an utterly ordinary status, and no entanglements of love, hate, or karma, suddenly had a glimmer of wisdom appear in his numb gaze, then quickly vanish.

Within his soul, a special soul power began to emerge, containing the aura of the Great Sun and containing the aura of electromagnetism.

"Mo Shi Xiao Gao Jie..."

Jiang Ding whispered.

The name of this human slave was Zhu Zi, with no surname, possessing a Qi Refining Layer Seven cultivation; he was already dead.

It was not poison, nor was it secret harm due to a steward's jealousy, nor had he offended any noble lady; he simply died suddenly, quite normally.

For a slave cultivating a quick-success Gong Fa that ravages potential, working in the mine tunnels every day without time for cultivation, dying suddenly is very normal, nothing strange, so lowly.

Similarly, not dying and living for a while is also nothing strange.

Everything was utterly ordinary, with nothing that could arouse suspicion.

Jiang Ding maintained his soul on the verge of death, while his own body and soul hid within the slave's body using the Shadow Demon Abyss secret technique 'Cang Hun Tong Shen Shu'.

At this moment, the nine Dao Zi had silently descended upon Jiao Jiao Mingyu.

Jiang Ding did not know where the other Dao Zi were or where they had gone, nor was he interested; furthermore, he would not allow anyone to know his location, so he came to this remote small city.

He did not intend to do anything for decades; observe, observe, and observe again, then formulate his own plan and execute it.

"The location and intelligence of this Minor Thousand Worlds..."

Jiang Ding fell into thought, recalling the intelligence previously transmitted by the Shadow Demon Abyss cultivators.

This Minor Thousand Worlds is named Mo Shi Xiao Gao Jie.

This Minor Thousand Worlds is owned by the Flame Stone Great Emperor, whose name resounds throughout Jiao Jiao Mingyu and who has existed for eternity, and it is one of the most prosperous Minor Thousand Worlds under his command.

This world produces vast amounts of heavenly treasures and earthly herbs for cultivation every year; especially once every thousand years, it produces a fifth-grade material named Star Demon Stone, making people drool with desire.

However, the main residents of Mo Shi Xiao Gao Jie are not people of the Jiao Mo Imperial Clan.

The Jiao Mo Imperial Clan numbers only over a hundred million, ruling a vast star domain, with the vast majority of their clan members residing in Jiao Mo Gao Jie.

The most numerous here are the various human and demon races, as well as the Rock Demon Clan, which ranks second only to the Jiao Mo Imperial Clan and sits at the top of the 'Nine Ranks of Slave Races' system in Jiao Jiao Mingyu as the ninth rank, being the close servants of the Flame Stone Great Emperor.

The Rock Demon Clan has always considered themselves loyal servants of the Flame Stone Great Emperor, serving only the Great Emperor and his bloodline.

Although they are servants, in terms of true status, they are even higher than many actual Jiao Mo Imperial Clan

cultivators.

Privately, many Jiao Mo Imperial Clan cultivators bow humbly when they see the powerful ones of the Rock Demon Clan.

The Rock Demon Clan treats the Jiao Mo Imperial Clan this way; naturally, they treat the human and demon races under their rule with even less regard.

Many human and demon cultivators fear the Rock Demon Clan more than the people of the Jiao Mo Imperial Clan.

The center of Mo Shi Xiao Gao Jie is named Huo Shi Di City; here stands the Flame Stone Great Emperor's local palace, and the Rock Demon Clan resides centered on Huo Shi Di City, with all their powerful ones distributed here to serve the Great Emperor and his offspring.

Centered on Huo Shi Di City, various cities, mountain ranges, and races are distributed in all directions, strange and bizarre.

One hundred thousand li east of Huo Shi Di City, there is a small city on a mountain named Zishi City.

Jiang Ding is in this area.

Humans, foxes, and various demon races live here; no one cares about the names of these races; their only function is to mine a substance named 'Zishi Ore' in the mountains surrounding Zishi City and carve it.

The Zishi Ore contains demonic intent, and occasionally human and demon cultivators fall to the ground and die.

These are insignificant.

The requirement of the Rock Demon cultivators here is that a sufficient quantity of Zishi Ore must be submitted every year; if any race fails to complete it, they are slaughtered to extinction, and new ones are migrated from elsewhere.

For self-preservation, the humans and other races here gathered together to form a faction, following a custom from who knows where, calling it Zhenshan Sect.

"Zhenshan Sect, very weak..."

Jiang Ding extracted the information of this body.

In Zishi City, dozens of races, sects, and families exist; human sects are at the bottom, and the strongest is a Jin Dan Chu Qi cultivator named Chun Jian Shi Zhen Ren.

Chun Jian Shi Zhen Ren's treatment is much better than ordinary human cultivators; at least he, his direct disciples, and his offspring have some time for cultivation, he has many wives and concubines and servants, and does not have to mine every day.

Yes, even a sect master must mine.

This is because a mere slave-race Jin Dan True Person, in the eyes of the Rock Demon Clan and the true rulers, the Jiao Mo Imperial Clan cultivators, is nothing more than a slightly stronger miner; this is his fate.

Zhenshan Sect's strength is at the bottom.

In such a cruel society, this is a quite terrifying thing.

Zhenshan Sect and the humans in the surrounding thousands of li must not only complete the mining and stone-carving tasks assigned by the Rock Demon Clan but are also forced to complete tasks for nearby powerful races; otherwise, they face the terrifying consequence of cultivators, or even Jin Dan offspring, disappearing silently.

In recent years, the number of human cultivators and mortals in Zhenshan Sect has constantly declined, and a fate of extinction is almost foreseeable.

The Rock Demon Clan does not care about these things; they only want results.

To the Rock Demon Clan, Zishi City is a wheat field growing ore; unless a large-scale plague occurs, they will not pay attention if a few wheat seedlings are damaged occasionally.

Naturally, if such a thing really happens, the Rock Demon Clan will suppress it with iron blood and slaughter everyone, regardless of whether they are a powerful or weak race.

Therefore, the surrounding powerful races also restrain their actions somewhat, having concerns, so it is not a complete case of the strong devouring the weak.

"Zhenshan Sect being this weak is reasonable."

Jiang Ding sighed.

Humans are a race that highly depends on civilization.

Without civilization, they are not much stronger than the lowest-level demons; their bodies are fragile, their spiritual sense talents are mediocre, and they are essentially walking ants.

What genius, what hero, what Dao body; without the accumulation of Immortal Dao civilization, they cannot exert anything, at most just larger ants several times stronger than those around them, which is useless.

Seeing the small to understand the large, if the humans in this area, or even this world, do not develop Immortal Dao civilization through some chance encounter, the possibility of extinction as time passes is very high.

After all, wanting to be a slave race of the Jiao Mo Imperial Clan requires ability; they do not take just any straw bag.

Humans face competition, slaughter, and open and secret struggles among many slave races; if they lose in the competition, they will perish, and no race cares.

"This is not enough."

"I need some higher-level intelligence."

Jiang Ding whispered, letting this human slave named Zhuizi work on his own, carving the ore, all according to the behavioral patterns in his memory.

This is a Mi Fa from the Shadow Demon Abyss.

The Shadow Demon Abyss has indeed developed many excellent Daoist achievements in this aspect; if the situation were not special, they would never have released them.

Of course, the Shadow Demon Abyss did not lose out either.

The Immortal Sects also had to open up and share many Daoist achievements; the cultivators of the Shadow Demon Abyss benefited greatly, breaking through their cultivation, updating their magical treasures, and their strength was much greater than before the exchange with the Jiuxian Sect.

Jiang Ding sat cross-legged in Zhuizi's soul, circulating the Shen Shi Mi Fa, and probing into the starry void outside the world.

This Shen Shi Mi Fa is a Soul Void Mi Fa jointly developed by the Nine Great Immortal Sects, used for secret communication between Daoist sons outside the world, fearless of the probing of the Void Refinement realm.