A Druid Also Can Cultivate

Chapter 520: Chapter 416: Blood Mist Star Sea

"So ruthless! Yet so real!"

Upon understanding the situation, Qi Ping couldn’t help but feel a bit fearful inside. It was the first time he had known in such detail about the terrifying and complete system of exploitation that these families had for the lower levels!

Under such a self-organized system, it can precisely harvest more than ninety-five percent of opportunities and talents.

Qi Ping finally understood why these families could settle so securely in their positions. The entire region had been harvested to such an extent with opportunities and resources flowing into their hands. Even talents can be snatched from the lower-level Cultivators; although the conversion rate of this talent snatching is not high, it’s overwhelming in number!

As a result, the oppressed cultivators at the lower levels, even if brilliantly talented and possessing golden fingers, basically have no chance to emerge, let alone overthrow such oppression.

At this moment, Qi Ping was immensely grateful for his caution when he first awakened the Druid profession.

Looking back now, it was that near-paranoid persecution delusion that saved his life.

Otherwise, the slightest show-off or carelessness on his part would not have resulted in awe, beauties throwing themselves at him, or the appreciation of prominent figures... but rather the extraordinarily sharp knives of those families, slicing his flesh inch by inch to squeeze the maximum value...

Particularly since his talent could be enhanced, it’s like a bright lamp in the dark, faster than seeking death with a lantern.

Now, the bloody events and data transmitted back by his subordinates continually proved that his concerns were not wrong. This Immortal Cultivation Realm is a world even beyond the concept of the law of the jungle, rather, it’s a slaughterhouse nurtured by the powerful and families!

Only to ensure that the beasts on the slaughterhouse can grow peacefully, the existence is hidden and beautified, providing ordinary beasts with a sliver of survival hope.

So in the eyes of ordinary Cultivators, though the life of Immortal Cultivation is difficult, there is still hope. The Sects at the top are willing to shelter talented disciples and occasionally, ordinary Cultivators become highly esteemed within those Sects...

But by looking at the whole picture, one will discover this is a finely designed illusion!

Ordinary Cultivators, striving in birth, struggle, and cultivation, provide the broadest base of cattle and horses for the families...

Then, those Sects continuously attract talented disciples and select the best from the bred elite.

Finally, anything of greatest value born in this horse farm is the true purpose of the families...

"Such a delicate harvesting system..."

"But the families, even as harvesters, are also being harvested. Over the years, those truly valuable opportunities would be harvested by an even higher level of existence..."

"What a screwed up world!"

At this moment, Qi Ping felt a stronger sense of affirmation of the advantages of being a Druid.

He suddenly wondered if his transmigration to this world and awakening of the Druid profession could be due to this reason.

"Maybe some mysterious existence is exploring and attempting a cultivation system that could allow for healthy world development?"

Qi Ping thought this possibility is quite high, for judging by the current disposition of this Immortal Cultivation Realm, take the Star Sea Continent for instance, without his involvement, even if there wasn’t a Demon Race crisis, it would steadily enter an era of dwindling Spiritual Qi, eventually becoming a land devoid of Spiritual Qi where no normal creatures can survive.

Moreover, had it not been for the emergence of Qi Ping as an Earth Immortal, the people of the Celestial Dragon Continent wouldn’t have collaborated with the Demon Race to invade here, entering an end-of-law, spiritual wasteland era was an inevitable outcome...

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"No wonder, in such a stable harvesting system, those families would be unwilling to become part of the Nine Star Sea Realms!"

"Before, resources could be harvested with the snap of a finger, yet now they must strenuously strive to obtain them, transforming from enjoyers of unearned benefits to laborers; who would be willing...?"

"Therefore, they’d rather have their servants continue to plant Spiritual Medicine, manage industries outside the Nine Star Sea Realms than strive to obtain resources through their efforts..."

"Heh, this group of parasites that only know how to enjoy their unearned advantages, they are utterly worthless!"

Qi Ping suddenly felt no regret for these people at all.

Initially, he thought with so many opportunities to access resources, as long as one was willing to fight for them, they could acquire high level resources they’d never dreamed of before. How could anyone not want to come to such an environment and system?

But now it seems, his mindset as a mere worker constrained him, as the beautiful lives of those capitalists were beyond what he could imagine, making them work in the Nine Star Sea Realms bore no difference from making them slaves.

Plus, for many families, the pursuit of the Immortal Dao and longevity wasn’t even their goal.

For they saw things more clearly and, having witnessed innumerable opportunities and resources, knew that no matter how hard they tried, the pinnacle remained nearly the same, so naturally, they wouldn’t strive like many Loose Cultivators.

What they learned more, in their regular days, was how to harvest from lower-level Loose Cultivators and seek pleasure... a bit more upright learning might be like industry management, or battling other families, and so on.

The thinking of these people was completely different from that of ordinary Cultivators.

So upon realizing this, Qi Ping’s killing intent was thoroughly aroused and he immediately altered his initial orders.

Originally, Qi Ping planned to hold individuals accountable directly according to the sins investigated, individuals uninvolved were to be temporarily taken in and observed according to the Nine Star Sea Realms’ rules, only resorting to complete annihilation upon resistance.

But after reviewing the materials Lin Yue transmitted back, Qi Ping directly altered the directive to "exterminate the clan"!

And regarding anything related to the families, all who hadn’t voluntarily pledged allegiance to the Nine Star Sea Realms and had accumulated numerous evil deeds were to be annihilated entirely!

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After receiving this mandate, none were more excited than the Wood Immortal Old Woman.

Regarding her loathing for the families, no one hated more deeply than she!

It could be said that more than half of her life was spent contending with these utterly detestable families, with half of her time bottling up her inner resentment and killing intent.

Now, with Qi Ping’s mandate, she could finally let it all out without any reservations.

Therefore, during this cleansing operation, the fame of the Wood Immortal Old Woman reached its peak!

It was first that she rose from being the most repulsively infamous Divinity Transformation Cultivator of the Star Sea Continent to breakthrough to Void Refining, overpowering all with her beauty as a Void Refining Great Cultivator, already encompassing two massive explosive points.

And in this purging operation, the Wood Immortal Old Woman was the most frenzied killer among the three Void Refining Cultivators. No one could make her hesitate in killing, whether innocent on the surface or past enemies.

In this battle, her mind held only one thought: kill!

All the disgusting families must die!

Not a single one was worthy of mercy!

Those families that once stood high all fell one by one beneath the hands of the Wood Immortal Old Woman.

The bodies piled like mountains, blood flowed like rivers!

The support teams specialized in gathering blood and corpses could hardly keep up with the slaughtering speed of the Wood Immortal Old Woman.

Undoubtedly, this was extremely irrational madness.

Yet Qi Ping did not stop her, as the Wood Immortal Old Woman was merely executing his orders.

Before he commanded the clan extermination, her ability to restrain her killing intent was enough to please him.

Such obedient, powerful, unsaintly warrior was exactly the type he favored most; though her talent slightly fell short of Meng Tianqi and Baili Yun, she was worth prioritizing for cultivation.

When this massacre finally came to an end, the entire Star Sea Continent was enshrouded in an eerie blood mist, the Wood Immortal Old Woman’s originally green immortal robe was stained in a black-red hue, and her hair and cheeks bore blood stains unknown whether they came from which enemy...

The number of deaths caused by this tempest of slaughter far exceeded that of the recent continent-level war, resulting in such bizarre phenomena occurring across the entire Star Sea Continent...