Slave.

In the eyes of modern people's thinking, slavery is undoubtedly a very inhumane system, but slavery is a necessary stage in the development of every civilized society.

Human beings are born like this, and in addition to noble qualities such as justice and kindness, there are also more greed and desires hidden in people's hearts.

The appearance of a person is that the proportion of good thoughts and evil thoughts in the heart is different.

Therefore, it is often seen that some murderous criminals will also have good deeds to help lost children on the roadside.

Good and evil are only relatively speaking, and the criteria for judging good and evil are the result of people's own worldview.

So everyone has the idea of enslaving others in their hearts. Let others work hard, and you just have to sit back and enjoy the results...... This temptation will make everyone fantasize, and there will always be some people who try to make it happen.

So the earliest slaves appeared, long before the founding of the Xingzhu Empire, those ordinary people who did not have the ability to hide from the predation of demonic beasts in the wilderness became the slaves of the professionals, the powerful professionals guarded one side, and the ordinary people worked for the professionals, whether it was planting crops or building more comfortable and beautiful houses and palaces......

Later, after the establishment of the Xingzhu Empire, although the First Sage Decree forbade the existence of slavery...... However, after the death of the First Sage, future generations continued to look for loopholes in the laws formulated by the First Sage...... The purpose was to own slaves.

The more extreme ones completely ignored the existence of the law and continued to operate slave markets in the corners of the city...... This was the precursor to the later underground rally.

In recent years, the royal family has also made many slaves in this area, but eventually had to bow to the large aristocratic class.

Individuals were allowed to own slaves, but they were not allowed to take ordinary people as slaves, and the descendants of slaves were restored to the status of free people, and there was a limit to the number of slaves allowed to be owned by different nobles......

But in this way, the origin of slaves becomes a big problem.

The war years were fine, because of the war, many refugees, and captives were the best source of slaves, but in the peace years, the aristocratic class had a large demand for slaves...... will prompt the emergence of many.

These slave traders used illegal means to deceive and force some commoners in remote areas to become slaves, and then sold them to the nobility......

What's more, the vast majority of regions also enforce the law by the aristocratic class, who naturally turn a blind eye to this kind of behavior that benefits themselves.

The city's Qingyufang is also essentially a group of slave traders, but the goods they sell are more advanced.

Those children who have a talent for spiritual practice.

In this world where power is paramount, the number of professionals, the strength or weakness of a force, is the most fundamental of a force, so these children with cultivation talent are a good way for aristocratic families to enhance their own strength. Whether it's as Deadpool, Hitman, or better yet, a retainer......

Located in a corner of this square, Qingyufang is not a very large attic, and it is not as strong as the small shops on the street outside......

After entering, she was greeted by a woman who was extremely scantily dressed, her appearance was okay, but she was ruthless in the face of the elm pimple sword and Chen Rui, who had already abandoned all desires on the road of chasing knowledge...... The temptation of her beauty did not work in the slightest.

After a brief temptation, the woman also understood this fact, so she didn't bother to drag it out any longer, and directly took Jian Ruthless and Chen Rui to the back to pick up the effort.

Resembles a shady factory...... The smell here is terrible, and the visitors in the iron cages are neatly organized, just like the iron cages used to hold pets such as cats and dogs that I saw in the market before.

It's just that in so many iron cages, all of them are real human beings...... The children here are no older than 10 years old, they are dressed in tattered clothes, their faces are unhealthy yellow, and many more are skinny.

But the most worrying thing is that the eyes of those children are extremely dead and silent, or numb.

Most of them came from remote villages in the Empire, and the people of Qingyufang disguised themselves as travelers, and specialized in picking villages that rarely intersected with outsiders.

They would pay out of their own pockets to check the magic for these children, and once they found a child with a talent for cultivation, they would offer to take the child to a big city for a well-rounded education.

On the one hand, the child's parents and relatives lack the knowledge of the outside world, and on the other hand, they are also fooled by the scammers...... Most people would agree to let them take their children.

When the children are sent to the gathering place in the big city, what awaits the children is not the practice and adventure life that they have been looking forward to......

What awaits them is the land of the earth.

Brainwashing education, extremely strict corporal punishment, people who cannot master the cultivation method in a short period of time will even be ruthlessly killed...... Under this extreme oppression, the children's young hearts gradually "died".

Eventually become a walking corpse.

From the original, Qingyufang's method is very similar to the cultivation of the dark palace.

Step by step along the dimly lit aisle, heavy footsteps echoing in the vast space...... None of the children were interested in taking a look at who the sudden footsteps were, and everyone's eyes were extremely empty.

Suddenly, Chen Rui's footsteps stopped, and Jian Ruthless was slightly stunned for a moment.

He followed Chen Rui's gaze and saw that it was an equally thin child, no different from the hundreds of slaves here.

Wrong.

The sword ruthlessly reflected itself in the little boy's pupils.

The biggest difference between this child and others is that his eyes are clear and stubborn.

The child and Chen Rui looked at each other, and Chen Rui seemed to see himself who was abandoned by his parents in his hometown.

Lonely and stubborn.

"What's your name?" Chen Rui asked softly.

"Su Qiran. The boy's voice was also soft, and he seemed to have a premonition of something, but he was not as grateful to the rescuer as the rescued puppy.

He looked at Chen Rui silently, neither humble nor arrogant.

At this time, Su Qiran, who was attached to Chen Rui in a special state, suddenly felt that the sky was spinning, and the streamer in his field of vision was full of light, drowning everything.

He left Chen Rui's body and ended this journey of Qiyi.

"What you see is what you want to know the most, can I ask you for help at the price?" The sudden voice made Su Qiran stunned for a while, and he came back to his senses and found that he had completely detached himself from Chen Rui and was in a radiant realm.

“...... Are you?"

"The will of the world. ”

“...... What do you want me to do?"

"As soon as this world enters the door, it is hopeless, the power of the world's origin has been completely withdrawn, and it will not be long before the world will be destroyed. But I want you to lead humanity out of the world that is about to fall apart. ”

"Where ...... escape?"

"Another world, worlds are separated by voids, but as long as you know the clear coordinates of the other world, coupled with my cooperation, it is enough to build a bridge across the void. ”

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