Chapter 54: Inferior
Ye Chen walked in this prairie for two days before he saw signs of human survival.
As far as the eye can see, at the end of the sunset, a village leaps into view.
At this time, it was noon, and a few cooking smoke wafted out of the chimney, and even if it was still some distance away, there was a faint smell of rice coming to the nose.
This couldn't help but make Ye Chen's tongue angry, he hadn't eaten for two days, he had lost his cultivation, and now he was no different from mortals, even if he didn't eat a meal, he would be hungry.
The smell of rice wafting from the village couldn't help but lift his spirits, and he couldn't help but speed up his pace, and with the last bit of strength, he ran to the village.
When he came to the entrance of the village, he only saw a few young children playing on the ground, all of them looking innocent and lively.
"Hey, big brother, who are you?" At this time, a little boy in a tattered cloth robe ran out of the village with a staggering step, he looked at Ye Chen blankly, his little face was full of curiosity.
"Little friend, my name is Ye Chen, what is your name?" Ye Chen held the little boy in his arms, and he carefully found that the clothes worn by the little boy were not only tattered, but also larger than his body.
Obviously, this dress is not the little boy's own clothes, maybe from the elders of the family, which shows that the people here are not rich.
"Is this the status quo in the slave realm?" he couldn't help but sigh, although the scenery here is sultry, the life is so poor.
"Big brother, my name is Xiaobao!" replied innocently.
"Goo~" At this time, Ye Chen's stomach made a protest sound inappropriately.
When Xiaobao heard this voice, he blinked his eyes as bright as black gems and asked, "Big brother, are you hungry?" Tell you secretly, my mother is making delicious food, and in a while, I will take you to taste it, my mother's craftsmanship is good!"
"Okay, big brother is really starving to death!" Ye Chen smiled and scratched the tip of his cute little nose, although Xiaobao was only two or three years old, he was very intelligent, and he looked like a ghost, which was very endearing.
"Xiaobao, who are you talking to?" At this moment, a woman heard the movement and walked out of a room.
She was dressed in a patched blue shirt, her hair was tied in a bun, and her wheat-colored skin looked very healthy.
This woman is Xiaobao's mother-in-law, and when she saw Xiaobao being held in the arms of a strange teenager, she couldn't help but show a puzzled face.
"Little brother, who are you looking for?" asked Xiao Bao Niang.
"Mother, mother, he is Ye Chen's eldest brother, and he is a guest from afar. Before Ye Chen could answer, Xiaobao rushed to say first.
After Xiao Bao Niang heard this, the expression on her face was slightly stunned, as if she was thinking about something, she groaned for a moment before she hugged Xiao Bao from Ye Chen's arms.
"Xiaobao, go wash your hands, and when your brother and they come back, we'll be ready to eat." "She seems to be deliberately trying to break away from Xiaobao.
And when Xiaobao heard the word "eat", his little face was immediately filled with a sweet smile: "Oh yes, it's finally almost time to eat!" He said in a milky voice, and then raised his little head and pulled the corner of the woman's clothes: "Mother, mother, my eldest brother is also hungry, can you eat with us later?"
"Of course!" said Xiao Bao Niang with a smile.
Ye Chen was very pleased, he knew that Xiao Bao Niang had something to say to him, so he also squatted down and said to Xiao Bao: "Xiao Bao is good, listen to my mother's words, go wash your hands first, and then the eldest brother will accompany you to eat later." ”
"Okay!" Xiaobao clapped his hands excitedly, and immediately ran away.
Only then did Xiao Baoniang ask in a low voice, "Did the little brother just come down from the Dragon Domain?"
"Eldest sister, how do you know?" Ye Chen showed a curious face.
Xiao Baoniang smiled and said, "Judging from your dress, it is not difficult to guess that if you live in the slave domain for a long time, it is impossible to still wear such a bright dress as you." ”
"Uh~" Ye Chen looked down at his clothes, in fact, they were not glamorous, there were holes everywhere, but compared to the clothes worn by the woman, they were indeed much better.
"Eldest sister, why is this place called the slave domain? I walked here for two days, according to my observation, in addition to your life is relatively hard, this place is completely a paradise, if you can live a plain life here, it may not be a kind of happiness, I really don't know why such a good place is called the slave domain?"
"Little brother, you may not know, in fact, here..." Next, Xiao Baoniang explained a lot to him.
He learned from Xiao Bao Niang that the slave domain was under the nine-fold dragon realm, and the world above the slave domain was the one-star dragon domain.
As for why this place is called the Slave Domain, it is because this is a place where inferior people live, and the so-called inferior people are actually ordinary ordinary people, or sinners who have been degraded from the Ninefold Dragon Realm.
Once these people come to the slave realm, they are old and frail, and they can only live in this place for the rest of their lives, as for those who are slightly younger and in the prime of life, they have the opportunity to be selected by the big family of the Ninefold Dragon Realm to be slaves, so over time, this place has become what people call the slave domain.
After Ye Chen heard this, it suddenly dawned on him, no wonder there were almost no young men and women in the village, presumably, they had already been taken back as slaves by the Venerable Master of the Nine Dragons Realm, right?
This is the sorrow of living in the slave realm, all this is far from being as beautiful as Ye Chen imagined.
After some conversation, Ye Chen came to Xiaobao's house, this is not a warm small family, at present, only Xiaobao and Xiaobao Niang are at home, Xiaobao also has an elder brother, I heard that he went into the mountains to hunt, and he is not at home at this time, as for Xiaobao's father, he was taken away by a big family in the one-star dragon domain in the early years, and to this day, life and death are unknown.
When talking about the issue of living a hard life, Xiao Baoniang said that those powerful people in the Ninefold Dragon Realm, also known as the Venerable Masters, not only often come to the slave realm to collect slaves, but sometimes plunder all the resources here.
According to Xiao Bao Niang, in fact, in the beginning, the slave domain was not like this, at that time, not only the common people lived here, but also many spiritual people lived here, there is no doubt that that time was the most glorious era of the slave domain.
It's just that, for some reason, the slave realm suddenly underwent earth-shaking changes, and the spiritual cultivators couldn't survive normally here, or died bizarrely, or lost their cultivation for no reason, and in the end, no one dared to survive here, and over time, there were only some ordinary people left here.
There is even a saying in the Ninefold Dragon Realm that the slave realm is a place where untouchables live, and spiritual cultivators are human beings and god-like beings, so they can't adapt to the living environment here.
When Ye Chen heard this rumor, he couldn't help but be furious: "What kind of bullshit is a master, do you really think that you are superior?"
To be continued~