The moon is as red as blood.
Under the red moon.
Mountains, rivers, and plains are lined up one after another, and it seems that there is not much difference from everything in the human world.
Apart from being stained with a layer of dark red base color, it looks a bit weird and eerie.
However, he was the only one who felt it was weird.
The demons living here have long been accustomed to this kind of scene.
In their eyes, the world should be red.
Lu Qingshan looked into the distance and could vaguely see some very small, faint shadows in the distance.
That is the city of the demons.
A rotten, strange smell wafted in the wind.
This made Lu Qingshan frown slightly.
"How do you feel?" Lu Qingshan asked Yu Luo behind him.
He didn't look back, so he couldn't see Yu Luo's expression.
However, he could sense that Yu Luo was a little hesitant.
After a while, Yu Luo finally replied: "Your Highness, although I already knew that the Abyss had entered a period of decline, this situation is more serious than I imagined..."
The smell of decay in the air is caused by the world entering into decline.
The world is old, senile and decayed.
"However," Yu Luo quickly regained his spirits, "Once we take over the human realm, we will own two worlds. As long as we extract half of the demons in the abyss and send them to the human realm, we should be able to stop the abyss's decline and revive it."
"Maybe." Lu Qingshan smiled, a gleam in his eyes.
The blood-stained warship cut through a streak of starlight and flew rapidly across the endless land.
On the way here, Lu Qingshan had already confirmed that the Senluo Kingdom was one of the five kingdoms bordering the space channel.
Therefore, in the near future, he will be able to enter the Senluo King Realm.
The realm they are currently in is the Yanling King Realm.
Not long.
A vague outline of a huge city came into Lu Qingshan's sight.
The city wall is about tens of feet high and stretches to no end, like a black mountain range.
This is the city gate established by the demons, Yama City.
Although the demons are confident that they are strong enough to crush the human race, they are not arrogant.
Therefore, even though they have been suppressing the human race in the city gates for so many years and have been unable to get out, let alone counterattack the abyss.
But the demons were still prepared and set up city gates near the space channel to block everything and monitor people coming in and out.
The warship quickly approached Yama City.
At this time, a team of sturdy demon cultivators flew out from Yama City.
"Stop." These demon cultivators, all wearing blood-red armor, with bloodshot eyes under their helmets and extraordinary strength, blocked the warship directly.
Lu Qingshan took a look and couldn't help but sigh at the strength of the demons again.
This random team of demon cultivators guarding the city are all at the seventh level.
On the warship, a seventh-rank demon cultivator from Lu Qingshan's side immediately jumped out and flew in front of the demon cultivators guarding the city. He handed over a token to identify himself, "We are under the command of Demon Lord Xuanren."
The leading demon cultivator guarding the city took the token, checked it carefully, then handed it back and waved to his subordinates.
Everyone made way.
The warship started up again, flew past the team of demon cultivators, turned into a stream of light, penetrated into Yama City, and flew towards the Senluo King Realm.
Many demon cultivators in Yama City were filled with solemnity when they saw the blood-stained warship passing by in the sky.
They could feel the extraordinary nature of this warship and concluded that its owner must not be an ordinary person.
About two more hours passed.
The abyss turned into daylight, and the warship finally entered the territory of the Senluo King Realm.
The red moon slowly descended, followed by a blood-red sun.
The color is even a few shades darker than the red moon.
Under the rendering of the red sun, the entire abyss world is shrouded in a sense of impending doomsday.
"What a miserable world." Lu Qingshan murmured.
The dark red world is indeed depressing no matter how you look at it.
He looked ahead and saw a huge open-pit mine. From afar, he could see countless black spots working in it.
That is a metal mine of the demon clan.
For the Soldier Demon Clan, metal minerals are very important resources.
The Burning Moon Region is an area rich in metal ores, which was also an important reason why Demon Lord Mangcang chose to occupy this area.
Moving a little closer, Lu Qingshan's pupils suddenly dilated.
It was as if he had seen something horrifying.
This is indeed the case.
He saw some people who shouldn't be in the abyss.
Right above that exposed mineral vein, there were hundreds of thousands of ragged people, with their heads down and tools in hand, busy digging and excavating the ore like worker ants.
That’s right, it’s a human, not a demon in human form.
Living people.
Most of them are mortals, and a few are monks with some cultivation.
But in this situation, it doesn’t make much difference whether one has cultivation or not, since they are all slaves anyway.
Lu Qingshan looked at the scene in front of him, his heart was filled with shock and astonishment.
How is that possible?
There should be no human beings in the abyss.
Tianshan is the only passage in and out of the human realm. Yumen Pass has guarded the pass for 20,000 years, protecting the human realm firmly behind it and preventing demons from entering.
In 20,000 years, Yumen Pass has never been lost.
If this is the case, how could humans appear in the territory of the Abyss Soldier Demon Clan?
He couldn't understand.
He couldn't be sure of the specific situation, but he knew that there must be a shocking secret hidden in it.
A secret that no one has ever discovered.
"Could it be that besides Yumen Pass, there are other unknown space passages leading to the human realm?"
Lu Qingshan stared at the mineral vein in the distance, constantly making judgments and speculations in his mind.
After thinking for a moment, he asked, "Yu Luo, do you know much about the abyss?"
Yu Luo, who was standing behind him, was startled, and then told the truth: "Your Highness, I don't really understand. I have been in the battlefield outside the domain since I was a child, so..."
The Green Snake Demon Commander, who had been paying attention to the movements here not far away, couldn't help but sneer when he heard this.
He finally figured out Yu Luo's origins - he turned out to be a "pariah" on the battlefield outside the domain.
The Green Snake Demon Commander suddenly felt disdainful.
These abyss demon cultivators who consider themselves "superior to others" have always looked down upon those "lowlifes".
This way.
Lu Qingshan had a bored expression on his face. He pointed at a seventh-rank demon cultivator and said, "Tell him about the situation in the abyss, so that he won't be treated like a country bumpkin by others when he returns to the Senluo King Realm, which would be embarrassing for me."
As soon as he finished speaking, the seventh-rank demon cultivator he named stepped forward, glanced at Yu Luo, and said in a deep voice: "What do you want to know?"
Yu Luo's expression didn't change much, but he was somewhat touched in his heart.
Because, to understand these things about the abyss, he should have found a way to do it himself.
It's just that Qingge's subordinates are secretly uniting to exclude him as an outsider, which makes it difficult for him to move forward.
His Highness must have discovered this situation, so he personally came forward and called on one of his subordinates to help him solve the problem.
This shows how much His Highness values ​​me.
"What's the situation with these humans?" Yu Luo asked calmly. Like Lu Qingshan, he was also a rookie. "How could there be humans in the abyss?"
Good boy, I was right about you.
Although Lu Qingshan originally wanted to use Yu Luo's mouth to solve his doubts.
But when he saw that Yu Luo started talking about the issue he cared about most, he couldn't help but praise him in his heart.
"You're asking these people?" The demon cultivator casually glanced at the mineral vein in the distance, with an expression of being accustomed to it, "We spent a lot of money to buy it from Liuli Domain and Tianmen Domain. In the abyss, they are the only ones who have a steady supply of human resources to sell."
"By selling human resources to our other six tribes, their two tribes have become increasingly powerful over the years." When saying this, the tone of the seventh-rank magic cultivator revealed a hint of envy.
Lu Qingshan remained calm, but his heart was filled with turmoil.
The Glazed Realm is the realm of inner demons.
Tianmen Territory is the territory of the giant clan.
Naturally, there are no human beings in the abyss. These human beings must have been plundered by these two tribes from the human domain.
Bordering the Liuli Domain is the Zhongling Domain, and bordering the Tianmen Domain is the Zhongtian Domain.
The problem is that there has never been any news of large-scale disappearance of human beings in these two domains.
Unless there is a human ghost helping to conceal it...
The fact that they were able to conceal such a thing shows how powerful these insiders are.
Therefore, these traitors must at least be from a top sect, or even a Dao Sect...
As for the Central Spiritual Realm, after experiencing the incident with the Hundred Illusion Butterflies, Lu Qingshan became very suspicious of the Huanling Sect. He immediately determined in his mind that if there really was a traitor, it was most likely from the Huanling Sect.
The problem is, it actually involves the Zhongtian Region.
Zhongtian Region is the territory of Tianji Temple.
Will a great villain emerge in Tianji Temple?
Lu Qingshan just refused to believe it.
Moreover, with the monitoring capabilities of Tianji Temple, how could it happen that a large number of humans disappeared in their territory without them knowing about it?
The doubts in Lu Qingshan's mind were not answered, but instead increased.
His mood became much heavier.
There are too many things involved.
Not for any other reason, just to pass this message back to the human race, he must save his life on this trip.
"Over the years, our demon race has been consuming too much energy due to the continuous increase in population. The abyss has already reached a stage of exhaustion."
"So, we can only send countless untouchables to the battlefield outside the domain to fight with the human race, although this is only a temporary solution and not a fundamental solution." The seventh-grade magic cultivator went on to explain.
Yu Luo secretly clenched his fists, and a gloomy look flashed in his eyes.
Because he is what these people call a "untouchable".
"But there is another problem. Although we can send untouchables to the battlefield outside the domain, we can't send civilians there," the seventh-rank demon cultivator did not realize that he had made a mistake and continued, "Besides, without these civilians, who will mine resources for us?"
"Although the adults have tried their best to suppress the emergence of new high-level demon cultivators, it is too late. The number of high-level demon cultivators has accumulated too much, which requires countless civilians to work for us."
Classes are always pyramid-shaped, with a large number of lower-class people serving the tiny upper class.
"But once the number of civilians increases, resource consumption will further increase. It's like a vicious circle."
"Until ten thousand years ago, the Glazed Domain Heart Demon Saint Clan, for some unknown reason, brought in many humans."
At this point, the demon cultivator smiled and said, "The human race may not be good at other things, but in terms of production and labor, they are much better than us demons. They only need to consume less than 10% of the resources of our demon civilians, but they can do almost the same as them."
Simply put, in the eyes of the demons, humans are just "cheap labor."
"Naturally, the human race has become a very popular resource. However, in recent years, only Liuli Territory and Tianmen Territory have had a steady supply of human resources for sale, and this business has become a monopoly business for the two of them."
The demon cultivator was shocked and said, "I don't know where they got these humans from. They are clearly just like us, isolated by the human city gates and unable to enter the human domain."
He didn't know the situation in the other two domains.
Because the eight holy demon clans of the abyss have always been independent and not connected to each other.
Even long ago, in order to compete for resources and plunder territory, the eight holy demon clans were in a confrontation for a long time, with swords drawn against each other, and many conflicts and frictions occurred.
It was not until later, when the resources of the abyss were exhausted, that they stopped fighting and turned their attention to other worlds.
But this was not enough for them to put aside their past grudges and become close friends.
Therefore, the eight holy demon clans do not share the same intelligence and resources, and they do not understand each other's situations.
Fortunately, the demon clan is not a monolithic entity, otherwise the human race might not have been able to survive until Xia Daozu was born.
The warship was already above the mineral vein at this time.
Lu Qingshan looked down.
He could clearly see tens of thousands of human men working on the mines.
However, there was only a small demon team of a dozen people responsible for patrolling and surveillance.
They wielded barbed whips and kept beating the human race.
The whip was like a poisonous snake spitting out its tongue. Every time it was lashed out, it would draw a bloody scar on the bodies of these pale, skinny and bony men, leaving their skin and flesh torn.
These human beings have to do hard labor for eight or nine hours every day in exchange for a small amount of food.
Once injured or weakened, they will be brutally killed by the demons.
In the eyes of the demons, they are not lives, but simply consumables.
Human bones can be seen everywhere on the ground. There is even a huge deep pit in the center of the mine, which is filled with thousands of human corpses. Some have turned into bones, and some have just rotted.
Seeing this scene, a huge sense of sorrow arose in Lu Qingshan's heart.
"Who is helping the evildoers?" Although he believed that his inner will was extremely strong, he still felt furious at this moment.
He could only grit his teeth to keep his expression unchanged.
According to the demon cultivator, this situation started ten thousand years ago.
So, during these ten thousand years, how many humans have been buried in this unknown abyss?
Tens of millions, hundreds of millions, or even billions?
A chill came over me.
Although there was endless hatred in his heart, Lu Qingshan's mind became calmer at this time.
The demons were able to plunder so many people from the human realm silently, there must be high-ranking human monks secretly helping them behind the scenes.
This made Lu Qingshan's heart feel extremely cold.
Even though he already knew that human hearts were as vicious as demons, he still couldn't accept that this happened.
The inner demon of Liuli Realm, the giant spirit of Tianmen Realm, as well as Zhongtian Realm and Zhongling Realm.
Lu Qingshan engraved these names deeply in his mind.
…
…
Here, Yu Luo has already changed the subject and started asking other questions.
Lu Qingshan adjusted his mood slightly and listened carefully to the conversation between the two.
The warship moved forward.
On the way, Lu Qingshan saw one huge city after another, all of which were magnificent.
After another day and night, they finally arrived at their destination.
Senluo capital.
This is the largest .
The city wall is majestic, pitch black all over, and shrouded in a layer of faint black light, like metal, with an intimidating luster.
The blood-stained warship flew straight into the city without any obstruction.
After all, it would be too ridiculous if the guards of Senluo City couldn't even recognize His Highness Qingge's carriage.
The warship sailed through the city for a while and rushed to a luxurious palace.
In front of the palace, there is a huge square.
The demon cultivator maneuvered the warship to stop on the square, and then said respectfully: "Your Highness, we have arrived."
This is Qing Ge’s residence, Qingwang Mansion.
Lu Qingshan let out a faint "hmm" from his nose, then jumped off the warship.
Qingge’s mansion is tall and majestic.
There were two sixth-rank demons standing outside the door guarding it.
As soon as they saw Lu Qingshan appear, they immediately shouted, "Greetings, Your Highness."
Lu Qingshan did not respond, but led the team in.
As soon as I entered the gate, a demon cultivator who looked quite old came to greet me with a smile on his face, "Your Highness, you are back."
It seems that he must be a person of high status in the mansion.
Lu Qingshan glanced at him and guessed secretly in his heart.
He did not know the layout of the Prince Qing's Mansion, and did not know any of the people in the mansion.
This is a very embarrassing point, and also where he is extremely easily exposed.
However, Lu Qingshan was not panicked.
Because he had already prepared a cover.
He pointed at Yu Luo and said to the old demon cultivator who came to greet him, "This is Yu Luo. He has just arrived. Please introduce the layout of the palace to him and introduce him to the people."
This made Yu Luo feel touched again by Qingge's thoughtful care.
The old man was startled at first, but then he quickly reacted and said politely, "I am the steward of the Qing Palace. You can just call me Steward Feng."
"Hello, Butler Feng." Yu Luo bowed.
It turned out to be the housekeeper.
Lu Qingshan said in his heart.
…
Just as Lu Qingshan entered the Senluo capital.
Another equally majestic and tall palace.
The Red King's Palace.
"Your Highness, Qingge is back." In the hall, a demon cultivator with a deep and powerful aura reported to Chi Pu who was sitting on the throne.
"Are you finally back?" Chi Pu had a playful expression on his face.
"Your Highness, we have received news that something happened to Puqu. It is likely that His Highness Qingge discovered his identity."
"Will this cause any trouble? If Qing Ge goes to Lord Demon and complains to His Highness..."
Chi Pu waved his hand and said unconcernedly: "So what if I'm discovered? Am I afraid of him?"
"Besides, this time, he led a large army to attack the human race's city gate. He was sure of victory but was defeated in the end," Chi Pu said with a half-smile, "He should think about how to save his face. It's good enough that I don't add insult to injury, but he dares to provoke me? If he really wants to do so, then let's see who will be embarrassed, him or me!"