81: Beihan City is sealed off

Underground Black Market of Bei Han City.

“Old Skeleton, to manage an underground black market like yours, I’m afraid you’re the only one in the entire Lei Province.”

“Indeed, none of us evil cultivators don’t revere Old Skeleton’s grandeur.”

“Truly magnificent and carefree!”

Listening to the flattery of the surrounding evil cultivators, Old Skeleton drained the blood mist from his gourd, feeling utterly refreshed.

Relaxed, he smugly looked at his large warehouse.

“Doing business in the Black Market, your eyes must not only look at Bei Han City, at the Blood Shadow Demon Sect, but also at the entire Lei Province.”

“Hundreds of years ago in this Lei Province, there were many people, little food, and refugees everywhere, so people weren’t worth much.”

“But in these past two years, people have become fewer and fewer, and the Materials for blood refinement have become even more precious. So if you want to get rich, you have to look at the general trend of the world, understand? The general trend of the world!”

Old Skeleton drank the mist elegantly, blood mist permeated his body, and his face was full of pride.

The flattering evil cultivators, upon hearing Old Skeleton’s words, suddenly felt enlightened!

“Yes, the inner core of a demon king used to be worth only two million Spirit Stones, but now it has risen to ten million, it’s the same principle.”

“Especially young children are hard to find! Before, one household would have eight children, now eight households have one child, how are we evil cultivators supposed to live!”

“Old Skeleton truly possesses great wisdom.”

Old Skeleton’s mood was greatly improved by the flattery.

“This warehouse full of slaves isn’t all for sale. Once I plant Divine Soul secret techniques in all of them, I’ll sell the men as slaves, the women as prostitutes, refine the children into medicine, and send those with Spiritual Roots to the Sect…”

“Hahaha, it won’t be long before all the major Sects in the world will have my slaves, hahaha.”

Old Skeleton had just finished boasting, and before he could enjoy the praise of those around him, a burly man in a black robe appeared from the street corner.

The man wore a black robe with blood-red trim on the hems of his sleeves and trousers, and stood five meters tall, like a giant emerging from an abyss.

Old Skeleton, who had just been the center of attention, immediately knelt by the roadside, heavily kowtowing his head to the ground, his body trembling like a sieve.

“Skeleton, the Sect Master sent me to retrieve ten fresh young children. Do you have them? Quickly bring them out for me.”

The black-robed giant stood in place, his entire being like a small building, exuding immense pressure.

“Yes, yes… I do.”

The black-robed giant approached Old Skeleton, slowly lowering his head towards him.

“You better have them. The Sect Master’s Alchemy has reached a critical stage. If there’s a delay due to the lack of fresh young children, you will surely be torn to pieces!”

“Yes, I will go fetch them for you, sir.”

Old Skeleton scrambled and stumbled, clumsily heading towards his large warehouse.

Although he boasted to the outside world that he would plant secret techniques in the slaves and that his servants would be all over the world in the future, the reality was far from it.

Managing such a large operation in the Black Market was something he alone could not achieve.

This large warehouse, seemingly his asset, was actually the Blood Shadow Demon Sect’s Alchemy backyard.

He was merely a dog of the Blood Shadow Demon Sect.

“Good thing I just caught thirty fresh young children yesterday, and they haven’t dehydrated yet. I just hope they haven’t killed each other, quick, quick!”

Old Skeleton hobbled to his warehouse, and with a wave of his bony hand, the heavy warehouse door slowly opened.

Accompanied by an incredibly coarse creaking sound, a rotten and putrid stench rolled out from the large warehouse.

Old Skeleton, long accustomed to it, strode in.

But the next moment, he was stunned!

People, where are the people?

“Where are the people! Where are my slaves! Who is it!”

Old Skeleton roared in anger, his voice echoing in the empty large warehouse.

How could this be!

There were clearly thousands of living slaves in this warehouse, including young children, strong men, and women!

How could the people who were just alive and imprisoned here all be gone!

“What’s going on?”

The black-robed giant arrived at the warehouse entrance in almost a single step, and looking up, he saw a black spatial rift fifty meters high, quietly closing.

“Idiot!”

The black-robed giant slapped down, his already massive hand transforming into a giant black mist hand with a diameter of two meters, instantly pulverizing Old Skeleton into a pile of dust.

This Old Skeleton, who was so renowned in the underground Black Market of Bei Han City and feared by countless people, was thus killed with a single palm strike.

“Dare to cause trouble in the Blood Shadow Demon Sect’s territory, I’d like to see where you can run?”

The black-robed giant first crushed a black talisman, which exploded into eight streaks of light, flying to the eight corners of Bei Han City.

Then he returned from the entrance of the underground space, left the underground Black Market, and flew into the sky above Bei Han City.

“Bei Han City, sealed for one day!”

A terrifying Spirit Sea Realm pressure swept out, engulfing the entire Bei Han City.

“It’s the City Lord of Bei Han City. What happened to make the City Lord seal the city?”

“The City Lord is a top expert at Spirit Sea Realm eighth heaven. Under the Blood Shadow Demon Sect’s mountain gate, who dares to provoke the City Lord?”

“The city-sealing Formation has been activated. Now no one can escape death.”

“Quick, let’s hide. When the City Lord acts, he won’t care about us. We won’t even know how we died!”

Almost every household in Bei Han City had a basement for refuge.

Over hundreds of years, the Blood Shadow Demon Sect had been besieged by righteous Sects countless times, and Bei Han City had experienced far more wars than imagined.

Therefore, as soon as the City Lord’s pressure was unleashed, hundreds of thousands of residents immediately went into hiding.

The black-robed giant’s Divine Sense swept across the entire city.

“Could it be that this villain, with a thousand slaves, has already fled far beyond Bei Han City?”

The black-robed giant’s Divine Sense searched countless times, but he still couldn’t find any trace of the slaves within Bei Han City.

Although he did not possess spatial power, he knew the profound and rare nature of spatial power.

Using spatial power with a thousand people, and even transferring them tens of miles away?

This is absolutely impossible!

Unless a Transformation God Realm mighty expert arrived, such a miraculous feat would be impossible.

The other party must still be within Bei Han City.

The black-robed giant hovered in the very center of Bei Han City and soon noticed something amiss.

Everyone had hidden in their basements, yet four people were leisurely sitting in a wine shop?

Do they really think this old man is blind!

“Where did these juniors come from, daring to cause trouble in Bei Han City!”

The black-robed giant conjured an incredibly massive black mist hand, within which blood souls shrieked, human bones tumbled, and forms twisted.

“Run!”

As soon as the four left the underground Black Market, they saw the Formation of Bei Han City activate, realizing the situation was dire.

They quickly hid in a wine shop, attempting to conceal themselves.

Who knew that all the people of Bei Han City, after the black-robed giant appeared, would all hide in their basements!

The four still lingering outside, on the contrary, stood out conspicuously.

“Gu Yuan, run!”

The situation was critical; the four faced a Spirit Sea Realm expert.

A casual wave of his hand could crush the four into pieces.

Xiao Ling’er had no thought of tempering herself at this moment.

Run! Quickly run!

“Senior Sister, I… I can’t move.”

Little Gu Yuan looked aggrieved, his body stiff, unable to mobilize any strength.

Soon, Xiao Ling’er, Chu Wuchen, and Yu Ruoxue also felt the same pressure.

The four were all suppressed by the Spirit Sea Realm pressure.

Unable to move.