The Immortal Emperor Returns

Chapter 520 A Deeper Understanding

Chu Xun’s impression of the Assembly of Immortals became worse. “How could the Assembly of Immortals come up with the idea of alleviating the burden on the Earth and speeding up its recovery by wiping out all the civilians?

“No race or clan is more ruthless than the Assembly of Immortals.”

Then the two of them tried to break the Cold Steel Chains on Wen Yuchen, but they failed.

It seemed that Chu Xun had to find the family that was supposed to replace Wen Yuchen to get the key to open the lock.

In fact, Chu Xun did not completely trust Wen Yuchen. After all, the latter was also from the Assembly of Immortals.

Wen Yuchen’s cultivation level was terrifying. If he got out and joined hands with the Assembly of Immortals to deal with the Earth, it would be a disaster.

When Wen Yuchen asked Chu Xun to find out the family that should have replaced him to get the key to save him as soon as possible, Chu Xun agreed without hesitation.

The reason why he agreed was not that he really wanted to save Wen Yuchen, but that he wanted to keep the key in his own hand and let Wen Yuchen out when his cultivation level was higher than that of Wen Yuchen.

Wen Yuchen was now a double-edged sword, which was very dangerous for both Chu Xun and the Assembly of Immortals. For this reason, Chu Xun had to leave Wen Yuchen aside before he had sufficient power to control this sword.

Chu Xun asked Wen Yuchen about the Subterranean Devils Clan. Wen Yuchen told him that the five Fiend Lords of the Subterranean Devils Clan were all seriously injured in that battle; they had not yet recovered, and they were in deep slumber now and would not wake up in a while.

Chu Xun had guessed it right. Otherwise, it would be difficult for Wen Yuchen to stop the five Fiend Lords, even though he was in the High Immortal Realm.

Chu Xun did not intend to return to the outside world immediately. He planned to gain a deeper understanding of the Subterranean Devils Clan.

Wen Yuchen couldn’t stop Chu Xun, so he had no choice but to tell Chu Xun some points needing attention.

Chu Xun bid farewell to Wen Yuchen and headed to the depths of the Subterranean Devils Clan’s territory.

The Subterranean Devils Clan’s territory was very desolate. The air was hot and filled with the Poison of Fire. Only a few plants could survive in such an environment. Most of the plants that Chu Xun occasionally saw were brightly colored and highly poisonous.

Chu Xun could not identify directions. In the place where the Subterranean Devils Clan was sealed, there was no obvious difference between day and night. He wandered in this place as he wanted.

He did not encounter the army of demonic ants this time, but instead, he just encountered a few low-level demonic beasts having no intelligence. Those beasts only had animal instincts and were not very strong, so Chu Xun easily killed them with a flick of his finger.

Chu Xun felt that he had probably walked for hundreds of miles, but the surroundings still looked bleak and there were piles of white bones on roadsides.

In the end, Chu Xun directly chose to fly in the air.

Chu Xun was surprised. “This is not a space at all, but another world.” The area of the place where the Subterranean Devils Clan was sealed was beyond his imagination.

After flying for several hours, he finally saw a city.

This city was similar to those in the outside world, but it was colorless and looked lifeless.

Chu Xun observed it for a while and found that most cultivators of the Subterranean Devils Clan were of fire type. He landed on the ground, changed his aura, and camouflaged himself with the Violet Underworld Flame.

There were soldiers guarding the entrance to the city. They were no different from human beings, except that they were much taller and stronger than ordinary humans.

A guard stopped Chu Xun and said with a poker face, “If you want to enter the city, you have to present a low-grade Fire Spinel.”

Chu Xun felt annoyed. Wen Yuchen did not tell him that the Subterranean Devils Clan’s common currency was Fire Spinel.

Fire Spinel, which was formed in lava, was of great benefit to one’s cultivation.

“Will this do?” Chu Xun took out a piece of low-grade spiritual herb.

The two guards of the Subterranean Devils Clan widened their eyes. For all tribes and clans, spiritual energy was indispensable for their cultivation. However, there were very few places with spiritual energy in the Subterranean Devils Realm, and the great powers had occupied and controlled such places. Therefore, the values of spiritual herbs and elixirs were immeasurable in the Subterranean Devils Realm. One piece of low-grade spiritual herb could be exchanged for 100 grams of low-grade Fire Spinel.

Each of these inferior guards could receive only one piece of low-grade spiritual herb every month.

Therefore, the throats of the two guards felt dry when they saw Chu Xun taking out the spiritual herb. That was a precious resource for their cultivation in one month.

“Do you want to pay the fee for entering the city with this piece of spiritual herb?” A guard swallowed hard and asked uncertainly.

They wanted to rob Chu Xun at first, but they knew that anyone who could take out spiritual herbs readily must have an unusual background. The Subterranean Devils Realm had the most stringent class system. If they offended a big shot, it would be a capital crime.

From the two guards’ reaction, Chu Xun could tell that spiritual herbs were very useful in this place. He threw the spiritual herb to one of the guards and swaggered into the city.

The two guards were dumbfounded. After they came to their senses, they hurriedly bowed toward Chu Xun’s back.

Chu Xun walked into the city and casually looked around. Suddenly, his eyes flamed with coldness and his aura began to grow wild, but soon he withdrew his aura and calmed down.

It was because he saw human beings here. They were ordinary humans, but their hands and feet were shackled. They walked behind the subterranean devils with lifeless faces and dull eyes, as if they were the walking dead.

“How could there be human beings in the Subterranean Devils Clan? It seems that humans have the lowest social class here, and their status is even lower than that of slaves.”

“Get out of the way. Get out. Don’t block the way...”

Crack!

The sound of whipping rang out, accompanied by the clanks of chains.

“Move faster, you pigs... Crack...”

Chu Xun turned his head and saw several men of the Subterranean Devils Clan in rough armor. They were swinging their whips and driving more than 20 human beings toward him.

“Hey, you, get out of the way...” A man of the Subterranean Devils Clan shouted at Chu Xun, who was blocking the way.

Chu Xun’s aura became violent again, and his eyes looked cold.

These twenty human beings looked aged at 10 to 20 years old. There were men and women, but they all looked apathetic. They let the whips fall on their bodies without any resistance.

“Are you talking to me?” Chu Xun asked coldly.

“Crap! I’m talking to you of course. Do you think that I’m talking to these pigs? Get lost. Don’t meddle in my business.” The man of the Subterranean Devils Clan swung his whip, making whooshing sounds.

Bang!

Chu Xun activated and moved his divine sense, smashing the man of the Subterranean Devils Clan in front of him into blood mist.

This man had just reached the Grandmaster Level. With such a cultivation level, he could not withstand even a mouthful of air from Chu Xun.

Chu Xun gave off a strong force.

Boom! Boom...!

The bodies of another two men of the Subterranean Devils Clan completely disintegrated and blew up.

“Plop! Plop...!”

The other men of the Subterranean Devils Clan were scared out of their wits. They knelt to the ground and trembled.

“Sir, please spare us... Please spare us... We are as blind as a bat...”

The class system of the Subterranean Devils Clan was very strict, and strength prevailed over everything else. Anyone that offended a master at a higher cultivation level would die in vain.

Chu Xun suppressed the killing intent surging inside him and asked in a cold voice, “Where are these human beings from?”

“Sir, we raised them ourselves,” a man of the Subterranean Devils Clan kneeling on the ground answered in a panic. “It’s a good time to sell pigs. We thought that these full-grown pigs could be sold at a good price.”

“Raise pigs. They raise human beings as pigs.” Upon hearing those words, Chu Xun couldn’t help himself. Murderous intent kept surging out of his body uncontrollably.

Bang!

The terrifying force smashed another man of the Subterranean Devils Clan into blood mist.

“Sir, please spare me. Please spare my life...”

The remaining men of the Subterranean Devils Clan kowtowed desperately and begged for mercy, trembling.

“Tell me whom you are going to sell these human beings to?” Chu Xun asked.

By this time, many people had gathered around him.

An old man stepped forward, stared at Chu Xun, and said angrily, “Sir, I am the warrior commander of Master Jimmy’s family.”

“What’s the matter?” Chu Xun asked.

“I see that you seem to sympathize with these pigs. Forgive me for being blunt. You are a fiend with a high cultivation level and noble blood. It’s not appropriate for you to sympathize with them.”

“Get lost!” Chu Xun’s eyes flamed with ice-cold rage. He threw a punch, and the sound waves surged like raging tides.

Boom!

The sound waves tore this warrior commander of Jimmy’s family into pieces.

The people of the Subterranean Devils Clan around Chu Xun were all dumbfounded. “How dare he kill the warrior commander of Master Jimmy’s family?”

“Is he out of his mind? Doesn’t he know how terrifying Master Jimmy is?”

“Master Jimmy has close connections with the lord of the city. This person is courting death.”

The people around him came to their senses and whispered.

“Answer my question,” Chu Xun said, looking at the man of the Subterranean Devils Clan kneeling on the ground.

“Yes, sir. The buyer will buy the male pigs and use them as coolies. As for the female pigs, some of them will be sent to the taverns to be killed. Their flesh and blood can serve as food. The lucky ones may catch the fancy of some powerful masters, and they will be sold to those masters for entertainment.”

“All of you deserve to die.”

Chu Xun was infuriated. His aura was surging wildly around him like raging waves.

Boom! Boom...!

The men of the Subterranean Devils Clan kneeling on the ground blew up and turned into blood mist at the same time before they even had time to scream.

Chu Xun looked coldly at the fiends around him. His oppressive aura was surging, constantly smashing them into blood mist.

The fiends screamed shrilly as they fled in all directions. In an instant, all of them had disappeared.

Chu Xun managed to suppress the anger in his heart. He looked at the human beings in front of him, raised his hand, and cut off their shackles.

“You’re free now. Hurry up and get out of here!”

Unexpectedly, these twenty human beings looked at him in a daze, and no one moved. Only a young man’s eyes lit up for a while, but they soon darkened.

Chu Xun let out a soft sigh. “These people have been enslaved for too long and have long been numb. I’m afraid that they have forgotten that they are human beings, and the only thing that they know is to follow orders.”

“You know what I’m talking about, don’t you?” Chu Xun noticed that young man’s reaction.

The young man stood there like a wood sculpture with a dull look on his expressionless face. He did not reply to Chu Xun’s question.

“I’m a human being just like you,” Chu Xun said softly.

As expected, the young man reacted. His eyes began to shine with hope, and he looked at Chu Xun timidly.

“You... are you really a human?” He was a little clumsy at speaking, perhaps because he had not spoken for a long time.

Chu Xun breathed a sigh of relief. “Fortunately, someone is normal. Otherwise, I will have no idea what to do. After all, I can’t take them to wander in the Subterranean Devils Realm.”

“Yes, I am really a human,” Chu Xun said.

When the young man heard this, his face began to beam with hope. He regained some vitality.

“What’s your name?” Chu Xun asked.

The young man shook his head and said timidly, “I don’t have a name. I only have a number. They call me Eleven.”

“Do you have any places you’d like to go?”

The young man shook his head. “We are just pigs and slaves. This is the territory of those masters. We have nowhere to go.”

“How many human beings are suffering like you?”

The young man lowered his head and said in a low voice, “Many. Every master has his own pigsty.”

“Pigsty?” When Chu Xun heard these words, his eyes looked even colder than the water of the Nine Serenities Cold Pool.

“Who is the most powerful person here?” Chu Xun asked.

“This is the territory of Master Jimmy, but the most powerful person here is the lord of the city.”

Chu Xun’s pupils shrank slightly, and his eyes flashed with cold light. “Come with me. I’ll help you find a place to live first.”