"Eat."

Throwing Xie Qiuze's natal Gu worm at Ji Qinghai's feet, Li Tianxiu pulled up a chair and sat down, quietly observing his expression.

It's just that now, Ji Qinghai doesn't have any luck in surviving the disaster.

Because he can never be absolutely safe in front of the capricious Li Tianxiu.

This guy doesn't see them as the same kind!

"Don't want it?"

Li Tianxiu picked up the female insect and shook it in front of his eyes. The latter just shook his head numbly.

Then he knew that his goal was achieved.

It is not difficult for him to tell whether a person is lying.

And what Xie Qiuze said is indeed the truth. He only has eternal life in his eyes now, so he ignores friendship and wants to turn Shopkeeper Guo into his puppet.

But this is not the reason why Li Tianxiu killed him.

After all, Ji Qinghai has given up on the human form of existence and has become accustomed to taking his body. That is why the eldest brother should not laugh at the second brother.

The only difference between the two is that Ji Qinghai has already seen them displaying their top-of-the-food-chain style once, and the seeds of fear have been planted in his heart.

If you experience another wave of ups and downs, your psychological defenses will collapse and you will be more susceptible to his control.

Just like it is now.

"What a terrible Miss Shizuki..."

Arnold, who had been watching, couldn't help but sigh in his heart.

If Li Tianxiu was really from the Auman continent, I'm afraid nothing would happen without him as king.

"Item name: Bones of the Avenue."

"Quality: epic."

"Effect: Corpse bones containing the will of evil spirits can be used to understand the path to immortality, but it may also cause backlash."

"Remarks: If we have different paths, we will not seek each other."

"Is this considered a great avenue?"

After the show ended, Ji Qinghai finally settled down, and shopkeeper Guo temporarily gave up the idea of ​​cultivating immortality.

Q, on the other hand, looked at the horse bones that were brought back with a look of disappointment on his face.

"His rain is my poison. Keep it for now. The mission is useful anyway."

Li Tianxiu took out a Gu worm, which was the legendary treasure of Mu Chi that could capture people's souls. However, he died too quickly and could not use it.

The use of this thing also has the limitations of the natal mother insect, and it is useless to them. Perhaps only Zhao Miaomiao will take a second look at it.

After putting away the things, the reincarnators rested one after another.

Early the next morning, shopkeeper Guo sold the goods to the innkeeper at a low price and decided to return to Nanzhan City lightly.

"Jian Zhenren, thank you for what happened last night. But... can we really go back now?"

Walking at the front of the team on foot, shopkeeper Guo was full of gratitude for Li Tianxiu's attitude.

It's not that Li Tianxiu's inference last night was so shocking, it's mainly that Ji Qinghai's head was chopped off and was hanging around his waist, making it easy to ask questions at any time.

You can still survive like this. These immortal cultivators who entered the Tao through insects are really too evil.

"It's easy to enter Nanzhan City, you just need to agree to be their guest and then offer the horse bones.

In this world, the strong are respected. If Mu Chi died, it was because he offended the wrong person." Ji Qinghai replied as if he was appointing someone.

In this state, although he is not dead yet, he has lost the power to fight back and has completely given up.

But last night he didn't dare to commit cannibalism just to avoid Li Tianxiu having an excuse to kill him.

"Could it be a scam?" Q looked at him suspiciously.

"How dare I? When I see you, you even dare to move with King Nanzhan, my life is still in your hands." Ji Qinghai said with a bitter smile.

Now he just wants to return to Nanzhan Mansion as soon as possible and let them let him go for the sake of King Nanzhan.

"Master, master, okay."

"I haven't eaten for three days..."

"Do you need anyone to work for? I just need to eat."

As we get closer and closer to Nanzhan City, more and more refugees appear on the road.

Their clothes were ragged, exposing the gaunt bones on their chests.

Half of them have varying degrees of physical deformity.

Or the head is inexplicably swollen; or the lip is split in the middle, like a rabbit; and one arm is atrophied, making it difficult to maintain balance even when walking, etc.

"Go away, go away!"

The caravan's guards immediately came out to scold them and forced them out with their swords.

But looking at these refugees with their faces full of food, Arnold couldn't help but feel compassion.

Just when he put his hand into the package, shopkeeper Guo waved his hand fiercely at him and said in a low voice: "You can't give it to them! Something will happen!"

"Why?"

Arnold looked at him puzzled.

"Don't worry about scarcity, but worry about inequality. If you give it to one person, others will come to you for it. Once you fail to give it, there will definitely be conflicts." Shopkeeper Guo advised.

Even if this group of rabble is really crazy, it will not have any impact on them, but the same cannot be said for the people who get the things.

Of course, it didn't matter to him whether these people died or not, but Arnold himself would probably be sick for a long time.

"Why are there so many people here? Abandoned?"

Li Tianxiu looked up into the distance and could barely see the gate of Nanzhan City.

But he took a closer look, and as far as he could see so far, those who were sitting on the roadside begging, or digging grass roots in the woods to eat, totaled 658 people, and the number of abnormal people was 456.

There are more directions that I haven’t seen.

The world's economy is not considered prosperous, so there should be no human trafficking groups that break off limbs. Where do so many deformed children come from?

"These people... are all descendants of this species, so they are prone to disabilities.

Their birth is a tragedy, so pitiful.

King Nanzhan couldn't bear to see this, so he exiled them outside the city." Shopkeeper Guo explained.

"What?"

Arnold was stunned.

What does it mean to be exiled outside the city because you can't bear to see this?

"Growing people?"

Q's brows also furrowed deeply.

"Well... they are the ones used for breeding..." Shopkeeper Guo frowned.

"ha?"

Q's expression became even more confused.

He had heard of breeding pigs and stallions, but this was the first time he heard of breeding people. What on earth was the city lord of Nanzhan City doing?

“Originally, the reproduction rate of human beings was not very fast.

Cultivation of immortality by refining spiritual seeds will affect the functions of the human body. Especially in the stage after the pill formation stage, it is almost impossible to give birth to offspring.

So in order to practice better, the rulers will find some people with stronger abilities to speed up the process." Ji Qinghai explained.

The immortality they pursue is the eternity of consciousness.

But the current situation of cultivating immortals shows that their strength cannot maintain the eternity of their bodies, and they will eventually have to be replaced.

So at this time, a suitable body becomes very important.

"But why is it deformed? Did you use any medicine?" Q frowned.

"Originally... before you were cultivating immortals, how many descendants could each family have?" Li Tianxiu thought.

"Um……"

Ji Qinghai thought for a long time and said uncertainly: "It takes only three or four families to have one."

"In other words, is there something wrong with the original genes? That's pretty easy to explain." Li Tianxiu said.

"Explain what?"

Unexpectedly, it was Ji Qinghai who asked the question.

"The reasons for cultivating immortals and the origins of these people."
To be continued...