Within Lake Beishen.
Black Wind Island.
A ground-rank Black Shark Demon led over a dozen lesser demons out of the city, escorting several hundred members of the Human Race.
"Listen up, take this batch of Human Race blood food to the Divine Palace of Beishen on time. There must be no mistakes, understand?" the Black Shark Demon instructed a Sea Snake Demon.
"General Black Shark, when I'm handling it, what is there for you to worry about? How many times have I run this route already?" the Sea Snake Demon said with a fawning grin.
Demons eating people was unavoidable. The barbarians cooperated with the demons of Lake Beishen, yet naturally did not want the demons eating their own people. Thus, whenever war broke out, the barbarians abducted people from Great Chu's borders. Seventy percent of them were sent to the major islands on Lake Beishen, where cities were built to pen them up and make them breed without end.
To make the flesh more succulent, the demons of Lake Beishen even permitted the penned Human Race to cultivate and become martial artists.
But a limit was imposed: they could not exceed the Qiankun Realm, lest they threaten the demons of Lake Beishen. Over the centuries, even if some imprisoned Human Race prodigy broke through the Qiankun Realm, they would be seized and offered to the king of the Divine Palace of Beishen.
"Second Uncle, where are we going?" a little boy asked, a flicker of terror passing through his eyes as he looked at the demons.
"We're going to heaven. It's a wonderful place, without any pain..." A rough old man stroked the little boy's head, weariness flashing through his eyes.
In a place of such evil, dying sooner was the only release.
The longer one lived, the deeper