Of the forty-eight thousand words in this world, only love wounded people most deeply.
Even Lu Yuan had not expected the turning point to appear here.
However, he did not underestimate Heart Demon Thunder Emperor.
After all, from any perspective.
Heart Demon Thunder Emperor was someone worthy of trust.
At the very least, his heart was upright.
For Heart Demon Thunder Emperor, wives, concubines, or Dao Companions were truly things he could have immediately whenever he wanted them. He did not even need to act personally. He only needed to drop a vague hint at certain public occasions, or imply something to people with ulterior motives, and within days, someone would voluntarily come to his door bearing gifts.
Though these gifts seemed unrelated to wives, concubines, or Dao Companions, one had to understand that the Myriad Heavens of today was not the Myriad Heavens of several hundred thousand years later. Even Saint Grade Heavenly Sovereigns had cases of dying.
Population.
Or, more broadly speaking.
The living beings of the Ten Thousand Clans.
Were themselves a kind of resource.
Take the maids in the Heavenly Palace, for example. Some were Merfolk, while another portion came from the Flame Nether Luan Clan.
Of course.
The latter's status differed from the former's.
Though both were nominally maids, the former were prisoners of war. Because the Merfolk had long harassed and slaughtered humans in a certain Water Domain, after the Heavenly Emperor flattened them, not only was that Water Domain renamed the Sky River, but the Merfolk were naturally captured by the Great Luo Heaven Army. Those who remained were not cowards who dared not die, but people incapable of dying. They had all been controlled by the Heavenly Emperor, the Five Hall Masters, and the others. Their status in the Heavenly Palace was