After settling everything, Ye Zhen did not stay in Golden Flower Demon Lord Ji Hua's lord's manor. Instead, he took Princess Changle back to the territory spanning ten thousand li that Ji Hua had gifted him.
A territory ten thousand li across sounded enormous, but in Great Zhou, it would have been nothing more than an ordinary small county beneath a prefecture—one of middling size at that.
Vastness beyond measure was one of the Primordial Continent's greatest characteristics.
As part of the ransom, Ji Hua gave Ye Zhen ten thousand female slaves, ten thousand Devil Race labor slaves, and ten thousand slave private soldiers, all of whom returned with Ye Zhen. Furthermore, as payment for Ye Zhen raising two Soul Demons under Ji Hua's command to the middle stage of the Spirit-Connecting Realm ahead of time, Ji Hua additionally gifted Ye Zhen one hundred thousand Digger Demons and one hundred thousand slaves!
The one hundred thousand Digger Demons were the finest miners, while those one hundred thousand slaves were all human slaves, both old and young.
Within Devil Race territory, humans made the best slaves. Digger Demons, for instance, could not handle—or simply could not do at all—anything even slightly complex.
Human slaves were different. Given basically the same conditions and the same tasks, human slaves would always perform more than ten times better than the Devil Race, aside from their somewhat lower birth rate.
Digger Demons, for example, reached adulthood at eight years old, and bore no fewer than two offspring at a time, sometimes three or four. Humans simply could not compare.
Yet even so, human slaves remained the most precious wealth in Devil Race territory. Under many great lords, humans held fairly high status, especially those human slaves who possessed a trade.
But most human slaves still