Hongying found Ghost Granny's orders strange. "They're just miners. They're no use to us, yet Granny seems to care a great deal about them."
Ghost Granny said indifferently, "The natives of the Fifth Continent must kneel and pray every day before the statues of the Sixth Continent's experts. We must not only suppress them through strength, but also make them endure psychological scars that can never be erased. The more often they kneel, the greater the mental obstacles they'll face in cultivation, and the less likely they'll be to become experts in the future."
Hongying narrowed her eyes and glanced over the miners below. "Granny is right."
Inside Sea King's Heaven, the Sixth Continent cultivators spread out and ordered all the miners to gather in the square and kneel before the statue of the Tong Family's ancestor.
The miners didn't care. Those who had been captured alive and were willing to work as miners had already lost their dignity. What did it matter if they knelt now? Some even knelt with great sincerity, hoping to join the Sixth Continent. There were quite a few like that.
As far as the eye could see, hundreds of thousands of miners in Sea King's Heaven knelt.
Ghost Granny was satisfied. This was a rule established by all the Imprinters. To conquer this continent, they had to suppress it not only by force, but also through psychological oppression.
Every miner had knelt, except for two people: Lu Yin and Hai Qiqi. They would never kneel before the Tong Family's ancestor, so they hid in a mine shaft and tried to get through this unnoticed. Unfortunately, Ghost Granny still sensed them. She was exceptionally sensitive to the flow of star energy and detected people inside the mine shaft.
The Sixth Continent cultivators hurried into the