"Mortals of the Netherworld Epoch are far better at surviving than mortals of other epochs."
"For mortals from other epochs, the death rate in places like those can reach around thirty percent, or even exceed half."
"But for mortals of the Netherworld Epoch, the death rate is only twenty percent. In some places, it's as low as fifteen percent."
"They have land to farm, food to eat, and crude spiritual medicine to treat them when they fall ill. Normally, no eerie creatures come to kill them, either."
"To mortals of the Netherworld Epoch, conditions like those are no different from an earthly paradise."
Listening to Chen Changsheng, Ma Yuxuan let out a heavy sigh.
Under normal circumstances, such places were used to exile cultivators who had committed serious crimes.
Yet places like those had now become paradises in the eyes of the Netherworld Epoch's mortals.
This epoch truly was rotten to the bone.
"And then?"
"The Netherworld Epoch already has a sparse population. Now that they're selling people on such a massive scale, aren't they afraid of selling the whole epoch empty?"
"That's where you're wrong!"
Chen Changsheng turned to Ma Yuxuan and said, "Ever since the Netherworld Epoch began trafficking people, its population has actually risen rapidly."
"The reason is simple. Those once-worthless mortals now have value."
"Naturally, the cultivators of the Netherworld Epoch make sure to keep them safe."
"If you don't understand, a simple example should make it clear."
"If a situation like the Great Jing Dynasty's had happened during the Virtual World era, high-level cultivators from the Netherworld Epoch would have intervened within a month."
"Because a prolonged drought would severely affect population growth."
"If the population stops growing, their profits shrink. That's something they absolutely won't allow."
"By the same logic, during that period, the