Horn Nether Domain.
Near the passage between worlds lay a minor world called the Demonstone Minor World.
One day, in that world, a ragged human slave of utterly ordinary appearance and background, with no tangled grudges or debts of love and hate, suddenly showed a glimmer of intelligence in his vacant eyes. It vanished just as quickly.
A peculiar power began to emerge within his soul-spirit, carrying the aura of the Great Sun and electromagnetism.
"The Demonstone Minor World..."
Jiang Ding murmured.
The human slave was named Zhuzi. He had no surname and was at the seventh level of Qi Refining. He had already died.
He had not been poisoned, murdered by a jealous overseer, or entangled with some noblewoman. He had simply died without warning. Nothing out of the ordinary.
A slave practiced a quick-success cultivation method that ravaged his potential and worked in the mines every day without a chance to rest. A sudden death was perfectly normal, nothing strange at all. His life was worth that little.
By the same token, if he had not died and went on living a while longer, that would not have been strange either.
Everything was utterly ordinary. There was nothing to arouse suspicion.
Jiang Ding kept Zhuzi's soul-spirit suspended on the brink of death while concealing his own body and soul-spirit inside him through the Shadow Demon Abyss's Hidden Soul Connecting Spirit Technique.
By then, the nine Dao Children had descended upon the Horn Nether Domain without a sound.
Jiang Ding did not know where the other Dao Children were or where they had gone. He had no interest in finding out, and he would never allow anyone else to learn his whereabouts. Thus, he had come to this remote little city.
He did not intend to do anything for