The Shadow Demon Daoist Heir steadily passed the surrounding Dao Children a stream of intelligence, all of it newly gathered.
Shadow Demon Abyss cultivators lay hidden in every quarter, spying on the world. New intelligence arrived at every moment. Sorting, classifying, and summarizing it was the trade of Shadow Demon Abyss disciples and Dao Children, who had even devised spells to help with the work.
Jiang Ding and the surrounding Dao Children read in silence, comparing it with older reports and thinking it over.
No one spoke. They examined the intelligence with their divine senses and pondered it. Months passed, and the ten Dao Children were still thinking.
Nascent Soul Cultivators had excellent patience. None of them was in a hurry.
In the cultivation world, power at the very top is everything. It is the point where every conflict converges.
Therefore...
Jiang Ding drew on the moral and political education he had received to analyze the foreign domain's political situation.
The highest powers in the Horn Nether Domain are the emperors, along with the Horn Nether Emperor above them, if such a figure even exists.
They are the central contradiction.
From the captured imperial son's memories and the intelligence Shadow Demon Abyss cultivators have gathered while undercover over the years, the Horn Nether Domain has fifty-six emperors. Nine are ancient emperors, and nine are emperors of the enslaved races.
Wait. Emperors of the enslaved races?
Jiang Ding focused on that report.
Each of the nine emperors of the enslaved races served one of the nine ancient emperors of the Horned Demon Race. Their masters had personally raised them and publicly called them as close as brothers.
*They let cultivators from the enslaved races advance to Void Refining... Does the Horned Demon Imperial Clan have that much breadth of mind and