Jiang Ding took a closer look at the Spirit Transformation cultivators in the dozen or so lesser worlds near the Flame Stone Starfield. The Horned Demon Imperial Clan called them kings.
Compared with the harsh restrictions placed on slave races reaching Void Refining, there were far more kings among them. More than a dozen lived nearby, all servants of the Flame Stone Great Emperor. The Rock Demon Clan had the most, with four kings; most other races had only one each.
The Horned Demon Imperial Clan, of course, had the most kings: dozens of them.
Their bloodline was exceptional. With a population of just over a hundred million, they had produced so many great emperors and kings that it was suffocating.
"There's even a human king..."
Jiang Ding's gaze sharpened with curiosity, and he read more closely.
This human king had been known as the Blood River King, a king who cultivated the blood path. More than five hundred years ago, he had been fairly well known in the nearby lesser worlds. Humans had been different then. Among the many slave races, they had counted as a strong race, valued by many kings of the Horned Demon Imperial Clan.
But later, something had changed.
According to an official notice issued by Flame Stone Imperial City, the Blood River King had sought to advance beyond Spirit Transformation and become a human great emperor. Then he had died, slain by a king of the Horned Demon Imperial Clan at the same cultivation level.
The Horned Demon Imperial Clan's kings had led a great number of slave-race kings in slaughtering the Blood River Sect, where the Blood River King had come from. The humans nearby had been slaughtered to the last, whether they had taken part or not.
That was why humans in