The Sun Moon Continent was a savage land. The Sun Moon Empire had actually begun as a band of thieves that had merely gotten lucky and seized the realm.
In the early days of the Sun Moon Empire, the slave trade had flourished.
Trading slaves was legal in the Sun Moon Empire. Commoners who could no longer survive would even sell their own children for money.
Over time, this tradition of signing slave contracts had been passed down.
Children had no human rights.
Their parents decided everything. If their parents died, that authority fell to their closest living blood relative.
As long as someone had their parents' seals, they could decide a child's future-even sell the child. All of this was protected by the laws of the Sun Moon Empire.
Of course, this applied only to lowborn commoners.
Nobles were not permitted to engage in this kind of human trafficking.
His niece, Xu Xingling, had long since lost her noble title. She was now nothing more than an ordinary lowborn commoner of the empire.
Signing this contract was perfectly lawful and legitimate. It could be enforced.
As for what Xu Xingling would do, or whether she would resist, that was none of his concern. Right now, staying alive was all that mattered.
Surely no one would turn down a slave with triple martial souls!
"Well, I'll take your word for it for now-that your niece really does possess the legendary triple martial souls. This contract is quite nice. I'll accept it. But you still have to die."
Huo Yuhao drew his palm back, and the bloodstained contract in Huo Tian's hand flew into his own. At the same time, terrifying psychic power erupted from his body. Under that crushing pressure, the despairing Huo Tian was flattened into a patty of