CHAPTER 869: CHAPTER 647: SHANGUO ENSLAVED

Li Yi didn’t expect that by saving someone, he would earn fifteen pieces of Red Gold and even gain a mutant beast. It seemed that as long as one’s strength was formidable enough, making money was an easy task, no matter the world.

However, to keep a low profile, he immediately left the market with E Ji and Su Ji after collecting the gold, to avoid drawing attention and causing trouble. After all, he came to the Barbaric World to peacefully go through his transformation period and did not want to engage in conflicts.

Fortunately.

The market in Beihuai City is large. Even though this part of the market was affected, the nearby market remained untouched.

The slave market had the most powerful warriors, and each Slave Master’s guards were formidable, ensuring they could suppress those slaves with ulterior motives.

Qiu Niu, the mutant beast, sensed the powerful aura here and wisely avoided this area, so it was unaffected for a reason.

Arriving at the slave market,

Li Yi heard many Slave Masters discussing the previous events.

"Those Merchant Masters are truly useless, unable to handle even a Fire Beast, causing such destruction."

"Haha, those who sell meat are in trouble now; they’ll lose a lot of stock."

"That Fire Beast is clever; it didn’t dare come our way, otherwise my hungry slaves would have devoured it alive."

These Slave Masters were gloating.

It seems no matter the world, there will always be people who enjoy watching the commotion.

Clearly, they had the ability to stop the Fire Beast but chose not to help, even hoping the chaos would grow.

"A Divine Blood Warrior, and with a high Divine Blood concentration, nearly like a direct descendant?"

"Silver lightning? That should be the descendant of the Divine outside of Beihuai City’s valley, with a Shoushan Village guarding it, although the village was destroyed last year by a disaster."

"A Divine Blood Warrior controlling lightning, great potential, may be a future lord."

When Li Yi appeared in the slave market, many Slave Masters immediately scrutinized him, and their sharp eyes quickly identified his Divine Blood, even guessing he was a descendant of that Divine.

Some experienced Slave Masters saw Li Yi’s boundless potential, believing he could become a lord in the future.

After assessing Li Yi, they then turned their eyes to E Ji and Su Ji behind him.

"Those are two Beauties, likely from the Changshan Tribe, previously sold by Slave Master Yao Tu to Merchant Lord Xiu Xiang in Beihuai City. So, is this Divine Blood Warrior a distinguished guest of Merchant Lord Xiu Xiang?"

"Last night, there was a battle between Divine Blood Warriors at a location in Beihuai City, and one Divine Blood anomaly was much like this person."

What surprised Li Yi was that just by taking E Ji and Su Ji around the slave market for less than half a turn, people had already found out about him and the two Beauties.

They even knew which tribe the Beauties came from, who sold them, and into whose hands they fell, as if nothing was secret.

In reality, slaves sold between Slave Masters all have unique marks known only to those in the trade. Moreover, E Ji and Su Ji were quality goods, worth at least two hundred gold.

The Slave Masters already had impressions of such quality goods.

Only worthless trash slaves are unrecognizable, lacking value, and not even worth the Slave Masters’ attention.

"Sir, take a look at my goods, premium slaves."

A Slave Master smiled and greeted, signaling Li Yi to look at his slaves.

Li Yi glanced over.

He saw this Slave Master had many slaves, including strong warriors, some attractive women, and even some of the Alien Races.

The Barbaric World does not only have the Human Clan; there are other races like the Merfolk Clan, Human Ape Clan, Feather Clan... Some of these Alien Race slaves are highly valuable, while others are very cheap, although not everyone who buys slaves in Beihuai City knows of the Alien Races.

Many Slave Masters would sell some worthless Alien Races as quality slaves.

Thus, buying slaves requires rich experience to avoid being fooled.

"Your slaves are too weak, not quality goods." Li Yi, after scrutinizing, withdrew his gaze and shook his head, refusing the Slave Master’s offer.

However, those slaves showed expectant eyes toward Li Yi.

Because Li Yi was a Divine Blood Warrior.

Following a Divine Blood Warrior, the future is at least filled with hope; if bought by some woman or old man in the city, one would only do chores for life, and even children might inherit this work, living as slaves for generations.

But Li Yi’s words extinguished their hopes.

As Li Yi said, these slaves were too weak to catch his eye.

Even though some female slaves were quite attractive, upon seeing E Ji and Su Ji alongside Li Yi, they could only lower their gazes.

The rejected Slave Master wasn’t angry, smiling as he watched Li Yi leave, then continued to attract other business.

But the Slave Master’s words inspired some thoughts in Li Yi.

Maybe he could buy a few slaves in this world, get a house, have a place to settle down.

Though freeloading at the Xiu Xiang Family was beneficial, it was somewhat inconvenient for his cultivation.

With this thought, Li Yi began to pay attention to some slaves in the market.

He didn’t need to pick the powerful warriors, wanting only young and potential ones, since he could guide them in cultivation; using this world’s resources, they could soon reach great heights.

But just as Li Yi started to choose slaves,

suddenly,

he stopped, noticing a group of slaves wearing animal skins, raggedly dressed, among whom a familiar-looking woman stood out. With his photographic memory, Li Yi quickly recalled the woman’s identity.

"The female warrior from Shoushan Village, Shanguo."

As Li Yi uttered the identity of this female slave.

Among the other slaves, a scarred and tattered Shanguo abruptly lifted her head, a hint of astonishment in her eyes, seemingly surprised that someone in Beihuai City could recognize her.

However, when Shanguo saw Li Yi, she was utterly shocked.

Subsequently, Shanguo’s gaze became evasive, and she quickly lowered her head.

At this moment, she felt only shame and anger.

Once a captive, now a powerful Divine Blood Warrior, while she, a warrior of Shoushan Village, had become a slave.

"Sir, these are just ordinary slaves, I still have some better goods here," the slave master, seeing this situation, said with a smile.

Li Yi, however, pointed at Shanguo and said, "I’ll take that female slave, how much gold?"

The slave master looked in the direction Li Yi pointed, and laughed, "She’s a hard-to-train female slave, I’ve often whipped her, and now she’s quite weak, but she’s a warrior, so she can only be sold at the lowest warrior price, many customers find it expensive, if you want her, I’ll only charge ten gold."

"Okay." Li Yi immediately handed over ten pieces of cyan gold.

Cyan gold, shimmering like bronze, was valued with a hundred pieces equaling one Red Gold. In this world, "gold" typically referred to cyan gold, not Red Gold, which was precious and used only by rich Merchant Masters.

The slave master accepted the gold and immediately ordered his servants to drive Shanguo out from among the slaves, then untied her ropes and handed her over to Li Yi.

"Sir, if this slave refuses to acknowledge you as her master, you can return her," the slave master added afterwards.

Clearly, he didn’t want to sell an untrained slave and tarnish his reputation.

Li Yi, however, turned to Shanguo and asked, "Are you willing to acknowledge me as your master?"

"Just kill me," Shanguo said with some shame and anger.

She thought Li Yi bought her not to rescue her but to humiliate her, so she’d rather die early than be bought back by Li Yi for humiliation.

However, this statement annoyed the slave master, who stared at Shanguo, instinctively taking the whip from his servant’s hand.

But he hadn’t forgotten the rules.

Li Yi had already paid the gold, so he was in no position to discipline this slave now.

But scaring her was still possible.

Indeed, upon seeing the slave master, Shanguo instinctively shrank back, fear showing in her eyes.

Clearly, she had suffered often at the hands of this slave master.

Li Yi calmly said, "Shoushan Village no longer exists, and past grievances are over. If you stay here, you’ll soon die. If you’re not willing to acknowledge me as your master, you’re free to leave, but next time you might not be so lucky to meet me when captured as a slave again."

He wasn’t being kind, just lamenting seeing Shoushan Village annihilated and its people reduced to slaves.

After all, buying Shanguo was quite cheap.

Shanguo looked at Li Yi incredulously.

She thought Li Yi would humiliate her, yet he was willing to grant her freedom.

At this moment, Shanguo felt at a loss.

She wasn’t afraid of being humiliated, she’d rather die.

But Li Yi gave her, an old enemy, freedom, a great gift that must be repaid.

Yet at this moment, Li Yi was already turning away with E Ji and Su Ji, telling the slave master before leaving, "I’ve bought her, let her choose for herself."

"A truly fortunate slave," the slave master remarked, rarely seeing someone grant a slave freedom after purchase.

But Shanguo didn’t leave.

Because what Li Yi said was true, Shoushan Village no longer existed, and past hatred had vanished with its disappearance, she was no longer a Shoushan Village warrior, but a female slave.

And Shoushan Village had already betrayed the Divine once.

Would it betray a second time?

Watching Li Yi’s departing figure, after a brief hesitation, Shanguo gritted her teeth and quickly pursued, despite her injuries.

She was a descendant of Shoushan Village, whose ancestors’ wish was to follow the offspring of the Divine buried in the valley.

She should follow her bloodline’s guidance and live anew on this ancient land.

Thinking about this.

The hesitation in her heart gradually solidified, and her steps quickened.

Finally, Shanguo caught up with Li Yi.

"Master, take me with you, I am willing to follow you, even give my life, this is my promise." She bowed her stubborn head, acknowledging her new identity.

In this world, once a promise is made, it cannot be broken.

As for why this rule exists, Li Yi didn’t know, every world has its own traits.

If an Earth person makes a promise, it amounts to nothing, Li Yi wouldn’t believe a single punctuation mark.

Yet, in the Barbaric World, when someone makes a promise and willingly acknowledges him as their master, he believes it, because Shanguo could have left, no need to follow her old enemy.