Pay to Cultivate Immortality? My Sect is Completely Free - Chapter 380

Chapter 380 Born with None — Not in This Life!

In the human realm, Su Bai closed himself off again and began stepping into the Emperor Realm.

Meanwhile in the Immortal Realm, the clone he had left behind finally began to act.

Su Bai had left that clone in the Immortal Realm mainly to learn about conditions there.

Besides the Gao clan, what other powerful forces were nearby?
Were there any peerless masters?
How did they treat ascendants?

He had to find out all of this to prepare thoroughly for leading the whole clan’s ascension when the time came.

Gao Clan City was enormous, its population well over a trillion.

The city was roughly divided into three districts: the outer city, the inner city, and the main city.

In the main city, rogue immortals and earthly immortals appeared everywhere; heavenly immortals were seen occasionally.

Almost everyone living in the main city wore sumptuous clothes and exuded wealth and status.

It was clear the main city was the domain of Gao’s core clan members.

The inner city was far inferior to the main city—far fewer powerful figures, no visible heavenly immortals, and rogue immortals were extremely rare.

Even so, the inner city was still much better than the outer city.

In the outer city, both the buildings and the people living there were little different from ordinary cultivators in the Lower Realm.

Golden Core and Nascent Soul realms predominated there; venerables were already a small number of the big shots.

Rogue immortals were never seen on ordinary days.

Whenever a big shot appeared in the inner city, everyone bowed respectfully and waited obediently to be chosen.

They ignored cries and sobs, selecting some beautiful women and sturdy men—some to be slaves, some to serve as maids, and so on.

It seemed that the Immortal Realm, too, could not escape a rigid class hierarchy.

But as Su Bai walked through it all, he noticed something strange.

Except for a very small number of slaves, everyone in Gao Clan City had the surname Gao.

Could it be that the whole city was just one family?

Su Bai pondered and decided to ask someone.

At a corner on the edge of Gao Clan City’s main district, a beggar sat chained by the chains of order.

The beggar was filthy, covered in blood and grime, his face gaunt and near death.

Passersby—adults and children alike—liked to spit at him or even beat him.

If not for the faint breath in his chest, one might have mistaken him for dead.

Su Bai stopped because this beggar was not an ordinary beggar.

He was, astonishingly… a heavenly immortal!

What rank he had once held was unknown, only that now even an ordinary mortal felt free to spit on him.

This was the most pitiable heavenly immortal Su Bai had ever seen—far worse off than slaves forced to mine.

“What is your name?”

Su Bai approached and spoke.

Hearing the voice, the beggar slowly raised his head, but at first saw no one in front of him.

Then, in the next moment, a figure materialized before him.

“You Gao people—if you want to hit me, just hit me. Why all this pretense?” the beggar said with heavy sarcasm, eyes full of deep resentment and intense hatred.

Clearly, he assumed Su Bai was also of the Gao family.

“I think you’re mistaken. I’m not of the Gao family. In fact, one day I will personally destroy the Gao clan,” Su Bai said calmly.

“Hahaha—destroy the Gao clan? Who do you think you are?”

The beggar laughed loudly at those words, as if he’d just heard the most ridiculous joke in the world.

A True Immortal is present—who would dare speak of destroying the Gao clan?

“Believe it or not, I’m just curious: a bona fide heavenly immortal reduced to such a state—how did that happen?” Su Bai said.

At this, a flicker of puzzlement appeared in the beggar’s cloudy eyes.

Su Bai’s words betrayed… such unfamiliarity with the rules of the Immortal Realm!

And this man could discern the rank he had once held; he must not have been weak, nor short on years of cultivation.

By all logic, he ought to be very familiar with the rules of this Immortal Realm!

“Are you… an ascendant?” the beggar lowered his voice, speaking so only the two of them could hear.

“Oh? How could you tell?” Su Bai was a little surprised.

He had given no sign of being an ascendant; not even the most revealing trace of an ascendant’s aura was perceptible. Yet this beggar had seen it at a glance!

Given the current plight of ascendents, if a powerful figure discovered one, the consequences would undoubtedly be extremely dangerous!

“Heh. Who besides the ascendant Xiao Bai doesn’t know how brutal this world is? Even a three-year-old would know!” the beggar laughed. No sooner had he spoken than a commotion rose in the distance.

One of the ascendents who had tried to escape earlier had been captured by a group and was being escorted somewhere unknown.

“The world’s brutality? The Cultivation World—survival of the fittest—that’s common knowledge. How could I not know?” Su Bai said.

The Cultivation World was, after all, a place saturated with blood and slaughter!

“Heh heh. Whatever horrors your former world held, the cruelty of this Immortal Realm is far worse than you can imagine!” the beggar scoffed.

He was not laughing at Su Bai so much as at fate itself, at the injustice of heaven and the Dao!

“Look over there…” the beggar stretched out a hand and pointed to the distance.

Su Bai followed his gaze and saw a group of ragged people being driven toward the Gao clan.

There was one thing all these captives had in common!

They were all children under fourteen!

Where the Gao clan had captured them was anyone’s guess, but there were perhaps hundreds of them!

Soon, a group of Gao clan children appeared, escorted and protected by attendants.

Each of these Gao children wore splendid clothes and priceless jewelry.

They sat in various “human carriages,” looking down from on high at these ragged peers who had been captured!

At that moment, the gap between classes was laid bare for everyone to see!

Born human, yet the disparity was so enormous!

It was called a “human carriage” rather than a horse carriage because it was not horses pulling the carts.

It was…

people!!!

Children roughly the same age as the Gao young masters and misses were being used as their “horses!”

And now, after a period of hard labor, these “horses” were almost done for.

So they had come to replace the “horses”!

“Young masters, misses, choose your mounts,” a Gao servant said obsequiously.

“Mm!” the Gao children answered, and began to pick the “mounts” that would belong to them.

Su Bai watched the scene, his expression darkening.

Even in the Heavenly Palace, such sights were rarely seen!!

This is even crueller than outright slaughter!

This is torture to death!!

“Heh heh, in the Immortal Realm, a person’s fate is set the moment they’re born!”

The beggar spoke again, his tone never lacking in mockery.

“Some things, if you’re not born with them, you’ll never have them in this life!”