Pay to Cultivate Immortality? My Sect is Completely Free - Chapter 381

Chapter 381: A World Where Family Comes First, the Bottom’s Desperate Fate!

If you’re not born with it, you’ll never have it in this life!

There was absolute certainty in the beggar’s words!

Not “maybe,” but definitely not!

Su Bai frowned and asked, “Even if you work hard and cultivate to become stronger, you still can’t change it?”

“Change it? What a colossal joke. Don’t talk about you ascendants—even the rebirth of a legendary Immortal King wouldn’t change a thing!”

The beggar sneered, his face filled with hopelessness.

Even the rebirth of an Immortal King can’t change anything?

Su Bai’s expression stiffened. How cruel were the rules of this Immortal Realm?

Enough to make a heavenly immortal sink into such despair?

Whoever could reach the heavenly immortal level wasn’t an ordinary person.

While Su Bai was lost in thought, the process of “exchanging horses” in the distance was already drawing to a close.

The remaining unwanted “horses,” and those that had been taken out of service because they were broken—their fate…

“Bury these defective and retired ones!”

The eldest young master ordered, casting a look of disgust over the group of “retired horses” who showed only despair.

A squad of guards stepped forward and began dragging the discarded “horses” out toward the wasteland beyond the city to dump them.

“Hmph!”

Su Bai acted. He wiped out every single one of the Gao family’s garbage involved in that operation—the young masters, young mistresses, the guards—eradicating them all!

Then he split off a clone and sent all the children back to the Heavenly Dao Sect, where they were properly arranged.

With his strength, eliminating those guards whose highest cultivation reached only rogue immortal was effortless.

By the time the Gao family’s powerful ones reacted, it was already over.

Su Bai returned to the beggar’s side, and the beggar had witnessed everything that had just happened.

“You really aren’t of the Gao clan; you’re an ascendant. But you can save these hundreds—can you save millions, billions?”

“Even you—can you save yourself?”

The beggar shook his head, resigned to fate.

This time Su Bai sat up beside him and smiled. “How will you know if you don’t try?”

“When I was young in the mortal world, I once said something.”

“Precisely because I was young and ignorant, I wanted to try to break that supreme shackle of destiny.”

“And I succeeded. In my world, billions of people gained the choice to control their own fates.”

“But in the Immortal Realm, you may think that’s a joke. To me, it’s still worth attempting.”

“I’ll say it again—how will you know if you don’t try?”

Su Bai looked at the beggar and said lightly.

Perhaps the road ahead would be hard.

But if you don’t try, you will never succeed!

The beggar was silent—perhaps moved by Su Bai’s words.

After a moment he said in a low voice, “My name is Tianzhu. Like you… I’m also an ascendant.”

“You’re an ascendant too?” Su Bai was surprised.

Because the aura about this man was that of a heavenly immortal, not an emperor realm!

That meant he had already transformed his immortal power!

That was why Su Bai hadn’t recognized that this man was also an ascendant.

“My experiences are much like yours.”

“Thousands of years ago I rose from obscurity and built the cruel cultivation world into a more perfect place.”

“When I first arrived in the Immortal Realm, I was cautious. I didn’t fall for the Gao family’s trap—I slipped away quietly.”

“After I transformed my immortal power, I stepped into the ninth-grade heavenly immortal realm. My strength surged, my confidence soared—I thought I could, just as I had in the mortal world, change the fate of this Immortal Realm!”

“I saved many people, led countless weak ones, and resisted the mighty Gao family.”

“But in the end, I was defeated!”

“I was captured and brought to Gao clan city. They didn’t kill me because they wanted my immortal bone.”

“My immortal bone—whenever they dug it out, it would automatically regrow after a thousand years.”

“Count the times: they’ve already taken my immortal bone seven times.”

As the beggar spoke, his eyes revealed fierce hatred mixed with profound, helpless despair!

Ninth-grade heavenly immortal!!

Su Bai was somewhat shocked.

Transforming immortal power could raise someone about three ranks, meaning Tianzhu, before his ascension, was roughly equivalent in combat strength to a sixth-rank heavenly immortal!

Stronger than any current ascendant except the Peerless Heavenly Venerable!

Such a powerful ascendant must have been a peerless genius of his era!

And yet now he was locked here, enduring the pain of having his bone dug out once every thousand years!!

“What do you think—what level of power could change this world?” Su Bai asked.

Tianzhu shook his head without much thought: “No one can change it.”

“Have you seen that sword scar across Gao clan city?”

Su Bai nodded: “I’ve learned a bit about it.”

Tianzhu sighed: “The ascendant who rose four thousand years ago was the strongest person I’ve ever seen. Even the rebirth of an Immortal King wouldn’t be much different.”

“But even he couldn’t change the situation in this Immortal Realm!”

“Even if the Gao clan were wiped out, it would be meaningless, because the whole Gao family is only a microcosm of even stronger forces in this realm!”

Hearing this, Su Bai fell into thought!

Even destroying the Gao clan wouldn’t change anything?

“Do you know what the tens of millions in Gao clan city actually are?” Tianzhu asked abruptly.

“Members of the Gao clan?” Su Bai answered.

“Exactly!” Tianzhu nodded and continued: “The entire Gao clan city is a single family!”

“One family—so many people?” Su Bai inhaled sharply.

Gao clan city had tens of millions of people!

And they were all one family?

“Heh, that’s actually a smaller clan. Some great families number far more than tens of millions!”

“The Gao family’s history stretches back three million years to the Old Ancestor of the Gao clan, and Gao clan city has existed for a million years!”

“Those Gao family heavenly immortals have lived for a million years. Even though the stronger they are the less likely they are to produce offspring, time makes up for that!”

“Their children multiply, and their children’s children multiply more—generation after generation, the scale grows!”

“To the point that later on, even Gao’s own kin were divided into ranks because resources were insufficient!”

“Eighteen generations without producing a rogue immortal were demoted to the outer city, becoming lower-class!”

“If you produced a rogue immortal, you could enter the inner city.”

“And to enter the Gao clan main city—to make your child one of those young masters and misses—you had to produce a heavenly immortal!”

“So tell me: if even Gao’s own kin were largely treated as lower-class people, what do you think the fate of those weak families in the Immortal Realm would be?”

“Millions of years ago, when the great Immortal War had just ended and order was beginning, those clans rose at that time.”

“The Gao family was established then, and ever since, the major regions of the Immortal Realm have been dominated by these family forces.”

“Those clans that didn’t rise at that time became the chives constantly harvested by these heavenly immortals, True Immortals, and even larger families—cut again and again!”

“As for getting stronger and changing your fate??”

“Ridiculous beyond belief, because these slave powers, whenever one of their members produces a rogue immortal, they get snatched away and forced to mine!!”

“There is absolutely no chance to attain even an earthly immortal; becoming a heavenly immortal is out of the question, and don’t even think about resisting the Gao family that possesses True Immortals!!”

“Tell me, children born into these slave families—what can they do besides wait to die?”